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Cry of the taniwha / Des Hunt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.Description: 207 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869507312
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Finalist.
Summary: Matt Logan isn't looking forward to spending the school holidays in Rotorua with his grandmother and her new husband. Matt has taken his metal detector along, and when he and Juzza - the boy next door - unearth a handcuffed skeleton, a dangerous chain of events begins to coil around them. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Childrens Fiction Davis (Central) Library Children's Fiction Children's Fiction HUN 2 Checked out 13/04/2024 T00485121
Childrens Fiction Davis (Central) Library Children's Fiction Children's Fiction HUN 3 Available T00485071
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sitting on the dark earth and staring up at him was a skull, the lower jaw below ground so Matt didn't have to cope with the thing grinning up at him. The empty eye sockets were scary enough . . .

Matt Logan isn't looking forward to spending the school holidays with his grandmother and her new husband. He has to fly to Rotorua, where he doesn't know anybody, and he's a bit wary of his new step-grandfather. All Matt knows is that he's Maori and a bus driver.Along with his worries, Matt packs his pride and joy - a homemade metal detector, because, you never know, he might find something interesting.What he finds is Juzza, who lives over the back fence and wants to join a local gang. When the boys unearth a handcuffed skeleton, a chain of events begins to coil around them. together they are thrown into a deadly search for treasure when the local gang boss decides to exploit their find for himself.

Novel for children.

Matt Logan isn't looking forward to spending the school holidays in Rotorua with his grandmother and her new husband. Matt has taken his metal detector along, and when he and Juzza - the boy next door - unearth a handcuffed skeleton, a dangerous chain of events begins to coil around them. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Finalist.

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