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"Artists are Crazy" and Other Stories by Ken Catran
15.95 NZD
19.99 (20% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Truth Behind History S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 99
In eight wry and brilliant short stories, Ken Catran gives us the real ‘truth’ behind some of history’s great moments – from Leonardo Da Vinci’s inventions to why the Egyptians worshipped cats.
Bloody Liggie by Ken Catran
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: UQP Young Adult Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: From 13 To 99
Liggie Tanner, with an axe, Gave her step-mum forty whacks. When she saw what she had done . . . "Bloody" Liggie, the media labelled her. She was locked away but broke out and drowned crossing a river. So . . . was this the end of Liggie? Two years on, there's a new girl in class. Cool and closed . . . ...Show more
Blue Blood by Ken Catran
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 13 To 99
A sequel to the chilling thrillers, Talking to Blue and Blue Murder, Blue Blood takes up the story from the point of view of Mike?s long-suffering girlfriend Sheril. At the end of Blue Murder, Sheril doped Mike on a beach and the tide took him out. His body was never found. A month later, the police hav ...Show more
Blue Murder by Ken Catran
17.95 NZD
19.99 (10% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 11 To 99
If you read Talking to Blue you'll remember Mike has been arrested after a spate of serial murders, dubbed the Blue killings because all the victims wore something blue. Mike got involved when Blue talked to him on his cellphone. In this sequel, Blue kills again, so Mike is released. But he hasn't fini ...Show more
Dead Harry by Ken Catran
19.50 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Sam's best friend Harry is working on a school assignment about refugees from the Balkans, and comes across a photo of the school caretaker as a war criminal. The next thing he knows, Harry is dead and has returned as a ghost to help Sam solve the mystery of his murder. The boys, with the help of the cl ...Show more
Earth Dragon, Fire Hare by Ken Catran
24.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: 13+
The conflict in Malaysia during and after World War Two, as seen from the perspectives of a Kiwi soldier (Peter) and a Chinese Malay freedom fighter (Ng). Against a background of culture clash and political and individual conflicts, two young men are drawn inexorably together as victims and products of ...Show more
Jacko Moran Sniper by Ken Catran
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Gallipoli was the first good thing that happened to me." World War I turned Jacko Moran from a sullen, street-fighting slum kid, with a brutal alcoholic father, into a fearless soldier, a decorated war hero and a man who commanded the utmost respect. "They were the only four years I really lived," Jac ...Show more
Letters from the Coffin Trenches by Ken Catran
18.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Love letters on eve of Gallipoli. From best selling award winning author. ++ Finalist, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards (Senior Fiction Section), 2003 ++
Lin and the Red Stranger by Ken Catran
18.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Declan, an Irish lad from Australia is running from the law and seeking his fortune.Lin, a servant girl from China, finds this New Zealand gold mining town a hostile and terrifying place.Their paths will cross, their different cultures will clash. With the greed, violence and tragedy that comes with gol ...Show more
Monsters of Blood and Honour by Ken Catran
19.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Monsters of Blood & Honour contains three stand-alone stories, each with a related theme. In each story a young teenager of 17 or 18 interacts with an elderly person who was their age during World War II. Each of these now-elderly people has undergone a traumatic and violent experience, which the mo ...Show more
More Weird Stuff About Mr Foster by Ken Catran
14.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: 9-11 years
In Something Weird About Mr Foster, Joe Bennett realises that his teacher, Mr Foster, is actually a whole community of aliens. During the story Mr Foster warned Joe that wherever he was his opposite must also be and in this return adventure we meet him. Where Mr Foster was a benign, friendly (if fragile ...Show more
Nina Questor (#2) by Ken Catran
26.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Nina of the Dark | Reading Level: good
The legendary Nina of the Dark has come into her power and won a mighty kingdom - but her battle has just begun. The witchers, those dark lords of evil, still plague the land ...and seek Nina's death. Forsaking both daughter and kingdom, and armed only with her fabled sword Brightsong, Nina is flown acr ...Show more