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Lacey and the Drama Queens by Fleur Beale
14.99 NZD
17.99 (16% off)
Category: Children Fiction
DoP October 2009, Auckland 168pp Softcover Lacey and her best (and bossy) friend Vanessa do everything together, including dance lessons. But after Lacey's trip to Perth to be a flowergirl (wearing the dress from hell!), their friendship starts to crack up, especially when a new girl at school, Be ...Show more
Lyla (Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones) by Fleur Beale
18.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones
Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the comm ...Show more
Mission Girl (My New Zealand Story) by Fleur Beale
20.99 NZD
Category: Children's Māori Books
When her tribe is defeated in battle, Atapo is captured and becomes a slave of her enemies. Freedom seems impossible; the penalty for runaway slaves is death. But when sickness strikes the village, Atapo is blamed - and now it is even more dangerous to stay. To save her life, she escapes to the Pakeha m ...Show more
My Life of Crime by Fleur Beale
18.00 NZD
21.00 (14% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Anthony wants a swimming pool,likes his neighbours.He decides to catch a Paua poacher and to hold him to ransom. Of course things aren't as simple as he thinks.In between rescuing the paper boy from a gang of hoons,settling into a new school and working hard Anthony slowly changes from a mummys boy into ...Show more
My Story: A New Song in the Land - the Writings of Atapo, Paihia, C.1840 by Fleur Beale
16.99 NZD
17.99 (5% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: My Story S.
This powerful story, set at the time of New Zealand's founding document in 1840, traces Atapo's capture and slavery as a child through to her escape to the mission house in the Bay of Islands as a 14-year-old. There she learns the new English ways and language and is present at the signing of the Treaty ...Show more
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
21.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants! What happens when a group of school children, led by the resourceful ten-year-old Dance Violet, dare to ask those in power some hard qu ...Show more
Playing to Win by Fleur Beale
16.99 NZD
19.50 (12% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Rugby related youth novel Denny Logan - a new kid in town. Denny is responsible and confident for his 16 years. While his mum works he looks after his 7-year-old twin sisters, holds down a part-time job and keeps up with his schoolwork. Denny wants to make the school rugby team but he comes up against a ...Show more
Quin Majik and The Tidy Street Catastrophe by Fleur Beale
14.99 NZD
16.00 (6% off)
Category: Children Fiction
The Tidy Street parents are on the warpath. 'Leave this street,' they say to Quin Majik. 'Immediately.' Of course Quin isn't going anywhere. Instead he and Fred Smart hatch a scheme with stilts, codes and cunning to liberate the Tidy Street kids from The Rules and let them have some fun. Another hilario ...Show more
Quin Majik and the Hairy Roof Rescue by Fleur Beale
15.00 NZD
15.99 (6% off)
Category: Children Fiction
The parents of Tidy Street have decided that Quin Majik is a Bad Influence, and he may no longer see his friend, Fred Smart. But all this changes when Fred's dad gets marooned on the roof of the Smart family home. Quin and Fred are allowed to invent together once more - this time they must create a cont ...Show more
Quin Majik and the Marvellous Machine by Fleur Beale & Philip Webb (ill.)
15.00 NZD
15.99 (6% off)
Category: Children Fiction
When Quin Majik and his parents move to Tidy Street they soon learn about The Rules. These tell the residents what they may and may not do, eat and wear. But the Majiks, expecially Quin, have no intention of following them. Fleur Beale's wicked sense of humour and Phip Webb's zany illustrations combine ...Show more
Sins of the Father: The Long Shadow of a Religious Community by Fleur Beale
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The disturbing story of the ruthless exercise of power in a New Zealand religious cult. Charismatic, driven and self-righteous, Neville Cooper set up his own brand of Christian utopia on earth: a reclusive community on the West Coast of New Zealand. For the 400 inhabitants of Gloriavale, his word is law ...Show more