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Bastion Point: 507 Days on Takaparawha (My New Zealand Story) by Tania Roxborogh
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Cup Magic: Auckland/San Diego 1995 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Dawn Raid (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Smith
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Gumdigger: Northland, 1899-1900 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beatie
$18.50 NZD
$19.00 (2% off)
Category: Children | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Kauri in My Blood: The Diary of Laura Ann Findlay, the Coromandel, 1921-24 (My New Zealand Story) by Joanna Orwin
$16.99 NZD
$17.99 (5% off)
Category: Children | 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
Lighthouse Family: Coastal NZ, 1941-42 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | 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
The Mine's Afire! The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My New Zealand Story
This fictional diary records the tragedy, heroism and bitter aftermath of the worst industrial disaster in New Zealand's history - the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896. The son of a coalminer from Lancashire who is working in the Brunner mine, Tommy is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining communit ...Show more
The Wahine Disaster, Wellington,1968 (My New Zealand Story) by Shirley Corlett
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children | Series: My New Zealand Story
A rejacketed and retitled edition of a bestselling My Story book, formerly titled Abandon Ship! Debbie Atherton keeps a diary and writes to it as if it were a pen pal, telling of her frustrations at school, of her older cousin Val and her exciting life, and of her home life. When she gets glandular fev ...Show more
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