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A Dog So Small (Puffin Modern Classics) by Philippa Pearce
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful ...Show more
A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Modern Classic) by Madeleine L'Engle
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting ...Show more
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
$15.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Eleven-year-old Adam suddenly finds himself alone when his dog and his father--a wandering minstrel--suddenly disappear. Set in 13th-century England, "Adam of the Road" is a Puffin Modern Classic.
After the First Death (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert Cormier
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
On the outskirts of a small American town, a bus-load of young children is being held hostage. The hijackers are a cold and ruthless group, opposed to the secret government agency Inner Delta. At the centre of the battle are three teenagers. Miro is the terrorist with no past and no emotions. Kate is th ...Show more
Carrie's War (Puffin Modern Classics) by Nina Bawden
$21.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a si ...Show more
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Charlie Bucket loves chocolate - and Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a lifetime and all you have to do is find one of the five Golden Tickets. Charlie is the last lucky winner to join ...Show more
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Young George mixes a medicine to make his nasty grandmother more likeable, and once she drinks it she grows to immense proportions. George's father wants the formula to breed a race of super-size livestock, but George can't duplicate the recipe. His fourth try is a potion that shrinks the drinker to not ...Show more
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: 2-12
Willie is evacuated to the country during World War II. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley, but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back to London.
Goodnight Mister Tom (Puffin Modern Classics) by Michelle Magorian
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London...This title is the winner of ...Show more
Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson
$13.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Another triumph for Paterson, "Jip" tells a "historically accurate story (that's) full of revelations and surprises" ("Publisher's Weekly"). An abandoned boy turns to his only friend to help him make sense of his past, after a menacing stranger comes to town claiming to have been sent by his father.
Matilda (Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Matilda is determined to get her own back and soon discovers she has a very special power.A classic from the most popular children's writer.
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert O'Brien
$16.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-11
They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret ...Time is running out for Mrs. Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected form of a group of mysterious, super-int ...Show more