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Bastion Point: 507 Days on Takaparawha (My New Zealand Story) by Tania Roxborogh
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
Castaway: Disappointment Island, 1907 (My New Zealand Story) by Bill O'Brien
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
Cup Magic: Auckland/San Diego 1995 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | 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
$17.98 NZD
$18.99 (5% off)
Category: Children & Young Adult | 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: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
Gumdigger: Northland, 1899-1900 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beatie
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story) by Lorraine Orman
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: My New Zealand Story
In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung. Lillian needs to live in a healt ...Show more
Journey to Tangiwai - Tangiwai, 1953 by David Hill
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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