My New Zealand Story: Journey to Tangiwai

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Author: Hill,David

Item Code: 100088968

Product Type: Book

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781775436386

Series: MY NEW ZEALAND STORY

Publisher: SCHOLASTIC NEW ZEALAND LTD

Lexile Level: 660L

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The Tangiwai disaster, on the eve of Christmas 1953, remains one of the major disasters in New Zealand’s history.

Peter Cotterill, age 13, starts the year writing in a journal given to him by his great aunt. We follow him through a year of many changes as his town of Napier struggles through hard times in the aftermath of World War 2.He joins the scouts and learns to overlook the small-town class structure. The story climaxes in a train ride to Auckland with his fellow scouts on the eve of Christmas. In the night, unbeknown to the travellers, a lahar has washed away a railway bridge... culminating in an event so tragic that it shocked the nation.

Genre: General Fiction, Historical Fiction Subject: History, People & Places Reading Level: Upper Primary, Lower Secondary, Middle Secondary, Upper Secondary School Year: Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 Ages: 10+ Page Count: 192