WINNER, NZ Booklovers Award for Best Junior Fiction Book 2023
Click here to read an interview with www.nzbooklovers.co.nz about her win and the book.
"Keenan has pitched this book perfectly to the intended independent reader too - it's the right length, has the right vocabulary and features concepts and content that readers are ready to tackle. It's also an action-packed book, with short snappy chapters, that will appeal to some of our more reluctant younger readers.
Amorangi and Millie's Time Trip was a delight to read, with a fun premise that younger readers will enjoy."
Click here to read Rebekah Lyell from www.nzbooklovers.co.nz full reviewreview
FINALIST, New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2022
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Amorangi and Millie lost their mum. Their only clue to her whereabouts is a carving on a tree that says I'm in the past! Rescue me!
To do this, Amorangi and Millie must travel up every branch of their family tree and collect an object from each ancestor they meet.They must then be back in the modern day before the sun sets, or they'll all be trapped forever in the past. But can they do it in time? In their travels, the children experience aspects of events in New Zealand history, such as the invasion of Parihaka, the Great Depression, World War Two, the Musket Wars and the eruption of Mount Taranaki. They also experience changes in the town and landscape, the attitudes of people and the way people live their lives.
Lauren Keenan (Te Āti Awa ki Taranaki) is a writer of creative non-fiction, novels, short stories and popular psychology. Lauren was a winner at the 2017 Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers and a finalist in the 2019 awards. She was also a participant in Te Papa Tupu mentoring programme. Her short stories have appeared in Huia Short Stories collections in 2015, 2017 and 2019. In 2020 her book The 52 Week Project: How I Fixed My Life by Trying a New Thing Every Week for a Year was published, and in 2022 her children’s novel Amorangi and Millie’s Trip Through Time was published. It was a finalist in the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and longlisted in the ARA Historical Novel Prize. It also won the 2023 Book Lovers Award. Her debut historical fiction novel The Space Between (Penguin Random House, 2024), set against the backdrop of the New Zealand Wars, is a national bestseller. Lauren has a Master of Arts in Taranaki Māori History.
Age from 7 years
Paperback / softback 260pp h210mm x w138mm