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Diamond
I really loved this book, I could not get my head out of it! It is about a girl whos Mum dies when she gives birth to her little brother. She was devastated. She went into town an did some accorbatics to earn money for her family of 7. A man came and grabbed her. Her Dad walked past and he sold her to this stranger he did not know for 5 pounds!
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Lola Rose
Lola Roses Mum wins a scratch card worth 10 000 000 pounds. The family decideds to run away from their Dad who abuses their Mum. They go to England where their Mum finds out she has got cancer. What will Jayni and her brother do? Will they go back to dad?
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Best Friends
Gemma and Alice have known each other all their lives, but when Gemma reads Alice's diary at a sleepover, it eventually leads her to discovering that Alices family is moving to Scotland. Will Alice and Gemma ever see each other again?Find out more in Best Friends By Jacqueline Wilson
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The Tooth
In the school holidays Tim Thomas and his mate go looking for this dinosaur fossil up in the hills on his Grandparents farm. His Mum drowed in the river. He luckily suvied. Will they find the dinosaur fossel?
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Jacky Daydream
This is a story about my favourite Author, Jacqueline Wilsons childhood. When she was borns she grew up with a love of dolls and not liking dogs as one snacked her favourite doll when she was 2! I have loved reading this book and recomend it to others.
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Queenie
This is a really sad but funny book that I could not get my head out of. It is about a girl Elise who lives with her Nan. Her mum comes and visits every now and again. On day her nan spews blood at the sewing factory where she works. She is sent straight to hospital with TB. Then Elise gets T.B in her knee and is forced to go to a rest home to let it recover. Will Elise and her Nan ever get better?
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Lily alone
Lilys mum left lily and her two sisters and one naughty brother alone for one long night as she was at the pub. After that night, she came home with a boyfriend. He invites Kate( Lilys mum) on a holiday to spain. She agrees. When she has left, a message if left saying none can look after them as there Dad is in Scotland. -
The Phantom of Terawhiti
It is the school hoildays and Zac thinks he will be so bored until he and his Dad witness a boat sink at there local harbour. On the boat there was a really rare white leapod. Zac sees some foot prints on the beach and finds the leopad that is really tame. But hunters are out to shoot it. Will the leapod suvive?
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Steel Pelicans
Pelly and Dean are best mates and call themselves the Steel Pelicans. Dean’s dare-devil attitude to fireworks gets them into trouble more than once. When Pelly has to move from Australia to New Zealand, they are both sorry to say goodbye. Pelly eventually makes friends with Afi and while on holiday together, they come across a smuggling operation. When Dean arrives to join them, the tension between the three and Dean’s obsession with explosives could spell disaster for them all.
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Where the Cuckoo's call
Ben Mansfield, looks after endangered birds nesting in a sheltered bay on his family farm in the Coromandel Peninsula. Ben and his mum are dealing with the long term effects of his fathers illness from possom urine, and when it looks as if the farm will have to sold, Bens life turns upside down. He must grow up fast as change threatens his family, his home, and his beloved birds, when a resort development is
unveiled and marauding hoons hit the beaches on motocross bikes.
