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Ballet Shoes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are sisters - with a difference. All three were adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, an eccentric and rich explorer who then disappeared, leaving them in the care of his niece Sylvia. The girls grow up in comfort until their money begins to run out and nobody can fi ...Show more
Bogwoppit by Ursula Moray Williams
21.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: A Puffin Book
The Bogwoppit is a light-hearted, lively story, brilliantly told by Ursula Moray Williams, author of Gobbolino (also available in A Puffin Book series). When Aunt Lily marries the lodger and goes to America, orphaned Samantha is packed off to her Aunt Daisy, who lives in a grand house at the Park. Snoot ...Show more
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
20.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
This beloved Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two ...Show more
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A Puffin Book
Fleeing from the evil Sir Philip Morton, Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law. On the run to London he meets Kit and the two decide to stick together. But a chance discovery endangers their lives and soon Peter is deep in murderous plots, secrets and even treason. Set in the turbul ...Show more
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ursula Moray Williams
14.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: A Puffin Book
The charming tale of a witch's cat who would rather be a kitchen cat. Gobbolino has one white paw and blue eyes and isn't wicked at all, so his mother doesn't like him. He escapes to look for a kitchen home but is distrusted everywhere he goes and blamed for mysterious happenings, such as the farmer's m ...Show more
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
Mum said war was a punishment form God for people's sins, so he'd better watch out. She didn't tell him what to watch out for, though. When the Second World War breaks outs, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of kind old ...Show more
Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
Soar into this modern Japanese classic about a young witch and her clever cat with this new translation which will delight fans of the beloved Studio Ghibli movie as well as new readers. Kiki is a trainee witch. On her thirteenth birthday she must follow tradition and leave home to find a new village. S ...Show more
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert C. O'Brien
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. A fabulous adventure for children by Robert C. O'Brien about super-intell ...Show more
Polly and the Wolf Again by Catherine Storr
21.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: A Puffin Book
Polly and the Wolf Again by Catherine Storr is a second book of stories written for the author's daughter, who was scared of the wolf under the bed. The blundering, endearing wolf is still determined to prove himself cleverer than Polly - but the resolute and affectionate Polly outwits him every time! S ...Show more
Smith by Leon Garfield
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. London street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced pick-poc ...Show more
Sounder (Stories That Last a Lifetime) by William H. Armstrong
21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A Puffin Book
Set in the 19th-century American South, this is the story a poor African-American sharecropping family, their faithful dog, Sounder, and the eldest boy's efforts to learn how to read and help his mother to support the family after his father is arrested for stealing a ham. When Sounder chases after the ...Show more
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
For fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor's classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay. Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Cura ao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it firsthand-until the freigh ...Show more