Night Race to Kawau

Night Race to Kawau
Author: Tessa Duder
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143776827

For 40 years, this adrenaline-packed winner of the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book has been gripping Kiwi kids. ‘He’s not there, Mum. He’s fallen overboard.’ What started as an exciting challenge turns into a nightmare when a gale unexpectedly develops during the night race to Kawau Island. Sam and her mother suddenly find themselves in charge of their yacht with a dangerous task ahead of them. It is the early 1980s, and technology on the yacht is limited: they are on their own. Will Sam be able to save her family?

The Great Rat Rally: A Graphic Novel (Geronimo Stilton #3)

The Great Rat Rally: A Graphic Novel (Geronimo Stilton #3)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338756265

Praise for The Sewer Rat Stink:"Fresh, funny, and fast-paced. The free-style artwork and anything-goes story will make kids want to write and draw their own books!" -Dav PilkeyThis is Geronimo Stilton like you've never seen him before! Geronimo and Trap enter the Rat Rally, a high-speed car race!

Tiggie Tompson, All at Sea

Tiggie Tompson, All at Sea
Author: Tessa Duder
Publisher: Puffin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Actors and actresses
ISBN: 9780141313238

The lives of a modern day young actress and the character she is to portray in a 19th century television drama, are about to collide.

Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes

Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes
Author: Lauren Child
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763651206

Thirteen-year-old Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, gets an anonymous call setting a challenge that leads her to the headquarters of Spectrum, a highly secret anti-crime agency that needs her help to crack a code, but soon Ruby uncovers dastardly plans of the Fool's Gold Gang.

Under the Mountain

Under the Mountain
Author: Maurice Gee
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459623797

Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think. They are horrified to discover that they ...

A Bear Grylls Adventure 12: The Sailing Challenge

A Bear Grylls Adventure 12: The Sailing Challenge
Author: Bear Grylls
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre:
ISBN: 1786960826

The twelfth in the fun 12-book collectible series for young readers from survival expert and Chief Scout BEAR GRYLLS. Mia loves to take charge and be a leader - she's not lacking in confidence and throws herself into every experience. Except she's terrible at taking a back seat and letting others have their say. A mysterious compass leads her to an unexpected adventure with Bear Grylls sailing the high seas. Can Bear show Mia the importance of teamwork and how dangerous the ocean can be if the captain doesn't have a crew who will work together? Each book in this fun new 12-book series from BEAR GRYLLS follows a different child on the outdoor activity camp. Once they are given the magical compass, they meet the inspirational adventurer in an amazing place and learn new skills and facts they can take with them back to their real life.

Written for Children

Written for Children
Author: John Rowe Townsend
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1996-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1461731046

This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Written for Children traces the development of children's literature from its origins through the beginnings of the multimedia revolution. In effortless and entertaining style, Townsend, a world-renowned authority in the field, examines the changing attitudes toward children and their literature and analyzes the various strands that make up this important field. While examining many well-known American classics, Townsend also looks at British works that American audiences may have overlooked. With illustrations and bibliography.

Hot Mail

Hot Mail
Author: Tessa Duder
Publisher: Penguin Group (New Zealand)
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9780141308852

Dan (struggling with small town life in Northland and searching out blonde jokes on the net) starts on an email correspondence with Jess (14, lonely and scared on a year-long Pacific voyage with her family as the hurricane season approaches). As Jess heads southwards their emails build up, and they get to know each other. And swap more jokes.

Cruising in Seraffyn

Cruising in Seraffyn
Author: Lin Pardey
Publisher: Lin and Larry Pardey
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2002-08
Genre: Boats and boating
ISBN: 1929214502

A fun and exciting guide to the world of living out at sea. This book will teach you what you need to know inorder to live safely, economically and cheaply when spending moths at sea. If nothing else, this book will send you chasing for your dreams, whether it be to take an adventure at sea or just about anyhting else. This is the first of a four-book series which begins on the journey that Lin and Larry Pardey began 34 years ago in their self-built 24-foot engineless cutter, Seraffyn. In this journey, we explore places such as Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the Islands of the Atlantic ocean. Throughout the book, we learn about people and customs, we learn about the tricks of boating, we learn about surviaval. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new forward, new appendixes, and a color photo album showing Lin, Larry and the Serraffyn during those months at sea.