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2) Dawn raid
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After the police raid their house, Lenny starts talking about protests and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government, which inspires the whole family to become involved in the movement.
3) River queen
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An Irish woman is caught in the middle of the war between the British and the Maori during the colonization of New Zealand in the 1860s
4) Pet: a novel
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine's sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Justine must decide where her loyalties lie. Set in New Zealand in the 1980s...
5) New Zealand
Series
Publisher
Film Ideas, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A land of lush green pastures, active volcanoes, geysers, the world's largest kiwi plantation, and twenty breeds of sheep. Auckland is the largest city on North Island. In the Bay of Plenty on White Island, we see New Zealand's largest active volcano. Finally, we visit the Coromandel Peninsula
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"As an American graduate student in Australia, Christina Thompson traveled on holiday to New Zealand, where she met and fell in love with a Maori man." "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of Thompson's unlikely marriage, but it also encompasses the history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and Maoris in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." "In this book, Thompson explores the meaning...
8) The note through the wire: the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever....
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to the political career of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Combines a biography of Ardern with an overview of important events in New Zealand's history and an explanation of the country's political system. Includes infographics, discussion questions, and a Country Profile feature that lists statistics about New Zealand."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that...
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