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Old Drumble by Jack Lasenby
$18.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
NZ Post Childrens Book Awards, Junior Fiction Winner NZ Post Book Awards 2009 The humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover. Jack has a wonderful, warm relationship with his parents and old family friends, Andy the Drover and his dog, Old Drumble. Each w ...Show more
Shaman and the Droll (Travellers Quartet #3) by Jack Lasenby
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: The Travellers | Reading Level: 13+
In a timeless story, Ish gains wisdom and a place. He learns the profound power of knowledge, the terrifying force of superstition. But in this land of blinding light there lurks a dark, menacing presence. This is the third title in the "Travellers" series.
Taur (Travellers Quartet #2) by Jack Lasenby
$14.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: The Travellers Quartet | Reading Level: 13+
In a future where the elements have scoured the land, and the sun turned enemy, Ish's dream is simply to find peace, a place, and a people to call his own.Shortlisted for the 1999 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, senior fiction section.Pursued by the hateful Salt Men, Ish flees south with his fr ...Show more
The Battle of Pook Island by Jack Lasenby
$14.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Seddon Street Gang Ser. | Reading Level: good
This trilogy of New Zealand Junior Fiction follows the exploits of a gang of kids and their life in a rural township during the Depression.
The Haystack by Jack Lasenby
$20.50 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: 8-11 years
It's the 1930s Depression, and Maggie is growing up without a mother in the little Waikato dairying township of Waharoa. Maggie has to make do with her father's friends, neighbours and an old biddy who should know better but can't help herself. Maggie torments the boy down the road, sets fire to the dun ...Show more
The Lies of Harry Wakatipu by Jack Lasenby
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: 8+
Harry Wakatipu is a lazy, bad-tempered packhorse and the biggest liar in the history of the Vast Untrodden Ureweras. He's hopeless and needy and greedy and never does his share of the work. The Lies of Harry Wakatipu is a collection of fantastic stories - like how the first wasps got into New Zealand, o ...Show more
The Tears of Harry Wakatipu by Jack Lasenby
$12.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: Very Good
Harry Wakatipu returns to the Hopuruahine Hut, and his dogs to walk on water, slays the first of the Grim Inscrutable Wolves, and lives all winter on a single moa's egg. What happens when the flying dunny lands in the river-bed, when Harry Wakatipu ferments con-densed milk...Tuck this book under your s ...Show more
Uncle Trev and His Whistling Bull by Jack Lasenby
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - junior | Series: Uncle Trev
It's the 1930s. Our storyteller is crook in bed, trying to get over a long sickness and wanting to go back to school, when Uncle Trev arrives to let Mum go out and do the shopping. Uncle Trev tells one story after another about the animals out on his farm and about his neighbour Gotta Henry. He also goe ...Show more
Waterfall by Jack Lasenby
$6.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Seddon Street Gang #2 | Reading Level: good
When Mum Went Funny by Jack Lasenby
$12.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: very good
'You wait till Constable Cuff hears about this a We're going to tell everybody in the district you sold your children for sixpence.' In WHEN MUM WENT FUNNY, the cry of mothers everywhere is heard loud and clear. This is war-time New Zealand and with Dad away, Mum has to run the farm and feed four child ...Show more