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Evacuee by Peter Hepplewhite
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: My War S.
Offering information on the evacuation programme including why it was needed, this book provides details on the new homes the evacuees went to, their lives there, and the eventual return to their families at the end of the war. It consists of the personal accounts of 4 contributors, who were child evacu ...Show more
Historical Storybooks: Mahatma Ghandi: the Salt of Freedom by Peter Hepplewhite
$16.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Historical Storybooks
The year is 1930 and 13-year-old Chandras has the opportunity to join the great leader Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of others on a 'salt march' to the coast, to demonstrate against the unjust law that forced every Indian to pay a tax on salt. This book tells the story of Gandhi's famous 'salt march', fr ...Show more
History Journeys: an Evacuee's Journey by Peter Hepplewhite
$39.99 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: History Journeys S.
Set in 1939, this title follows the journey of evacuee Joe Thompson from Sunderland to countryside of East Yorkshire. It provides background to social conditions of that time. It covers topics ranging from preparation for war, to health and welfare in Britain, homesickness, farmwork, schooling, rationin ...Show more
Industrial Revolution by Peter Hepplewhite
$16.99 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: All About S. | Reading Level: From 8 to 11
Offering a chronological political history of the Industrial Revolution, this work contains chapters on the major themes such as developments in technology, the factory system and working life for men, women and children, the growth of industrial towns, and the effects of the Industrial Revolution on th ...Show more
Maneaters by Peter Hepplewhite
$5.00 NZD
$14.95 (66% off)
Category: Nature & animals - children
This title features predators, from spiders and snakes, to sharks. It contains stories about real-life encounters with dangerous animals, plus factual information explaining why some animals become a threat to humans, and how such threats can be avoided.
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