Mission Girl (My New Zealand Story)
Author(s): Fleur Beale
NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Adventure and Real Life Stories
When her tribe is defeated in battle, Atapo is captured and becomes a slave of her enemies. Freedom seems impossible; the penalty for runaway slaves is death. But when sickness strikes the village, Atapo is blamed - and now it is even more dangerous to stay. To save her life, she escapes to the Pakeha mission station at Paihia.
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"The author skilfully uses Atapo's story [...] to fill in many historical and domestic details of everyday life in Paihia in the months leading up to the signing of the Treaty." - Around the Bookshops; "Beale's writing is first rate and this is a novel that will help young people understand how our nation was formed." - Dominion Post; "Young readers will enjoy this journal as a vivid adventure and love story." - Magpies
General Fields
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- : Scholastic New Zealand Limited
- : Scholastic New Zealand
- : 01 January 2020
- : books
Special Fields
- : Fleur Beale
- : 208
- : 823.2
- : Paperback
