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An unexpected hero / L.P. Hansen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hamilton, New Zealand : CreateBooks, 2014. Description: 141 pages; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780994110275 :
  • 9780994110275
  • 0994110278
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.3 23
Summary: What could be worse, Matt Turner wonders, than having to leave your parents, friends and the buzz of big city life for a remote rural school that's so small it only has two classrooms, and two teachers who are married to each other? The twelve-year old soon finds out that worse things can happen. A school project plunges him into his worst nightmare - he has to make a speech in public. Matt decides to speak about New Zealand's First World War pacifist, Archibald Baxter. But is that a good idea in a district where almost every family has lost someone to war?
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Junior Fiction Junior Fiction Waimate Junior Fiction Children &Young Adults Section HANS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available a00688588

Novel for children.

What could be worse, Matt Turner wonders, than having to leave your parents, friends and the buzz of big city life for a remote rural school that's so small it only has two classrooms, and two teachers who are married to each other? The twelve-year old soon finds out that worse things can happen. A school project plunges him into his worst nightmare - he has to make a speech in public. Matt decides to speak about New Zealand's First World War pacifist, Archibald Baxter. But is that a good idea in a district where almost every family has lost someone to war?

Primary, intermediate.

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