A duckling brought up by a child can be very demanding. But when she becomes a mother herself, she is more demanding still. A true story, more or less.
By Betsy Sewell – 1549 words
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Who is this terrifying bearded stranger, and is he really as terrifying as he looks? Why does he choose to live like this, carrying his swag from farm to farm? What do his songs tell us about his life? A glimpse into social history through the story of one man.
By Betsy Sewell – 2508 words
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Digging for coal in the days when dark tunnels were lit by candles attached to the miner’s helmet; and how to get the better of a mean and selfish boss.
By Betsy Sewell – 2041 words
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Mum wants a new garden, and begins by taking the rubbish to the dump. But the kids have plans of their own for the garden, and find what they need at the dump.
By Betsy Sewell – 830 words
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Mum loses the jar of jam she has just bought, and it is found by one person in need of sustenance after another, until Mum finds it just where she left it, containing nothing but a fat slug with a single red foot. What does Mum think has happened?
By Betsy Sewell – 1137 words
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How does a little fox survive the winter in the Arctic, facing the challenges of hunting for food on the one hand, and avoiding capture by trappers after his pure white fur on the other? By cunning, extraordinary cunning…
By Betsy Sewell – 1351 words
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When Jin the Otter escaped from the (Auckland) zoo, the public, the police, the army were called in to help track her down. Her ability to evade them all gripped the nation.
By Betsy Sewell – 1576 words
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A giant Pacific octopus finds itself stuck in the gullet of a blue whale. He muses on the strategies he has to avoid the real enemy, the sperm whale, but none of these help with this predicament. This is a level 4 book. The words octopus and whale are not mentioned, but there are enough clues to figure it out.
By Betsy Sewell – 1816 words
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Sequel to My Days in the Skidder Gang. The logs are stacked on a frozen river, and when the ice melts, the river pigs must ride the logs down the river to prevent tangles and log jams.
By Betsy Sewell – 1645 words
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Ndotto is a tiny, premature baby elephant orphaned at birth. How the staff at the elephant orphanage care for him, and give him the skills to live as an adult in the wild.
By Betsy Sewell – 1670 words
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An unarmed hunter carries his trophy back to camp, and encounters a hungry grizzly bear. The bear has not yet seen him, and all the mistakes he has made flash through his head as he formulates a plan to save his life.
By Betsy Sewell – 2871 words
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Why are rocket boosters so skinny? How this relates back to the width of roman carriages, and the horses that pulled them.Possibly a true account, possibly not. For the reader to decide.
By Betsy Sewell – 1667 words
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The Aswan Dam has changed Egypt, but there have been some downsides. The story of the changes the dam has brought to Egypt, told from the point of view of those who live along the riverbanks.
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By Betsy Sewell – 1868 words
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Going on holiday with Dad to Mars. Mum says eat properly, sleep properly, clean your teeth and brush your hair nicely, but how actually do you do that in zero gravity?
By Betsy Sewell – 2158 words
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Libby was the first woman to win the grueling dog sled race across Alaska, and she did it by taking a risk, and putting the needs of the dogs ahead of her own.
By Betsy Sewell – 1717 words
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A seagull chick must learn to survive, to avoid becoming a snack for the cats and ferrets that roam the colony. But what do the cats and ferrets live on once the chicks learn to fly? This chick wants to find out and becomes a spy.
ck,and le,et,ly suffixes
By Betsy Sewell – 1689 words
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How is Mr. Ducket to stop the pick-pocketers on his way to the bank? He goes to the pet shop to buy a big dog, but the owner suggests a ferret in his pocket…Suitable for older children.
Many ck words. et and en suffixes.
By Betsy Sewell – 1147 words
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The story reads as if a man is making his way to the summit of a mountain, negotiating the obstacles. But by the end, the reader realises that interpretation is quite wrong.
By Betsy Sewell – 1395 words
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From the gold fields of Central Otago. Finding gold is not quite as easy as the rumours suggest, and then when you do, that is when your problems really begin.
By Betsy Sewell – 1404 words
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The farmers of Kenya had a problem with elephants raiding their gardens. They tried everything from electric fences to massive walls, but in the end it was a simple bee fence that kept the elephants well away.
By Betsy Sewell – 943 words
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Nessie the Loch Ness monster corresponds with Angus who lives by the lake. How can he possibly doubt her existence? Nessie spells her name Nessy, and calls her home a lake.
By Betsy Sewell – 1328 words
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The characters try deception to get a rugby hat for nothing, only to realise that the red hat may be free, but an embarrassment at an All Blacks game. Comprehension suitable for older children.
ck, and ay and y words.
By Betsy Sewell – 642 words
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How does a trained Search and Rescue tracker find a missing person? What signs do they see that the rest of us may miss? Told through the eyes of a tracker at work, as he reminisces about his own experience of being lost in this very forest as a seven-year-
By Betsy Sewell – 2178 words
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Cod, once hugely abundant in the North Atlantic, are now facing possible extinction. How did that happen? The story is told through several generations of one family of fishermen.
By Betsy Sewell – 1403 words
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The young people may be untidy, and noisy, but they are dedicated to hip-hop and rap. They and the old man next door have little tolerance for each other, until they find a common bond in music and dance.
By Betsy Sewell
905 words
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The villagers are struggling to survive and pay the land tax, when a ship loaded with valuable metal sinks close to the village. When the owners come to salvage the goods, no-one in the village knows where the ship lies, no-one saw a thing… Suitable for older children.
By Betsy Sewell – 1297 words
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The two pigs were the best of pals, mostly, more or less, but when one became ill the other went to extraordinary lengths to care for her pal. A true story.
By Betsy Sewell
893 words
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Three men sit in the hot sun, cutting rocks. So why does one think this is an utterly boring job, another think it is an honour to do this work, with the third thinking something else again?
By Betsy Sewell – 828 words
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The hero of this story is determined to get to work on time, but just how many different things can go wrong? Does he, in the end, get to keep his job?
By Betsy Sewell – 740 words
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Sam must wear a hat and top to go and feed the pigs, so that he does not get sunburn. But the pig’s mud looks like fun, and the piglet thinks Sam’s hat and top are so much better than mud.
By Betsy Sewell
602 words
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The story of young Nick who at 11 ran away to sea with Captain Cook, and who first sighted Young Nick’s Head on the East Coast. His duties on board, and the fear of falling off the end of a flat earth. Suitable for older children.
Many ck words, and le and en suffixes.
By Betsy Sewell – 1001 words
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Betty is struggling to teach the parrot new words and phrases, but after a bizarre interaction with the gas man, Polly suddenly has several new comments to repeat at unlikely times.
By Betsy Sewell-1019 words
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