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Alex in Rome by Tessa Duder
$16.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Alex is in Rome, for the Olympic Games. First published 1992.
Alex in Winter (Alex - Volume 2 ) by Tessa Duder
$16.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
The second unforgettable novel in the multi-award-winning Alex series. Tragedy has entered Alex?s life, and during the long winter she tries to cope with grief and uncertainty about her future. But this time the battle is within herself ? and something only Alex can win. First published 1990.
Down to the Sea Again: True stories for young New Zealanders by Tessa Duder (ed)
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Tessa Duder has edited two very successful collections of marine stories for adults, Salt Beneath the Skin and Seduced by the Sea, and has now produced a similar high quality collection of non-fiction for younger children, who also have a bit of saltwater in their veins.In this anthology of stories abou ...Show more
Hot Mail by Tessa Duder
$15.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
âÃÂÃÂI have never read such gross-out sexist crap as your e-mail, Dantheman, whoever and wherever you areâÃÂÃÂ. So begins the unlikely friendship of Jess and Dan. Jess (14) is voyaging around the Pacific with her mum, as Dan struggles with small-town life. A collaboration between two of NZ ...Show more
Jellybean by Tessa Duder
$16.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Jellybean tells the story of a lonely girl, Geraldine, nicknamed Jellybean, whose unconventional single mother is uncomfortably different from all her schoolmates' mothers - a professional musician who plays in the orchestra and a jazz band. So when a stranger comes into their life and Jellybean finds t ...Show more
Night Race to Kawau by Tessa Duder
$18.00 NZD
$19.99 (9% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children
What started as an exciting challenge turns into a nightmare when a gale unexpectedly blows up during the night race to Kawau Island. Sam and her mother suddenly find themselves in charge of their yacht with a dangerous task ahead of them. Will Sam be able to save her family?
Night Race to Kawau by Tessa Duder
$14.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: good
One day Sam's father says he has entered the night race to Kawau Island. But Terry, the other crew member, fails to turn up for the race and then as the sun sets and the weather worsens, Sam's father is knocked unconscious. So Sam, her sister and her mother are left to sail the boat alone.
Out of the Deep: and Other Stories from New Zealand and Around the Pacific by Tessa Duder
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Raupo Series
This anthology of 16 stories was commissioned to mark the 2 April 2007 celebration of International Children's Book Day. Fifteen writers were invited to submit works for the book, and the majority of the stories have been written specifically for this project. The authors are drawn from New Zealand ...Show more
Songs for Alex (#4/4 Alex series) by Tessa Duder
$16.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: very good
OUTOF PRINT The dramatic finale to the multi-award-winning Alex series. Life is suddenly full of exciting possibilities for Alex. More swimming? University? Scholarships in America? And through it all Alex wonders if she will ever meet the mysterious Tom again? Ah, Rome. It seems a long way away now. Fi ...Show more
Storylines: The Anthology by Tessa Duder
$24.99 NZD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Anthology produced by the Children's Literature Foundation to mark the Tenth Anniversary Storylines Festival. Contains short stories and poems for children, by twenty five award winning New Zealand writers. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
The Word Witch: The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy by Margaret Mahy Edited by Tessa Duder
$46.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & nursery rhymes - children | Reading Level: Very Good
Honour Award, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010. The Word Witch can lasso with a limerick, haunt with a haiku and wrap you tight in a rhyme, quick as lightning. Her cauldron is a dictionary, her wand a mighty pen, and she stirs her words at midnight, making tempting treats for children, to pl ...Show more
Tiggie Tompson All at Sea by Tessa Duder
$15.95 NZD
$16.95 (5% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: very good
Tiggie Tompson has won a coveted role in a 19th century TV drama. But then she becomes embroiled in her own family drama, including emails from an unknown half-brother with unpleasant news. TiggieâÂÂs TV character, the aristocratic young Eliza, edges into her waking thoughts and their two stories are ...Show more