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Bastion Point: 507 Days on Takaparawha (My New Zealand Story) by Tania Roxborogh
17.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle 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
Cup Magic: Auckland/San Diego 1995 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
17.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle 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
Dawn Raid (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Smith
20.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle 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
Fire in the Sky: The Diary of James Collier, Tarawera, 1886 (My New Zealand Story) by Shirley Corlett
18.50 NZD
Category: InBox | 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
Gumdigger: Northland, 1899-1900 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beatie
18.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Reuben Radcliffe’s father owns the store in the small township of Waipapa. When the bank forecloses on a loan, Reuben and his family are forced to leave their home and move into a tent. With no money and little food, Reuben has to leave school and find work. Heading north with his father, Reuben joins a ...Show more
Harbour Bridge: Auckland, 1958-59 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
18.50 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: My New Zealand Story
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is under construction. Simon likes watching the bridge being built, and talking to his uncle and his mates about what's happening on site. Meanwhile, Simon's best friend Marty is obsessed with the Space Race and his younger sister Jo can't stop worrying about the fate of the ...Show more
Journey to Tangiwai - Tangiwai, 1953 by David Hill
18.50 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: My New Zealand Story | Reading Level: very good
The year is 1953. Peter Cotterill starts the year writing in a journal given to him by his Great Aunt. We follow him through a year of many changes as his town of Napier struggles through hard times in the aftermath of WWII. He joins the scouts and learns to overlook the small-town class structure. The ...Show more
Kauri in My Blood: The Diary of Laura Ann Findlay, the Coromandel, 1921-24 (My New Zealand Story) by Joanna Orwin
18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Laura Anne Findlay lives among giants - the mighty kauri trees of the Coromandel forest. It is the 1920s, and the last remnants of kauri forest are being cleared for timber and farmland. When Laura's father becomes ill, the family is split up. Laura's mother takes a job as a bush cook in a kauri logging ...Show more
Lighthouse Family: Coastal NZ, 1941-42 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
17.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: My New Zealand Story
For Frances and her family, living on a lighthouse, the war is both far away and scarily close. There are rumours of submarines in the Pacific. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, taken Singapore and bombed Darwin, so what’s to stop them invading New Zealand next? But soon Frances, the only girl on ...Show more
Mission Girl: Paihia, c.1840 (My New Zealand Story) by Fleur Beale
18.00 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
"I choose to start my story at a distant time. A time before I knew it was possible to take the words from my mouth and draw them in marks on paper. My story begins on the day when my world changed forever. I was very young, but the memory of that day is as enduring as greenstone. I write it now so that ...Show more
No Survivors! The Diary of Jackie Simms, Hamilton, 1979 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
18.50 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: My New Zealand Story
Growing up in 1970s Hamilton, Jackie Simms is sustained by two great loves: the Swedish supergroup Abba, and her older brother's friend, Davey. But Jeff and Davey have a great adventure planned that doesn't include Jackie ...a scenic flight to Antarctica. Through the eyes of one who was left behind we e ...Show more
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu 1918 (My New Zealand Story) by Sally Stone
19.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, 'Closed'. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful stor ...Show more