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The Dark Blue 100-Ride Bus Ticket
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| NZ$ 20.00 each |
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| Author: Margaret Mahy |
| Published by: Harpercollins |
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When Carlo and his mother, Jessica, accept a free bus ticket from a strange old woman in the supermarket they are really only being polite. Secretly they think she must be slightly batty, with her talk about hundred free bus rides to the supermarket at the end of the world. And yet, right outside their supermarket, which is of the most ordinary, everyday kind, a Number 13 bus pulls up . . . dark blue and with gold stars, just like the ticket.
Another wonderful adventure from Margaret Mahy, winner of the Hans Christian Anderson Medal, Member of the Order of New Zealand and twice winner of the Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature as well as many other awards too numerous to list here. Margaret is also one of the world’s best-loved children’s authors, and a cultural treasure.
First published August 2008, Auckland, NZ
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Brother Sister Soldier Cousin
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| Author: Phyllis Johnston |
| Published by: Longacre Press |
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His face was older, different to his framed photograph above the fireplace, and I felt a guilty niggle. It was
shameful to forget your own brother’s face when he was fighting with millions of others for world peace.’
It’s war-time and a challenging year lies ahead for Helen. Her brother Harry is fighting in Egypt. Her sister Jess treats her with unreasonable contempt. The cows have to be milked, twice, every day. Dad hasn’t told anyone his heart is wonky and he’s far too tired. Ginger, Helen’s faithful, old horse, is wearing out, and her friend Barbara is keeping secrets from her. Then there’s Helen’s nickname and all it implies …
When Helen discovers all is not as she has been led to believe it’s like, ‘that song on the radio where a family
is so mixed up someone was his own grampa.’ An affecting story told with an assured authenticity, warmth
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Cry of the Taniwha
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| Author: Des Hunt |
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This book is a Finalist in the Junior Fiction Category, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010.
Sitting on the dark earth and staring up at him was a skull, the lower jaw below ground so Matt didn’t have to cope with the thing grinning up at him. The empty eye sockets were scary enough.
Matt Logan isn't looking forward to spending the school holidays with his grandmother and her new husband. He has to fly to Rotorua, where he doesn't know anybody, and he's a bit wary of his new step-grandfather. All Matt knows is that he's Maori and a bus driver. Along with his worries, Matt packs his pride and joy - a homemade metal detector, because, you never know, he might find something interesting. What he finds is Juzza, who lives over the back fence and wants to join a local gang. When the boys unearth a handcuffed skeleton, a chain of events begins to coil around them. Together they are thrown into a deadly search for treasure when
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