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A Little Piece of Ground - out of print by Elizabeth Laird
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
Written in collaboration with Palestinian author Sonia Nimr, A Little Piece of Ground tells the story of Karim, an ordinary twelve-year old boy, living in Ramallah under the occupation of Israeli troops. Editor Marion Lloyd says "This is an exceptionally exciting and important book, which will give a ...Show more
Hot Rock Mountain by Elizabeth Laird
$12.99 NZD
Category: Short stories - children
This is a collection of themed short stories about nature and the natural world.This glorious collection of stories about nature is a treat for a reader to discover. Elizabeth Laird begins with a tale about a volcano that gets its own back on developers. Her story about a snake is bravely told, given th ...Show more
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
$17.00 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
Tara is an ordinary teenager. Although her country, Kurdistan, is caught up in a war, the fighting seems far away. It hasn't really touched her. Until now. The secret police are closing in. Tara and her family must flee to the mountains with only the few things they can carry. It is a hard and dangerous ...Show more
Lost Riders by Elizabeth Laird
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Taken from their home in Pakistan to work in the Persian Gulf, eight-year-old Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by harsh supervisors - but he has ...Show more
Oranges in No-Man's Land by Elizabeth Laird
$17.00 NZD
$19.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
A gripping story of a ten-year-old girl who risks death to make a life-saving dash through war-torn Beirut. Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two youn ...Show more
Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird
$17.00 NZD
$20.00 (15% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is handicapped and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart, but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually, the truth gets out a ...Show more
Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
"It's crazy, starting at a new school. For days you feel so new and lost it's as if you've wandered into a foreign country where you can't speak the language." This haunting story about Rafaella, the new girl at school who finds making friends hard, is a stunning piece of writing. With her strange name ...Show more
Secrets of The Fearless by Elizabeth Laird
$17.00 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
When twelve-year-old John Barr is forced to join the navy his life takes a dangerous turn. As he trains to become a powder monkey on board the mighty HMS Fearless, he soon learns that the ship hides many secrets. Thrust into a sinister world of spies and covert operations, John must go ashore accompanie ...Show more
Secrets of the Fearless by Elizabeth Laird
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this action-packed adventure follows one boy on his remarkable journey from powder monkey to war hero. At 12 years old, John Barr is cruelly separated from his father and pressganged into the Navy. Now a powder monkey onboard the mighty HMS Fearless, John has his first ...Show more