I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor, Danica Davidson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust. Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian mountains, but t ...Show more
Good Sports - A Storybook of Kiwi Sports Heroes by Stuart Lipshaw
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
GOOD SPORTS is a powerful illustrated storybook celebrating Aotearoa's sporting heroes.Be inspired by this collection of true stories about 50 remarkable Kiwi sports heroes- people who have set goals, aimed high and achieved their dreams. A real mixture of well-known and lesser-known stories, this book ...Show more
Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two: A Gypsy Family's Hard Times and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s by Maggie Smith-Bendell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her fat ...Show more
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
The beloved New York Times bestsellers and Kickstarter crowdfunding sensations are available on audio for the first time, read by a star-studded fierce female cast including Alicia Keys, Ashley Judd, Danai Gurira, Esperanza Spalding, Janeane Garofalo, Mozhan Marn , Phillipa Soo, Rowan Blanchard, and Sam ...Show more
My Polar Dream by Jade Hameister
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she arrived at the South Pole. This is the story of an adventurer who never gave up - who set herself incredible challenges beyond ...Show more
Lion: A Long Way Home Young Readers' Edition by Saroo Brierley
$21.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Can you imagine being lost and not finding your way home again?Saroo Brierley became lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a family in Aust ...Show more
Much Ado About Shakespeare by Donovan Bixley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: very good
There has never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the world. Within these pages you will find a new interpretation of Shakespeare's stages, a play on words, which sheds light on the colour ...Show more
Roald Dahl's Life in Stories by Andrew Donkin
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Introducing the life of Roald Dahl to a new generation of readers, Roald Dahl's Life in Stories takes a lively and entertaining trip through Dahl's own story. From his birth in Cardiff to boarding school and on to become a war hero, spy and then writer of some of the most popular children's books of all ...Show more
Elephant Man (HB) by Mariangela Di Fiore
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: shelved in kids history
'Gather round - prepare to be amazed! A sight so very gruesome that you simply won't believe it. Ladies and gentlemen - THE ELEPHANT MAN!' Joseph doesn't look like other people. His skin is thick and lumpy, his limbs are oddly shaped, and his head has a big bony bump. People call him Elephant Man and sc ...Show more
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition by William Kamkwamba
$21.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
The bestselling story of the young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village, now in an accessible middle grade edition. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to s ...Show more
One Girl, One Dream: The Incredible Story of the Youngest Ever Solo Circumnavigation of the World by Laura Dekker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Reading Level: General Adult
The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. If you want to see the other side of the world, you can do two things: turn the world upside down, or travel there yourself. In 2012, at the age of just 16, Laura Dekker became the youngest sailor ever to singl ...Show more
New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame: 25 Kiwi Champions by Maria Gill
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
Here are 25 of New Zealand’s finest sportspeople, across the range of sporting disciplines, and including the old and great alongside the young bucks, the new rising stars. All of these sportspeople have succeeded on the world stage and many began their careers at a very young age.Discover how they ach ...Show more