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Shirley Corlett
149 pages
illustrations
First published in 2003 as: Abandon ship!
Summary: It is 1968 when Debbie's grandmother gives her a copy of her forefather's old sea journal. She finds it fascinating and very different from her own diary of school life and troubles with friends. One day, sick in bed, she thinks her long-dead relative is trying to tell her something. And then she boards the ferry Wahine for a voyage to Wellington
My New Zealand story