Mao's Last Dancer (Young Readers' Edition) by Li Cunxin
$25.00 NZD
$26.00 (3% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children
The phenomenal international bestsellerBefore you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall
$22.95 NZD
$24.00 (4% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
Alan Marshall's classic account of his childhood spent on crutches after contracting polio at the age of six is funny, tough, moving, profoundly Australian, yet completely universal - and inspirational in the best sense.
The Gallipoli Story by Patrick Carlyon
$17.95 NZD
$21.00 (14% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
A gripping account of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, and the experiences of the young Australian's soldiers who went there. Ages 11+
Leonardo Da Vinci by Kathleen Krull
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Giants of Science
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. We know him as an artist genius, but there was another side to Leonardo da Vinci. This book will change childre ...Show more
Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Giants of Science
Here is a man with an imagination so large that just "by thinking on it", a he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he tried to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings and spent much time trying to predict the futur ...Show more
The Promise : The True Story of a Family in the Holocaust by Eva Schloss & Barbara Powers
$14.95 NZD
$21.00 (28% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children
This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother growing up during the Second World War, caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis. Written specially for children, Eva describes her happy early childhood in Vienna with her kind and loving parents and her older brother H ...Show more
Anne Frank and Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann Lee
$17.00 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children
Making It Home by Beverley Naidoo
$14.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
This is a poignant and inspiring collection of stories by refugee children from all over the world. Told through their eyes, it promises to be a compelling insight into the plight of the world's refugees. The youngest contributor, six-year-old Wachen Bohlen left war-torn Liberia, but wants to return bec ...Show more
Thura's Diary : A young girl's life in war-torn Baghdad by Thura al-Windawi
$14.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: From 12 to 99
What would it really be like to live through the bombing of Baghdad?This poignant diary is a first-hand account of a family in a city living under attack. Written by a nineteen-year-old Iraqi girl, Thura al-Windawi, who describes the chaos and destruction around her.Thura's Diary gives a compelling insi ...Show more
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
$12.95 NZD
$16.95 (23% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: very good
'We cannot expect our old customs to remain forever . . .' It's 1911 and Ailin is living in a time of great change in China. A headstrong, determined child, Ailin rebels against the horrifying ancient tradition of having her feet bound. As a result, the family of her future husband immediately breaks of ...Show more
Friend Called Anne by Jacqueline Van Maarsen
$14.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
This is the true story of two best friends, one of whom was Anne Frank. Since their first meeting at school in Amsterdam in September 1941, Jacqueline van Maarsen and Anne Frank were inseparable. Although the anti-Jewish laws meant that there were few activities open to them, the girls still had a lot o ...Show more
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
$17.00 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: very good
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Anne's thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends stay ...Show more