Read the World: New Zealand

Books by authors from New Zealand or set in/about New Zealand.

Updated February 4, 2024
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Myself.
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia.
Paper Book
I passed this way
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia.
Paper Book
What the librarian did
Bliss, Karina.
Paper Book
Is Rachel Robinson the only one on campus who doesn't know who Devin Freedman is? No big deal except that the bad-boy rock star gets a kick out of Rachel's refusal to worship at his feet. And that seems to have provoked his undivided attention. Devin, the guy who gave new meaning to the phrase "sex,...
Dare truth or promise [electronic resource]
Boock, Paula.
Paper Book
When Louie and Willa first meet, they don't know their lives will soon be changed forever. Self-assured Louie is gearing up for another successful year in high school, starring in a production of Twelfth Night and running the Comedy Club. Kicked out of her last school and still stinging from a...
The whale rider
Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- author.
Paper Book
Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny. Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief. But...
The changeover a supernatural romance
Mahy, Margaret, 1936-2012
Paper Book
When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.
Memory
Mahy, Margaret, 1936-2012
Paper Book
On the fifth anniversary of his older sister's death, nineteen-year-old Jonny Dart, troubled by feelings of guilt and an imperfect memory of the event, goes in search of the only other witness to the fatal accident and, through a chance meeting with a senile old woman, finds a way to free himself of
The garden party, and other stories
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
Paper Book
This was Katherine Mansfield's last collection of short stories to be published during her lifetime. The stories vary in length, yet all are sensitive revelations of human behaviour.
Kakapo rescue saving the world's strangest parrot
Montgomery, Sy.
Paper Book
2011 Sibert Medal Winner On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds--the largest and most unusual parrots on earth--have suffered devastating population loss. ...
A force of nature the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford
Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020
Paper Book
Ernest Rutherford, who grew up in colonial New Zealand and came to Cambridge on a scholarship, made numerous revolutionary discoveries, among them the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the "half-life" of radioactive materials, which led to a massive reevaluation of the age of the...

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