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Crime Story by Maurice Gee
$28.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: very good
A reissue of Maurice Gee's classic novel timed to coincide with the NZ release (September 2004 of the Larry Parr film Fracture, which is based on this novel.Worlds separate Brent Rosser from Ulla Peet, but a burglary gone wrong brings them into a confrontation that will change their lives - and end one ...Show more
Gool by Maurice Gee
$19.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Salt Trilogy 2 | Reading Level: Very Good
Gool is the sequel to Salt. Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe. Hari lies dangerously ill with a fragment of a strange creature wrapped around his throat, draining hi ...Show more
Gool (Salt #2) by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - senior | Series: Salt Trilogy
A new edition of the second installment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series. Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe. Hari lies gravely ill with a fragment of a str ...Show more
Motherstone by Maurice Gee
$14.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: O Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: good
For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving the magical land of O, the scene of The Halfmen of O and The Priests of Ferris. But even as they prepare to step back to Earth, strange and evil forces reach out to ensnare them. For Susan - and for the Motherstone - there is one ...Show more
Motherstone (#3 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
$21.00 (14% off)
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: O Trilogy | Reading Level: good-very good
For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving he magical land of O, the scene of The Halfmen of O and The Priests of Ferris. But even as they prepare to step back to earth, strange and evil forces reach out to ensnare them. For Susan - and for the Motherstone - there is one ...Show more
Orchard Street by Maurice Gee
$15.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: very good
Some very strange things are happening in Orchard Street. Ossie's Dad is doing something illegal under the house; everyone is talking about the waterfront strike; adults are behaving in odd ways towards each other - and Ossie is falling in love. As he moves out of the safety zone of childhood, Ossie beg ...Show more
Plumb by Maurice Gee
$28.00 NZD
$30.00 (6% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: very good
Maurice Gee's acclaimed novel Plumbwas the winner of the Wattie Book Award and the New Zealand Fiction Award. His brilliant picture of the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb is regarded as one of the very finest New Zealand novels.
Salt by Maurice Gee
$17.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: Very Good
Hari lives in Blood Burrow, deep in the ruined city of Belong, where he survives by courage and savagery. He is scarred from fighting, he is dangerous and cruel, but he has a secret gift: he can speak with animals. When his father, Tarl, is taken as a slave and sent to the mine known as Deep Salt, from ...Show more
Salt by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - senior | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
A rejacketed new edition of the first instalment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series. Hari lives in Blood Burrow, deep in the ruined city of Belong, where he survives by courage and savagery. He is scarred from fighting, he is dangerous and cruel, but he has a secret gift: he can speak with anima ...Show more
Scornful Moon by Maurice Gee
$28.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Wellington, 1936. James Tinling, a former cabinet minister, plans apolitical comeback, and although a brash newcomer stands in his way, James has methods of dealing with people who stand up to him. Eric Clifton has secrets too: he lives hot-bloodedly and is at war with patrician James. Sam Holloway reco ...Show more
The Champion by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
$18.99 (5% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children
What do you answer when people say, 'Who was the most important person you've ever known?'...It was Jackson Coop. He changed my life - Jackson and the things that happened in those two weeks. It is summer 1943 in a small New Zealand town, and a wounded American soldier is coming to stay with 12-year-ol ...Show more
The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
$15.95 NZD
$16.95 (5% off)
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: very good
Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive man and the fearful child. But who is the fat man and why does he hate the people of Loomis? What guilty secr ...Show more