Earthquake!: Napier, 1930-31

SKU: PR598105
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CONDITION: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781775430155
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC NEW ZEALAND LTD
Number of Pages: 167
Dimensions Width: 128mm
Height: 198mm

Napier in the 1930s was a time of going without. The story starts on the 25th of June, 1930 - a sad day in the Bourke household - the funeral of Katie's father. This Catholic family must now survive with earnings from the older siblings and the washing Katie's mother takes in. When older brother Tom returns home, after a long absence, it is a help - but with him come other troubles. Katie records the events in the old diary her father used to keep. It is her way of speaking to her dad. Then, in February 1931, disaster strikes the small town an earthquake that destroys the school and much of the town centre.

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