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Mercury Beach by Tessa Duder
15.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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Night Race to Kawau by Tessa Duder
19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
What started as an exciting challenge turns into a nightmare when a gale unexpectedly blows up during the night race to Kawau Island. Sam and her mother suddenly find themselves in charge of their yacht with a dangerous task ahead of them. Will Sam be able to save her family?
Night Race to Kawau by Tessa Duder
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: good
One day Sam's father says he has entered the night race to Kawau Island. But Terry, the other crew member, fails to turn up for the race and then as the sun sets and the weather worsens, Sam's father is knocked unconscious. So Sam, her sister and her mother are left to sail the boat alone.
Out of the Deep: and Other Stories from New Zealand and Around the Pacific by Tessa Duder
34.99 NZD
Category: Children's Māori Books | Series: Raupo Series
This anthology of 16 stories was commissioned to mark the 2 April 2007 celebration of International Children's Book Day. Fifteen writers were invited to submit works for the book, and the majority of the stories have been written specifically for this project. The authors are drawn from New Zealand ...Show more
Out on the Water: Twelve Tales from the Sea by Tessa Duder
29.99 NZD
Category: Boats
Ten short stories, and two longer historical ones, bring to life the thrills and challenges of sailing, paddling and travelling on the seas around New Zealand. Accompanied by Bruce Potter's vivid illustrations, these are the work a world-class children's writer with an intimate knowledge of the sea. For ...Show more
Sarah Mathew Explorer Journalist and Auckland's First Lady by Duder Tessa.
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
Published to mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of Auckland. After helping find a harbour suitable for Governor Hobson's first capital, on 18 September 1840, Sarah was the only woman ashore for the flag-raising ceremony and regatta celebrating the birth of Auckland. Her surviving journals and le ...Show more
Seduced by the Sea (o/p) by Tessa Duder
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Following the success of Salt Beneath the Skin, Tessa has collected together another volume of high quality maritime writing. The pieces featured are of equal interest to those in the first book, and include stories by Andrew Fagan who writes of learning to capsize in windy Wellington waters and Pip ...Show more
Service Stations and Other Liminal Spaces by Tessa Duder; James Norcliffe; Glyn Strange
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Collection of poetry and short stories written by teenagers conveying the attitudes of young New Zealanders. Suggested level: senior secondary.
Songs for Alex (#4/4 Alex series) by Tessa Duder
16.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
OUTOF PRINT The dramatic finale to the multi-award-winning Alex series. Life is suddenly full of exciting possibilities for Alex. More swimming? University? Scholarships in America? And through it all Alex wonders if she will ever meet the mysterious Tom again? Ah, Rome. It seems a long way away now. Fi ...Show more
Spirit of Youth: Thirty Years of the Spirit of Adventure Trust by Tessa Duder & Kate Thompson (eds)
9.95 NZD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since the Spirit of Adventure Trust was set up 30 years ago, more than 50,000 young people have sailed on the Trust's training ships, Spirit of Adventure and Spirit of New Zealand. This book tells the inspiring story of those thirty years.
Storylines: The Anthology by Tessa Duder
24.99 NZD
30.00 (16% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Anthology produced by the Children's Literature Foundation to mark the Tenth Anniversary Storylines Festival. Contains short stories and poems for children, by twenty five award winning New Zealand writers. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
The Sparrow by Tessa Duder
21.99 NZD
Category: Children's / Young Adult Books | Reading Level: very good
A powerful new historical novel from one of New Zealand's best-loved YA authors. An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitemata Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is yo ...Show more