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Whale Rider
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Witi Ihimaera
Though she is a girl, and young, Kahu is designated the Whale Rider in her Maori tribe. But the position also brings with it the honor of chiefdom. Kahu must prove that she is worthy. This novel by a Maori is the basis for a critically acclaimed film.
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Bone People
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Keri Hulme
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, "The Bone People" is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake ...
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Teacher
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Warner Sylvia Ashton, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Maxine Hong Kingston (Foreword by)
TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient legend-haunted tradition; how could she build them ...
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Once Were Warriors
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Alan Duff
Alan Duff's ground-breaking first novel is one of the most talked-about books ever published in New Zealand and is now the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompromising portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society. It is a raw and powerful story in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of ...
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The castaway
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Aaron Fletcher
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Potiki
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Patricia Grace
Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction AwardThis compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by ""Dollarmen"" - property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In 'Potiki', one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols ...
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Dogside Story
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Patricia Grace
This rich and dramatic novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers, presents a powerful picture of Maori in modern times.
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Teacher
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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Maui and the Sun
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Gavin Bishop (Illustrator)
Tales of Maui have been told by the Maori for thousands of years. Here, Maui and his brothers decide to catch the sun and teach it a lesson. The sun, in its haste to get back to bed, raced across the sky each day, leaving only a few hours of sunlight for fishing. Armed with ropes and his enchanted weapon, he and his brothers travel to the edge of ...
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Redemption Songs: A Life of the Nineteenth-Century Maori Leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Turuki
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Judith Binney
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Baby No-Eyes
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Patricia Grace
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love and sometimes grief. Patricia Grace's new novel merges recent headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. It is an account of the mysteries that ...
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Sleep in the Woods
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Dorothy Eden
Beautiful Briar Johnson had set her cap at g entle Peter Fanshawe, her friend Sophie"s suitor, hoping to trap him into marriage. But her plot was unexpectedly thwart ed by the most eligible bachelor in town. '
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Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies
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Witi Tame Ihimaera
On the East Coast of New Zealand two patriarchs fight to be proclaimed king. Tamihana is the leader of the great Mahana family of shearers and sportsmen. Rupeni Poata is his arch-enemy. They will fight to win the title of Bulibasha and be proclaimed the King of the Gypsies, Caught in the middle of this struggle for power is the grandson of ...
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Flight of the Albatross
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Deborah Savage
Sarah goes to New Zealand to spend the summer with her mother and becomes involved with a Maori boy and his cause.
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River Song
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Belinda Hollyer
The author of the ALA Notable Book "She's All That" returns with this novel about a young Maori girl who must summon all of her strength and spiritual power to safeguard her grandmother's land from her flighty mom, who has returned to the village with a shady new boyfriend.
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Adventure in New Zealand
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Edward Jerningham Wakefield
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Te Mana Te Kawanatanga: The Politics of Maori Self-Determination
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Mason Durie
This book concerns contemporary development in Maori as well as this nation's aspirations for greater autonomy. Mason Durie offers a detailed account of Maori's legislative efforts at self-determination by highlighting the legal battles and conflicting attitudes between Maori and the Crown. Environmental management, issues related to the retention ...
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Kimi and the Watermelon
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Miriam Smith, David Armitage (Illustrator)
This story describes Kimi, her grandmother, the awaited arrival of Uncle Tau and a beautiful watermelon that lies ripening in the garden.
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Punga the Goddess of Ugly
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Deborah Nourse Lattimore
A picture-book version of a Maori folktale. Two sisters, Maraweia and Kiri, try hard to learn the ceremonial haka dance which involves dancing backwards while stick out one's tongue. However Maraweia won't take the dance seriously and keeps making silly faces. This behavior angers Punga, the goddess of all things ugly, who turns Maraweia into a ...
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Ka whawhai tonu matou = Struggle without end
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Ranginui Walker
A revised edition of the best-selling book containing two new chapters covering the last decade and a half. 'The struggle without end continues...' This is a revised edition of Dr Ranginui Walker's best-selling history of Aotearoa, New Zealand, from a Maori perspective. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Maori have been involved in an endless ...
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Uncle's Story
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Witi Tame Ihimaera
Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret, about his uncle Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War. Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, about the secret that the Mahana family has kept hidden for over thirty years.
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Treaty of Waitangi
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Claudia Orange
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Maori and Settler. A story of the New Zealand War.
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G. A. Henty
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The Maori: Heirs of Tane
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David Lewis, Werner Forman
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Both Sides of the Moon
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Alan Duff
Jimmy understands all about belonging and not belonging. He sees himself as part of both sides of the moon. He is part of a fractured family, and it's only when he learns about his forebear that he begins to understand the darker implications of his heritage.
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