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Just a Girl by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a truly extraordinary woman. And after 2000 years, the story of her brave and remarkable life continues to inspire and enthrall us, as that young woman from Nazareth was never 'just a girl'. In 72 AD, as the Roman army pillages Judea and destroys their village, fourteen-ye ...Show more
Nanberry: Black Brother White by Jackie French
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: . | Reading Level: 14+
The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself uncomfortably between two worlds, it is a new perspective on Australia's earliest da ...Show more
Ophelia: Queen of Denmark by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
Following on from I AM JULIET (August 2014), this is the second title in a proposed new series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic and enduring plays. Ages: 10+ Who was Ophelia? She only appears twice in the play Hamlet. The rest of the time we only hear about ...Show more
Pandemic (HB) by Jackie French
$29.99 NZD
Category: Children
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, Closed. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful story ...Show more
Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Matilda | Reading Level: very good
It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Christmas by Jackie French
$29.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Queen Victoria Titles
Something strange is happening at the palace and the dogs can't work it out. The cooks are busy...are royal visitors arriving? Mysterious parcels are arriving. And most curious of all...what is that tree doing in Prince Albert's study? From the creators of the delightful QUEEN VICTORIA'S UNDERPANTS com ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Underpants by Jackie French
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children
A very funny story about the most famous underwear in the British Empire.Ages: 4+ Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria ma ...Show more
Refuge by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
Refuge centres around a 14-year-old Afghan boy who spent much of his life in Pakistani refugee camps before making the voyage from Indonesia to Australia. As the boat crashes against the rocks of Christmas Island he loses consciousness and awakes to find himself in the life he has always dreamed of in A ...Show more
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult/Teenage
This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret pos ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli (HB) by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 7+
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Book of Horses and Unicorns by Jackie French
$24.99 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
From Australia's Children's Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. Take a journey through the ages and around the world - from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s. Each story weaves the fantasti ...Show more