| Description |
220 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
This novel is set in a small town in the King Country in the nineteen-twenties. The characters are the everyday people who make up such small communities, and include Maori and Yugoslavs. Everyone in the town has some responsibility for the unwanted child, Bethell, neglected by her father and mother, and all fail her except the humble, despised, old Maori, Georgie Wi |
| Notes |
"Story of New Zealand Country life in the nineteen-twenties"--Bagnall |
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Author born in New Zealand |
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Reprinted: 1955 |
| Audience |
children |
| Subject |
Death -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Juvenile fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
New Zealand http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021322 -- Juvenile fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
52030193 |
| ISBN |
014005314X (paperbackPenguin) |
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