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Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse
12.00 NZD
19.00 (36% off)
Category: Poetry
In June 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people had lived and thrived on these treeless, windswept lands. Within days of the first attack, the entire native population living west of Unimak Island was ...Show more
Cats in Krasinski Square, The by Karen Hesse
29.99 NZD
31.99 (6% off)
Category: Children Fiction
"The Cats in Krasinski Square" once belonged to someone...And so did a young girl, whose family has been destroyed by war. Even as she and her sister struggle to survive amid the war's chaos, they risk their lives on a plan to help those still trapped behind Warsaw's infamous Ghetto walls. Newbery Medal ...Show more
Nights With Dad by Karen Hesse; Brian G. Karas
27.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
A luminous and lyrical tribute to the enduring, everyday sort of love between a boy and his father. When the sun sets, Dad's night shift as a school caretaker is just beginning. What is it like to work at night, while the rest of the city is asleep? There's the smell of lilacs in the night air, the dusk ...Show more
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
15.95 NZD
17.00 (6% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Apple Signature Edition Ser.
A poem cycle that reads as a novel narrates the story of fifteen-year-old Billie Jo and her battle against the elements during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of 1934
The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
11.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world
Witness by Karen Hesse
10.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Two young girls--one black and one Jewish--are caught up in the turmoil of prejudice in a small Vermont town in 1924.
Young Nick's Head by Karen Hesse
21.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
1768, and Nicholas Young has had enough of his squalid life in London and especially of the cruel butcher to whom he is apprenticed. So he creeps aboard a ship named "Endeavour", little knowing he has stowed away on one of the most famous journeys of discovery ever to be made in maritime history.
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