Overview
A gripping and personal story about one girl's experience of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftermath.
WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019
Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the community clean-up. But soon she discovers that it''s not only familiar buildings and landscapes that have vanished - it''s friends and acquaintances too. As the earth keeps shaking day after day, can Lyla find a way to cope with her new reality?
Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the community clean-up. But soon she discovers that it''s not only familiar buildings and landscapes that have vanished - it''s friends and acquaintances too. As the earth keeps shaking day after day, can Lyla find a way to cope with her new reality?
- | Author: Fleur Beale, Lyn White
- | Publisher: Murdoch Books
- | Publication Date: Jul 12, 2018
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781760634773
- | ISBN-10: 1760634778
