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Aunt Effie by Jack Lasenby
$16.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Aunt Effie | Reading Level: 9-13
AUNT EFFIE is the first of a new series of books by Jack Lasenby about Aunt Effie, her six gigantic pig dogs, her twenty-six nephews and nieces, and their adventures in the kauri forests of the Coromandel and fighting off pirates in the Hauraki Gulf.
Aunt Effie and Mrs Grizzle by Jack Lasenby
$17.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Aunt Effie | Reading Level: very good
We're back at the ranch with Aunt Effie in this hilarious book - the fourth in the Aunt Effie series. In this story Aunt Effie and her mob of dogs, nieces and nephews are set to descend on the Beehive since it turns out that the Prime Minister is really Aunt Effie's tricky little mother.
Aunt Effie and the Island that Sank by Jack Lasenby
$12.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Aunt Effie | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards, Junior Fiction Award 2005. AUNT EFFIE is restless. She and her 26 nieces and nephews are off again in the scow Margery Daw  on a treasure hunt across the pirate-infested waterways north of Auckland. However boat and crew become marvellously sidetracked: the ...Show more
Aunt Effie's Ark by Jack Lasenby
$16.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Aunt Effie | Reading Level: From 8 To 13
Here is the second book in the hilarious and outrageous Aunt Effie series. In this story Aunt Effie, dressed in her green canvas invalid's pyjamas, hibernates all winter leaving her 26 resourceful nieces and nephews to deal with snowstorm and flood, ravening monsters, a barnful of hungry animals and a w ...Show more
Because We Were the Travellers (#1 Travellers Quartet ) by Jack Lasenby
$16.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Travellers | Reading Level: 12+
In a land called the Whykatto, south of the city of Orklun, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter grass and flames towards the western horizon. As the sky turns fiery, figures appear in the landscape: a boy, limping, accompanied by an old woman. Cast out from their tribe they make the journey ...Show more
Billy and Old Smoko by Jack Lasenby
$18.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Reading age 8-12 years. Billy wakes up one morning to find a strange woman burning his porridge. The woman speaks without pause but says she's his real mum. Billy knows this isn't true. And when he finds a secret note from his real mother, he sets out to find her. There follows a madcap, mischievous s ...Show more
Calling the Gods by Jack Lasenby
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: very good
Thrown hard on the bottom boards, I stared up at distorted mouths, faces so red I could feel their heat. They stank of rage and of something else; several frothed at the mouth; their howls drowned the clatter and shriek of gulls swerving and tilting above the mast … Banishment is the cruellest punishme ...Show more
Dead Mans Head by Jack Lasenby
$14.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: very good
This trilogy of New Zealand Junior Fiction follows the exploits of a gang of kids and their life in a rural township during the Depression.
Grandad's Wheelies by Jack Lasenby
$17.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. When Jack visits his grandparents, there's no television to entertain him. No internet, no mobile phone, no tablets. In fact, there's no technology or modern distractions at a ...Show more
Harry Wakatipu Comes the Mong by Jack Lasenby
$15.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: 10-13
The third title in an outrageously entertaining collection of tall tales about a 12-year-old Urewera hunter with a moustache and a sneaky, greedy old pack-horse called Harry Wakatipu is another marvellous adventure story that is full of crazy characters and bizarre experiences. Harry is supposed to help ...Show more
Kalik (Travellers Quartet #4) by Jack Lasenby
$14.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Travellers
2002 NZPost Children's Book Awards finalist, Senior Fiction section. Ish is introduced to Lutha's Headland; a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He quickly distrusts a quality in Lutha and her beautiful lieutenant Kalik. Ish wishes to escape but realises he cannot go alone - as ...Show more
Mr Bluenose by Jack Lasenby
$12.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: Very Good
'There was always something to do at Mr Bluenose's place.'Mr Bluenose is a warm and gentle story set in the Depression era. A young girl befriends Mr Bluenose and he in turn tells her some fairly fantastic stories: how he got his name, how he ate a fisherman and various other amusing, imaginative tale ...Show more