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Northern Lights (#1 His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: His Dark Materials
Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: His Dark Materials
When Lyra is studying at Oxford University, she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting, many years ago, along with much evidence of the adventure that brought them together. When a young Texan balloonist, Lee Scoresby, comes down to earth in the harbour of an Arctic t ...Show more
Puss in Boots by Pullman, Philip
$17.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends
Imagine how Jacques feels when he learns that his older brothers have inherited the mill and the donkey, and all he's got is the CAT! Well, he's not fed up for long, because he soon discovers that Puss is no ordinary cat...Not only can he talk (which is pretty unusual for a cat), but he's also got brain ...Show more
Sally Lockhart #3 : The Tiger In the Well by Philip Pullman
$18.99 NZD
Category: Series - children | Series: Sally Lockhart | Reading Level: From 10 To 16
Sally is 25, and somebody wants to destroy her. She receives divorce papers from a man she has never met, let alone married - yet this trap is so well laid that she is powerless to prove otherwise. When custody of her precious daughter is awarded to this evil stranger, it is the beginning of a terrifyin ...Show more
The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship by Philip Pullman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: The Adventures of John Blake | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
After a research experiment gone terribly wrong, John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between the centuries. In the ocean of the modern day, John rescues a shipwrecked young girl his own age, Serena. Returning Serena to her own time means traveling to the one place where the ship is in ...Show more
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Series - children | Series: His Dark Materials 3 | Reading Level: good-very good
The final book in the trilogy. Lyra lies sleeping in a cave near a rainbow, drugged into unconsciousness by her mother, Mrs Coulter, whose love for her daughter closely rivals her own ruthless ambition. Now, the latter threatens to overcome the former, as she strives to prevent the events which are depe ...Show more
The Amber Spyglass (#3 His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: His Dark Materials
The third volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. First published in 2000, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature. "We're going to the land of the dead and we're going to come back." Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound tog ...Show more
The Firework-maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
$16.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: From 8 to 11
Set in the Far East, this is the story of a little girl who makes a perilous journey to meet the "fire-fiend" in order to fulfil her dream of becoming a "real" firework-maker like her father. The author is a winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
$15.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Sally Lockhart Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sally Lockhart's father was an unconventional man. When he dies suddenly on a voyage to the Far East, Sally receives a mysterious letter containing a strange warning. Soon Sally finds herself at the heart of a deep and dangerous mystery, one she is determined to solve at all costs.
The Ruby in the Smoke (#1 Sally Lockhart) by Philip Pullman
$21.99 NZD
Category: Series - children | Series: Sally Lockhart | Reading Level: From 10 To 16
Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives a strange anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London, at the ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - senior | Series: Book of Dust
From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials trilogy comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . . . Lyra Silvertongue is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon. They are not getting on. Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misse ...Show more
The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
$15.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Sally Lockhart | Reading Level: very good
An elderly lady loses her money on an investment; a conjuror is pursued by thugs; and a clairvoyant mentions the name of the richest man in Europe and his mysterious company. Seemingly unconnected events set Sally Lockhart on the trail of an evil far more awful than she could ever imagine.