** Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year 1990** A classic junior fiction favourite from multi-award winning New Zealand children's author, Joy Cowley. Shadrach is a very old circus-trained Clydesdale horse, and the favourite family pet. When Hannah discovers that Shadrach has been sold to a dog food factory, she decides to mount a heroic rescue and enlists the help of her two younger brothers. From the beginning their plans go seriously wrong. By the time they've argued with the repulsive Wuff Stuff man, hidden Shadrach in a church and a caravan, and floated him on a mussel barge they're in desperate need of rescuing themselves.

Features three novels that center around a New Zealand girl, her brothers, and an old circus-trained Clydesdale that becomes the family pet.

The Silent One is Jonasi, sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in an isolated Pacific village. Separated from the villagers by his silence and their prejudices, Jonasi finds solace in his underwater world where he develops a special relationship with a huge white turtle. However, the superstitious villagers see both Jonasi and the turtle as evil spirits. A series of natural disasters and a struggle for leadership within the village sweep Jonasi toward his strange destiny.

File note: the advent of sickness is always accompanied by the arrival of a possible cure. There will be born, of human beauty, a child without fear, known as the Bright Star... Dr Jacob Tietz People all over Claircomb are succumbing to a strange illness, thought to be a deadly new virus. But this is no virus - it is a life form so advanced that its intelligence makes a computer look like counting beads. It knows the prophecy, too, and it is hunting down the Bright Star - to destroy her forever. Can Starbright Connor, the town's tomboy and giggly dare-devil, be the chosen one who will save her beloved family? A thriller from the award-winning author of The Silent One, the Shadrach trilogy and Ticket to the Sky Dance.

A translation of the Bible, prepared specifically for children, includes special prayers and questions and answers about prayer along with section headings, definitions of key terms, and other study aids.

The sequel to Cowley's 'Bow Down Shadrach'. There are two new arrivals at the farm, Shadrach's young filly Gladly, and a boy named Eden, direct from a Social Welfare home. The family is thrown into turmoil, and Hannah's brothers Sky and Mikey form a hostile alliance against Eden. Hannah copes by inviting Eden into her imaginary world, with unforseen consequences.

Mr Brown can fix anything. But the sunflower he fixes keeps flopping. Suggested level: junior.

The Athlete’s Bible: Strong Edition features the NLT translation and includes study notes and tools provided by Fellowship of Christian Athletes to help equip, encourage, and empower athletes in any sport to study God’s Word.

Show kids how God is willing to help them get through life's difficulties.