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Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
39.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels, Carrie's War is a modern classic. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MORPURGO AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN MARKS 'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Poignant and realistic . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, an ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
14.95 NZD
16.95 (11% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a si ...Show more
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
The 40th anniversary edition of Nina Bawden's much-loved Second World War classic. Carrie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales and billeted at the home of the bullying Mr Evans and his timid sister Lou. Unhappy at home, they love visiting fellow evacuee, Albert, at the farm of Druid's Bottom. H ...Show more
Granny the Pag by Nina Bawden
10.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: 12+
Granny the Pag - biker, psychiatrist and chain-smoker - is a powerful person, but a social embarrassment. However, when Catriona's relationship with her Gran is threatened, Catriona fights for the right to choose where she lives and with who, and she chooses Granny the Pag.
The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden
13.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The expulsion from school of their son shatters the comfortable middle-class security of Maggie and Charlie. Toby's diffidence, drug-taking and refusal to discuss, disturb them sufficiently to seek professional help. The author was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize with "Circles of Deceit".
The Outside Child by Nina Bawden
12.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 9-12
At the age of 13, Jane discovers that her seaman father has remarried and that she has a half brother and sister somewhere. She longs to meet them but her stepmother doesn't want her children to know about Jane. The author also wrote
The Peppermint Pig by Alan (ILT) Nina; Marks Bawden
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
There was a real pig poking its snout out of the milkman's coat pocket. It was the tiniest pig she had ever seen.' 'What's a peppermint pig?' Poll asks her mother. Johnnie was only the runt of the litter. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and her little br ...Show more
The Secret Passage by Nina Bawden
14.95 NZD
16.95 (11% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Books
The three Mallory children have been brought up in Kenya with loving, easy-going parents, and then, within little more than a week, the bottom falls out of their world. This book was the first book Nina Bawden wrote for children.
The Witch's Daughter by Nina Bawden
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 10+
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