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Frog Whistle Mine
Twelve-year-old Tony has travelled all around New Zealand with his mother, and desperately wants somewhere to belong. When they arrive in Charleston, a gold-mining ghost town, he is almost afraid to hope this might finally be the place. He decideds to sleep outside in a campervan other than with his mother. Then weird things start happening. A weka trashes his caravan and possoms on his roof at night. -
Gangsta Granny
Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. All she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma: she was once an international jewel thief. When he find a cookie jar in her pantry filled with diamands he starts to get curious. -
The Crocodile Nest
Luke Evans never knew his father - he'd cleared out before Luke was born. So when his internet skills track down someone living at a resort in Queensland who could be his dad. He wants to go and visit his dad but his mother disagrees. When he finally goes after alot of persuation, will his dad be who he thought he would be and what does the 'Crocodile nest' have to do with his visit? -
Shadows in the Ice
Tony Hogan-White now lives in Christchurch, with his Mum and her geologist partner. Tony and his new stepfather have a holiday trip back to Fox Glacier, where another exciting adventure ensues. A man Tony gets to know is accused of shooting his partner instead of a tahr. Will they find out who accually killed his friend and why? -
Tom Gates-Execellent Excuses
No school for two whole weeks! I can forget all about lessons (and irritating things like Marcus Meldrew). And concentrate on good stuff like: Inventing new ways to annoy my sister Delia. (So many). Unfortunately a couple of small problems arise and toms tooth gets sore and his dad banes his from eatting caremal waffles! Oh no! Will he suvive the holidays? -
The Thornthwaite Inheritance
Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite are thirteen-year-old twins and they are very unusual. They wear only black, eat only bland food, listen and play only sombre music and have no electricity in their house. But what is even stranger is their desire to kill each other! When Lorelli and Ovid create a truce on their thirteenth birthday, Lorelli brings a lawyer into the house to add to their deceased parents' will. If one of the twins kills the other before their sixteenth birthday, the day in which they -
Tom Gates - Genius Ideas
Seeing Delia without her sunglasses on is a BIG shock for Tom, but that’s nothing compared with the surprise that Dad has in store with his new-found fitness regime! He says he’s going to compete at Tom’s Sports Day. Can you even imagine the horrendous shame that will bring? Meanwhile Tom, Derek and Norman are busy with a training regime of their own – practising with Dogzombies to make sure they’re ready for the school talent show. -
Tom Gates - Everything is excellent
Back to school, but it's not all bad. Sports Day, the school fair and Tom's birthday are all coming up. And even better, his awful big sister Delia won't be at any of those events! On the downside, Granny Mavis is threatening to make his birthday cake - uh oh! But on the other hand, Mr Keen has asked Dogzombies to perform in front of the whole school! YEAH! Maybe they can even play at the school disco too. -
Don't look now 2
Ricky is an ordinary boy, who dreams of being famous. And he has a secret that might just help him realise this dream. Because Ricky can fly. Truly. He can really fly. But there's a hitch. He can only fly when absolutely no one is looking. If a person, an animal or a bird sees him while he's flying, he will fall out of the sky and almost certainly die. But Ricky is desperate. -
Don't look Now
Ricky is an ordinary boy, who dreams of being famous. And he has a secret that might just help him realise this dream. Because Ricky can fly. Truly. He can really fly. But there's a hitch. He can only fly when absolutely no one is looking. If a person, an animal or a bird sees him while he's flying, he will fall out of the sky and almost certainly die. But Ricky is desperate. Will he risk flying in public, just for a shot at fame? -
The Diamond girls
This book is about four girls who are: Dixie,who's ten,Rochelle who's 12,Jude who's 14 and Martine who's 16.Their mum is called Sue Diamond.The story starts off when Sue is trying to find a home for her daughters. Sue and her daughters move house, and they move to Mercury Street,on the Planet Estate. Dixie befriends a girl called Mary who lives in a pretty painted house with her parents. She gives Mary her budgie Bluebell to borrow. -
Whale Pot Bay
Jake lives with his father in a remote part of the Wairarapa, where he can surf and watch the whales. But then Jake's dad begins a relationship with a new partner, who moves in with her daughter Stephanie, and at the same time a local photographer starts stalking their next door neighbour Milton Summer, an international rock celebrity- and Jake's peaceful life erupts into volence and deceit. An when a whale and her calf get into trouble on the treacherous coast, will Jake beable to save it? -
Horrible Science: Vicious Veg
This is a really good factual book with lots of interesting facts such as: How do plants suck out the insides of dead insects, Which fungi can make your toes drop off and why do sting nettles like skeletons. All this and more in Vicious Veg. -
Horrible Science: Painful Poison
This is a factual book with lots of interesting fact such as: How can you turn your brother into a zombie slave, how are you breathing poison right now and what poison can make you vomit glow in the darK! All this and more discusting facts in Painful Poison -
Horrible Science: Deadly disease
This a really interesting book with lots of facts such as: What happened to the nurse who drunk diarrhoera, why does deadly cholera make your skin turn blue and which scientist used eyeballs as food for bacteria. All these horribale, discusting and revolting stories in Deadly diseases. -
Horrible Science: Awful Egyptians
