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It's the 1930s. Our storyteller is crook in bed trying to get over a long sickness and wanting to go back to school, when Uncle Trev arrives to let Mum go out and do the shopping. Uncle Trev tells one story after another about the animals out on his farm, and about his neighbour ...
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Thrown hard on the bottom boards, I stared up at distorted mouths, faces so red I could feel their heat. They stank of rage and of something else; several frothed at the mouth; their howls drowned the clatter and shriek of gulls swerving and tilting above the mast ...Banishment i ...
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In a timeless story, Ish gains wisdom and a place. He learns the profound power of knowledge, the terrifying force of superstition. But in this land of blinding light there lurks a dark, menacing presence. This is the third title in the Travellers series.
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This trilogy of New Zealand Junior Fiction follows the exploits of a gang of kids and their life in a rural township during the Depression.
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In this, the fourth and final volume in the Travellers series, Ish is introduced into Lutha's society; a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. Ish wishes to escape but realises he cannot go alone - he cannot leave behind a group of terrorised children.
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This is a mystery and thriller built on batty logic. It's a book to be read - and laughed - aloud to all children. Even those who've never had to tuck their mums and dads into bed.
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Old Drumble is no ordinary sheep dog. As his master, Andy the Drover, tells it - he's had some pretty amazing adventures. Like the time he persuaded a frightened mob of sheep to cross a flooded river... on a tightrope. Or the time he had to get Old Nosy, Andy's horse, our of a tr ...
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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.
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Comes the mong is an old deer-culling expression meaning to do the dirty on someone, preferably your mate. This is the tale about a 12 year old Urewera hunter and a sneaky greedy old packhorse called Harry Whakatipu.
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Harry Wakatipu is a lazy, bad-tempered pack-horse...he's hopeless and needy and greedy and never does his share of the work.
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