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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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 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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