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Give Us The Vote! (My True Story) by Sue Reid
18.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My True Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 15
Dora Thewlis, or 'Baby Suffragette' as she became known by the tabloids, was only sixteen years old when she was arrested at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament. The story of the young weaver from Huddersfield who joined Mrs Pankhurst's fight for the vote captured the imagination of the nat ...Show more
Mill Girl: A Victorian Girl's Diary 1842-1843 (My Story) by Sue Reid
19.50 NZD
20.00 (2% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
In spring 1842, Eliza is shocked when she is sent to work in the Manchester cotton mills - the noisy, suffocating mills. The work is backbreaking and dangerous - and when she sees her friends' lives wrecked by poverty, sickness and unrest, Eliza realizes she must fight to escape the fate of a mill girl. ...Show more
Pompeii: A Roman Girl's Diary, AD 78-79 (My Story) by Sue Reid
19.50 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.
The Fall of the Blade (My Story) by Sue Reid
19.50 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
'Liberty, equality, fraternity' cry the revolutionaries as they spill the blood of the aristocracy into the streets of Paris. The rumble of the tumbrils strikes fear into the hearts of the once rich and powerful. For one young noblewoman, a simple act of charity from years before could be the only thing ...Show more
The Voyages of Odysseus by Sue Reid
16.99 NZD
19.99 (15% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Young readers will love these timeless tales of heroism, gods and monsters. After the Trojan War, Odysseus wants to sail straight home to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope. But the gods are angry with our hero. His fleet will be driven off course, his ships smashed by storms and his men gobbled down by a gi ...Show more
War Nurse by Sue Reid
13.99 NZD
18.99 (26% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
This is the diary of Kitty, an 18-year-old VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), during the years of 1940 and 1941. As a nurse working in the military hospitals in the south of England, Kitty sees at close hand the effects of war - notably the casualties of Dunkirk. The diary details the historical events and ...Show more
War Nurse: A Second World War Girl's Diary 1939-1940 (My Story) by Sue Reid
19.50 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: My Story
When war breaks out in 1939 Kitty signs up to be a Red Cross nurse in a military hospital. It's not long before she's needed to treat badly wounded casualties from the war now raging across Europe. Then the hospital takes a direct hit and Kitty finds herself a reluctant heroine. Experience history firs ...Show more
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