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.

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.

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.

Is She Still Alive?

Is She Still Alive?
Author: Tessa Duder
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0730401294

Is she still alive?: scintillating tales for women of a certain age. In 2003 tessa Duder spent six months in Europe as the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. Internationally renowned for her superb childrens' and young adult novels, tessa used her time in Menton to write something very different. the result is a superb collection of thirteen stories for women who have moved beyond youth and into maturity, who have seen and experienced much of what life has to offer, and wear their years with pride. the wonderful, wise and witty women she has created will strike a chord with their tales of loves and dreams they have lived and lost, their tragedies and their triumphs and most of all, their enduring spirit and often unexpected strength. Is she still alive is the question women of a certain age hear all too often - in tessa Duder's wonderful new stories the answer is a resounding yes.

Songs for Alex

Songs for Alex
Author: Tessa Duder
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003-04
Genre: Interpersonal relations
ISBN: 9780143318071

The multi-award-winning story that has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of readers. Life is suddenly full of exciting possibilities for Alex. More swimming? University? Scholarships in America? And through it all Alex wonders if she will ever meet the mysterious Tom again? Ah, Rome. It seems a long way away now.