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Yes

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By Deborah Burnside(Paperback)

Flashcard: Determination. Make that, flashcard: Friendship - Foolishness - Fear. Because they can all look the same to Marty. M&M, as he's known to his friends, might have trouble reading people, organizing things or pleasing his father, but he knows that when his mate Luke - Legless - attempts to involve him in another crazy venture, it's futile to resist.....

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$22.99 $19.54NZD

Digging Up the Past: Archaeology for the Young & Curious

Digging Up the Past: Archaeology for the Young & Curious

By David Veart(Hardback )

**Award Winner** After noticing his dad's plough kept pulling up interesting stones and bones on their Wairau Bar farm, a 13-year-old boy named Jim Eyles, armed with a potato fork and a piece of number-8 fencing wire, set off one day and dug up a giant moa egg. He kept digging and found Maori adzes and the bones of....

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$39.99 $33.99NZD

Calling the Gods

Calling the Gods

By Jack Lasenby(Paperback)

**Award Winner** Thrown hard on the bottom boards, I stared up at distorted mouths, faces so red I could feel their heat. They stank of rage and of something else; several frothed at the mouth; their howls drowned the clatter and shriek of gulls swerving and tilting above the mast.

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$24.99 $21.24NZD

Rahui (English Version)

Rahui (English Version)

By Chris Szekely(Hardback)

**Award Winner** This picture book is about cousins' holidays in a rural Maori community having adventures and fun together - playing in the bush, riding horses, fishing, eeling and swimming at the beach. During the holiday, a death leads to a rahui being placed on the beach. After a year, the rahui is lifted, and they return to the....

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$25.00 $21.25NZD

Rahui (Maori Version)

Rahui (Maori Version)

By Chris Szekely(Hardback)

**Award Winner** This picture book is about cousins' holidays in a rural Maori community having adventures and fun together - playing in the bush, riding horses, fishing, eeling and swimming at the beach. During the holiday, a death leads to a rahui being placed on the beach. After a year, the rahui is lifted, and they return to the....

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$20.00 $17.00NZD

Kimble Bent: Malcontent

Kimble Bent: Malcontent

By Chris Grosz(Paperback)

Chris Grosz captures the adventuring life of Kimball Bent, sailor, soldier, deserter, outlaw and Hauhau slave, in a dramatic graphic novel. After signing up for the Queen's shilling, Bent was sent to New Zealand in the 1860s, on the eve of the tumultuous Taranaki land wars.

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$24.99 $21.24NZD

STOMP!

STOMP!

By Ruth Paul(Paperback)

A dinosaur follow-the leader story! Follow Ruth Paul’s colourful dinosaurs as they HOP, STOMP and ROAR their way through the pages of this beautifully illustrated book.

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$19.50 $16.58NZD

The Bridge

The Bridge

By Jane Higgins(Paperback)

**Award Winner** The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside. Nik is still in high school but destined for a great career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services, the brains behind the war.

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$26.00 $21.99NZD

The Flytrap Snaps

The Flytrap Snaps

By Johanna Knox(Paperback)

When Spencer Fogle hears blood-curdling screams on his way home from school, he doesn't realise he is about to become embroiled in a dark plot hatched by the richest man in town, Jimmy Jangle. But what is Jangle planning exactly? All Spencer knows is that it involves carnivorous plants, genetically engineered flies, and a mysterious file called The Fly Papers....

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$22.00 $18.70NZD

Sacrifice

Sacrifice

By Joanna Orwin(Paperback)

Several generations after volcanic eruptions and tsunamis caused the onset of the Dark, the descendants of the few survivors are struggling to maintain their tenuous communities in swamplands at the far northern end of New Zealand. A gripping quest that pushes the boundaries of endurance and spirit.

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$26.99 $22.94NZD

Dirt Bomb

Dirt Bomb

By Fleur Beale(B-format paperback)

Jake's life is sweet. He's got no money and doesn't have a mobile, but he's got two best mates; Buzz and Robbie. Buzz is generous and doesn't mind buying stuff for his mates. Jake wouldn't change a thing. But then Robbie has the idea of the century: rescue the old wreck from the ditch and make it into a paddock....

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$19.99 $16.99NZD

Waiting for Later

Waiting for Later

By Tina Matthews(Hardback)

Even though Nancy is big, one day she feels small. She asks her mum, brother, cousin, aunt and grandfather to play with her. They're all busy and inevitably reply, 'Later.' So Nancy climbs a tree in her backyard to wait for later, and imagines playing the games her family doesn't have time for. When later arrives, it's her family who....

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$27.99 $23.79NZD

The Life Cycle of the Tuatara

The Life Cycle of the Tuatara

By Betty Brownlie(Paperback)

Did you know that when it's cold, the tuatara's heart may beat only once in four minutes, and several minutes might pass between each breath? However, when it's hot, the heart might beat up to forty times per minute. Find out all about our very own 'living fossil' in this fascinating look at the life cycle of the tuatara, presented....

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$19.50 $16.58NZD

The Travelling Restaurant

The Travelling Restaurant

By Barbara Else(Paperback)

**Award Winner** When 12 year old Jasper Ludlow's parents flee the city, he gets left behind and finds refuge on The Travelling Restaurant, a sailing ship captained by old Dr Rocket and crewed by feisty Polly. Jasper faces challenges, adventures, storms and hungry pirates. Should he go in search of his parents, or his lost baby sister? Who should....

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$24.99 $21.24NZD

The Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer

The Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer

By James Norcliffe(Paperback)

The Loblolly boy wants his old life back and his plight is all the more poignant for his searching. In this stunning junior fiction fantasy sequel to The Loblolly Boy Michael convinces the unhappy boy at the Great Hall to Exchange with him once again, and Michael begins a magical journey home. Complications, twists and stunts abound once the mischievous....

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$19.99 $17.99NZD

Dear Alison

Dear Alison

By Simon Pollard

*Award Winner Children's Choice* 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. It starts 'Dear Alison, Mummy has told you all about Uncle being a....

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$30.99 $27.89NZD

E3 Call Home

E3 Call Home

By Janet Hunt

*Award Winner* 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. ....

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$24.99 $22.49NZD

'The Mine's Afire!': The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton

'The Mine's Afire!': The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton

By Susan Battye & Thelma Eakin

This story is built around the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896. Tommy Carter is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining community of Dobson in 1896. Most of the boys are looking at a future down in the mines, but Tommy is not keen to follow his uncle's footsteps into the mining business, with its hardships and ever-present....

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$18.50 $16.65NZD

Sting

Sting

By Raymond Huber

An action-packed adventure story about a young honey bee called Ziggy, who feels as though he is an outsider in his own hive. Sent by the Queen on a mission to discover how other bees live, Ziggy begins to unravel the clues to his own identity and the role of the bees in a secret military project.

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$17.99 $16.19NZD

Banquo's Son

Banquo's Son

By Tania Roxborogh

How do you choose between love and honour? Fleance, the son of Scottish thane Banquo has been living rough in the words 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....

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$10.00NZD

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