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Kauri in My Blood: The Diary of Laura Ann Findlay, the Coromandel, 1921-24 (My New Zealand Story) by Joanna Orwin
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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
Mission Girl: Paihia, c.1840 (My New Zealand Story) by Fleur Beale
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: My New Zealand Story
"I choose to start my story at a distant time. A time before I knew it was possible to take the words from my mouth and draw them in marks on paper. My story begins on the day when my world changed forever. I was very young, but the memory of that day is as enduring as greenstone. I write it now so that ...Show more
No Survivors! The Diary of Jackie Simms, Hamilton, 1979 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
$20.00 NZD
$21.00 (4% off)
Category: Children & Young Adult | 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
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | 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.
Sabotage! The Diary of Rowan Webb, Auckland, 1985 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: My New Zealand Story
The Rainbow Warrior was the flag ship of the Greenpeace movement, when it was sunk by agents of the French Foreign Intelligence, while anchored in Auckland harbour, on the 10th of July 1985. In this story thirteen-year-old Rowan Webb gets herself a French penpal and unwittingly becomes involved in an ev ...Show more
The Wahine Disaster, Wellington,1968 (My New Zealand Story) by Shirley Corlett
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | 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