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(Paperback)

A wartime classic from two legends of children's literature! When John McCrae wrote his famous poem In Flanders Field among the trenches of war-torn Belgium, neither he nor a local village girl who saves a discarded draft of it could know what enormous power that poem would have on generations to come.

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(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Ylva, a young Viking girl, is swept by a storm to England where she is orphaned. Determined to avenge her mother's death, she tracks the killer north. But when a stranger steps in, Ylva has to choose between vengeance and trust.

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(Hardback)

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(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Boy, a hunchbacked goatherd, is content in his quiet country life. But when a shadowy pilgrim arrives on the farm, his world is turned upside down. Secundus enlists Boy as his servant, plunging them both into a perilous treasure hunt - but there is more to the pilgrim's quest than meets the eye ...

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When Julian meets Julia, he is less than impressed. After all, what 13-year-old boy looks forward to having his great granny join the household But on discovering a diary written by her when a young girl, he is absorbed in her wild, romantic adventures in a South American forest as she goes in search of the legendary and magical Candle Trees.

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The Cinderella Service by Lynda Taylor tells the story of Emma, a young land girl during World War Two. Leaving home to work on a rural farm, she faces challenges, love, and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of wartime New Zealand, Emmas journey is one of resilience, growth, and finding inner strength.

(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

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January 1920 heralds the start of a new decade, promising fresh opportunities for girls like 14-year-old Tilly. But her dreams seem impossible to reach, outweighed by all the things that girls cant or aren't meant to do, as she tries to work out what it means to grow up in a world shattered by war and a pandemic.

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Based on the notorious Maungatapu Murders of 1866 in Nelson, New Zealand, this action-packed historical novel is a gripping tale of murder and greed.

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14-year-old Beatrice Thomas lives with her mother and younger sister Tilly in a small country town during WW1. She gets a job as a telegram girl and has to convince the telegram boys that she's up to the task, as she delivers telegrams through the Armistice, influenza epidemic and the return of the soldiers.

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A Vietnam-era Breakfast Club bonds over music and their distaste for the Vietnam War and decides to take a stand against the US government and the violent racism in their own town.

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Berlin 1961. Anja and Monika are best friends - they even share a cat called Otto. But a huge barbed wire fence is built between their apartment blocks - dividing the whole city: the Berlin Wall. Then, Anja discovers that Otto has found a way across. And if he can reach Monika, so can she ...

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To Trap a Taniwha and He Raru ki Tai is an adventure story set in seventeenth-century Tmaki Makaurau Auckland when the hap of Ng Oho/Ng Iwi predominated.

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It's October 1947 and two young boys find themselves thrown together during the dramatic changes of Partition. As the new India and Pakistan are born, can the friendship between these two children rise above the tensions between the two countries

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"As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy"--

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