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Bastion Point: 507 Days on Takaparawha (My New Zealand Story) by Tania Roxborogh
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Erica Tito had the perfect summer holiday planned. Then her father decided the whole family would pack up and join the protesters at Bastion Point in Auckland. No way! Instead of spending dreamy summer days training Silver, her horse, Erica and her family have to camp out in tents. At first everyone thi ...Show more
Be Counted: The Diary of Amy Phelps, Dunedin 1893 (My New Zealand Story) by Janine McVeagh
18.50 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Amy's father has fallen into the clutches of the 'demon drink' and, once a skilled jeweller, he is now an odd-job man who goes missing for days when he's 'on the booze'. The family is barely managing with mother's hard work. Aunt Delia and Uncle Joshua have offered 13-year-old Amy a chance at an educati ...Show more
Canterbury Quake: Christchurch, 2010-11 (My New Zealand Story) by Desna Wallace
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Anyone would think Maddy's world had crumbled when she didn't get a cell phone for her eleventh birthday. But Maddy soon has far more important things to worry about. In the dark of night, with a terrifying rumble and a deafening roar, the world turns upside down! Suddenly, words like 'liquefaction', 'a ...Show more
Castaway: Disappointment Island, 1907 (My New Zealand Story) by Bill O'Brien
18.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Samuel, the keeper of this diary, is 13 when he signs on as a cabin boy aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. The barque Dundonald founders and sinks off Disappointment Island (part of the Auckland Islands group) in the ocean south of New Zealand on 6 March 1907. Fifteen survivors endure a harsh winter on t ...Show more
Chinatown Girl: The Diary of Silvey Chan, Auckland, 1942 (My New Zealand Story) by Eva Wong Ng
18.50 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
A look at one of New Zealand's many cultures. In Auckland, in 1942 there was an area of the city known as Little Chinatown. Here the descendants of the Chinese miners and market gardeners gathered together to maintain their culture and provide a sense of community. New Zealand is at war when Silvey star ...Show more
Cup Magic: Auckland/San Diego 1995 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Fictionalised diary of Mike Lucas whose parents are involved in Team New Zealand’s 1995 America’s Cup challenge in San Diego, where Peter Blake’s Black Magic boat wins the cup. Mike is sent to live with his grandparents in Takapuna, where he learns to sail, and eventually he travels to San Diego to supp ...Show more
Cyclone Bola: Gisborne, 1988 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beattie
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
March 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of Cyclone Bola was one of the costliest cyclones in the history of New Zealand. When Amy’s parents decide to go and sail a yacht back to New Zealand from Vanuatu, Amy is sent to stay with her great uncle and aunt on a vineyard near Gisborne. When reports of Bola st ...Show more
Dawn Raid (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Smith
20.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Like many 13-year-old girls, Sofia’s main worries are how to get some groovy go-go boots, and how not to die of embarrassment giving a speech at school! But when her older brother starts talking about protests and overstayers, and how Pacific Islanders are being bullied by the police, a shadow is cast o ...Show more
Earthquake! Diary of Katie Bourke, Napier 1930-31 (My New Zealand Story) by Janine McVeagh
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story | Reading Level: 10+
A story of daily life in the Depression years, culminating in the Napier earthquake. Napier in the 1930s was a time of going without. The story starts on the 25th of June, 1930 – a sad day in the Bourke household – the funeral of Katie’s father. This Catholic family must now survive with earnings from t ...Show more
Escape from Sarau: The Diary of Emilie Titter, Nelson District 1882 (My New Zealand Story) by Leone Morris
16.99 NZD
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Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Young adult reading. In the 1880s German Lutheran immigrants established a settlement at Sarau, near Nelson. The area has since been renamed Upper Moutere. The author, Leone Morris, discovered diaries written by her grandfather's cousin that capture the palce and time of this story and helped her to cre ...Show more
Fire in the Sky: The Diary of James Collier, Tarawera, 1886 (My New Zealand Story) by Shirley Corlett
18.50 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
In the late nineteenth century, James Collier and his artist father travel to the famous Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand's volcanic lakes region. While his father paints, James explores the village of Te Wairoa and meets Will, a young Maori man who has returned home to attend a tangi. All is not ...Show more
Gold!: Otago, 1862 (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Cartwright
18.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Mary and her family moved to New Zealand from Australia, ahead of her father, who intended following later. But unforeseen events have kept Mr Brogan in Australia for the past seven years and Mary's mother has had to cope with raising the two children on her own. The family are now living in poverty in ...Show more