(Paperback, New edition)
By: Desna Wallace
ISBN: 9781775436324
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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An eleven year olds straight-from-the-heart account of life through the Canterbury quakes and shakes of 2010-11.
(Paperback)
By: Kath Beattie
ISBN: 9781775438403
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Pauline
ISBN: 9781775434757
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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What is an overstayer Through Sofias heartfelt diary entries, we witness the terror of being dawn-raided and gain an insight into the courageous and tireless work of the Polynesian Panthers in the 1970s as they encourage immigrant families across New Zealand to stand up for their rights.
(Paperback)
By: Janine McVeagh
ISBN: 9781775430155
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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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 the older siblings and the washing Katie's mother takes in. Then, in February 1931, disaster strikes the small town ...
(Paperback)
By: Philippa Werry
ISBN: 9781775431664
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback, Redesigned ed.)
By: Lorraine Orman
ISBN: 9781775430766
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Fleur Beale
ISBN: 9781775436188
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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When her tribe is defeated in battle, Atap is captured and becomes a slave of her enemies. Freedom seems impossible; the penalty for runaway slaves is death. But when sickness strikes the village, Atap is blamed and now it is even more dangerous to stay. To save her life, she escapes to the Pkeh mission station at Paihia.
(Paperback)
By: Eva Wong Ng
ISBN: 9781775435778
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Sally Stone
ISBN: 9781775436010
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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It is 1918, and World War I is finally drawing to an end. 11-year-old Freda Rose looks forward to the return of her brother, Bobby, from the Western Front. But Freda doesnt know that something else is on its way to NZ from battle-scarred Europe: a disease that will soon prove more devastating than any war.
(Paperback)
By: Bill Nagelkerke
ISBN: 9781775437178
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Shirley Corlett
ISBN: 9781775436379
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Philippa Werry
ISBN: 9781775437604
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Sharon Holt
ISBN: 9781775438243
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Desna Wallace
ISBN: 9781775431824
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Philippa Werry
ISBN: 9781775431473
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Tania Roxborogh
ISBN: 9781775434795
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Bill O'Brien
ISBN: 9781869439910
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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Samuel, the keeper of this diary, is 13 when he signs on as a cabin boy aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. The barque Dundonald sinks off Disappointment Island in the ocean south of New Zealand on 6 March 1907. Fifteen survivors endure a harsh winter on this remote island until their rescue in late November that year.
(Paperback)
By: Kath Beattie
ISBN: 9781775431008
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Pauline Cartwright
ISBN: 9781869439903
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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Gold has been discovered in the Otago hills and Mary is sure her father will be there. If only she can find him, she is sure their troubles will be over. My New Zealand Story is a series of vividly imagined accounts of life in the past ... making history come alive.
(Paperback)
By: Kath Beattie
ISBN: 9781775430360
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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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 gang of Dalmatian gumdiggers.
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: David Hill
ISBN: 9781775430063
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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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 Napier struggles through hard times in the aftermath of WWII. The story culminates in a train ride to Auckland on Christmas Eve. Unbeknownst to the travellers, a lahar washes away a railway bridge...
(Paperback)
By: Fleur Beale
ISBN: 9781869439897
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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Atapo begins her story that leads from her capture and slavery as a young child through to her escape to the Mission House in the Bay of Islands as a 14-year-old. Here she learns the new ways and language that means she is present at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
(Paperback)
By: Susan Battye
ISBN: 9781775430285
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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(Paperback)
By: David Hill
ISBN: 9781775436386
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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The Tangiwai disaster, on the eve of Christmas 1953, remains one of the major disasters in New Zealands history. The year is 1953. Peter Cotterill starts the year writing in a journal given to him by his great aunt. The story culminates in a train ride to Auckland, in the night, unbeknownst to the travellers, a lahar washes away a railway bridge.
