What has Mrs Kewish been reading lately

 



WINNER OF A STORYLINES NOTABLE BOOK AWARD!

It’s 1861, and gold fever is sweeping New Zealand. Otherwise sensible adults have gone mad and will do anything to get their hands on the precious metal.

But two children have been caught up in the rush.

Michael and Atarangi couldn’t be more different, but they share one thing: each has a remarkable and magical talent.

Circumstances conspire to bring the children together in the remote and inhospitable goldfields, and they’re thrust into a world where lawlessness, greed, and cruelty reign.

When the children find out that a cut-throat gang stalks the goldfields, preying upon the innocent, they have a choice to make: turn a blind eye, or fight back?

 

"Gritty, thrilling, and yet beautiful. I loved this, and you will too!"

Weng Wai Chan, author of Lizard’s Tale, winner of the NZ Junior Fiction Award

Rich characters and nail-biting action, with a sprinkling of fantasy. There's gold in this here book!

Tom E. Moffatt, award-winning author of books and jokes for kids

"Terrific!"

Joan Mackenzie, head book buyer, Whitcoulls

from....https://dragonbrothersbooks.com/products/children-of-the-rush






A lovely book to read if your best friend moves away or something sad happens to you. It shows  great ways to be resilient and how to be happy.
A very short book



Book 1-4

Book 1

The story is set in the fictional archipelago of Earthsea and centers on a young mage named Ged, born in a village on the island of Gont. He displays great power while still a boy and joins a school of wizardry, where his prickly nature drives him into conflict with a fellow student. 
For ages 9 and older
























A great dystopian fiction novel. The winner of the Newbery Medal 2022 from Mrs Kewish

There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.

But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race.

Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet – and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard – or purged them altogether.

Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again? from Goodreads.com



Winner of the prestigious Swedish August Prize 2020.

A bright, contemporary and fearless novel about an ordinary extraordinary eleven-year-old trying to win back her best friend and get her mother to stop sighing.

Cricket Karlsson is going to become an artist just like her aunt, who loves cheese and art and always speaks her mind. Not like Cricket’s mother, who is dieting and sighs at everything. But now Aunt Frannie has lost her joy and Cricket’s best friend has dumped her for the horse girls.

Eleven-year-old Cricket Karlsson is a warm and complex character with an artistic soul. Written as a diary, tween readers will fall in love with Cricket’s tough yet charming voice as she shares her secret thoughts about her best friend break-up, her Aunt’s breakdown and experimental chewing gum sculptures. Punkish and surprising comic-style illustrations perfectly compliment this coming of age story.

This is a liberating and unexpected story about growing up, fitting in, and sorting out the adults in our lives that will reach the hearts of young readers (and older ones).

Kristina Sigunsdotter is a Swedish writer, artist and playwright. She is also the founder of The Poetry Factory, a poetry workshop for children.

Ester Eriksson is an artist and cartoonist from the Netherlands.

Activity sheet | Q&A with the author

Translated by Julia Marshall.

Information from Geckopress.com



 Amorangi and Millie lost their mum. Their only clue to her whereabouts is a carving on a

tree that says I’m in the past! Rescue me! To do this, Amorangi and Millie must travel up
every branch of their family tree and collect an object from each ancestor they meet.
They must then be back in the modern day before the sun sets, or they’ll all be trapped
forever in the past. But can they do it in time?

In their travels, the children experience aspects of events in New Zealand history, such as
the invasion of Parihaka, the Great Depression, World War Two, the Musket Wars and the
eruption of Mount Taranaki. They also experience changes in the town and landscape, the
attitudes of people and the way people live their lives. .........from Huia.co.nz