Author : Kris Stanhope
Publisher :
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 9781869438715
Michael is not happy, and he is keeping a list-a list of all the reasons he hates school. When the teacher sees him writing so avidly, she is impressed, and so is Michael. But when he is paired with one of the reasons he hates school (Sharon Cramshaw) to do a project on families, he finally comes to realise that the real reason he hates school is nothing to do with school, it's all to do with something in his past.
Author : Steven Herrick
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780702233364
I hate that wall, Every time I go for a bike-ride, Mum says, "Stay within the walls". So I ride around in circles. Like a circus animal. It's a prison. A prison for kids.Dumb things become important when you're old. At least that's what Tom reckons- like living in a guarded gated community, filling the three spare rooms with a bottle top collection or secretly belly dancing while everyone's out. When Tom meets Cleo the snake charmer, together they break-out, discover a bull that hasn't become a hamburger, visit tom's forbidden grandfather and catch and boil yabbies by Murchison Creek. Another funny, quirky adventure about friendship, families and saving the world, from popular award-winning storyteller Steven Herrick.
Author : Vince Ford
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Young adult fiction, New Zealand
ISBN :
While trying to wash his mum's car, Davin accidentally sets it alight. What follows is a comedy of errors as he tries to make good his mistake.
Author : Brigid Feehan
Publisher :
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2005-03-09
Category : Dramatists
ISBN : 9781869436742
Stella is an aspiring writer, and her murder-mystery play is almost ready for its one off performance. But while Stella can direct her friends and family on the stage, she can't control them in real life. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Author : Suzanne Main
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2015-02-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781775433064
At precisely 4.23 in the afternoon, my grandma turned into an alien. Correction. At precisely 4.23 in the afternoon, I turned my grandma into an alien. I was not having a good day. Michaels grandma might look normal, but she isnt! Ever since Michael unearthed a strange object from his back yard and pointed it at his grandma, her behaviour has been OFF THE PLANET and no one except Michael is noticing it. A spaceship load of TROUBLE has been unleashed from Michaels garden. But his only allies are a bumbling sci-fi geek and a stinky oddball! What hope does he have of saving his grandma and stopping the DIABOLICAL PLAN that threatens them all?
Author : Anne Kayes
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781775434726
¿The bird flapped its wings and rose into the air, its long, white-feathered tuft flowing from its neck like a beard. Louie felt the world tilt beneath him. He held on tightly to Cloudbird¿s neck, as his house and Tui Street became smaller¿¿ There is something mysterious happening on Tui Street. One by one, the Tui Street friends are swept up in a series of adventures, each with a strangely familiar fairy-tale feel.
Author : Leonie Agnew
Publisher :
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
ISBN : 9781869439996
Finn's school project is on "How to be a Superhero." Can an ordinary boy turn into a superhero? Finn and his friend Brain make a list of things needed to be a superhero, including superpowers and saving someone's life. Can Finn use his superpowers to help his World Vision sponsored child? Sometimes with the best of intentions things don't always work out as planned. Finn finishes his project and learns a lot about himself and others. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author : James Guthrie
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category : Contests
ISBN : 9781775435730
Twelve-year-old Bella Kerr is a darts prodigy. And when she finds out that her little brothers special schooling is at risk because of lack of money, Bella secretly enters a darts competition at the local pub. The old boys network of darts players are not happy none more than the gold-suited charmer, Frankie Goldfinger Phillips a five-time national champion, who will do anything to stop Bella qualifying for nationals.
Author : Juliet Jacka
Publisher :
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Birthdays
ISBN : 9781775432036
All Tilly Angelica wants for her thirteenth birthday is to be normal! But with her changeover party looming and her mad, magical family gathering from near and far, Tilly is set to inherit a terrifying or tantalising talent of her own. As the enchanted Angelicas gather and Arial Manor becomes a madhouse, Tilly's troubles are tripled by her creepy cousin Prosper and his sinister plot to bewitch the family by harnessing the powers of the Perigee Moon. Can Tilly Angelica and her magical menagerie cause enough commotion to outwit her creepy cousin and save the family manor?
Author : Anna Gowan
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
ISBN : 9781869439316
Hollie Chips discovers that a dastardly businessman is trying to buy up the neighbourhood houses to bulldoze them and build a dog food factory (which he has told them will be an orphanage!). The neighbourhood decides to band together with Hollie and her mum to outwit him!
