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A Very Peculiar Plague (#2 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: City of Orphans
'Bogles ain't like pigeons. They don't travel in flocks. So why is this corner o' London crawling with 'em?'Eleven-year-old Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a canny old crook named Sarah Pickles. Now she's betrayed him, and Jem wants revenge. He also wants to work for bogler ...Show more
A Very Singular Guild (City of Orphans #3) by Catherine Jinks
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: City of Orphans
Twelve-year-old Ned Roach used to scavenge for scraps along the Thames riverbank. But the recent plague of child-eating bogles in London means that he's now working as an apprentice to Alfred Bunce, the bogler.Alongside Jem Barbary and (sometimes) Birdie McAdam, Ned must lure bogles out of their lairs s ...Show more
A Very Unusual Pursuit (#1 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: City of Orphans | Reading Level: very good
Monsters have been infesting London's dark places for centuries, eating every child who gets too close. That's why ten-year-old Birdie McAdam works for Alfred Bunce, the bogler. With her beautiful voice and dainty looks, Birdie is the bait that draws bogles from their lairs so that Alfred can kill them. ...Show more
Barney (HB) by Catherine Jinks
$20.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
Barney loves cat food. Barney loves greens. Barney loves bacon and biscuits and beans...
Daryl's Dinner by Catherine Jinks
$11.95 NZD
$12.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction - junior | Series: Aussie Nibbles
Daryl, one of the youngest magpies, is eager to feed himself, but he doesn't always choose the right things. Simple vocabulary, delightful illustrations and an engaging plot will capture and retain the interest of young children and act as the vital beginning to a lifetime of independent reading. Ages 6 ...Show more
Eloise by Catherine Jinks
$16.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
Playing about with ghosts can be dangerous, but Alethea needs all her detective skills, and the help of her friends, to solve the mystery of Eloise. Book 3 in Catherine Jinks' spooky ghost story series is gripping, creepy and unputdownable.Playing about with ghosts can be dangerous. That's why I wasn't ...Show more
Elysium: A Ghost Story: No. 4 by Catherine Jinks
$18.00 NZD
$18.99 (5% off)
Category: Series - children
Who is waiting in the cave?..The Jenolan Caves Ghost Tour sounded like the perfect weekend for a ghost hunter. But I didn't realise I was letting myself in for a whole lot more than just a haunted hotel and endless family squabbles. Something was on our trail. Something vicious, mysterious, and very, ve ...Show more
Eustace by Catherine Jinks
$16.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
From the author of Eglantine here is another deliciously spooky junior novel about Alethea, the girl with more ghosts than she can handle ... But is Eustace really the ghost of a baby long dead? After Eglantine vanished, I thought I was through with ghosts. That was before I went on a school excursion ...Show more
Pagan's Crusade by Catherine Jinks
$20.00 NZD
$22.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction - YA
Down on his luck and kicked in the pants one too many times, sixteen-year-old Pagan Kidrouk arrives on the doorstep of the Templar Knights in medieval Jerusalem, looking for work as a squire. He's expecting only some protection from the seedier aspects of life on the street and a few square meals. Inste ...Show more
Pagan's Daughter by Catherine Jinks
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
Catherine Jinks's award-winning books about Templar squire Pagan Kidrouk are critically acclaimed international bestsellers. Now a whole new era begins with a stand-alone story about Pagan's daughter Babylonne, a feisty, irresistible character whose tale will catapult you straight into the medieval worl ...Show more
The Demon Thief (Theophilus Grey #1) by Catherine Jinks
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Theophilus Grey
Book one of a two-part intriguing mystery series set in the perilous back alleys of Georgian London. From the multi-award-winning author of A Very Unusual Pursuit. Twelve - year - old Theophilus Grey - Philo to his friends - heads a team of linkboys who guide Londoners home through the dank eighteenth ...Show more