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A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
$19.00 NZD
$19.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and fa ...Show more
A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
When eighteen-year-old Ellen accepts the post of housekeeper at Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and Dance she wasn't expecting it to be quite so unusual. For deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, she finds an eccentrically magical world occupied by wild children and even wilder teachers, experim ...Show more
Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
$17.00 NZD
$19.99 (14% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
Can two children foil an outrageous criminal plot with the help of some of the funniest and maddest ghosts ever invented?Clawstone Castle is ancient and famous, but its elderly owners have no money. In its great park live a legendary herd of wild white cattle that have roamed there since the days of the ...Show more
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
$17.00 NZD
$19.99 (14% off)
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: very good
Maia, an orphan, is starting a new life up the Amazon River with relatives she�s never met. It�s an exciting prospect � but years of jungle life have taken their toll on her aunt and uncle, and their children are unlike any Maia has ever met. A touching, funny tale for those aged 10 to 13, by a br ...Show more
Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
Spring, 1922 Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairytale castle is missing its princess, and Tessa is determined to keep it that way. But sec ...Show more
Monster Mission by Eva Ibbotson
$17.00 NZD
$20.00 (15% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
Attack of the Killer Aunt's scream the headlines Aunt Plague Menaces City! Three children have been dramatically kidnapped by some mysterious, mad aunts. But Myrtle. Coral and Etta are far from killers - they need the children for a special mission. The secret island where they live is a sanctuary for m ...Show more
Not Just a Witch and Dial a Ghost by Eva Ibbotson
$17.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Two of Eva Ibbotson's popular stories in one volume! Not Just a Witch is about a witch named Heckie. Heckie is not just a witch. She's a good witch who wants to make the world a better place. So, with her Toe of Transformation and her Knuckle of Power she turns unpleasant people into animals. But ...Show more
One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibbotson
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. But a dog would damage the carpets in Hal's house, and so his parents refused to let him have one. Then they discover Easy Pets, a convenient dog-rental agency. Terrier Fleck arrives on Hal's birthday, but when he discovers that his dog must be returned, he runs away. ...Show more
The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: From 8 To 11
A hundred years ago, in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar, the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farley is introduced to a family of motherless yetis and devotes her life to their upbringing. She teaches them to speak, tells them stories and insi ...Show more
The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: 11-14
Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton Hall is a far more interesting place than Tally ever imagined, and an exciting school trip to the beautiful and luscious kingdom of B ...Show more
The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
$18.00 NZD
$19.99 (9% off)
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: 12+
Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to becom ...Show more
The Secret of Platform 13 (#1) by Eva Ibbotson
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: Platform 13
Under Platform 13 at King's Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island ...It appears only once every nine years. And when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, st ...Show more