Memory
10 best books like Memory (Margaret Mahy): A Bone From a Dry Sea, Being Magdalene, To the Is-land: An Autobiography, The Cats of Seroster, Pounamu Pounamu, Cousins, Guess What?, Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga, Rocco, In Lane Three, Alex Archer
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0440219280 |
I immediately thought about this book when I started reading Sapiens, about the history of our species. It's an odd little novel that imagines our distant ancestors as sea apes. Half of the book follows Vinny, the daugher of a modern-day paleontologist (well, taphonomist) who visits the dig site that...
| Author | Fleur Beale |
| ISBN | 1775537676 |
The gripping sequel to the award-winning and bestselling YA novels I Am Not Esther and I am Rebecca.
Being Magdalene revisits the Pilgrim family and its closed religious community, The Children of the Faith.
Four years have passed since Rebecca ran away. The community simmers with...
To the Is-land: An Autobiography
| Author | Janet Frame |
| ISBN | 0807610429 |
In this first volume of her autobiography, New Zealand novelist Janet Frame tells of her childhood as the daughter of an impoverished railway worker and a mother who aspired to publish poetry.
Despite material privations and family conflicts, the world of the imagination was accorded a supreme...
| Author | Robert Westall |
| ISBN | 0330292390 |
This is one of those few childhood favourites that I don't seem to share with many people - but what's not to like about a historical fantasy with telepathic cats set in southern France?
Englishman Cam of Cambridge is on the move again after his clever thinking gets him accused of witchcraft....
| Author | Witi Ihimaera |
| ISBN | 0868636754 |
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera. First published om 1972, it was immediately endorsed by Maori and Pakeha alike for its original stories that showed how important Maori identity is for all New Zealanders. As Katherine Mansfield did in her first collection In a German Pension (1911), and Janet...
| Author | Patricia Grace |
| ISBN | 0824820746 |
Mata, Makareta, and Missy, three Maori cousins, once shared a magical childhood moment. They have since followed separate and very different paths, yet their struggles offer insightful glimpses into the lives of contemporary New Zealand women. Patricia Grace's keen eye records the psychological,...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152004521 |
This is a throwback review from back when I had my dream job:
One of my duties as a librarian is to hold up the rights of academic freedom! Book banning will not be tolerated! I have already had several run-ins with parents who object to my carefully chosen selections and I am always articulate...
| Author | Helen Cresswell |
| ISBN | 0027255506 |
Bad, mad and brilliant to know - the Bagthorpes are back! Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever since Uncle Parker won a luxury cruise, they've alll gone competition crazy. There isn't an unfilled entry form to be found and they're scrawling "winning" slogans...
| Author | Sherryl Jordan |
| ISBN | 1869435842 |
Rocco has suddenly appeared in a different time and in an unknown location - in the valley Anshur, where he's taken in by a primitive tribe, whose members live closely connected to nature. He is challenged in everything he knows and all his abilities - in everything he brings with him from his usual, modern...
| Author | Tessa Duder |
| ISBN | 0553290207 |
'I have always known that in another life I was-or will be-a dolphin. I am a pink human, caught in a net of ambition and years of hard work. In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I'll either be ecstatic or a failure.'Fifteen-year-old swimming champ...
| Author | David Hill |
| ISBN | 0140370560 |
See Ya Simon is the kind of book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime.
While reading See Ya Simon I fell in love with both Simon and Nathan, they are both really great guys and the best friends that could ever exist. All of the characters are that great.
This book is relatively...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0140314725 |
A.D. 349
Alexios Flavius Aquila is an excellent swordsman but an immature military leader. A disastrous decision nearly gets him discharged from the Roman army, but his high-ranking uncle begrudgingly pulls some strings, and well-meaning-but-inept Alexios is transferred instead.
The...
| Author | Maurice Gee |
| ISBN | 0195581121 |
A hundred turns have passed since Susan Ferris joined the Halves and ended the rule of the Halfmen of O, Otis Claw and Otis Cling. But Humankind has chosen evil a second time. O is now in the hands of the priests of Ferris who use Susan's name to terrorize the world.
A prophecy among the Stonefolk, dreams...
| Author | Joy Cowley |
| ISBN | 0723306303 |
The Silent One
Joy Cowley
This Fits into my Book written by a NewZealander Box,
I read this book because I needed a book to Put into this box, and I like turtles.
This is an unusual book about a boy named Jonasi, a gifted boy that makes a special relationship with a giant white...
| Author | Catherine Webb |
| ISBN | 1904233090 |
Deadly spells are igniting across Haven, and the Queen of Dreams is in mortal danger. The court is pointing accusing fingers at Lord Rylam. One thing is clear—Haven needs Laenan Kite. He's the most powerful magician in all of Dreams, the bane of Nightkeep, the protector of Earth's sleeping souls....
| Author | Albert Wendt |
| ISBN | 0824817966 |
Samoan-born Albert Wendt was working as a teacher in Samoa when he wrote the autobiographical Sons for the Return Home, first published in 1973. It is the story of a cross-racial romance between a Samoan student at Auckland University, the son of migrant parents, and the daughter of a wealthy palagi...
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack
| Author | Lynley Dodd |
| ISBN | 1582461473 |
Hairy Maclary "dozily dreamed as he lay on his back when pittery pattery, skittery scattery, ZIP 'Âround the corner came Zachary Quack." Little Zach presents quite a nuisance, but their friendship wins out in the end.Previously available in the U.S. only in library binding..
