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Aquarius, My Ohu Year: The Diary of Starshine Penney, 1975 (My New Zealand Story) by Jill Brasell
$17.00 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: My New Zealand Story
A junior fiction title in the established My Story series. In the 1970s the NZ government established a fund to allow the establishment of ohu, a commune-based farming co-operative. Starshine (previously known as Estelle) is whisked off against her wishes to live with her mother in the Aquarius ohu. Com ...Show more
Bastion Point: 507 Days on Takaparawha (My New Zealand Story) by Tania Roxborogh
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | 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
$17.00 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children | 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
Canterbury Quake: Christchurch, 2010-11 (My New Zealand Story) by Desna Wallace
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - senior | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | 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
Dawn Raid (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Smith
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | 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
Escape from Sarau: The Diary of Emilie Titter, Nelson District 1882 (My New Zealand Story) by Leone Morris
$18.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: My New Zealand Story
Young adult reading. In the 1880s German Lutheran immigrants established a settlement at Sarau, near Nelson. The area has since been renamed Upper Moutere. The author, Leone Morris, discovered diaries written by her grandfather's cousin that capture the palce and time of this story and helped her to cre ...Show more
Fire in the Sky: The Diary of James Collier, Tarawera, 1886 (My New Zealand Story) by Shirley Corlett
$17.00 NZD
$18.50 (8% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children | 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
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: Fiction - middle | 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
$17.00 NZD
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Category: New Zealand titles - children | 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
My New Zealand 123: Learn counting with art and objects from Te Papa (Board Book) by James Brown
$20.00 NZD
Category: Board Books - children | Series: My New Zealand...
Learn numbers - from one to one million! - with amazing art and objects from Te Papa, and fun rhyming text in this gorgeous board book. Collect all three in this inspiring new series - My New Zealand ABC Book, My New Zealand 123 Book and My New Zealand Colours Book - developed by Te Papa's own curators ...Show more
My New Zealand ABC: Learn the alphabet with art and objects from Te Papa (Board Book) by James Brown
$20.00 NZD
Category: Board Books - children | Series: My New Zealand...
Learn letters - from apples to zip! - with amazing art and objects from Te Papa, and fun rhyming text in this gorgeous board book. Collect all three in this inspiring new series - My New Zealand ABC Book, My New Zealand 123 Book and My New Zealand Colours Book - developed by Te Papa's own curators and e ...Show more