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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: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: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: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...
- 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: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...
- Author:CLARKIN, BrendanSummary:
Brett is off to school camp at last. When he hears how Pirate's Cove Camp got its name, he can't help wondering if any of the rumours are true. He and his friends start to investigate and soon become embroiled with ghosts,...
- Author:CATRAN, KenSummary:
A tale about a young Chinese girl and an Irish lad who are drawn to the Otago goldfields in the 1860s in the hope of striking it rich.
- Author:NOONAN, DianaSummary:
Penny's home is a South Island high country farm. After winning a university scholarship she is forced to confront the realities of her isolated lifestyle and choose between everything she loves and a new life in the city.
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
Ish is introduced to Lutha's Headland, a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He distrusts Lutha and her beautiful, elegant friend and lieutenant Kalik. Ish wishes to escape but he cannot go alone, as this...
- Author:BENNETT, JoeSummary:
Short articles and observations from Bennett's newspaper columns. He turns his wit on a range of subjects from house-hunting to body-piercing
- Author:Peters, Evelyn J., Christensen, Julia, Andrew, Paul, Aubry, Tim, Belanger, Yale, Bird, Cynthia, Birdsall-Jones, Christina, Bonnycastle, Marleny M., Brown, Deidre, Cherner, Rebecca, Christensen, Julia, Franks, Patricia, Farrell, Susan, Freistadt, Joshua, Green, Charmaine, Greenop, Kelly, Groot, Shiloh, Hodgetts, Darrin, Kern, Selena, Wiremu King, Pita Richard, Klodawsky, Fran, Lindstrom, Gabrielle, Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Parrel, Julia, Peters, Evelyn J., Prout, Sarah, Rua, Mohi, Schiff, Rebecca, Schiff, Rebecca, Siddle, Annette, Simpkins, Maureen, Smith, Barbara A., Thurston, Wilfreda E., Turner, Alina, Turner, David, Waegemakers Schiff, Jeanette, Te Whetu, Tiniwai Chas, Willetts, RobSummary:
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples...
- Author:HOLLOWAY, JudithSummary:
Ruby loves her half-sister, Hine, and treasures all the fun times they share together. Hine has suffered from a serious illness since her birth, and she dies a few months before her tenth birthday. Ruby attends Hine's tangi and...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she's foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles...
- Author:Marsh, NgaioSummary:
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