The secondhand books listed in this section are collected and sold by our children.  Through their wide reading they have developed a large mental list of good books.  We also try to include titles that you could use with Drawn Into the Heart of Reading.  

Orders for these books can be included in your standard order, though will need to be invoiced and paid separately.  The same payment options are available.  Happy browsing!

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by James Aldridge
$2.00

Scotty Pirie, the thirteen-year old son of a poor farmer and Josie Eyre, the crippled daughter of the wealthiest man in a small Australian country town, both claim the same sturdy Welsh pony as their own. How their struggles for ownership divide the whole town, and how the issue is finally settles by the townspeople, make this an exciting and unusual story of life in Australia.

GC; Front cover dog eared; name in front cover.

By Brian Jacques

$2.00

It is the start of the Summer of the Late Rose. Redwall Abbey, the peaceful home of the community of mice slumbers in the warmth of a summer afternoon. The mice are busy preparing for a great Jubilee feast.
But not for long. Cluny is coming! The evil one-eyed rat warlord is advancing with his battle scarred mob. And Cluny wants Redwall…

GC; Front cover worn and dog eared.

by Norton Juster

$2.00

It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,’ Milo remarks as he walks dejectedly home from school.
But his glumness soon turns to surprise when he unwraps a mysterious parcel marked ONE GENUINE TURNPIKE TOLLBOOTH. Once through the Phantom tollbooth, Milo has no more time to be bored for before him lies the strange land of the Kingdom of Wisdom and a series of even stranger adventures.

VGC; writing and stamps in front cover.

by Lynne Reid Banks

$1.00

Life in Canada had always been sage and happy for Lesley Shelby – everyone called her the luckiest girl in town. But one day her father announced that they were going to Israel, everything changed.
This is the story of their hard new life in the Kibbutzs on the banks of the River Jordan, of the Six Day War, and the stresses and strains of her secret friendship with an Arab boy whose loyalty to his people is at war with his love for her.

FC; frot cover dog eared; name in front cover.

By Jean George

$2.00

‘I knew how to make fire . . . I also knew how to fish. To fish and make a fire. That was all I needed to know, I Thought.’
Sam Gribley had run away to the Catskill Mountains. He had left his parents, his eight brothers and sisters, and their cramped flat in New York. He has a penknife, a ball of string, and axe, and forty dollars. He is determined to survive in the wild – but would he succeed?

GC

by Karen Cushman

$1.00

Fourteenth-Century England – A lonely, cruel, and Dangerous place
‘You girl, Are you dead or Alive?’
Brat didn’t know her real name or age. She was a homeless orphan – alone in a world where everyone and everything was her enemy.
But that frosty morning Brat’s life changes for ever. For the important looking woman who stumbles upon her, starving and cold in a dung heap, is Jane the Midwife – and she needs a helper. . .

FC; Front page torn.

By Randolf Stow

$2.00

Even though Midnite was only 17, he wasn’t very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat the Siamese , suggested he became a bushranger and red Ned, his horse offered to help. But it wasn’t very easy when Trooper O’Grady kept putting him in prison. So It was just as well that in the end he found gold!

GC; Small tear at base of spine; name in front.

by Brian Jacques

$3.00

Badrang the Stoat has a dream of his own land, his own Empire… a vision of supreme power and total domination. And only one thing can stop him: a mouse called martin. A mouse who refuses to bow down to a tyrant, and who will fight for freedom – at any cost.

GC; Some stamps inside front cover. 

By R. M. Ballantyne

$4.00

Martin Rattler lives with his Aunt Dorothy Grumbit in the village of Ashford. An adventurous boy he listens to his sailor friend Barney O’Flannagans tales of the seven seas and long to be a sailor too, but this his aunt forbids. One day he goes to bid farewell to his friend Barney, a cook aboard the Firefly, bound for the South Seas. A storm blows up and Martin is swept out to sea in a rowing-boat. He is picked up by the Firefly and the captain signs him as a cabin-boy. The ship is attacked by pirates and wrecked but Martin and Barney escape capturer under cover of darkness. They awake to find themselves in the land of Brazil. In the fearsome Brazilian jungle, among the savages and wild animals, the two friends meet with many exiting and amusing adventures before they finally return to England where Aunt Dorothy is overcome with joy at seeing Martin safe and sound having given him up for lost.

VGC; Hardback, Dj has little tear on the top.