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Bastion Point: 507 Days on Takaparawha (My New Zealand Story) by Tania Roxborogh
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Canterbury Quake: Christchurch, 2010-11 (My New Zealand Story) by Desna Wallace
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-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
Chinatown Girl: The Diary of Silvey Chan, Auckland, 1942 (My New Zealand Story) by Eva Wong Ng
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ 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
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
$18.99 NZD
Category: NZ 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
$18.00 NZD
$18.50 (2% off)
Category: Children Non-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
Gold!: Otago, 1862 (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Cartwright
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Harbour Bridge: Auckland, 1958-59 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | 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
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | 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 fiction | 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
Lighthouse Family: Coastal NZ, 1941-42 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | 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