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A Better Life: The Diary of Ivana Ivanovich, Dargaville, 1924-25 (My NZ Story) by Amelia Batistich
$18.00 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous | Series: My NZ Story
Reading age 10-13 years. The diary of Ivana Ivanovich. Ivana, the daughter of Dalmation immigrants, lives in a hard-working community focused on improving their lot. Just as the demands of school and home loom large there is an outbreak of polio that changes everything.
Abandon Ship! The Diary of Debbie Atherton, Wellington, 1968 (My NZ Story) by Shirley Corlett
$17.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous | Series: My NZ Story
Debbie is fascinated by the old sea journal her forefather wrote during his voyage on an emigrant sailing ship to New Zealand in 1842. At home, sick with glandular fever, Debbie feels transported back in time. Is it a feverish hallucination, or is her long-dead relative trying to tell her something? Aft ...Show more
Anastasia (My Royal Story) by Carolyn Meyer
$19.50 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: My Royal Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Experience history first-hand with My Royal Story - vividly imagined accounts of queens and princesses from the past.
Anne Boleyn and Me: A Tudor Girl's Story 1525-1536 (My Royal Story) by Alison Prince
$19.50 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: My Royal Story
When the King came riding in on his big, black horse, a murmur went up, because his tunic was stitched with the words, Declare I Dare Not. All the ladies were giggling behind their hands, and I asked Mama what it meant. Her face had turned quite pink and she said, 'Never mind', so I asked Rosanna later. ...Show more
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
Below the Mountains: The Diary of Amy McDonald, Milford Road, 1935-36 (My NZ Story) by Jean Bennett
$17.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous | Series: My Story Ser.
The diary of fourteen year-old Amy McDonald who lives in the harsh environment of the Milford Road Public Works Camp, along with her mother and seven year old brother, Bruce. Her father has been employed as workshop supervisor on the dangerous project of building the Milford Road and Homer Tunnel, cutti ...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