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| The True Story of Spit MacPhee by Aldridge, James When young Spit MacPhee came to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen feared for his future. For Fyfe MacPhee was a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit had to fend for himself along the riverbank where they lived. While some people believed that Spit could look after himself, there were those who believed he would be better cared for in a boys home - and when old Fyfe died after one of his 'turns' a fierce battle to decide Spit's destiny began. | $4.00 |
| The Neverending Story by Ende, Michael Small and insignificant, Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book, he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian, and there follows a magically evocative story to fulfil your deepest longings. | $4.00 |
| The Giver by Lowry, Lois It is a perfect world - conformity and happiness are a way of life. But for Jonas, things are different. While his friends are selected to be doctors or teachers, Jonas is sent to an old, tired man - The Giver - where he begins to discover the dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of his world. Jonas is about to undertake an incredible and impossible journey.... | $3.00 |
| Twist of Gold by Morpurgo, Michael When Ireland is stricken by the potato famine, Sean and Annie, the only surviving children of the O'Brien family, set off to find their father in America. They are ill-equipped for such a hard and treacherous journey: a Dragoon's scarlet cloak, a shimmering moon-shawl and the golden necklace, entrusted to them by their sick mother, are their sole possessions. But Sean and Annie are not prepared to give up without a fight, and this epic story of courage and tenacity tells of their thrilling adventures as they travel from Cork to California. | $5.00 |
| A Cage of Butterflies by Caswell, Brian Mikki and others live at 'the farm' - an advanced learning facility, a think-tank for a bunch of young people with very high IQs. But what is really going on at the farm? And what about the five much younger children, known as The Babies, frail as butterflies? | $7.00 |
| The High Deeds of Finn MacCool by Sutcliff, Rosemary Set more than a thousand years ago in the soft green hills of Ireland, in a shifting time when enchanted beasts, strange creatures, and the Fairy Kind still flickered in and out of the lives of men, the ancient stories of Finn MacCool and the Fianna shimmer with magic. Rosemary Sutcliffe breathes new life into the classic tales of Finn and the grey dog, of Dearmid and Grania, of Oisin - Finn's son - and all the other high deeds of the Fianna. | $6.00 |
| Jigsaw Bay by Merson, John Danny, Sam and Yoko have a few of the pieces, but they don't quite fit. Dead fish in the bay, strange shadows in the factory at night, and this dark substance that looks like oil, but that burns on contact. Someone, somewhere has to have the whole picture. People say you shouldn't trust politicians or the police, and maybe they're right. But what if you turn to your parents for help - and suddenly there's no clear difference between bad and good. | $3.00 |
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