Browse by category
A Corner of White (The Colours of Madeleine #1) by Jaclyn Moriarty
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: The Colours of Madeleine
Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England, the World - a city of spires, Isaac Newton and Auntie's Tea Shop. Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello - where seasons roam, the Butterfly Child sleeps in a glass jar, and bells warn of attacks from dangerous Colours. They are wor ...Show more
Dreaming of Amelia by Jaclyn Moriarty
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Amelia and Riley are bad kids from the bad crowd at bad Brookfield High, and they've just transferred to Ashbury. Brilliant, mysterious and probably evil, they have the rich kids at Ashbury spellbound. Tantalisingly aloof, they are somehow managing to have an extraordinary impact on all the HSC Ashbury ...Show more
Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
$20.50 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Dear Ms Clarry, It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join our Society. We have just found out about your holiday. It is so impressive! You had four assignments, an English essay and a chapter of Maths to do. And you didn't do one single piece of homework! Fabulous! Also we have a feeling that ...Show more
Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty
$19.99 NZD
Category: Teen fiction
Year 10 is pretty crazy for best friends Lydia, Cassie and Emily. When their English teacher starts the Pen Pal Project so that they can experience the Joy of the Envelope with boys from scary Brookfield High, life gets even crazier. As Lydia turns into a secret agent and Emily a relationship expert, it ...Show more
Gravity Is The Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Abigail Sorensen has spent her life trying to unwrap the events of 1990. It was the year she started receiving random chapters from a self-help book called The Guidebook in the post. It was also the year Robert, her brother, disappeared on the eve of her sixteenth birthday. She believes the absurdity of ...Show more
I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment. There's a slippery Zing, a graceful Zing, and a Zing who runs as fast as a bus. But most significant of all, there's the Zing Family Secret: so immense that it draws the ...Show more
Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the secrets of the family Zing by Jaclyn Moriarty
$19.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing family secret, one so huge, it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night. First published 2004 as I Have a Bed Ma ...Show more
The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty
$19.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Bindy is the smartest girl at Ashbury High. She ranks in the 99.9th percentile in everything she does (including extra - curricular activities - she is casual Employee of the Month every month at Kmart). She is also the kindest girl at Ashbury High. For example: - Before each school year begins, She rea ...Show more
The Cracks in the Kingdom (The Colours of Madeleine #2) by Jaclyn Moriarty
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: The Colours of Madeleine
It's not easy being Princess Ko. Her family is missing, taken to the World through cracks in the Kingdom, which were then sealed tightly behind them. Now Princess Ko is running the Kingdom, and war is looming. To help her find her family, she gathers a special group of teens, including Elliot Baranski o ...Show more
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Kingdoms and Empires
Jaclyn Moriarty returns with her first middle-grade novel, a buoyantly high-spirited fantasy adventure. Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates. This does not bother her particularly: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by ...Show more
The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet by Jaclyn Moriarty
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Kingdoms and Empires
A magical book in the rich and whimsical world of the Kingdoms and Empires about a girl, a threat and a pickle jar filled with gold coins by the internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author of The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst. 'Jaclyn Moriarty is one of the most original writers we have.' M ...Show more
The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars by Jaclyn Moriarty
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Kingdoms and Empires | Reading Level: very good
I was taken by Whisperers at 2pm, so I never pulled the lever for the laundry chute. That's what bothered me most. This is way ahead in the story, though. A lot happened before that. The town of Spindrift is frequented by pirates, Shadow Mages and charlatans. It's also home to the Orphanage School, whe ...Show more