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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869792763
E3 Call Home : A True Story Of Godwit Migration and Misadventure
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Janet Hunt
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
Winner of the Non-fiction Category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2010.
Every year in March thousands of godwits leave New Zealand and fly almost 17,000 kilometres to Alaska, where they mate and raise new godwits, and then turn around and fly all the way back to New Zealand. This is the story of two godwits whose flight in 2007 was tracked using transmitters. Millions of people watched their progress on the internet. A male bird named E3 mysteriously turned back when he reached Papua New Guinea and then he ceased to transmit altogether. What had happened to him? A female named E7, however, showed that godwits can fly from Alaska to New Zealand - right across the Pacific - a distance of 11,200 non-stop kilometres. Packed with wonderful photos, fascinating information about godwits and other wading birds, this is an enchanting story, a true tale to spark the imaginations of children and adults alike.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869790684
Ben and Mark : Boys of the High Country
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NZ$ 37.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Christine Fernyhough Photography by John Bougen
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
The true story of Ben and Mark Smith, aged eight and six, who live with their parents Richard and Sheri on Mount White Station, near Arthur's Pass. One of New Zealand's biggest and most remote high-country stations in the South Island, it is 45 minutes from the nearest village to their turnoff on the main road, and fourteen gates along a gravel road from there to the farmhouse. Their story is lovingly told by Christine Fernyhough, the author of
The Road to Castle Hill
, with stunning photographs by John Bougen. This story of life fashioned by the cycles and seasons of farming, far away from other people, where you have to make you own fun, will be enjoyed by adults as well as children.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143503347
Rangitoto
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Author:
Maria Gill (Author) , Heather Arnold (Illustrated by)
Published by:
Puffin
Rangitito: Te toka tu moana /The Rock Standing in the Ocean tells the dramatic story of Auckland's most striking icon - its birth, the kaka bird's connection to Rangitoto, the imprint of humans on its fragile wildlife, and how the island's guardians are saving it today. Maria Gill's lyrical and informative story accompanied by Heather Arnold's superbly detailed illustrations make Rangitoto a book to be treasured and pored over by children and adults alike.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869790738
Cowshed Christmas
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Joy Cowley Illustrated by Gavin Bishop
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
Winner of the Storylines Notable Picture Book 2010.
All the farmyard animals - the jersey cow, the collie, bantam hens, sheep and lambs, ducks, kune kune, and the ginger cat - come to the cowshed door to visit Baby Jesus. They all come bearing Kiwi-sylte gifts - a rugby ball, a pavlova, jandals, a Kiwi toy. The classic Christmas story is given a New Zealand twist in this warm and evocative retelling, with gorgeous illustrations by Gavin Bishop.
First published 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143304609
Dear Alison : A New Zealand Soldier's Story From Stalag 383
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Simon Pollard (editor)
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In July 1942 with a notebook and pencil he had bought from a German guard, Dudley Muff started Alison's Book. Dudley was 42 and a prisoner of war in Stalag XVIIIB in Germany and his niece Alison was four and living in Timaru. With humorous entries, sketches and what he called "little men" his story grew until it became an unbelievable account of his time served in two prisoner-of-war camps. Given to Alison when he returned to Christchurch after the war, she read it first as a child, purely for the excitement such a story could impart. Only later, rereading this as an adult, did she see through the veiled references to how life really was in the camps. After returning to Christchurch, Dudley added a one page postscript describing his journey to freedom. He finished the book with,
"Now I shall tell you in three little words what all my travels have taught me, NEVER BE AFRAID. With all the love in the world from Uncle Dudley".
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869790707
End of the Alphabet
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Fleur Beale
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
Ruby Yarrow is a 14 year old who lives in a busy, loving, chaotic family with her mum, stepdad, brother and two little stepbrothers. Ruby feels a bit like a doormat - she has to help out in the family a lot while her brother doesn't. He wins lots of prizes at school and she has a learning difficulty and needs a reader/writer to help her in exams. But she's bright, vibrant and a really neat character. To add to this, her surname Yarrow is at the end of the alphabet and when the roll gets called out she's always at the end and she hates it. She feels she's always at the end of the line. Not that she's a misery bag at all. She has great friends and loves clothes, fashion magazines and sewing and she's got a real knack for it. She's very keen to go on the school trip to Brazil and so gets a job to earn the money to go - works in a supermarket for an old grump, learns a bit of Portuguese, meets exchange students, doesn't get to go on the ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781921520075
The Beginner's Guide to Living
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Lia Hills
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company
Seventeen-year-old Will is clever but he can't find answers to any of his questions after his mother dies in a car accident. His father seems to be drifting and his older brother stays away from home. And Will just can't get past being either angry or in tears. A compelling novel about grief, ideas and experience, suitable for older teens as it contains strong language and adult themes.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869438876
The Mine's Afire! The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896 (My Story)
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NZ$ 18.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Susan Battye & Thelma Eakin
Published by:
Scholastic New Zealand
This fictional diary records the tragedy, heroism and bitter aftermath of the worst industrial disaster in New Zealand's history - the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896. The son of a coalminer from Lancashire who is working in the Brunner mine, Tommy is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining community of Dobson. He catches eels, plays cornet in the local band and looks forward to leaving school and getting a job. But he is not keen to follow his uncle down into the Brunner mine, with its hardships and ever-present danger. Tommy has been sent a journal from his maternal grandmother back in England, with the request that he fill it in over the following 12 months and then send it back to her; the idea being that she will in this way get to know the grandson she has never met. This is the story of the terrible day when Tommy's worst fears come true.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869507077
The Word Witch : The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Margaret Mahy Edited by Tessa Duder Illustrated by David Elliot
Published by:
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
Honour Award, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010.