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Horribale Histories: The Terriable Truth about Time
This is a really factual interesting book that answers lots of questions like: What happens if you get to close to the black hole, How do flies tell the time and why does the time go faster as you are getting older. All this and more in: The Terriable Truth about Time. -
Horriable Histories:The Flight of Flight
This book is really interesting. I answers these questions: Why did scientist fire dead birds from a cannon, What happened to the worlds first flying sheep and who put a parachute on a puppy. All this and more in: The Flight of Flight -
My Royal Story: Elizabeth
This is a diary of young Elizabeth at the age of 11. Her mother was beheaded at the age of 2 and has had five step-mother since. Her step-sister hates her and her father ignore her. How did she become queen and what happened to her step-sister Mary?? -
My Story: Titanic
Orphan Margaret Anne Brady can’t believe how lucky she is to be plucked from a life of poverty to sail on the Titanic’s maiden voyage as a companion to wealthy Mrs Carstairs. Surrounded by luxury, among the rich and famous, Margaret thinks that all her dreams have come true. But the Titanic is fated not to reach its destination. When the passengers are woken on a freezing night in April 1912, she finds herself plunged into an unimaginable nightmare… -
My Story: No Way Back
Eleven-year-old Mary Wade is the oldest of seven children in a poor family living in London in 1789. There is never enough money, and they are often cold and hungry. One day, hoping to help her mother, Mary makes a terrible decision that will change her life forever. With the help of her friend, Mary steals some clothing to sell. The next day, she is caught and arrested. At trial, she is convicted and sentenced to death. Will she get the family she has always wanted?? -
Kasper
Johnny Trott is a bell boy at the Savoy hotel, who one day meets Countess Kandinsky and her cat Kaspar, who have come to london for the countess to do an opera. Unfortunately, the countess is struck by disaster. It's Johnny's responsibility to look after Kaspar until a girl called Lizziebeth comes to help. When Lizziebeth returns home to New York, Johnny and Kaspar go with her. They travel on the Titanic and what a tragedy unfolds before them -
Marie Anitonette
Young Marie Antoinette has a recurring nightmare, in which the broken head of her porcelain doll is her own. Marie Antoinette doesn't know her fate, but she knows her destiny to one day be the Queen of France. But all the preparation in the world cannot equip her for the adventure she is about to embark upon. She is to marry Louis Prince of france when she is only 14!! -
War Nurse
When war breaks out in 1939 Kitty signs up to be a Red Cross nurse in a military hospital. It's not long before she's needed to treat badly wounded casualties from the war now raging across Europe. Then the hospital takes a direct hit and Kitty finds herself a reluctant heroine. -
Blitz
It's 1940 and London under fire Edie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales. Miles from home and missing her family, Edie is determined to be strong, but when life in the countryside proves tougher than in the capital she is torn between between obeying her parents and protecting her brother. When her mother passes away, how will she suvive all her sorrow? -
Sophie's secret war
In 1939 at the start of the war, Sophie becomes a messenger for a resistance group in Northern France. But as the German invaders overwhelm the British forces on the French coast, she finds herself more deeply involved with the Resistance - in a dangerous plan to save a young Scottish soldier. -
Dunger
William and Melissa have been roped into helping their old hippie grandparents fix up their holiday home in the middle of the Sounds.
They’ll have no electricity, no cellphone reception, and only each other for company. -
No way Back
Becky Mortkowicz's family are Jewish refugees from Poland, while Claudette leads a happy carefree life in Paris. Two girls from very different backgrounds, but the horrors of the Nazi occupation will bring them dramatically together. Becky's family have been forced to flee Warsaw for France and are offered a home by Claudette's father. The friendship between the two girls blossoms, but Becky's safe haven is short lived as the Nazis edge ever nearer the French border. -
My New Zealand Story: Pandemic
This is a sad but ture story about a young girl. Her older borther has signed up to go to war and she is worried about him and if he will make it back as they are really close and do everything together. He life become boring and loney after he leaves. One day she goes biking when the pandemic is sarting to spead around, they go near an house and hear a baby cring. Its parents are dead beside it and she takes it home. Her grandma then passes away. Will her brother com back alive? -
The Diary of Anne Frank
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My Story: Lady Jane Grey
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The Magic Faraway Tree
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Gold
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My Story a Wartime Princess
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Canturbury Earthquake
It is nearly maddys bithday and she hopes to get a cellphone but when she doesn't get one she is really dissapointed. She is only 11 however and feels like her world has crumbled but when the 7.2 earthquake hits and her best friend leaves, how will se suvive? Will she ever get the cellphone she wants? Find out in The CAnterbury Earthquake. -
The silver Sword
The classic tale of a journey through war-torn Europe. Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War Two, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope. As they travel through Europe towards Switzerland, where they believe they will be reunited with their parents, they encounter many hardships and dangers. This extraordinarily moving account of an epic journey gives a remarkable insight into the reality of a Europe laid waste by war.
