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Aesop's Fables by Beverley Naidoo
31.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics
A little mouse saves the life of a great lion; hungry Grasshopper, too lazy to store food, gets no mercy from the industrious ants; crafty Jackal tricks Klipspringer to escape death - but is himself tricked by the cock and the dog!. Here are 16 of Aesop's wise, witty and timeless fables, portrayed for t ...Show more
Baba's Gift by Beverley Naidoo
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: 3-7
Lindi and her brother go to the sea with their grandmother, taking a little wooden boat to play with that their grandfather has made. They quickly make a new friend and play together with the boat in the sea and then have a picnic. No one notices the sea creeping in until it has taken their boat away. ...Show more
Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo
17.99 NZD
27.99 (35% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
The Mau Mau - the name of a secret society that once struck terror into the hearts of British settlers in Kenya. An episode in history that ended in a State of Emergency, with violent and brutal acts dividing a nation. This is an intensely personal and vivid story of two boys: one black, one white. Onc ...Show more
Chain of Fire by Beverley Naidoo
14.95 NZD
16.95 (11% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Set in South Africa at the height of the apartheid regime, when the government started a policy of ethnic cleansing, forcibly removing people from their homes and moving them to so-called 'homelands'. Schoolchildren Naledi and Tiro are caught up in the protests and resistance as they and their grandmoth ...Show more
Children of the Stone City by Beverley Naidoo
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
A thrilling, resonant and inspiring novel about justice, privilege and the power of the young to strive for change. Set in a world where Adam and Leila and their friend Zak live as Nons under the Permitted ruling class. Then, when Adam and Leila’s father dies unexpectedly, their mother faces losing her ...Show more
Cinderella of the Nile by Beverley Naidoo
27.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: One Story, Many Voices
Beautifully retold by the award-winning author Beverley Naidoo, this earliest-known version of Cinderella is brought to life for the modern- day reader. Rhodopis is a Greek girl who is sold into slavery by bandits and taken to Egypt. Along the way she becomes friends with the storyteller Aesop and a ho ...Show more
Great Tug of War, The by Beverley Naidoo
14.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Mmutla, the Hare is cunning. When you have Ntsu, the Eagle soaring high in the sky looking for her supper, and Tswhene, the Baboon vowing to throw you off a cliff, you need all the tricks you can think of. When Mmutla, the Hare tricks Tlou, the Elephant and Kubu, the Hippo into having an epic tug of war ...Show more
Journey to Jo'Burg (Essential Modern Classic) by Beverley Naidoo
16.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, wh ...Show more
Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story by Beverley Naidoo
18.99 NZD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics
Frightened that their baby sister will die, 13-year-old Naledi and her young brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to find their mother, who works in Johannesburg as a maid. Their journey shows the realities of apartheid, pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.
Making It Home by Beverley Naidoo
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
This is a poignant and inspiring collection of stories by refugee children from all over the world. Told through their eyes, it promises to be a compelling insight into the plight of the world's refugees. The youngest contributor, six-year-old Wachen Bohlen left war-torn Liberia, but wants to return bec ...Show more
S is for South Africa by Naidoo, Beverley
29.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
"S is for South Africa where two oceans meet, cold Atlantic from the west and warm Indian from the east. Our country stretches wide over Africa's southern shores from golden beach to misty mountain, desert sand to grassy plain in a land of contrasts where we praise the sun -- yet pray for rain!" From Cr ...Show more
Web of Lies #2 by Beverley Naidoo
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Sequel to 'Other Side of Truth' Two years after their flight from Nigeria, 14-yr-old Sade, her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London, waiting for their claim for asylum to be approved. Sade is upset when Femi is drawn into a violent possibly drug-dealing gang, and e ...Show more