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A Proper Place - a Kevin and Sadie Story OP by Joan Lingard
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction S. | Reading Level: From 13 to 18
There was no denying that Sadie's mother, coming to see the new baby, would make things uncomfortable. Sometimes it looked as if they never would escape from their cramped, dingy rooms and find a proper place to bring up Brendan, but Sadie and Kevin had been through a lot together already.
After the First Death - out of print by Robert Cormier
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction S. | Reading Level: From 13 To 18
A bus load of children held hostage by terrorists is at the heart of this novel. The background is the hearts and minds of those drawn into the web of deceit and intrigue surrounding this intrigue. Characters include the 16-year-old terrorist, Miro, a boy with no past and no future.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
18.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Fiction | Reading Level: 8+
Mr Wonka's inventions are out of this world. He's thought up every kind of sweet imaginable in his amazing chocolate factory, but no one has ever seen inside, or met Mr Wonka! Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a golden ticket and wins the trip of a lifetime around the famous chocolate ...Show more
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
18.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Fiction | Reading Level: From 8 to 99
Mr Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don't trust his flying skills one bit. Especially when the thing he's flying is a glass elevator and it's zooming out of control into the stratosphere. But life is never dull with Mr Wonka, and if he gets them into some terrible scrap ...Show more
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Fiction | Reading Level: good
"A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky" Danny has the most marvellous and exciting father anyone ever had. He can repair any car or machine that people bring to him, loves going on adventures with Danny and tells him incredible stories around the s ...Show more
Endymion Spring (Large Format) by Matthew Skelton
19.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Puffin Fiction
Who or what is Endymion Spring? A power for good, or for evil . . . A legendary book that holds the secret to a world of knowledge . . . A young boy without a voice - whose five-hundred-year-old story is about to explode in the twenty-first century . . . Blake is visiting Oxford with his academic mother ...Show more
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Fiction | Reading Level: From 8 to 99
A shy man, Mr Hoppy has only the courage for polite conversation with Mrs Silver, as she tends her pet tortoise Alfie, on the balcony below. But, when he learns that her dearest wish is for Alfie to grow bigger, he hatches a plan involving a giant pair of metal claws and 140 tortoises.
George's Marvellous Medicine (old cover) by Roald Dahl
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Fiction Ser.
George's grandma has some pretty odd views. In fact, she's not a very nice person at all. She thinks caterpillars and slugs are delicious and likes to crunch on beetles best of all. George can do nothing right in Grandma's eyes, so when it's time for her medicine he decides to give her a dose of his own ...Show more
Hostages to Fortune OP by Joan Lingard
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction S. | Reading Level: 12+
Will things ever go right for Kevin and Sadie? Just when things seem to be going right, Kevin's boss dies and his job disappears. So once again they face a bleak future - without a home or a job but with a young baby to care for. Sadie wonders whether her heart will break as they set off into the unk ...Show more
Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction S. | Reading Level: 13-18
This is the third book in the saga which begins with "Roll of Thunder" and "Hear My Cry". It is 1941, and all of America is filled with rumblings of war in Europe and the Pacific. But Cassie Logan has reason to be more concerned with trouble back home in Mississippi.
See You Thursday by Jean Ure
11.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction S.
Mum announces they're going to have a lodger and it seems like the end of the world to Marianne. Things are bad enough as it is, with no friends and with trouble at school. But Mr Shonfield is a complete surprise, and suddenly Marianne feels a growing enthusiasm for life and for lodgers.
That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction S.
Byron and Mark are like brothers but when they get to 16 things begin to change - although they still enjoy hustling pool games in Charlie's Bar. But when Charlie dies defending them, they start to drift apart, something that isn't helped by Bryon's girlfriend Cathy and her drug-addicted brother.