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Stay Where You Are And Then Leave by John Boyne
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, this is an unforgettable story from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. This special edition features a foreword from Eoin Colfer.The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father ...Show more
Stay Where You are and Then Leave by John Boyne
$21.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King ...Show more
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is another extraordinary historical fiction about World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a ser ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to d ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. What a thing of wond ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A warm, moving and imaginative tale of an unusual little boy struggling to be accepted for his differences, by the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. There's nothing unusual about the Brockets. Normal, respectable and proud of it, they turn up their noses at anyone strange or differe ...Show more
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
There's nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family - and they're keen to keep it that way. But when Barnaby Brocket comes into the world, it's clear he's anything but ordinary. To his parents' horror, Barnaby defies the laws of gravity - and floats. Soon, the Brockets decide enough is eno ...Show more
The Thief of Time by John Boyne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. H ...Show more