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The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
$14.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: very good
The family of Barney's dead mother are aware that there is something special about this particular boy. As he resigns himself to being haunted again, Barney's sister and brother set out to discover the reason behind his supernatural attraction. This book is a winner of the Carnegie Medal.
The Outside Child by Nina Bawden
$12.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 9-12
At the age of 13, Jane discovers that her seaman father has remarried and that she has a half brother and sister somewhere. She longs to meet them but her stepmother doesn't want her children to know about Jane. The author also wrote
The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith
$10.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 7+
When a storm washes up a strange pod-like object on the seashore, Kirstie decides to take it home and put it in the bath. The next day it hatches into a tiny green-grey creature, with a horse's head, a warty skin, four flippers and a crocodile's tail. The author also wrote "Paddy's Pot of Gold".
The Witch in the Cherry Tree by Margaret Mahy
$13.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Picture Puffin Story Books | Reading Level: 4+
One damp, dull day David's mother is baking cakes. Everything is fine until a naughty old witch comes to settle in the cherry tree in the garden. She tries to outwit David and persuade his mother to part with the cakes in this hilarious and mouth-watering story. Children's Picture Book
Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
$16.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Picture Puffin books
"Out on the islands that poke their rocky shores above the waters of Penobscot Bay, you can watch the time of the world go by, from minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day..." So begins McCloskey's classic story of one summer on a Maine island. The spell of rain, the gulls and a foggy morning, t ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
$14.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 2-12
Hurry!, whispered the house, and the grandfather clock at the heart of it beat an anxious tick. Tom opened the door wide and let in the moonlight. He was staring at what he saw outside. They had said, "Really, there's nothing to see". This book won a Carnegie Medal.