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Pete dreams of being an All Black but life isn't easy - other boys in the rugby team are bigger and stronger, the new principal is trying to take Maori culture away from school, and his annoying daughter wants to be Pete's friend. Stuff that. She's a straight up weirdo! The schoo...l bully wants to smash his face in every chance he gets, and on top of that, his best mate isn't being himself lately. What's going on with him?
A book where young characters begin to question their world in Aotearoa. Was land stolen off Maori years ago? If so, what does that mean now? Why was there a war between Maori and Europeans on the banks of the Waikato river? How different are New Zealand Maori from New Zealand Europeans today, and how different did their cultures used to be?
When it seems like everything is against Pete, he has to stand up and fight for what he believes in, and he learns that help can come from the most surprising places.
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This book delicately tackles the tough issues facing today's tweens - friendship, cyberbullying, bullying, undesirable content, internet rules, finding your place in the world, and being true to yourself and what you believe in.
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Teine Samoa means Samoan girl. It's a label that carries with it an unspoken duty to obey, serve and respect your family and Samoan culture. But who can be teine Samoa? When should you be teine Samoa? And how can you be teine Samoa outside of Samoa?
Lani is an afakasi, and is ...unsure of her Samoan heritage and what being Samoan even means. But one thing she knows for sure is that she's afraid of Vai and the 'Real Samoans'. Masina, the free-spirited daughter of a Church Minister, is bound by parental expectations and struggling to fulfill the destiny set by her parents. Teuila is the good Islander girl and proud teine Samoa who realises she doesn't want to be a 'switcher' anymore.
How will these junior high school students learn to be, understand and fulfill their obligations as Teine Samoa, living in New Zealand?
Teine Samoa is a journey of cultural identity and discovery for four junior high school students, their families, their teachers and, most importantly, anyone who has ever faced the challenges of being a teine Samoa.
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Companion volume to The Country Diary of a New Zealand Lady.
Written in a style engaging to the general reader, THE COUNTRY CAMERA focuses on definitive aspects of the birds' daily lives and expands on the subject photographically. The images are intimate, captured in a setti...ng privileged by its remoteness and explored with a fascination from which we all benefit. A wealth of knowledge is casually gleaned and artistic appreciation satisfied. On the farm and in the country garden, photographic studies are made of over forty species of bird found in New Zealand, beginning with the rare bittern and ending on the notes of a tui.
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Can the past ever be left behind? Ask a flawed detective, a former refugee and a government desperate to misuse a dead body to reshape Australia's security policy.
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A history of Paparua Prison (now Christchurch Men's Prison) covering the years 1914 through to 2018. Lots of fascinating old photographs, letters, telegrams and front page newspaper articles.
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This is a fun and relateable story about how Davey the Dog and Mavis the Mog react to the upcoming Christmas festivities with the family.
It is the third book in the series about the mischievous, loveable pair, their owner Bruce and his family.
The story is written in rhyme an...d is easy to read. Families everywhere undertake Christmas preparations and if you have pets then you will know that this can get interesting!
Christmas is coming and the Dog and the Mog cannot understand what all the fuss is about. But then......
There's a tree in the lounge that was not there before, With stuff hanging down quite close to the floor.
The Mog sneaks to the lounge and what has she found? Her people have made her a new playing ground!
Oh oh, this is going to get messy!
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Maori women are influential. Maori women are powerful. We wahine Maori, are in possession of a formidable resilience inherent in our whakapapa Maori. We are wrapped in the korowai of whakapapa, mana, aroha, bravery, wisdom, courage and strength.
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A young woman has been murdered on Ripton Beach.
DSS 'Archie' Baldrick and DC Ben Travers eventually identify the body as that of Lucy Martin, who has been renting a bach in the area. Her husband, Oliver, seems to know very little about his wife or her background.
What was ...Lucy hiding? Why has she no family or friends?
As the number of suspects mounts up, Archie begins to conclude that the real answer lies in Lucy's dark and mysterious past, and that the murderer may be just a little too close for comfort ...
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How easy is it for a man to simply disappear?
When rural banker Richard Harper is reported missing, DSS John (Archie) Baldrick and DC Ben Travers are drawn into the increasingly complex details of the man's life. Would Harper really have chosen to leave his seriously ill wife, a...nd abandon his pregnant girlfriend? Or is there a real threat behind the abusive emails he'd been receiving from disgruntled and desperate clients in the wake of the GFC?
Archie's marriage is rocky and his two teenage daughters are giving him all sorts of trouble. By contrast, the frail but beautiful Helena Harper and her magnificent house offer an oasis of calm as Archie struggles to discover who is responsible for her husband's disappearance. Has he really been abducted, tortured or killed? Or is Richard Harper himself behind everything that has happened?
Archie and Travers ultimately face a race against time as the case descends into a bewildering morass of obsession, violence and murder.
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