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Absolute Zero by Helen Cresswell
$9.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Books
This second book in "The Bagthorpe Saga". Jack has always felt his dog Zero is special, even if the rest of his family don't think much of him. When the family gets obsessed with stupid competitions, Zero becomes the most famous and best-loved mongrel in the country.
Beyond the Chocolate War - out of print by Robert Cormier
$14.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S.
The story continues a few months after THE CHOCOLATE WAR ends. As the school year draws to an end, many students look forward to leaving but Carter and Obie, leading members of the ruthless secret society, The Vigils, can't contemplate the future until they have destroyed the leader, Archie Costello. Ob ...Show more
Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein
$10.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Puffin books
Borrowers by Mary Norton
$12.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - junior | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 8-10
Beneath the floor behind the kitchen clock lives a family of tiny people. Everything they have is borrowed from the "human beans", who don't even know they exist - until the fateful day Arrietty makes friends with "the boy" from upstairs.
Boy - Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
$11.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Puffin Story Books | Reading Level: 7+
Many remarkable things did happen to Roald Dahl when he was a boy, and maybe that's where some of the marvellous ideas for his books came from. This is the story of his own childhood. The story is continued in "Going Solo".
Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy
$9.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Young Puffin Story Books S. | Reading Level: 7+
This collection of stories and poems includes "The Lovestruck Crocodile", written by the author of "Dangerous Spaces", "Keeping House" and "The Queen's Goat". The author has won the Carnegie medal on two occasions.
Carwash by Lesley Howarth
$15.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S. | Reading Level: 12+
Set in a country village, the novel follows a group of young teenagers through a summer. The story is told mainly through the eyes of Luke as he starts a carwash business to earn money for life's essentials. Additional commentary is provided by Bix, who spends most of her time up a tree.
Clever Duck by Dick King-Smith
$12.95 NZD
$15.95 (18% off)
Category: Fiction - junior | Series: Young Puffin Story Books S.
Crazy by Benjamin Lebert
$14.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S.
This autobiographical novel by 16-year-old German Benjamin Lebert begins on his first day at his new school, his fifth so far. He is paralyzed down his left side, but lives his life to the full, as a rebellious schoolboy - smoking, drinking, running away, meeting girls and having sex.
Daggie Dogfoot by Dick King-Smith
$12.95 NZD
$16.95 (23% off)
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Young Puffin Story Books S.
Fireboat by Maira Kalman
$10.09 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback) | Reading Level: very good
This is the inspiring true story of the John J. Harvey -- a retired New York City fireboat reinstated on September 11, 2001. Originally launched in 1931, the Harvey was the most powerful fireboat of her time. After the September 11 attacks, with fire hydrants at Ground Zero inoperable and the Hudson Riv ...Show more
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
$11.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 7+
The second part of Roald Dahl's autobiography creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any one will find in his fiction. An evocation of his wartime exploits, it tells of African safaris and deadly snakes; of fighter planes and air battles with the enemy during World War II. This is the sequel to "Bo ...Show more