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Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story) by Lorraine Orman
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My New Zealand Story
In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung. Lillian needs to live in a healt ...Show more
Hero at Dunkirk (My Story) by Vince Cross
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My Story | Reading Level: very good
Joe Read was 15 years old when he was caught up in a moment in history no one will ever forget. Winston Churchill called it 'a miracle of deliverance' when over 300000 British and allied soldiers were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk by a fleet of over 800 boats. Joe and his father Wally risked their ...Show more
Hero at Dunkirk (My True Story) by Vince Cross
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My True Story | Reading Level: 9-12
2010 sees the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of the allies at Dunkirk. The lives of 338,226 men were saved in 861 vessels. This story of one of the young men who aided in the evacuation is not heard for the very first time. Joe Read was only 15 years old wen he crossed the channel in his father's li ...Show more
Kauri in My Blood: The Diary of Laura Ann Findlay, the Coromandel, 1921-24 (My New Zealand Story) by Joanna Orwin
$16.99 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Children | Series: My New Zealand Story
Laura Anne Findlay lives among giants - the mighty kauri trees of the Coromandel forest. It is the 1920s, and the last remnants of kauri forest are being cleared for timber and farmland. When Laura's father becomes ill, the family is split up. Laura's mother takes a job as a bush cook in a kauri logging ...Show more
Kevin the Mobile Crane (Thomas & Friends Story Library) by THOMAS STORY LIBRARY
$4.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My Thomas Story Library
This is a story about Kevin, a little crane who helps Victor mend engines at the Sodor Steamworks. Clumsy Kevin had a lot to learn, but when Spencer ran into trouble, could Kevin come to his rescue?
Lady Jane Grey (My Story) by Sue Reid
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My Story | Reading Level: 11+
This is the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey who was Queen of England for nine days in July 1553. Jane grew up watching her cousins in training as heirs to the throne, little imagining that by a twist of fate she would one day be crowned. But this is Tudor England where nobody plays fair, and even a queen ...Show more
Langdown Manor by Sue Reid
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: MY STORY | Reading Level: From 10 To 14
Struggling to conform to the rigid certainties of the English upper classes and their traditions, Polly believes that she has found her soulmate in Fred, the young and ambitious groom, who feels as out of place in service as she does at the Hall. When theyall for each other their romance has to be kept ...Show more
Lighthouse Family: Coastal NZ, 1941-42 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My New Zealand Story
For Frances and her family, living on a lighthouse, the war is both far away and scarily close. There are rumours of submarines in the Pacific. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, taken Singapore and bombed Darwin, so what’s to stop them invading New Zealand next? But soon Frances, the only girl on ...Show more
Mighty Mac (Thomas & Friends Story Library) by THOMAS STORY LIBRARY 37
$4.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My Thomas Story Library
This is a story about Mighty Mac, an engine with two faces! Mighty and Mac argued all the time. But one day they realised that if they didn't listen to each other, they could get into serious trouble ...
My Story: London Stories by Jim Eldridge
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
This title features the story of London as seen through the eyes of the city's children. Twelve stories transport the reader from the Londinium of two millenniums past to the London of 2012, anticipating the Olympic games and a Diamond Jubilee. Along the way we escape a great fire, survive the gunp ...Show more
My Very First Story Time: Jack and the Beanstalk: A fairy tale for reading aloud by Pat-a-Cake, Ronne Randall
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My Very First Story Time | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
When Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, things take a fantastical turn. This dramatic retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk tingles with adventure, as the reader makes his way to the giant's castle and joins in with his hungry chant. It's never too early to introduce children to the ...Show more
No Way Back: The Journey of a Convict 1789 (My True Story) by Valerie Wilding
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My True Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 15
Join Mary Wade on a long and perilous journey that begins in the slums of eighteenth century London. Aged thirteen, Mary is imprisoned in Newgate prison awaiting sentence of death for a petty theft. When her sentence is commuted to transportation she sets sail onboard a prison ship to the other side of ...Show more