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"Artists are Crazy" and Other Stories by Ken Catran
$15.95 NZD
$19.99 (20% off)
Category: Short stories - children | Series: Truth Behind History S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 99
In eight wry and brilliant short stories, Ken Catran gives us the real ‘truth’ behind some of history’s great moments – from Leonardo Da Vinci’s inventions to why the Egyptians worshipped cats.
Blue Murder by Ken Catran
$17.95 NZD
$19.99 (10% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: From 11 To 99
If you read Talking to Blue you'll remember Mike has been arrested after a spate of serial murders, dubbed the Blue killings because all the victims wore something blue. Mike got involved when Blue talked to him on his cellphone. In this sequel, Blue kills again, so Mike is released. But he hasn't fini ...Show more
Dawn Hawk by Ken Catran
$15.95 NZD
$16.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Crime Waves | Reading Level: From 10 To 14
Mike and Vida?s only clue to the whereabouts of the old Kittyhawk from World War I lies in a poem, ?Dawn Hawk?. They know one was sold in New Zealand and then disappeared from official records. Had their Aunt Petronella found it?
Earth Dragon, Fire Hare by Ken Catran
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: 13+
The conflict in Malaysia during and after World War Two, as seen from the perspectives of a Kiwi soldier (Peter) and a Chinese Malay freedom fighter (Ng). Against a background of culture clash and political and individual conflicts, two young men are drawn inexorably together as victims and products of ...Show more
Fries by Ken Catran
$15.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Reading age 10 to 13 yrs. "Fries" is the story of a very small town with a small school, a small hotel and a general store. The major source of the town's economy is the Fries Factory and when its sale or closure is threatened, strange things begin to happen.
Golden Prince by Ken Catran
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Pyrrhus, sixteen years old, son of the great warrior-king Achilles. Leading his troops at the fabled siege of Troy...battling his own doubts...and a ruthless enemy. This is the fight of his life. A fight to the death.
Jacko Moran Sniper by Ken Catran
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: very good
"Gallipoli was the first good thing that happened to me." World War I turned Jacko Moran from a sullen, street-fighting slum kid, with a brutal alcoholic father, into a fearless soldier, a decorated war hero and a man who commanded the utmost respect. "They were the only four years I really lived," Jac ...Show more
Jimmy Moran, Regular (OUT OF PRINT) by Ken Catran
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
Jimmy Moran
Letters from the Coffin Trenches by Ken Catran
$18.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Love letters on eve of Gallipoli. From best selling award winning author. ++ Finalist, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards (Senior Fiction Section), 2003 ++
Monsters of Blood and Honour by Ken Catran
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Monsters of Blood & Honour contains three stand-alone stories, each with a related theme. In each story a young teenager of 17 or 18 interacts with an elderly person who was their age during World War II. Each of these now-elderly people has undergone a traumatic and violent experience, which the mo ...Show more
More Weird Stuff About Mr Foster by Ken Catran
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: 9-11 years
In Something Weird About Mr Foster, Joe Bennett realises that his teacher, Mr Foster, is actually a whole community of aliens. During the story Mr Foster warned Joe that wherever he was his opposite must also be and in this return adventure we meet him. Where Mr Foster was a benign, friendly (if fragile ...Show more
Nina of the Dark (#1) by Ken Catran
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: very good
Against the forces of evil and night, who will stand true? Slave-born, fated to seek a terrible truth from lost centuries, her only allies are a thief, a giant and an ancient prophecy. Together, they must seek answers to shrouded mysteries and resolve the fate of their world...but first they must surviv ...Show more