Secrets of Carrick: Tantony by Ananda Braxton-Smith

$10.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Secrets of Carrick | Reading Level: very good

Fermion Quirk's twin brother, Boson, is dead. These last few months he'd spent most of his time with the birds; he said they were angels and brought him his visions. Most of Carrick says the boy was a monster, but a few say he was a saint-in-the-making. The townspeople all look at Fermion now, and wait and wonder if she will go mad like her brother. Pa will talk about anything but Boson, and Moo's stopped talking entirely. Soon a voice starts rising in Fermion, telling her that she's the only one who can save her family. The voice says the cure lies on the other island, far out in the sea. But the Quirks have always been bog-folk: they don't go to sea. And even if Fermion manages to get to the other island, then what will she find? ...Show more

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

$8.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good

You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup. Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor-which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is stuck in the clink. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow. His allies may not add up to much-his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate-but Noah's got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all. ...Show more

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier; John Escott (Contribution by); Jennifer Basset (Contribution by); Tricia Hedge (Contribution by)

$6.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Bookworms Library | Reading Level: good

Discover this amazing adventure story set in the Second World War 'If you meet Ruth or Edek or Bronia, you must tell them I'm going to Switzerland to find their mother. Tell them to follow as soon as they can' Having lost their parents in the chaos of war, Ruth, Edek and Bronia are left alone to fend f or themselves and hide from the Nazis amid the rubble and ruins of their city. They meet a ragged orphan boy, Jan, who treasures a paperknife - a silver sword - which was entrusted to him by an escaped prisoner of war. The three children realise that the escapee was their father, the silver sword a message that he is alive and searching for them. Together with Jan they begin a dangerous journey across the battlefields of Europe to find their parents. BACKSTORY- Read a letter from the author's daughter and find out about the amazing true stories that inspired The Silver Sword. ...Show more

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia #2) by C. S. Lewis

$6.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia #1) by C.S. Lewis

$5.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Chronicles of Narnia (Paperback) | Reading Level: very good

The Chronicles of Narnia, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular children's books ever published. The best known, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! Polly's hand went out to touch one of the rings. Immediately, without a flash or a noise, she vanished. When horrible Uncle Andrew starts experimenting with magic, Digory and Polly find themselves in another world, and at the beginning of an incredible adventure, as the doorway to the magical land of Narnia opens… (Preceeding text courtesy www.harpercollins.com.au) Paperback (A-Format) ...Show more

The Duck in the Gun by Joy Cowley

$7.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The General and his men are about to fire on a town they are at war with. But the Gunner has bad news - they can't load the gun as there is a duck nesting inside it. The General calls a ceasefire until the gun can be used again and takes a white flag to the opposing town. But the men soon get used to li ving a peaceful existence. So when the duck's eggs eventually hatch and the General calls them to war, they have other ideas in store. ...Show more

Possums2U by Vince Ford

$8.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Connor's cousin is making big money trapping live possums but he needs more of the furry tree-munchers. So Davin and the gang set up a possum-trapping base at Camp Isolation. Unfortunately, a poisoning programme, a rogue storm, rising rivers and a possum-hugging greenie threaten to sink their business. And what are Oil and Scuz up to in the bush across the river? ...Show more

