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Bridge to Terabithia (Puffin Modern Classics) by Katherine Paterson
$13.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9+
Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class. He's been practising all summer and he's sure he's going to win. But when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any of the girls in school, she also turns out to ...Show more
Carrie's War (Puffin Modern Classics) by Nina Bawden
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a si ...Show more
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Puffin Modern Classics) by Robert O'Brien
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-11
They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret ...Time is running out for Mrs. Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected form of a group of mysterious, super-int ...Show more
Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics) by Astrid Lindgren
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The classic novel about the little girl with crazy red pigtails and a flair for the outrageous is available once again. Illustrations.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor and David Kearney (illustrator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here'. The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming ...Show more
Stig of the Dump (Puffin Modern Classics) by Clive King
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 10-12
Clive King's "Stig of the Dump" is a much-loved modern classic. "Stig of the Dump" is 50 years old and the story of Barney and his best friend, cave-man Stig, is as fresh today as it was when first published. Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the ...Show more
The Family from One End Street (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eve Garnett
$21.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9-12
This is the story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. Father is a dustman and Mother a washerwoman. Then there's all the children - practical Lily Rose, clever Kate, mischievous twins James and John, followed by Jo, who loves films, little Peg and fina ...Show more
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