Dawn Raid
Smith, Pauline
creator
author.
text
Diary fiction.
Children's stories, New Zealand.
nz
2018
2018
monographic
eng
174 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Like many 13-year-old girls, Sofias main worries are how to get some groovy go-go boots, and how not to die of embarrassment giving a speech at school! But when her older brother Lenny starts talking about marches and protests and overstayers, and how Pacific Islanders are being bullied by the police for their passports and papers, a shadow is cast over Sofias sunny teenage days. Through her heartfelt diary entries, we witness the terror of being dawn-raided and gain an insight into the courageous and tireless work of the Polynesian Panthers in the 1970s as they encourage immigrant families across New Zealand to stand up for their rights.
juvenile
Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith.
Brothers and sisters
Children's fiction
Polynesians
New Zealand
Social conditions
Children's fiction
Polynesians
Civil rights
New Zealand
Children's fiction
Emigration and immigration
Children's fiction
Protest movements
Children's fiction
Nineteen seventies
Children's fiction
New Zealand
Race relations
20th century
Children's fiction
My New Zealand story
9781775434757
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NZTPP
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20220923060556.0
on1016934041
eng