Going Solo by Roald Dahl
$17.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: very good
Young Roald Dahl leaves England in 1938 for a job with Shell Oil in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and travelling around East Africa, he comes to love the beautiful and perilous country. Then, with the outbreak of World War II, he decides to sign up with the Royal Air Force and learn to fly. After six months ...Show more
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline Yen Mah
$18.00 NZD
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Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Chinese Cinderella | Reading Level: very good
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother ...Show more
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
$15.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: very good
In 1942, Anne Frank and her family fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years, Anne describes in her diary her frustrations at being confined, hungry, bored and the threat of discovery. Her diary ends when they are discovered in 1944.
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
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Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: From 8 To 99
'Without doubt Judy was the worst of the seven, probably because she was the cleverest.'Her father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible - but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule.Step inside ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Anne Frank kept a diary from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944. Initially, she wrote it strictly for herself, but one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein, a member of the Dutch government in exile, announced in a radio broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffer ...Show more
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Joe Simpson and his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. In June 1985 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. In Touching the Void they tell their story.
The Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen
$16.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
America, 1955. A 16-year-old boy is forced to leave home. Alone in the world he has to learn to survive on his own, working in the beet fields, discovering the
Anne Frank by Josephine Poole
$36.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Anne Frank's compelling story is told for a picture book audience with an outstanding text and haunting, meticulously researched illustrations. Anne Frank's diary telling the story of her years in hiding from the Nazis has affected millions of people. But what was she like as a small girl, at home wit ...Show more
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
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$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: From 10 to 99
In 1966 Ji-Li Jiang turned 12. An outstanding student and leader, she had everything - brains, the admiration of her peers, and a bright future in China's Communist Party. But that year Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, and everything changed. Intelligence suddenly became a crime, and having ...Show more
Obama: A Promise of Change by David Mendell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
From the veteran journalist who knows him best comes a comprehensive biography of the presidential hopeful America can't stop talking about: Barack Obama. The author, a Chicago Tribune reporter who has been covering Obama since his senatorial campaign gives readers an up-close look at how the biracial s ...Show more
No Pretty Pictures : a Child of War by Anita Lobel
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in Krakow, Poland. Her life changed forever. She spent her childhood in hiding with her brother and their nanny, moving from countryside to ghetto to convent--where the Nazis finally caught up with them. Sin ...Show more