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Author:Stroud, ChristinaSummary: -
Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:The Seddon Street gang are back. School is closed and Denny, Polly, Bob, Pete and Joe have been packed off to Uncle Ted's farm. There's plenty to do riding, spying and exploring. As they poke their noses where they're not...
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Author:JONES, V. M.Summary:Abandoned on the doorstep of an orphanage twelve years ago, Adam has no idea who, or where, his parents are. He has no friends, nothing he's good at, and nowhere he really belongs. Then he wins a competition for a two day workshop...
- Author:King, MichaelSummary:
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be...
- Author:Ihimaera, WitiSummary:
Sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls home, a peaceful Taranaki settlement...
- Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:
In 1941 there are rumours that the Japanese may invade New Zealand. George's mother decides to send the family to their bach on the east coast of the Coromandel. The children decide that to survive they need to fend for themselves...
- Author:Bishop, GavinSummary:
Uses the cumulative nursery rhyme, about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house, as a metaphor to illustrate the arrival and settlement of the European settlers in New Zealand during the early 19th century. Includes...
- Author:Theroux, PaulSummary:
Noted travel writer Paul Theroux explores the many and varied lands of Melanesia, Polynesia and Australasia. Paddling around in his own canoe he roams from the cold wet alpine ranges of New Zealand and the dusty Australian outback to a...
- Author:IHIMAERA, WitiSummary:
The Dream Swimmer continues the odyssey of Tama Mahana, grandson and heir to the matriarch, as he assumes the mantle of leadership and, with it, his grandmother's battles with the Pakeha. But at every step Tama is thwarted &#...
- Author:Gee, MauriceSummary:
A New Zealand story about the budding relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and a black American soldier during the summer of 1943.
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
When the gang discover that a flood has turned the creek into a lake with an island, they set about building canoes and a fort; but unknown to them, they are being watched. The third book in the Seddon Street Gang series. Suggested...
- Author:De Goldi, KateSummary:
Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a quirky family, a wonderful best friend, and a head full of worrying questions that he shares with his mother each night, but when free-spirited Sydney arrives at school with questions of her own,...
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Author:Mansfield, KatherineSummary:A collection of ten extraordinary tales about the privileged worlds the author encountered in New Zealand, England and on The Continent.
- Author:Nuttall, Kōtuku TitihuiaSummary:
Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable, an autobiographical...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:Zane Grey, known mainly for his Western fiction and for his own personal adventures exploring the rugged West, was also a prolific fisherman. He wrote many articles for international sporting magazines highlighting the uniqueness of New...
- Author:Grimshaw, CharlotteSummary:
During the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but tension is brewing...
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Author:Barwell, AnneSummary:As an agent for the Tempus Institute, Jason Adams’s task is to observe the past, not change it. But when he’s sent to 21st century Wellington, New Zealand, during the last week of aspiring songwriter Sean Henderson’s life, Jason finds...
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Author:Storey, KentonSummary:During the 1850s and 1860s, there was considerable anxiety among British settlers over the potential for Indigenous rebellion and violence. Yet, publicly admitting to this fear would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has rescued the handsome...
- Author:URIS, LeonSummary:
An Irish immigrant in New Zealand fills his son, Rory, with patriotic tales. When Rory grows up, World War I is on. He joins the New Zealand corps of the British army, survives Gallipoli, becomes an officer and is transferred to Ireland...
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