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Dead Dan's Dee ISBN: 9781877361753 Release: 06-2007 Subject: Junior Fiction Format: Paperback RRP: NZ$16.99 Download Resource Kit for teachers |
At the heart of Dead Dan's Dee lies an unimaginably sad secret and one of the more disturbing and overlooked horrors arising from the Great War. Around this Johnston has constructed a fine historical novel, one immensely evocative of time and place, from the drab soulless life in a Wellington orphanage to the physically demanding farming on the Mamaku plateau in the 1920s. While the story is often poignant, it eschews any form of sentimentality. The feisty character, Dee, impresses the reader with her optimistic determination to succeed in life and discover the truth about her father's death.
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