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A House Without Walls by Elizabeth Laird
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
A House Without Walls is a powerful story of family, hope and redemption amidst the refugee crisis in Syria from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge. Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is - lucky not ...Show more
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
In Elizabeth Laird's A Little Piece of Ground, twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. Karim longs to play football with his mates - being stuck inside with his teenag ...Show more
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
23.00 NZD
Category: Senior Fiction
Crusade is a richly detailed historical adventure, from Carnegie shortlisted author, Elizabeth Laird. Two boys. Two faiths. One unholy war ... When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chanc ...Show more
Dindy and the Elephant by Elizabeth Laird
24.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Bored with her little brother Pog's childish games, Dindy decides that she's finally grown-up enough for a real adventure. While her mother is sleeping and the servants are busy, she takes Pog deep into the tea gardens, a place they are never supposed to go alone. Terrified by a wild animals and snubbed ...Show more
Gloria's Porridge by Elizabeth Laird
19.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books | Series: One Story, Many Voices Ser.
Inspired by an Ethiopian folk tale, Gloria's Porridge shows young children how one act can cause a chain reaction and affect other people's lives.When Cat wanted some of Gloria's porridge, he ignored her saying no and ate it all. Gloria then scares Cat who tickles the donkey, who interrupts the bees who ...Show more
Jake's Tower by Elizabeth Laird
18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
'It's good that I've found this secret place ...No one can get to to me up there. It's totally safe.' In real life, Jake is never safe. He lives in constant fear of his mother's violent boyfriend. But in his imaginary tower he can dream up his own father - the stranger who gave him a cuddle and a fluff ...Show more
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
20.00 NZD
Category: Senior Fiction
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird is an unforgettable, award-winning novel of conflict, persecution and the hardships faced by refugees. Tara is an ordinary teenager. Although her country, Kurdistan, is caught up in a war, the fighting seems far away. It hasn't really touched her. Until now. The secret p ...Show more
Oranges in No Man's Land by Elizabeth Laird
18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two younger brothers. The city has been torn in half by civil war and a desolate, dangerous no man's land divides th ...Show more
Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird
18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is disabled and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually the truth gets out and le ...Show more
Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
What's the good in keeping secrets? Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her "Earwig," until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like ...Show more
Song of the Dolphin Boy by Elizabeth Laird
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Finn has always been different, and in the tiny fishing village of Stromhead he sticks out like a sore thumb. Always told to keep away from the water, he's felt that something was missing until one day he dives in and finds that, swimming with the dolphins, he feels completely at home. But his new frien ...Show more
Stories of Peace and Kindness by Elizabeth Laird
43.00 NZD
Category: Stories from Around the World
Seven wise and wonderful stories from war-torn lands, showing how peace and kindness can make our world a better place.Will two tribes in Ethiopia make peace by throwing their most precious possessions in the river? Can a poor Palestinian shepherd show a rich sultan the value of true kindness? Or will ...Show more