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The Mine's Afire! : The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896
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The Mine's Afire! : The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896 (Paperback)

By Battye, Susan; Eakin, Thelma

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Based around the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896, the biggest industrial accident in New Zealand's history. In this story, Thomas has been sent a journal from his grandmother back in England, with the request that he fill it in over the following 12 months and then send it back to ...

ISBN 9781869438876
Published 20 April 2009 by Scholastic
Interest Age 9-12 years
Series My Story
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The Haystack
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The Haystack (Paperback)

By Lasenby, Jack

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A vintage Jack Lasenby tale set in Waharoa, the same town and Depression years as the setting for Old Drumble, and featuring some of the same characters. This time the protagonist is Maggie, a young girl being raised by her widowed father, with the help of the whole village.

ISBN 9781869508524
Published 5 March 2010 by HarperCollins
Interest Age 9-12 years
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Wind Rider

Wind Rider (Paperback)

By Williams, Susan

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Fern dreams of riding on a wild horse's back, as fleet as the wind. She makes pets of small animals and watches the bison herds as they pound over the endless grasses of the steppe. Chafing at the inequality of being female, she longs for the freedom her twin brother enjoys to ru ...

ISBN 9780060872380
Published 12 December 2008 by HarperCollins
Interest Age 10-13 years
Series Laura Geringer Books (Paperback)
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The Great Death

The Great Death (Paperback)

By Smelcer, John E.

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When chicken pox kills everyone in their village at the onset of winter, Millie and Maura, alone and frightened, strike out downriver with only two sled dogs as companions, searching for a settlement they have only heard about. It was a struggle for survival. Their success is a t ...

ISBN 9781842709191
Published 8 January 2010 by Andersen Press Ltd
Interest Age 12-15 years
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Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful (Paperback, New edition)

By Morpurgo, Michael, M. B. E.

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Heroism or cowardice? A story of the World War I.

ISBN 9780007150076
Published 14 August 2007 by HarperCollins
Interest Age 9-12 years
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How the Finnegans Saved the Ship

How the Finnegans Saved the Ship (Trade Paperback/Paperback, New title)

By French, Jackie

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Set in 1913, the year after the Titanic sank, this is the story of the voyage to Australia made by the Finnegan children and their mother. This ship also hit an iceberg, although luckily it is saved.

ISBN 9780207197499
Published 23 August 2001 by HarperCollins
Interest Age 10-13 years
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The Raging Quiet

The Raging Quiet (Paperback, New edition)

By Jordan, Sherryl

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This is the story of two outsiders in medieval times. Both are set apart from their small community: Marnie because she's a newcomer, brought to the seaside village by her new husband, and Raver because he is the village lunatic.

ISBN 9780689836862
Published 4 March 2003 by Simon & Schuster
Interest Age 12-15 years
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The Fugitive from Corinth

The Fugitive from Corinth (Paperback, New edition)

By Lawrence, Caroline

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Continuation of the unique series of captivating adventure stories set in ancient Rome.

ISBN 9781842555156
Published 1 August 2006 by Orion Publishing
Interest Age 9-11 years
Series Roman Mysteries
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Lizzie, love
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Lizzie, love (Paperback, New title)

By Delamain, Brenda

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Lizzie is twelve years old: sparky, determined and recently crippled by an illness. The year is 1833 and her father, James Kemp, is a missionary to Maori at Kerikeri in the Bay ofIslands. When Lizzies baby brother dies and her mother becomes ill, nothing Lizzie does seems able to ...

ISBN 9781877361395
Published 3 March 2006 by Longacre Press
Interest Age 10-13 years
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Little Paradise
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Little Paradise (Paperback)

By Wang, Gabrielle

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This is Gabrielle's first teen novel and is written in the same powerful and poetic style of her middle reader: Ghost in my Suitcase. It is a dramatic and sweeping love story set during World War II in Melbourne and Shanghai, inspired by a true story. Ages 14+.

ISBN 9780143011477
Published 1 March 2010 by Penguin
Interest Age 13-20 years
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