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You are about to enter a world of Jules Verne's classic science fiction undersea adventure. Join Professor Aronnax on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves where he encounters something extraordinary: the mysterious Captain Nemo and his futuristic submarine, a vessel that Verne imagined but had not yet been invented. It's a suspenseful journey of danger and discovery. Abridged for easier reading and carefully rewritten, with "Classic Starts[trademark]" young readers can experience the wonder of timeless stories from... read more

Winner of the 2000 NZ Post junior fiction award - best first book.

7.45am Saturday 1st of December: My mother tells me that at three minutes to four o'clock this afternoon; I will have lived in this world for exactly eleven years. "Oh, my goodness, you were such a cute baby," she sighs, then reaches out a hand and ruffles my hair, "I wonder what went wrong." Ozzie did not choose his time of arrival on this earth, but unfortunately turned out to be the first-born male child of his generation. The original Oswald Devon Kingsford was his great-great-great-great grandfather. He was a famous explorer. ... read more

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Following their success with A Kiwi Night Before Christmas, Yvonne and Deborah have given that old favourite 'Jingle Bells' the same Kiwi treatment. With accompanying CD arranged, performed and recorded by Graeme Webb. Singer and storyteller Chris Melville. First published 2006.

An abridged version of the tale of Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, who is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

A vivid and funny retelling of one of the great classics of English literature. Richly comic, earthy, colourful, The Canterbury Tales is the greatest narrative poem in the English language. This selection contains seven of the most popular of the tales retold in lively prose, making them accessible to today's children while remaining true to the spirit of the originals. In this book you will find the tales of the Knight, the Miller, the Reeve, the Nun's Priest, the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath and the Franklin.

About a ram who visits the meat works and escapes. Rhyming and
humorous. A good giggle from the heart of Southland, New Zealand. For children 7 years and over.

A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet appearing at yearly intervals. Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of the day, each one a unique place of adventure and danger (and one mysterious place out of time), all ruled over by the evil Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, and his monstrous grandmother, Mater Motley. Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen year old from Chickentown, Minnesota, crosses by accident from our world into ... read more

Denzil lives in a time when monks copy books by hand using quills and ink, and write on parchment made from animal skins. Books are rare and very precious, and only the rich can ever learn to read. However, Denzil has travelled by magic to the future and there, in the home of his friend Sam, he has seen books made on machines - and suddenly Denzil wants to invent such a machine.. But as usual, Denzil's spell gets out of hand and puts himself, and his friends from the future, and even the history of the world, in the most terrible danger.

Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Intended for young readers, this title offers a tale that creates an image of pre-Civil War America with its sleepy river towns, con men, family feuds and a variety of colourful characters. It is part of the "Classic Starts[trademark]" series.

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: " Classic Starts." The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. "Classic Starts" treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price. No child is too young to appreciate the amazing deductive powers of the world's smartest detective. These easy-to-read Sherlock Holmes stories provide the perfect introduction to the super sle... read more

The very first children s book from multi-million bestselling adult author Clive Cussler! A fun and thrilling adventure from the grand master of the action adventure novel for readers of 9+. Ten-year-old twins Lacey and Casey are given a magical gift by a very mysterious character, staying on their farm. The tiny copper box doesn t look much, but if you press its lever, in a swirl of sparkles and purple smoke, any toy you want will become magically lifesize! When the twins and their basset hound, Floopy, decide to try this out with... read more

At the center of the novel Kim Deitch deftly places himself and his wife Pam– a passionate collector of Halloween cats from the 1920s and 30s, whose collection is impressive to say the least. But when she buys a mysterious old cat costume, she and Kim find themselves in wholly new territory: the lost world of Alias the Cat who, in 1915, appeared not only in a comic strip and film serial, but in real life as a freedom-fighting superhero. When Kim begins to research this forgotten figure, he uncovers one almost unbelievable story af... read more

An all-new Titan Books series, created by Carl Potts (The Punisher) and written and drawn by a host of comics' superstars. Meet the Alien Legion - home to every creeping, slithering scumbag the Universe saw fit to dump in a uniform. And the worst of the worst? Force Nomad -hard-bitten warriors loyal only to each other... and certainly not to the Galarchy that sends them to die in unmarked graves, drenched in rainbow-hued shades of blood. In 'On the Edge', Force Nomad finds itself trapped on the event horizon of a black hole and up ... read more

When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to have to do nothing more taxing than a little levitation or a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge. Against his will, Bartimaeus is packed off to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, a master magician of unrivalled ruthlessness and ambition. Before long, both djinni and apprentice are caught up in a terrifying flood of ma... read more

Sequel to Abby and the Hopplescotch Realm. The Techno Festival has come to Hopplescotch Realm. Inventors and magicians from each of the different realms have all kinds of gadgetry and magic spells on show at the festival - more than you could ever imagine! But there's mystery afoot. Who is the strange Techno Wizard who always cloaks himself, and why does he have such a sinister appearance? Who are the Techno Pirates? Are they trying to ruin the festival, or do they want to frame the Techno Wizard? As usual in Hopplescotch Realm, th... read more

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: " Classic Starts." The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. "Classic Starts" treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price. Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale, with its engaging heroine and evocative description of the Prince Edward Island landscape, never fails to delight youngsters. When Matthew Cuthbert goes t... read more

Mark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expects that he will be Julius Caesar's successor. But when Caesar is murdered, his eighteen–year–old nephew, Octavian, is named as his heir. No–one, least of all Antony,... read more

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Aladdin" and "Sinbad the Sailor": these are just some of the strange and amazing stories that clever Scheherazade tells to captivate her husband, King Shahryar...and to save her own life. Each one is more fantastic than the last, filled with demons and dervishes, caliphs and genies, men transformed into dogs and monsters with eyes that glow.With "Classic Starts[trademark]", young readers can experience the wonder of these timeless stories from an early age. Abridged for easier reading and carefull... read more