The Reavers by George MacDonald Fraser

$7.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of The Flashman Papers and The Pyrates. Spoiled, arrogant, filthy rich, and breathtakingly bea utiful, the young Lady Godiva Dacre is exiled from the court of Good Queen Bess (who can't abide red-haired competition) to her lonely estate in distant Cumberland, where she looks forward to bullying the peasantry and getting her own imperious way. Little does she guess that the turbulent Scottish border is the last place for an Elizabethan heiress, beset by ruthless reivers (many of them unshaven), blackmailing ruffians, fiendish Spanish plotters intent on regime change and turning Merrie England into a ghastly European Union province. And no one to rely on but her half-witted blonde school chum, a rugged English superman with a knack for disaster, and a dashing highwayman who looks like Errol Flynn but has a Glasgow accent.To say nothing of warlocks, impersonators, taxi-drivers riding brooms, burlesque artists, the drunkest man in Scotland, and several quite normal characters -- oh, yes, gossips, it's all happening in The Reavers, a moral tale obviously conceived in some kind of fit by Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser !well, he's getting on, and was bound to crack eventually. He admits (nay, insists) that it's a crazy story for readers who love fun for its own sake. Review: Praise for 'The Reavers' 'emphatically superior nonsense' Sunday Telegraph 'Flippant anachronisms abound and relentless gags recall the ribald spirit of Blackadder more than the author's saucy Flashman adventuresin this uproarious spoof' Financial Times 'wonderfully silly' The Times Praise for 'Flashman on the March': 'There is a little of Flashman in all of us -- but not enough' Evening Standard 'The Flashman Papers do what all great sagas do -- winning new admirers along the way but never, ever betraying old ones. It is an immense achievement' Sunday Telegraph 'In our crass, humourless, anaemic, politically correct age, there could be no better tonic or treat than the outrageous Flashy's bold descriptions of action in battle or bedroom. To relish George MacDonald Fraser is to rediscover the joy of reading' Daily Telegraph 'Everything we expect from a Flashman adventure is here: lechery, double-crossing, real people, the epic poltroonery from which Flashman emerges as saviour of the hour!my one complaint about the series -- surely the great mock-historical romp of the past half-century -- is that MacDonald Fraser does not add to it often enough' Mail on Sunday ...Show more

Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons #2: Vintage Classics) by Arthur Ransome

$8.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Swallows and Amazons | Reading Level: very good

Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!' Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and cooked it yourself? The four Swallows, John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake full of such plans and they can't wait to meet up with Nancy and Peggy, the Amazon Pirates. When the Swallow is sh ipwrecked and the Amazon's fearsome Great-Aunt makes decides to make a visit their summer seems ruined. Then they discover a wonderful hidden valley and things take a turn for the better... ...Show more

The Prince of Soul and the Lighthouse by Fredrik Brouneus

$8.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good

What happens when we die? This has been the third question on mankind's faq list since the dawn of time (numbers one and two being: Is this edible? and Excuse me, would you care to breed? ). I know what happens. Believe me, I'd rather not. But I do. There is a lighthouse, and it guides our souls alon g the narrow path to being reborn as humans. It's the light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, as my undead granddad and the Tibetan special mission monk in my kitchen have kindly told me, there's a problem with the lighthouse. And if the world is to be saved, someone needs to fix it. Which is where I come in: George Larson, eighteen years old. Who could possibly be better suited to save the world? Well, almost anyone. Especially as being a teenage guy is nothing at all about question three but all about questions one and two. And really, that's complicated enough as it is. ...Show more

Daughter of Nomads (The Tales of Jahani #1) by Rosanne Hawke

$10.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Jahani | Reading Level: very good

"Told over two books - the second book, The Leopard Princessout in October 2016. Daughter of Nomadscontains a sample chapter from The Leopard Princess.First moon of summer, 1662- Fourteen-year-old Jahani lives peacefully in the village of Sherwan. But havoc is brewing in the Mughal Empire with tyrants a nd war lords burning villages in their quest to rule the northern kingdoms. After an assassin strikes in a bazaar, Jahani discovers her life is not as it seems. Before long, she is fleeing with her mysterious protector Azhar. Will their journey to the Qurraqoram Mountains lead Jahani to danger or to her destiny?" ...Show more

Ghostheart: Secrets of Carrick Book 3 by Ananda Braxton-Smith

$10.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Secrets of Carrick | Reading Level: near fine

Her brothers and sisters are fearless, light as scuds, quick as hoppers. Not Mally. She knows too many secrets, that one. She is frighted, all right. Frozen at the edge of the shore, lonely as a cornstalk in a saltmarsh. But in Carrick things are changing and Mally needs to change too. Out of nowhere ha s come Dolyn Craig - a sneak and a bully but that's not the worst of it. He's also unexpected with it. What could he want with poor frightened Mally?. ...Show more