New Zealand Girl: Hene and the Burning Harbour

New Zealand Girl: Hene and the Burning Harbour
Author: Paula Morris
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1742539440

Hene is a Maori girl living in 1840s New Zealand. When her twin brother falls dangerously ill, her parents fear she will also catch the sickness, so they send her away from her home at the pa to the Paihia mission station. Life with the missionaries is difficult. Hene must wear an uncomfortable European dress and learn to sew, which she hates. Meanwhile, across the water in Russell, the world is in turmoil. Hone Heke has cut down the flagpole again and has attacked Korororeka. Hene sees smoke and fire from across the bay; the town is on fire and her best friend from the mission house, Rangi, is trapped there. Hene is the only one who can save her.

Hene and the Burning Harbour

Hene and the Burning Harbour
Author: Paula Morris
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2013
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780143307730

Book two in the New Zealand Girl series, Paula Morris's Hene and the Burning Harbour tells the story of Hene, a Maori girl living in 1840s New Zealand. For readers aged 7 - 10. Northland, 1845. When Hene's twin brother falls dangerously ill, her parents fear she will also catch the sickness, so they send her away from her home at the pa to the Paihia mission station. Life with the missionaries is difficult. Hene must wear a hot European dress and learn to sew, which she hates. Meanwhile, across the water in Russell, the world is in turmoil. Hone Heke has cut down the flagpole again and has attacked Korororeka. Hene sees smoke and fire from across the bay; the town is on fire and her best friend from the mission house, Rangi, is trapped there. Hene is the only one who can save her What was life like so many years ago? Find out through the eyes of a girl who's just like you.

Queen of Beauty

Queen of Beauty
Author: Paula Morris
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1742288332

Spanning three generations of a large Pakeha/Maori family in a narrative that skilfully handles interwoven stories and multiple voices, Queen of Beauty explores the fragility of truth, the elusiveness of the past, and the transcendent power of love. Virginia Seton lives in rainy, seedy New Orleans, working as a researcher for a historical novelist with a 'strip-mined' imagination. On a brief trip back to New Zealand for her sister's wedding, Virginia is drawn into the family secrets, lies and tensions of both the past and the present.

New Zealand Girl: Rebecca and the Queen of Nation

New Zealand Girl: Rebecca and the Queen of Nation
Author: Deborah Burnside
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1742539432

STORYLINES NOTABLE BOOK AWARD 2014 'Take me with you to New Zealand!' Ireland to New Zealand, 1874. When ten-year-old Rebecca Kelly is sent to the dreary Derry workhouse she decides that this is not the life for her, so she steals a pony to ride to Belfast. Rebecca is determined to join her brother, who is a sailor on the ship Queen of Nations bound for New Zealand, but this is difficult for a young girl without a penny to her name. Rebecca must become a servant and earn her passage to the new colony. Join Rebecca as she experiences the excitement and fears of life as a nineteenth-century immigrant girl. What was life like so many years ago? Find out through the eyes of a girl who's just like you.

New Zealand Girl: Charlotte and the Golden Promise

New Zealand Girl: Charlotte and the Golden Promise
Author: Sandy McKay
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2014-01-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1742539459

'I'm sure it'll be much more fun at the goldfields'. Dunedin, 1865 Charlotte loves to play marbles with her best friend Harry and read about adventures on the high seas. But Charlotte will have to leave school soon and help her mother with the house and the younger children. Charlotte can't imagine anything worse. When it looks like her mother is going to keep her home for good, Charlotte and her new friend Cyril board a Cobb & Co coach and head to Hogburn Gully, where the Otago gold rush is in full swing. But the mining town isn't what Charlotte imagined. Can Charlotte find a fortune in the goldfields? Or will she have to return home to a narrow life of sewing, cooking and looking after her little sisters?

Ruined: A Novel

Ruined: A Novel
Author: Paula Morris
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545231965

A gripping supernatural mystery and romance set in post-Katrina New Orleans.Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans. She's staying in a creepy house with her aunt, who reads tarot cards. And at the snooty prep school, a pack of filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey gives Rebecca the time of day, but she wonders if he's got a hidden agenda. Then one night, among the oak trees in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to show Rebecca the nooks and crannies of New Orleans. There's just one catch.Lisette is a ghost.

False River

False River
Author: Paula Morris
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0143771647

Riffing on truth, lies and secrets, this collection uses fiction to explore fact, and fact to explore fiction. Fictional characters muse upon the truth behind real people, non-fiction pieces contain short interludes of fiction, fiction is written to read like an essay, made-up elements slip into true accounts. These pieces range the world – from America, to Antwerp to Aotearoa – and talk about writers and writing, famous figures, family members, witch-burning in Denmark, cyclones and numerous pertinent and stimulating topics. All brilliantly written, each will leave you thinking and desperate to jump back in for more.

Puna Wai Korero

Puna Wai Korero
Author: Robert Sullivan
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1869408179

From revered established writers as well as exciting new voices, the poems in Puna Wai Korero offer a broad picture of Maori poetry in English. The voices are many and diverse: confident, angry, traditional, respectful, experimental, despairing and full of hope, expressing a range of poetic techniques and the full scope of what it is to be Maori. There are poems from all walks of life and modes of writing, laments for koro and hopes for mokopuna, celebrations of the land and anger at its abuse, retellings of myth and reclamations of history. Puna Wai Korero collects work from the many iwi and hapu of Aotearoa as well as Maori living in Australia and around the world, featuring the work of Hone Tuwhare, J. C. Sturm, Trixie Te Arama Menzies, Keri Hulme, Apirana Taylor, Roma Potiki, Hinemoana Baker, Tracey Tawhiao and others – as well as writers better known for forms other than poetry such as Witi Ihimaera, Paula Morris and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku.

Stories on the Four Winds

Stories on the Four Winds
Author: Patricia Grace
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1775503186

This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand’s accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.

Unbroken: A Ruined Novel

Unbroken: A Ruined Novel
Author: Paula Morris
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545509076

Welcome back to New Orleans.Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty.Where the houses breathe with ghosts. A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to this haunting city. She is looking forward to seeing Anton Grey, the boy who may or may not have her heart.But she also meets a ghost: a troubled boy who insists only she can help him. Soon Rebecca finds herself embroiled in another murder mystery from more than a century ago. But as she tries to right wrongs, she finds more questions thananswers: Is she putting her friends, and herself, in danger? Can she trust this new ghost? And has she stumbled into something much bigger and more serious than she understands?