A friend in paradise / Des Hunt.

Nā:

Hunt, Des, 1941- [author.]

Momo rauemi: Text

TextEdition: 2nd editionWhakaahuatanga: 186 pages ; 19 cmISBN:

9780994122643
0994122640

Ngā marau:

Genre/Form:

Children's stories, New Zealand.

DDC classification:

NZ823.3 23

Summary: "Set near Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty NZ. A boy grieving after the death of his father discovers a living giant gecko Hoplodactylus delcourti thought to be extinct for more than 100 years. The gecko gives birth to three babies. The family is first threatened by a 1080 drop then by a flood. Wildlife smugglers looking for kiwi find the family and steal them. GPS tracking allows the boy to follow the smugglers to White Island. While there, an earthquake triggers a lahar which traps the smugglers and allows the boy to escape. The geckos are recovered. Through his relationship with the geckos the boy comes to accept his father's death"--Publisher information.

Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.

Ngā puringa
Momo tuemi	Tauwāhi onāianei	Kohinga	Tau karanga	Tūnga	Rā oti	Waeherepae	Ngā puringa tuemi
Children's fiction	Manaia LibraryPlus Children's	Children's fiction	HUNT (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		i2176968

Ngā puringa katoa: 0

National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing in Publication (CiP) record.

Novel for children.

"Set near Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty NZ. A boy grieving after the death of his father discovers a living giant gecko Hoplodactylus delcourti thought to be extinct for more than 100 years. The gecko gives birth to three babies. The family is first threatened by a 1080 drop then by a flood. Wildlife smugglers looking for kiwi find the family and steal them. GPS tracking allows the boy to follow the smugglers to White Island. While there, an earthquake triggers a lahar which traps the smugglers and allows the boy to escape. The geckos are recovered. Through his relationship with the geckos the boy comes to accept his father's death"--Publisher information.

Intermediate, junior secondary National Library of New Zealand.

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