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All We Know by Simon French
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Puffin Story Bks.
Grade Six is almost over and Arkie knows that nothing is ever going to be the same again. Her best friend has dumped her, her little brother is growing up and her favourite teacher is leaving. With all this upheaval, Arkie begins to look at everyone and everything differently - through a camera lens. Sh ...Show more
Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage by Noel Streatfeild
Category: Classic | Series: Puffin Bks.
Pauline, was rescued from a shipwreck as a baby. She longs to be an actress. Petrova, is a Russian orphan. She is happiest when playing with cars and engines. Polly was handed over with just a pair of ballet shoes to her name. If she could, she would dance all day! But one thing they do have in common i ...Show more
Fairy Tales by Terry Jones
Category: Children's | Series: Puffin Bks.
Three raindrops have an argument on their way out of a cloud ...A silly King goes for a walk with a dog tied to each leg ...An enterprising herring, bored of the North Sea, decides to swim right round the world. This book contains thirty short stories of magic and adventure.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Bks.
Haroun's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie ...Show more
Heard It in the Playground by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Bks.
An illustrated collection of amusing poems and songs celebrating primary school life.
Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight; Marguerite Kirmse (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Bks.
Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But when the family falls on hard times, Sam is forced to sell his dog to the Duke of Rudling, who takes her hundreds of miles away to his estate in Scotland. Undeterred by the dist ...Show more
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Puffin Bks.
For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values o ...Show more
Momo by Michael Ende
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Puffin Bks.
At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a little homelss girl called Momo. Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her friends who come to visit her. Then one day the sinister men in grey arrive and silently take over the city. Only Momo has the power to re ...Show more
No Gun for Asmir by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Puffin Bks.
War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.