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Lighthouse Family: Coastal New Zealand 1941-42

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lighthouse Family: Coastal New Zealand 1941-42
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Philippa Werry
SeriesMy New Zealand Story
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
ISBN/Barcode 9781775431473
Audience
Children's (6-12)

Publishing Details

Publisher Scholastic New Zealand Limited
Imprint Scholastic New Zealand
Publication Date 1 November 2013
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

For Frances and her family, living on a remote lighthouse station, World War Two is both far away and scarily close. There are rumours of submarines in the Pacific. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, taken Singapore and bombed Darwin...so what's to stop them invading New Zealand next? But then trouble strikes closer to home - and Frances, the only girl on the island, has more to worry about than the threat of Japanese invasion. Suddenly, everyday life is harder than ever before. And it's up to Frances to hold the family together.

Author Biography

Philippa Werry is a librarian and children's writer whose non-fiction, poetry, stories and plays have been widely published, and also broadcast on National Radio. Werry's work has appeared in various anthologies and she has written over 100 pieces for the School Journal and other educational publishers. Enemy at the Gate, about the 1930s polio epidemic in NZ, was shortlisted for the NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2009.