Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
$16.99 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
It is 1942. Fifteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum has just arrived at a Nazi concentration camp. Torn from his family, he now faces disease, starvation and the insane brutality of the Holocaust. How can he possibly survive?
Race to the Pole by Hooper, Meredith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
The race to reach the South Pole first is still one of the great true adventure stories in history. This book tells the stories of three who tried - Scott, the old-fashioned hero, brave but tragically under-prepared; Shackleton, a more modern leader, refusing to sacrifice his men's lives to the cause; ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Michael Morpurgo
$16.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
As she grows up Eloise becomes more and more fascinated by Joan of Arc so when she learns that she is to move to Orleans, the scene of Joan of Arc's greatest truimph, she is delighted. But Eloise is lonely at her new school. She takes refuge by the riverbank. One day she hears a voice, just as Joan had ...Show more
A Garden of Eden in Hell : The life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Melissa Muller & Richard Piechocki (tr from German Giles MacDonogh)
$28.00 NZD
$29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children
Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as ...Show more
The Promise by Lisa Clifford
$27.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
"I know this is my final leaving because it's so different from my many other leavings. This time, I actually want Paolo to find someone else - perhaps a lovely Florentine girl who he can marry, someone who will make him happy by giving him children and a family of his own. He deserves it after waiting ...Show more
Facing Up by Grylls Bear
$27.95 NZD
$29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children
At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty coping with the adverse effects of mountaineering. Neverthele ...Show more
Dick King-Smith: Tell Me About by Chris Powling
$16.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Each title in this series tells the life story of an eminent individual in simple language and with an array of photographs. Dick King-Smith is a huge figure in children's literature and one whom inspires much loyalty and love. He is a favourite not just in the classroom but is one of the few authors th ...Show more
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
$14.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: 9-12
Afghanistan: Parvana\'s father is arrested and removed by Taliban solders. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave home without a man, so Parvana, her mother and sisters must stay inside. When their food runs out, they face starvation, so Parvana must pretend to be a boy.