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Angel's Gate by Gary Crew
22.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
When Paddy Flannagan, a gold fossicker, is found bashed to death in the hills behind the township of Jericho, the search begins for his two wild children. But what effect will their dark secret have on those who find them?
Arno the Garbo by Gary Crew
29.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Arno lives in the middle of his family's junkyard and at school he's known as Rat Head, Stinky Bum, or just plain Arno the Garbo. One day he decides to make a remote controlled mechanical boy, who looks just like him, but who is the perfect schoolboy - brilliant at schoolwork, good at sport and witty wi ...Show more
Automaton by Gary Crew
29.99 NZD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Following his invention of the light bulb and recorded sound, Thomas Edison turned his genius to the invention of a doll which could speak and walk. When assembled the doll weighed almost 10 kilos and Edison buried this failure in the grounds of his factory. Here is a modern parable warning about the ag ...Show more
Cat on the Island by Gary Crew
17.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
This is the true story of David and his father, who came to Stephens Island - a remote and pristine island off Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1894. They brought their pregnant cat with them. The tiny Stephens Island wrens, being flightless, had no natural defences agai ...Show more
I Said Nothing by Gary Crew
28.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Harry lives with his family on a sheep station west of Maryborough, Qld. Harry has seen two Paradise Parrots nesting in a termite mound and is concerned about trappers he knows to be in the area. With the visit of a naturalist, Harry learns that it is not only the actions of the trappers that endanger t ...Show more
In the Wake of the Mary Celeste by Gary Crew (illus Robert Ingpen)
10.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
In December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift in the Atlantic. She was in full sail and in seaworthy condition, but had no crew aboard. So began one of the greatest mysteries of the sea. Why had the Mary Celeste been abandoned? Did the crew die in a mutiny? Or were more sinister forces ...Show more
Leaving the Lyrebird Forest by Gary Crew
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
A beautiful story about friendship, change and our place in nature, from legendary Australian author Gary Crew. 'Are you lonely here?' her mother asked. 'Never,' Alice said. 'Not while I am friends with the lyrebird.' Alice has spent her life living on the outskirts of a small town, in a house nestled i ...Show more
Menace (Sam Silverthorne #2) by Gary Crew
19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Sam Silverthorne
It's 1893, and Sam sets sail to China in search of a rare carnivorous butterfly. An enraged Mongol Prince Chi Lin has released this insect in Kew Gardens as an act of revenge against the British Empire and its involvement in the opium trade that has devastated his family. Age 9+.
Old Ridley by Gary Crew
29.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Old Ridley is Joachim's enigmatic neighbour. When Ridley dies, Joachim sneaks into his house and finds a secret that will change him forever.