Books

  • Book 6-13 ‘Rin Tin Tin’

    The true story of a puppy rescued from the brink of starvation from a German army camp, who went on to become the most famous film star of his day.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1425 words 

    $10.00 + GST
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  • Book 6-14 ‘Gold’

    From the gold fields of Central Otago. Finding gold is not quite as easy as the rumours suggest, and then when you do, that is when your problems really begin.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1404 words 

    $10.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-06 ‘The Beaver’

    Beaver dams and lodges are engineering feats. How the beaver creates its own habitat, for winter and summer.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1455 words 

    $10.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-08 ‘The Humpback Whale’

    The migratory life of the colossal humpback whale.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1068 words 

    $10.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-10 ‘Living in a Yurt’

    The lives of the Turkish nomads, who depend absolutely on their sheep.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1368 words 

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  • Book 7-16 ‘The End of the War’

    In the days before text messaging, television or even radio, it was the children of New Zealand who spread the news that World War 1 was over.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1056 words 

    $10.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-17 ‘Fast and Slow’

    The swift and the falcon are the fastest of earth’s creatures, and the sloth is ever so slow. All rely on this quickness – or slowness – to survive.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1416 words  

    $10.00 + GST
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  • Book 2-05 ‘Cob and Sod’

    How to build a house for next to nothing using the traditional materials, cob and sod.

    CVC words, double final consonants (toss, add), plus th, ch and sh.

    By Betsy Sewell-1169 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 3-14 ‘A Spy In The Colony’

    A seagull chick must learn to survive, to avoid becoming a snack for the cats and ferrets that roam the colony. But what do the cats and ferrets live on once the chicks learn to fly? This chick wants to find out and becomes a spy.

    ck,and le,et,ly suffixes

    By Betsy Sewell – 1689 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 4-04 ‘Dilly Duck’

    A duckling brought up by a child can be very demanding. But when she becomes a mother herself, she is more demanding still. A true story, more or less.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1549 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 4-21 ‘I Am A Tracker’

    How does a trained Search and Rescue tracker find a missing person? What signs do they see that the rest of us may miss? Told through the eyes of a tracker at work, as he reminisces about his own experience of being lost in this very forest as a seven-year-

    By Betsy Sewell – 2178 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 4-22 ‘How They Play Cricket’

    As a cricket match progresses, the ball deteriorates. How do the best international bowlers exploit this to get a batsman out

    By Betsy Sewell – 2448 words

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  • Book 4-23 ‘Stuck, Jammed, Trapped’

    A giant Pacific octopus finds itself stuck in the gullet of a blue whale. He muses on the strategies he has to avoid the real enemy, the sperm whale, but none of these help with this predicament. This is a level 4 book. The words octopus and whale are not mentioned, but there are enough clues to figure it out.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1816 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 5-13 ‘One Man and a Donkey’

    The true story of Jack Simpson, who used a donkey to bring injured men off the field of battle at Gallipoli to the Red Cross tents on the beach.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1596 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 5-16 ‘Ndotto The Elephant’

    Ndotto is a tiny, premature baby elephant orphaned at birth. How the staff at the elephant orphanage care for him, and give him the skills to live as an adult in the wild.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1670 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 5-17 ‘River Otter, Sea Otter’

    Otters that have taken to living in the sea must live and raise their young quite differently to their cousins living on the land.

    By Betsy Sewell – 2611 words

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  • Book 5-18 ‘Jin the Otter’

    When Jin the Otter escaped from the (Auckland) zoo, the public, the police, the army were called in to help track her down. Her ability to evade them all gripped the nation.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1576 words

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  • Book 5-21 ‘Whiskers Black’

    Who is this terrifying bearded stranger, and is he really as terrifying as he looks? Why does he choose to live like this, carrying his swag from farm to farm? What do his songs tell us about his life? A glimpse into social history through the story of one man.

    By Betsy Sewell – 2508 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 6-06 ‘Diving With Manta Ray’

    An underwater film maker befriends a huge manta ray, and follows her life.

    Many words with o_e and i_e

    By Betsy Sewell – 2337 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 6-09 ‘An Emerald Pendant’

    Jane and David become separated by war, and then spend most of a lifetime trying to find each other.

    When they finally do meet, will they recognise each other?