The Word Witch can lasso with a limerick, haunt with a haiku and wrap you tight in a rhyme, quick as lightning. Her cauldron is a dictionary, her wand a mighty pen, and she stirs her words at midnight, making tempting treats for children, to please and tease and tantalise them with imaginary treasures and delectable dreams. She weaves words into adventures, sets verses wildly dancing, makes similes sing and stamp their feet and poems purr like pussycats who have eaten all the cream! Her name is Margaret Mahy. These are her spells. A beautifully illustrated anthology of poems and stories for all ages.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781921150951
Brainjack
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Brian Falkner
Published by:
Walker Books Australia
It would take a very special person to crack the computer systems of the White House. An expert. A genius. A devil. All of the above, some would say. Someone like Sam Wilson, brilliant teenage computer hacker. But Sam's obsession is about to lead him into a dangerous world. A world of espionage and intrigue; of cybercrime and imminent war. A world where logging on to your computer could mean the difference between life and death. A thrilling action novel set in the not-too-distant future in which a brilliant young computer hacker fights to prevent the human race from being erased.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869791506
The Crossing (Blood of the Lamb Book 1)
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Mandy Hager
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
Winner of the Young Adult Category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010.
This book, the first in a stunning trilogy, is set on a fictional Pacific island, approximately three generations after an apocalyptic event (a solar flare) in 2012 threw the world into complete chaos. At that time, a large cruise ship 'Star of the Sea' had just foundered at the entrance to the main lagoon. This cruise ship, and her accompanying crew, forms a temporary sanctuary for the island's inhabitants. Over the intervening years, the descendants of the original ship's captain and officers manipulate Christian texts to implant themselves as 'gods'. With greater resources and reserves than the islanders, this white elite re-builds a society that is predominantly designed to meet its own needs - especially one specialised 'need'…the need for blood. A leukaemia-related disease (attributed to the radiation from the solar flare) has reached ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877460258
The Loblolly Boy
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Paperback
Author:
James Norcliffe
Published by:
Longacre Press
Winner of the Junior Fiction Category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2010
The strange and diverting story of the Loblolly Boy, a fantasy novel by James Norcliffe involving enchantment, mystery, one garden gnome and a wombat's bottom. To the boy called Red, it seems the most marvellous escape he could wish for: a gift that grants him more freedom than he ever believed possible - the chance to fly, to soar with the gulls, high over the tall brick walls that have imprisoned him for so long. But this gift comes with a terrible price - and puts him in grave danger. Is there anyone Red can trust to help him? The curious Captain Bass who has strange powers of his own? The wildly unpredictable twin sisters he is strongly drawn to? In this magical, mysterious story, Red's adventure is like a chamber of mirrors at a carnival - a dazzling and breathtaking tale. This book had its origins in a short story, which the author has developed ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143202493
Banquo's Son
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NZ$ 37.00 each
Paperback
Author:
T. K. Roxborogh
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
How do you choose between love and honour? Fleance, the 21-year old son of Scottish thane Banquo has been living rough in the woods of northern England since he escaped on that fateful night ten years ago when his father was brutally murdered. He has never told anyone who he is because he has yet to discover who wanted him dead, but he has learnt things - how to survive, how to use a cross bow, how not to trust anyone, but also how to love. But before he can truly give himself to the beautiful Rosie, Fleance must avenge the murder of his father and claim what is rightfully his. Through good luck or chance Fleance journeys to Scotland and meets the charismatic Duncan, 22-years-old and next in line to the throne. The two men are opposites - Fleance dark and mysterious, Duncan fair and open. We also meet Duncan's sister Rachel, beautiful and royal and at the same time, and a gentle foil to Rosie's passionate nature.
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