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Coot Club (#5 Swallows & Amazons) by Arthur Ransome
26.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a week's cruise to teach his new friends, Dick and Dorothea how to sail. You couldn't get a better sailor tha ...Show more
Great Northern? (Swallows & Amazons #12) by Arthur Ransome
27.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
Dick's birdwatching discovery turns the cruise of the Sea Bear into a desperate chase. The Swallows and Amazons have to prove the facts of the case, and evade the natives and an egg-collector, determined to kill a pair of rare birds and steal the credit.
Missee Lee (Swallows & Amazons #10) by Arthur Ransome
26.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them - forever.
Picts and the Martyrs (Swallows & Amazons #11) by Arthur Ransome
26.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
The dreaded Great Aunt invites herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends arrive for the Summer. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry, while friends Dick and Dorothea become Picts, secret inhabitants of the country who must never be seen.
Pigeon Post (Swallows & Amazons #6) by Arthur Ransome
26.99 NZD
Category: Children's and Young Adult | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake. But the mining camp runs into all sorts of trouble: not only the danger of fire in the drought ridden countryside but also scary encounter ...Show more
Secret Water (Swallows & Amazons #8) by Arthur Ransome
24.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
The crew of the Swallow take on the task of mapping the mass of small islands round Pin Mill while living on the biggest one. But who are they mysterious savages who lurk in the islands - and is the tribal totem they find in their campsite a threat of attack?
Slave Power (Amazon #1) by Raewyn Dawson
14.99 NZD
25.00 (40% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Amazon | Reading Level: very good
Will the Peace Way succeed? East of the Black Sea, c.300 BC: Fifteen-year-old Melo is one of the most gifted Riders in the Wild Horse Tribe, destined to become a leader in her female warrior clan. Her old rival Mithrida, however, has cunning plans of her own. But when city slave traders cut a violent pa ...Show more
Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
24.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy, otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. But if they can't h ...Show more
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
21.00 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Series: Swallows and Amazons | Reading Level: very good
Swallows and Amazons for ever! The Walker children - also known as Captain John, Mate Susan, Able-Seaman Titty, and Ship's Boy Roger - set sail on the Swallow and head for Wild Cat Island. There they camp under open skies, swim in clear water and go fishing for their dinner. But their days are disturbe ...Show more
The Big Six (Swallows & Amazons #9) by Arthur Ransome
26.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
Bill, Peter and Joe have been falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick Dorothea and Tom are there to stand by their friends, and they soon set to work to investigate the crimes and trap the real criminals. Ages 9 and over.
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Swallows & Amazons #7) by Arthur Ransome
24.99 NZD
Category: Children's and Young Adult | Series: Swallows and Amazons
'Now Susan,' Mother said, 'And you too, John. No night sailing. No going outside the harbour. And back the day after tomorrow. Promise.' But promises can't always be kept. Within twenty-four hours John, Susan, Titty and Roger find themselves fighting a night gale in the treacherous waters of the North S ...Show more
Winter Holiday (#4 Swallows & Amazons) by Arthur Ransome
24.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Swallows and Amazons
'Well,' said Nancy, 'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.' Nothing - except a polar expedition, full of mountain rescues, blizzards, igloos, ice sailing and heroic work amidst the frozen wastes. For Dick and Dorothea, newcomers to th ...Show more