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Gumdigger: Northland, 1899-1900 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beatie
18.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult 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
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult 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
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult 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
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult 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
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: Young Adult 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
Land of Promise: The Diary of William Donahue, Gravesend to Wellington, 1839-40 (My New Zealand Story) by Lorraine Orman
18.50 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
"Will Donahue and his family are leaving to start a new life in the fledgling colony of New Zealand. Will dreams of adventures in a strange and exotic land far from the world he knows, that of 1830s England. However his father has other, more mundane ideas. He wants Will to join him, working behind the ...Show more
Lighthouse Family: Coastal NZ, 1941-42 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult 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
No Survivors! The Diary of Jackie Simms, Hamilton, 1979 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
18.50 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | 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: Spanish Flu, 1918 (My New Zealand Story) by Sally Stone
18.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
It is 1918, and World War I is finally drawing to an end. In the small Canterbury settlement of Southill Downs, 11-year-old Freda Rose looks forward to the return of her brother, Bobby, from the Western Front. But Freda doesn't know that something else is on its way to New Zealand from battle-scarred Eu ...Show more
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu 1918 (My New Zealand Story) by Sally Stone
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Non 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
Rainbow Warrior: Auckland, 1985 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
2.99 NZD
18.00 (83% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
In this My New Zealand Story, 13-year-old Rowan Webb gets herself a French penpal, and unwittingly becomes involved in an event that shocks not only the nation - but the whole world.