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Author Smith, Pauline Vaeluaga, author.

Title Dawn raid / by Pauline Vaeluaga Smith ; illustrated by Mat Hunkin.

Publication Info. Montclair, NJ : Levine Querido, [2021]
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 GDL Central Library Children's Fiction    j SMITH,PAU    DUE 06-24-23
1 copy being processed for GDL Central Library Children's Fiction.
Description 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Note "Originally published in New Zealand by Scholastic New Zealand"--Title page verso.
"This is an Arthur A. Levine book."--Title page verso.
Summary After the police raid their house, Lenny starts talking about protests and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government, which inspires the whole family to become involved in the movement.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-213).
Subject Polynesians -- New Zealand -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction.
Polynesians -- Civil rights -- New Zealand -- Juvenile fiction.
Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
Protest movements -- Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
New Zealand -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
New Zealand -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Diary fiction.
Added Author Hunkin, Mathew Tanielu, illustrator.
Other Editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Smith, Pauline Vaeluaga. Dawn raid Auckland, New Zealand : Scholastic New Zealand, 2018 9781775434757
ISBN 9781646140411 (hardcover)
1646140419 (hardcover)

 
    
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