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008			130214s2013 nz c 000 f eng
020			_a9781775431763 (pbk.) : _c$19.50
035			_a(NLNZils)1587645
035			_a(OCoLC)847517449
035			_a(Nz)14746020
040			_aNZNB _cNZNB
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082	0	4	_aNZ823.3 _223
100			_aHunt, Des, _d1941- _920796 _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aProject Huia / _cDes Hunt.
260			_aAuckland, N.Z. : _bScholastic, _c2013.
263			_a1308
300			_a289 pages; _c19.8 cm.
500			_aNovel for children.
520			_a"Logan's grandfather grew up near Palmerston North in the 1940s. One day, he and his sister Mavis spotted a beautiful and unusual bird in the kowhai tree outside their house: it was a huia bird, which was believed to be extinct. The bird flew away, and in an attempt to photograph it they managed to track it deep into the Manawatu Gorge. It was a dangerous journey through two train tunnels, made even more so when the horrible Carson boys got wind of their mission and decided to try and find the huia first so they could shoot it and sell its highly valuable feathers. More than 60 years later, 11-year-old Logan has returned to the Manawatu with Grandpop and a scientist to try and solve the mystery of what happened to the huia that he and Mavis found all those years ago. Grandpop must remember all the details of the events of many years ago. Can the group rely on his version of the events, and find the huia's final resting place? Will the huia still be there, and will its DNA still be valuable for scientific research into NZ's native fauna? And whoever would have thought that those Carsons are still living in the area and on the loose, and still up to their nasty tricks?"--Publisher information. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
650		0	_aHuia _vJuvenile fiction. _934800
650		0	_aExtinct birds _vJuvenile fiction. _934801
650		0	_aAdventure and adventurers _vJuvenile fiction. _92040
651		0	_aManawatu Gorge (N.Z.) _vFiction. _934802
655		7	_aChildren's stories, New Zealand. _2local _5Nz _9328
655		7	_921598 _aDetective and mystery fiction.
942			_2ddc _cJFIC
999			_c29987 _d29987