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Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
$18.00 NZD
$18.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
Just Don't Make a Scene, Mum! - out of print by Rosie Rushton
$12.95 NZD
$13.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S. | Reading Level: 12+
An interwoven story of five teenagers full of wry observations on the plight of 15 year olds (and their parents). Music and dancing beckon Jemma Farrant, Chelsea Gee, Sumitha Banerjji, Laura Turnbull and Jon Joseph to the Stomping Ground nightclub - but fate seems to have other ideas.
Lassie Come-home by Eric Knight
$11.95 NZD
Category: Activity & puzzle books - children | Series: Picture Puffin Story Books | Reading Level: 6+
Lassie's family can't afford to keep her so they sell her to a wealthy family. Lassie escapes each afternoon to meet her former master from school as she always has done. She is then sent to Scotland but soon escapes, and guided by her instincts she eventually arrives home to a warm welcome.
Luke Lancelot and the Treasure of the Kings by Giles Andreae
$12.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Young Puffin Story Books S.
Luke, Arthur and their sister Gwinnie are magically transported back to Camelot in the hope of finding their father, and returning Pendragon's Belt, with its powers of everlasting life, to its rightful place with the ancient Treasure of the Kings. The children set off on Luke's magnificent flying horse, ...Show more
Mad Dog Mcgraw by Myron Uhlberg
$14.95 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Puffin Picture Books | Reading Level: 4+
Everyone is scared of the mean neighbourhood dog, Mad Dog Mcgraw, but the young hero of the book knows there must be a way to deal with him. After trying various ingenious and madcap ideas to overcome him, the hero learns that making friends is the answer - Mad Dog might not be so mean after all.
Master of the Grove by Victor Kelleher
$17.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Puffin Books
When soldiers destroy Derin's home, he sets out on a puzzling and difficult journey in search of his missing father. But Derin's people are caught up in a war between the people of the mountains and the people of the plains, and his private quest takes him into the very heart of the conflict - to a conf ...Show more
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
$17.00 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Picture books | Series: Picture Puffin books
An American classic with a refrain that millions of kids love to chant: Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats. Wanda G g's enchanting tale of the very old man who went off in search of the prettiest cat in the world for his wife and returned instead with mi ...Show more
Nailing the Shadow by Roger McGough
$12.95 NZD
Category: Poetry & nursery rhymes - children | Series: Puffin Books
A collection of poems by Roger McGough full of questions such as "wouldn't it be funny if you didn't have a nose?" and "have you ever seen a skwerp?". Some are thoughtful, others challenge opinions or provide entertaining games with words.
Nanu, Penguin Chick by Theresa Radcliffe
$14.95 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Puffin Picture Books | Reading Level: 5+
The penguin chick Nanu is facing her first harsh winter in the icy Antartic. Her parents care for her and she flourishes but as the weather gets worse they have to forage for food, leaving Nanu alone for a while. How will little Nanu cope?
Niccolini's Song by Chuck Wilcoxen
$17.00 NZD
$18.00 (5% off)
Category: Picture books | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
Niccolini is no ordinary night watchman in the train yard. He sings the anxious locomotives to sleep every night with a traindreaming song about "gentle hills, steady tailwinds, and feathers for freight." Soon parents start to bring their crying babies and sleepless children to the rail yard, hoping to ...Show more
Night Race to Kawau by Tessa Duder
$14.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: good
One day Sam's father says he has entered the night race to Kawau Island. But Terry, the other crew member, fails to turn up for the race and then as the sun sets and the weather worsens, Sam's father is knocked unconscious. So Sam, her sister and her mother are left to sail the boat alone.
No Angels by Robert Swindells
$14.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S.
Listen, I know somewhere. A squat. And that's how it starts. My life of crime, I mean. A century apart, Nikki and Nick are both struggling to live on the streets of London. No joke when it's freezing cold and you have nothing to eat. How long can they stay on the right side of the law? And what wi ...Show more