Rebecca and the Queen of Nations: Rebecca and the Queen of Nation: Rebecca and the Queen of Nation

✍ Scribed by Deborah Burnside

• Book ID: 111704599
• Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: New Zealand Girl
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780143307716

✦ Synopsis

STORYLINES NOTABLE BOOK AWARD 2014 � 'Take me with you to New Zealand!' Ireland to New Zealand, 1874. When ten-year-old Rebecca Kelly is sent to the dreary Derry workhouse she decides that this is not the life for her, so she steals a pony to ride to Belfast. Rebecca is determined to join her brother, who is a sailor on the ship Queen of Nations bound for New Zealand, but this is difficult for a young girl without a penny to her name.� Rebecca must become a servant and earn her passage to the new colony. Join Rebecca as she experiences the excitement and fears of life as a nineteenth-century immigrant girl. What was life like so many years ago? Find out through the eyes of a girl who's just like you.