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Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird
17.00 NZD
20.00 (15% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is handicapped and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart, but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually, the truth gets out a ...Show more
Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird
12.99 NZD
13.99 (7% off)
Category: Business
"It's crazy, starting at a new school. For days you feel so new and lost it's as if you've wandered into a foreign country where you can't speak the language." This haunting story about Rafaella, the new girl at school who finds making friends hard, is a stunning piece of writing. With her strange name ...Show more
Secrets of The Fearless by Elizabeth Laird
16.99 NZD
17.99 (5% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When twelve-year-old John Barr is forced to join the navy his life takes a dangerous turn. As he trains to become a powder monkey on board the mighty HMS Fearless, he soon learns that the ship hides many secrets. Thrust into a sinister world of spies and covert operations, John must go ashore accompanie ...Show more
Secrets of the Fearless by Elizabeth Laird
29.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
At 12 years old, John Barr is cruelly separated from his father and press ganged into the Navy. Now a powder monkey onboard the mighty HMS Fearless, John has his first taste of bloody sea battle and soon learns that the ship hides many secrets. His new knowledge thrusts John into a shadowy world of nava ...Show more
Song of the Dolphin Boy by Elizabeth Laird
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Finn has always been different, and in the tiny fishing village of Stromhead he sticks out like a sore thumb. Always told to keep away from the water, he's felt that something was missing until one day he dives in and finds that, swimming with the dolphins, he feels completely at home. But his new frien ...Show more
Stories of Peace and Kindness by Elizabeth Laird
42.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Seven wise and wonderful stories from war-torn lands, showing how peace and kindness can make our world a better place.Will two tribes in Ethiopia make peace by throwing their most precious possessions in the river? Can a poor Palestinian shepherd show a rich sultan the value of true kindness? Or will ...Show more
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution, award-winning Elizabeth Laird's The Garbage King takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey. When Mamo's mother dies, he is abandoned in the shanties of Addis Ababa. Stolen by a child-trafficker and sold to a ...Show more
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
16.95 NZD
17.99 (5% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 9 To 11
A gritty, deeply moving story that shows how the human spirit can triumph in the harshest of worlds. Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution, award-winning Elizabeth LairdâÃÂÃÂs new novel takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey. When ...Show more
The Name Game by Elizabeth Laird; Olivia Holden (Illustrator)
17.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
When everything is boring a girl comes up with a game and reconnects with nature.
The Ogress and the Snake and Other Stories from Somalia by Elizabeth Laird
14.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
For millennia, Somalia has been crossed and recrossed by camel caravans of merchants bringing stories with them. Elizabeth Laird heard most of these oral retellings in Jigjiga, the capital of Ethiopia's Somali region, in gardens, bars, small huts and beautiful old Harari houses. Some of them are written ...Show more
The Witching Hour by Elizabeth Laird
19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Everyone knows the devil is real. Everyone knows that witches exist. Everyone knows that saying the wrong thing can get you hanged. When fourteen-year-old Maggie's grandmother is accused of witchcraft, Maggie has to run for her life. But Scotland is in the grip of terror and Maggie runs straight into da ...Show more