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Aunt Effie and the Island that Sank by Jack Lasenby
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Aunt Effie
Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards, Junior Fiction Award 2005. AUNT EFFIE is restless. She and her 26 nieces and nephews are off again in the scow Margery Daw  on a treasure hunt across the pirate-infested waterways north of Auckland. However boat and crew become marvellously sidetracked: the ...Show more
Because We Were the Travellers (#1 Travellers Quartet ) by Jack Lasenby
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Travellers
In a land called the Whykatto, south of the city of Orklun, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter grass and flames towards the western horizon. As the sky turns fiery, figures appear in the landscape: a boy, limping, accompanied by an old woman. Cast out from their tribe they make the journey ...Show more
Billy and Old Smoko by Jack Lasenby
Category: Children's
Reading age 8-12 years. Billy wakes up one morning to find a strange woman burning his porridge. The woman speaks without pause but says she's his real mum. Billy knows this isn't true. And when he finds a secret note from his real mother, he sets out to find her. There follows a madcap, mischievous s ...Show more
Grandad's Wheelies by Jack Lasenby
Category: Children's Fiction
When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. When Jack visits his grandparents, there's no television to entertain him. No internet, no mobile phone, no tablets. In fact, there's no technology or modern distractions at a ...Show more
Kalik (Travellers Quartet #4) by Jack Lasenby
Category: Fiction | Series: Travellers
2002 NZPost Children's Book Awards finalist, Senior Fiction section. Ish is introduced to Lutha's Headland; a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He quickly distrusts a quality in Lutha and her beautiful lieutenant Kalik. Ish wishes to escape but realises he cannot go alone - as ...Show more
Old Drumble by Jack Lasenby
Category: Junior Fiction
NZ Post Childrens Book Awards, Junior Fiction Winner NZ Post Book Awards 2009 The humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover. Jack has a wonderful, warm relationship with his parents and old family friends, Andy the Drover and his dog, Old Drumble. Each w ...Show more
The Haystack by Jack Lasenby
Category: Children's Fiction
It's the 1930s Depression, and Maggie is growing up without a mother in the little Waikato dairying township of Waharoa. Maggie has to make do with her father's friends, neighbours and an old biddy who should know better but can't help herself. Maggie torments the boy down the road, sets fire to the dun ...Show more
Uncle Trev and His Whistling Bull by Jack Lasenby
Category: Children's | Series: Uncle Trev
It's the 1930s. Our storyteller is crook in bed, trying to get over a long sickness and wanting to go back to school, when Uncle Trev arrives to let Mum go out and do the shopping. Uncle Trev tells one story after another about the animals out on his farm and about his neighbour Gotta Henry. He also goe ...Show more
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