Holiday Reading 2003

New Zealand Fiction for Older Readers

Batistich, Amelia A better life: the diary of Ivana Ivanovich, Dargaville, 1924-25: It is Dargaville, in the mid 1920s. Through her diary, eleven-year-old Ivana Ivanovich introduces us to her Dalmatian community. Ivana's life revolves around the local convent school, Saturday matinees, and the boarding house she calls home.
Catran, Ken Artists are crazy and other stories
Colston, Fifi Verity's truth
Cowley, Joy Froghopper and the Paua Poachers: more adventures with the fabulous Green team
Falkner, Brian Henry and the flea: Daniel wants to play for the New Zealand Warriors. The problem is he's only twelve years old. But Daniel has a secret.
Ford, Vince A handful of blue: It's summer, but an approaching cyclone isn't the only dark cloud that hangs over Makorori Beach. A drought threatens to force Jeremy's family off their farm and everything he does seems to make matters worse.
Hill, David Journey to Tangiwai: the diary of Peter Cotterill, Napier, 1953
Hill, David No safe harbour: A novel about the Wahine disaster.
Lasenby, Jack Aunt Effie's ark: Aunt Effie dressed in her green canvas invalid's pyjamas, hibernates all winter, leaving her 26 resourceful nieces and nephews to deal with snowstorm and flood, ravening monsters and a wild ark-ride over the 'Vast Untrodden Ureweras'. The second in the 'Aunt Effie' series.
Lasenby, Jack Harry Wakatipu comes the mong
Lowry, Brigid Space camp
McNabb, Linda The puppet master
30 weird and wonderful New Zealand stories: edited by Barbara Else. An anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories. This is a collection of tales about space aliens, talking animals, monsters, magical and outrageous beings and impossible events. Contributors include Margaret Mahy, Ken Catran and David Hill.