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Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics) by Astrid Lindgren
$25.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The classic novel about the little girl with crazy red pigtails and a flair for the outrageous is available once again. Illustrations.
ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY PUFFIN MODERN CLASSICS by MILDRED D TAYLOR
$0.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everybody born on this earth is something,' Cassie's mother tells her, 'and nobody, no matter what colour, is better than anybody else.' But Mississippi in the 1930s is a harsh place for a young black girl. To assert her equality would be to endanger family and friends. Growing up, Cassie learns the tr ...Show more
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are very excited about the new Folks moving in, and they wonder how things are going to change. It's only a matter of time before the animals ...Show more
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor and David Kearney (illustrator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here'. The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming ...Show more
Smith by Leon Garfield
$14.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.
Smith by Kenny McKendry
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Young Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.
Stig of the Dump (Puffin Modern Classics) by Clive King
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
Clive King's "Stig of the Dump" is a much-loved modern classic. "Stig of the Dump" is 50 years old and the story of Barney and his best friend, cave-man Stig, is as fresh today as it was when first published. Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the ...Show more
The Borrowers (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mary Norton
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-11
The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work. Arrietty's father, Pod, was an expert Borrower. He could scale c ...Show more
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
$22.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know, that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past, where only she knows the horrors that await.
The Diary of a Killer Cat (Puffin Modern Classics) by Anne Fine
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about. Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends ...Show more
The Family from One End Street (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eve Garnett
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-12
This is the story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. Father is a dustman and Mother a washerwoman. Then there's all the children - practical Lily Rose, clever Kate, mischievous twins James and John, followed by Jo, who loves films, little Peg and fina ...Show more
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll (Young Puffin Modern Classics) by Edward Ardizzone
$14.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
There was once a tiny doll who belonged to a girl who did not care for dolls. One day when the little girl was shopping in the supermarket with her mother, she threw the tiny doll into a deep freeze. So the tiny doll had to stay there, cold and lonely, and frightened by people shuffling all the food rou ...Show more