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  • Travellers #1: Because We Were The Travellers

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    Series Book 1 - The Travellers
    The first novel in the exciting *Travellers* series — a young adult fantasy story of survival against the odds in a fearful futuristic world.** 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. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Grandad's Wheelies

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    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 all. But he still likes to visit, because Grandad and Granny tell him stories - each trying to ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • When Mum Went Funny

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    It's war-time and Dad's away, so Mum has to run the farm. Sometimes the stress of it all gives her funny ideas, in this hilarious tale by a much-loved, award-winning junior fiction author. ‘You wait till Constable Cuff hears about this … We’re going to tell everybody in the district you sold your children for sixpence.’ In When Mum Went Funny, the cry of mothers everywhere is heard loud and clear. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Travellers #2

    Taur

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    Series Book 2 - The Travellers
    A powerful award-winning young adult fantasy — the second novel in the excellent Travellers series. Pursued by the hateful Salt Men, Ish flees south with his friend Taur, the mute Bull Man. But nowhere is there refuge from the brutal Squint-face, who wants his greenstone god back, and wants Ish's life. Across the ice of Cook Strait lies the South Land. Can Ish and Taur find peace there? 'Taur', ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Travellers #3

    The Shaman and the Droll

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    Series Book 3 - The Travellers
    A wise and extraordinary YA tale of great challenges, myths and folklore; the third title in the award-winning Travellers series. Lutha of the Floating Village helps Ish, the outcast boy, escape with his beloved dogs, Jak and Nip, but before long, they are swept away, hurtled down an underground river only to emerge in the harsh land of the Great White Bear. The Bear Man comes to their rescue and ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Aunt Effie's Ark

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    The second book in the hilarious and outrageous 'Aunt Effie' series for junior readers. Aunt Effie, dressed in her green canvas invalid's pyjamas, hibernates all winter, leaving her 26 resourceful nieces and nephews to deal with snowstorm and flood, ravening monsters, a barnful of hungry animals and a wild ark-ride over the Vast Untrodden Ureweras. Among the comic cast of cousins are Daisy, whose ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Mr Bluenose

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    A charming novel for young readers by an award-winning writer, based on a young boy's summer in the countryside and the characters — real and imagined — that he meets. Dad has to go to work, so you go down to see Mr Bluenose; there's always something to do there. He tells you stories while you give him a hand to sort apples, feed the pigs, teach Horse how to push the wheelbarrow, and terrify boys ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Travellers #4

    Kalik

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    Series Book 4 - The Travellers
    The fourth and final volume in Jack Lasenby's award-winning Travellers fantasy series for young adult readers. Ish is introduced to Lutha's society; a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He quickly distrusts a quality in Lutha and her beautiful, elegant friend and lieutenant, Kalik. Ish wishes to escape but realises he cannot go alone - he cannot leave behind a group of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Haystack

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    Maggie torments the boy down the road, sets fire to the dunny, helps with half the district to build a haystack, and sees the tragedy of unemployment. Along the way, Maggie makes new friends, and receives kindness and help in learning what a girl needs to know.Vintage Jack Lasenby tale set in Waharoa, the same town and Depression years as the setting for Old Drumble, and featuring some of the same ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Aunt Effie and the Island That Sank

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    The third, crazy, Spike Milliganesque story in the hilarious Aunt Effie series for junior readers. 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 of the Hauraki Gulf and The Waikato. However boat and crew become marvellously sidetracked: the scow is converted into a travelling cowshed for cross ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Billy and Old Smoko

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    Very funny, must-read-aloud yarn for junior readers about the fantastical adventures of a talking horse and a boy looking for his mother. Billy wakes one morning to find his mother gone and the house in control of a strange woman burning the porridge. According to Billy, his father has gone all lackadaisical. So it’s Old Smoko, a well-spoken Clydesdale farm-horse, who takes Billy to school each ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Old Drumble

    by Jack Lasenby ...
    The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction.the humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the 1930s. Jack has a wonderful, warm relationship with his parents and an old family friend, Andy the Drover, who each week drives ... Read more

    $3.99 USD