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A Remarkable Ear by Anne Fine
$17.99 NZD
Category: Dyslexia Friendly
Beloved and award-winning author Anne Fine returns with a touching, musical story of patience, practice and courage.Everyone's always telling Will to stop making so much noise. That is, until he meets music teacher Mr Brand. He thinks Will's not just noisy but that he has a gift and must learn to play t ...Show more
Be Nice to Aunt Emma by Anne Fine
$18.99 NZD
Category: Dyslexia Friendly
Kindness is key in this funny new family drama from perennial bestseller and award-winning author Anne Fine.
Big Red Balloon (Reading Ladder Level 2) by Anne Fine; Kate Pankhurst (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Learn to Read Books | Series: Reading Ladder Ser.
Pip's class are sending big red helium balloons off to celebrate their school's 100th anniversary. They ask the people who find them to tell them how far they'd gone. One lands just down the road, one is found in the next town � but Pip's flies all the way to Buckingham Palace! And Pip gets an invitatio ...Show more
Friday Surprise (Reading Ladder Level 3) by Anne Fine; Helen Flook (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Learn to Read Books | Series: Reading Ladder Ser.
A surprising and entertaining story from former children's laureate and multi-award winner Anne Fine. Bryce is fed up with tests. So far this week he's had a spelling test, a swimming test, and even a test on his bike. So, on Friday, Bryce decides to surprise the adults with his own test. What happens w ...Show more
Frozen Billy by Anne Fine
$16.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Clarrie is determined to save her family when Uncle Len recruits her younger brother to help him with his ventriloquist act on the music-hall stage. For slowly but surely, it seems as if Will is turning into another dummy - another Frozen Billy.
Gnomes Gnomes Gnomes! by Anne Fine
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: 4u2read
Sam loves making gnomes out of clay. Dozens and dozens and dozens of gnomes, living huddled together out in the shed. But when Sam's mum suddenly needs that space, she says the gnomes will have to go. And so Sam plans a send-off for his little clay friends - a send-off that turns into a night the family ...Show more
Into the Bin (and out again) by Anne Fine
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: 4u2read
Mr. Frost's classroom is always in a mess, and now his class are on a mission to send all the things they don't need off to a charity shop, including the rubbish bin that falls over at the slightest touch! From books to old toys, they bring in all sorts of items to send away in the bin, but little do th ...Show more
Jamie and Angus by Anne Fine
$14.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Jamie and Angus
Timeless and humorous illustrated stories about childhood by the former Children's Laureate. When Jamie sets eyes on Angus he knows they will be the best of friends. On Christmas morning, they're finally united and soon the toy Highland bull is Jamie's constant companion. Jamie and Angus. Angus and Jami ...Show more
Jamie and Angus Forever by Anne Fine
$14.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
A delightful collection of stories about Jamie and his toy highland bull from the former Children's Laureate, charmingly illustrated by celebrated artist Sam Usher. As best friends should, Jamie and Angus share everything. Join them as they have fun at their birthday party, think up some new ways to cr ...Show more
Madame Doubtfire (Puffin Modern Classics) by Anne Fine
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will look mi ...Show more
Next to Alice by Anne Fine
$16.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
At first Ben doesn't want to sit next to Alice in the classroom. She's scary and tells him off for his squiggly drawing and poor handwriting. She even points out his bad table manners. But when Ben starts to take Alice's advice, he realises that she might have a point and discovers that sitting next to ...Show more
Out For The Count by Anne Fine
$15.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
Hugo wants a gerbil, but his dad says it's cruel to keep an animal in a cage. Hugo doesn't agree, and so Dad challenges him to spend a day cooped up in his room. The countdown has barely begun when Hugo starts to go stir-crazy. Warm, witty and wise to the impatience of childhood, this is Anne Fine on gr ...Show more