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PramBusters! by Anne Fine
$20.00 NZD
Category: Dyslexia Friendly (Junior) | Series: Little Gems
When the rain threatens to ruin the fun at summer camp, Malik and his friends are tasked with inventing a pram that any baby would love. But when ideas start flowing, tensions run high and it turns out that not everyone agrees on exactly what a baby would need. Only the PramBusters can be sure to sort t ...Show more
Press Play (Reading Ladder Level 3) by Anne Fine; Joëlle Dreidemy (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Learn to Read Books | Series: Reading Ladder Level 3 Ser.
An entertaining story from former children's laureate Anne Fine. Nicky, Tasha and Joe's mum leaves for work early one day and she leaves instructions for them on a cassette-player � all they have to do is press play! Nicky and Tasha must get themselves ready for school and get baby Joe ready for playgro ...Show more
Round Behind the Ice-House by Anne Fine
$16.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Cass has always been there for Tom, her twin - racing off to laugh with him in the old, abandoned ice house or planning how to foil Jamieson, the farm's creepy pest-killer.But now Cass is a teenager, she is changing - she wants her privacy and feels suffocated by their life on the farm. Bewildered, Tom ...Show more
Shades of Scarlet by Anne Fine
$26.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
Every teenager remembers when they realised how disappointing their parents actually are. Scarlet’s feeling that in spades. Her mum has left for a new life with a new love, and her dad’s just hopeless. She’s feeling stuck in the middle. Shades of Scarlet is a deeply insightful, sharply funny book, about ...Show more
Tales from Weird Street by Anne Fine
$21.00 NZD
Category: Dyslexia Friendly (Junior)
The children of Weir(d) Street are lazing about one sunny day when they challenge each other to tell stories of all the odd goings-on in their neighbourhood. A grandfather's guilt at the long-ago death of his twin brother, a young waiter whose rude customers get more than they bargain for, and a hard-wo ...Show more
The Haunting of Uncle Ron by Anne Fine
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: 4u2read Ser.
Light-hearted comedy from an award-winning author. When Uncle Ron comes to visit, he just won't seem to leave! Ian, Mum and Dad don't quite know what do with him - if he's not eating them out of house and home, he's chattering away to the spirits of the dead. But not interesting spirits. All they ever s ...Show more
The Only Child Club by Anne Fine
$23.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
What do you miss when you don't have siblings? The Only Child Club aims to find out the good and bad things about not having to compete or share with a brother or sister. It is a perfectly observed story of human behaviour. Ryan wants to start a club. An Only Child Club. He knows that as an only child h ...Show more
The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine
$17.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
Reissued for the Originals series of powerful teen fiction. Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip exciting. At first she doesn't care that other p ...Show more
Trouble in Toadpool by Anne Fine
$16.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Bliss! A lovely, quiet, nothing-to-do and nothing-on-the-calendar Sunday...Well, that's until bossy Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force - is on the phone insisting that Harry and his family come down to help her a local event she's promised to organise: the Great Toadpool Show. It means swinging from a tr ...Show more