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Mischief & Mayhem: 30 New Zealand Stories for Children by Barbara Else
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Following on from the success of CLAWS AND JAWS comes this collection of stories about the chaos and adventure that seem to go hand in hand with children and their exploits. Writers include old favourites like Jane Buxton, Pat Quinn and David Hill; and interesting newcomers like Ted Dawe, Melanie Drewer ...Show more
Showtime! 30 New Zealand Stories For Children by Barbara Else
24.99 NZD
25.99 (3% off)
Category: Children Fiction
School fairs, birthdays, rodeo, picnics, musicians and the country show - 30 stories about NZ children showing what they're made of at home, at school, in parades and anywhere! Roll up and join the fun! This collection is all about children having a go at something or being involved in a celebration or ...Show more
The Case of the Missing Kitchen by Barbara Else
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Is someone murdering the middle-class matrons of Khandallah? Suzie Emmett is a feisty modern Cinderella, a ball of energy who leaves Kate Wildburn (the Warrior Queen) at the starting gate. Suzie, a thirty-seven-year-old single mother, is the youngest of three sisters and a stubborn misfit. While Lara is ...Show more
The Knot Impossible (#4 Tales of Fontana) by Barbara Else
24.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Tales of Fontania
The fourth and final installment in the thrilling Tales of Fontania quartet. Rufkin, a perpetual no-hoper, is left to work in a salvage yard while his celebrity parents and talented siblings go on a summer acting tour. At the salvage yard, Rufkin meets Nissy and a small boy who can only say "Help!". So ...Show more
The Queen and the Nobody Boy (Tales of Fontania #2) by Barbara Else
24.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Tales of Fontania | Reading Level: very good
Hodie is the unpaid odd-job boy at the Grand Palace in the Kingdom of Fontania. Fed-up, he decides to leave and better himself in the South. But the young Queen, 12 year old Sibilla, is fed-up, too, because of gossip about her lack of magical ability. She decides to go with him, insisting he go north to ...Show more
The Travelling Restaurant (#1 Tales of Fontania) by Barbara Else
24.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Tales of Fontania | Reading Level: very good
In the reign of Lady Gall (Provisional Monarch of Fontania), the word magic is forbidden... When 12 year old Jasper Ludlow's parents flee the city, he gets left behind. He finds refuge on The Travelling Restaurant, a sailing ship captained by old Dr Rocket and crewed by feisty Polly. Where is Jasper's b ...Show more
The Volume of Possible Endings (Tales of Fontania #3) by Barbara Else
24.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A Tale of Fontania | Reading Level: very good
Dorrity is the only child in magic-free Owl Town. When she finds an enchanted book with dire predictions, she must face her enemies. And who is the strange boy who has appeared in the Beastly Dark? This stand-alone pre-teen adventure/fantasy novel is the third book in the Tales of Fontania series of nov ...Show more
Three Pretty Widows by Barbara Else
24.95 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
In the aftermath of Barnaby Rivers' death, complications arise for three beautiful women: Bella, his estranged wife, his dear friend Ruth, and wicked old Jocasta. Their contrasting attitudes to their looks have helped form three very different reactions to life, in particular their attitudes to motherho ...Show more
Wild Latitudes by Barbara Else
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
After the unusual death of their papa, Adele Overend and her younger brother Godwin are dispatched from comfortable Autumn Hall in Yorkshire to the uttermost ends of the earth - gold rush Dunedin in 1864. Even worse for the grieving pair, they must travel on separate vessels. Self-possessed and practica ...Show more