    And will the emerald pendant Dave gave Jane help track her down?

    silent e pattern,ee,ea,or

    By Betsy Sewell – 1847 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 6-15 ‘The Glider’

    How do you escape from a heavily guarded World War 2 prison camp? When all else fails, build a glider and fly out!

    By Betsy Sewell – 2362 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 6-16 ‘A Runaway’s Tale’

    A runaway slave makes his precarious way to freedom, not knowing who he can trust. And then he comes back to rescue his little family…

    By Betsy Sewell – 2521 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-02 ‘Adrift with a Shark’

    The relationship between a man alone on a life raft, and the shark that arrives every evening to travel with him as he paddles to land.

    By Betsy Sewell – 2939 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-03 ‘Pink Candles’

    Digging for coal in the days when dark tunnels were lit by candles attached to the miner’s helmet; and how to get the better of a mean and selfish boss.

    By Betsy Sewell – 2041 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-04 ‘My Holiday’

    Going on holiday with Dad to Mars. Mum says eat properly, sleep properly, clean your teeth and brush your hair nicely, but how actually do you do that in zero gravity?

    By Betsy Sewell – 2158 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-07 ‘The Christmas Truce’

    On Christmas Day, 1914, enemies emerged from the trenches to play soccer. How did this change attitudes to the enemy?

    By Betsy Sewell – 1582 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-09 ‘The Runner’

    When the mine collapsed trapping the miners for 69 days, Edison Pena kept his sanity by running, and became the hero of the New York marathon.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1682 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-11 ‘The First All Blacks’

    The 1905 rugby tour of Britain. How a group of unknown footballers turned into heroic rugby players, and rugby became New Zealand’s national game.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1512 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-12 ‘Turtles In Peril’

    The green sea turtle is facing multiple threats to its existence, some natural, some caused by humans.

    Vowels ai, oa, ou, ir, ur, and consonants tch and dge

    By Betsy Sewell – 1692 words 

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  • Book 7-14 ‘This Life of Mine’

    A young man living a near subsistence lifestyle on a remote Pacific atoll takes the reader through his day and his thoughts of his future.

    By Betsy Sewell – 2542 words 

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  • Book 7-15 ‘The Hunter and the Bear’

    An unarmed hunter carries his trophy back to camp, and encounters a hungry grizzly bear. The bear has not yet seen him, and all the mistakes he has made flash through his head as he formulates a plan to save his life.

    By Betsy Sewell – 2871 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 7-18 ‘Rocket Boosters and a Horse’s Backside’

    Why are rocket boosters so skinny? How this relates back to the width of roman carriages, and the horses that pulled them.Possibly a true account, possibly not. For the reader to decide.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1667 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 8-01 ‘T. Rex’

    Just a few bones and no complete skeletons remain of the mighty T. Rex, so how have scientists figured out what he looked like and how he lived?

    By Betsy Sewell – 2213 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 8-02 ‘A Voyage in Antarctica’

    The true story of Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage to Antarctica, and how the crew survived the loss of their ship.

    By Betsy Sewell – 3545 words 

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Book 8-03 ‘To Elephant Island’

    The sequel to A Voyage in Antarctica. Taking to the lifeboats in Antarctic waters, and survival on Elephant Island.

    By Betsy Sewell – 3630 words

    $11.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 8 Composite selection

    Complete set of Level 8 titles.

    Price for 1-3 sets

     

    $33.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 3 Composite selection

    Complete set of Level 3 titles, in a journal box.

    Price for 1-3 sets

    $131.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 2 Composite selection

    Complete set of Level 2 titles in a journal box

    $155.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 6 Composite selection

    Complete set of Level 6 titles, in a journal box.

    Price for 1-3 sets

     

    $160.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 1 Composite selection

    Complete set of titles , in a journal box.

    Price per set for 1-3 sets

     

    $166.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 7 Composite selection

    Complete set of Level 7 titles, in a journal box.

    Price for 1-3 sets

     

    $187.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 4 Composite selection

    Complete set of Level 4 titles, in a journal box.

    Price for 1-3 sets

     

    $203.00 + GST
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  • Books, Level 5 Composite selection

    Complete set of Level 5 titles, in a journal box.

    Price for 1-3 sets

    $204.00 + GST
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