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My Story: A New Song in the Land - the Writings of Atapo, Paihia, C.1840 by Fleur Beale
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story S.
This powerful story, set at the time of New Zealand's founding document in 1840, traces Atapo's capture and slavery as a child through to her escape to the mission house in the Bay of Islands as a 14-year-old. There she learns the new English ways and language and is present at the signing of the Treaty ...Show more
My Story: Battle of Britain by Chris Priestley
$13.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
An account of an 18-year-old Spitfire pilot during World War II, from his early days as a flight-obsessed RAF volunteer pilot to the moment he is forced to eject from his plane at the height of the action.
My Story: London Stories by Jim Eldridge
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
This title features the story of London as seen through the eyes of the city's children. Twelve stories transport the reader from the Londinium of two millenniums past to the London of 2012, anticipating the Olympic games and a Diamond Jubilee. Along the way we escape a great fire, survive the gunp ...Show more
My Story: The Crystal Palace by Frances Mary Hendry
$13.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Lily Hicks is a housemaid in the London home of Joseph Paxton, designer of The Crystal Palace. Read her diary and find out about life above and below the stairs, and all about the Great Exhibition of 1851
My Story : Waterloo 1814 - 1817 - out of print by Bryan Perrett
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 to 10
June 1815 It was about a quarter past eleven when the great battery of guns across the valley belched smoke. A second later the sound of their discharge reached me like a roll of thunder. There was a whooshing, ripping noise as the balls came skipping over the ridge. The infantry had already been told t ...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
No Way Back: The Journey of a Convict 1789 (My True Story) by Valerie Wilding
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: My True Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 15
Join Mary Wade on a long and perilous journey that begins in the slums of eighteenth century London. Aged thirteen, Mary is imprisoned in Newgate prison awaiting sentence of death for a petty theft. When her sentence is commuted to transportation she sets sail onboard a prison ship to the other side of ...Show more
Nowhere to Run: A Second World War Refugee's Diary 1938-1943 (My Story) by Carol Drinkwater
$18.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Set in the south of France during WWII. A young girl gets involved in helping Jewish children escape to safety abroad.
Our Don Bradman: The Diary of Victor McDonald:Sydney,1932 by Peter Allen
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Diary of Victor McDonald 1932
Our Enemy, My Friend: Diary of Emma Shelldrake, 1915 (My Story) by Jenny Blackman
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 9 To 12
It's 1915 in the Adelaide Hills, and young Australian men are dying far from home. To the boys from Wirreebilla fighting in the trenches of Europe, their home village seems a haven of peace. But is it really so peaceful? Wirreebilla families are angry about the loss of their sons, and they are turning t ...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