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Aug 11, 2008 · The Whale Rider. Witi Ihimaera. Baker & Taylor, CATS, Aug 11, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 152 pages. As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale ...
The Whale Rider. Witi Ihimaera. Reed, 2003 - Fiction - 154 pages. After the huge international success of the movie adaptation, there can be few New Zealanders who don't know Witi Ihimaera's novel The Whale Rider. The film taken the world by storm, so, to address an international readership, Witi rewrote parts of the work and translated the ...
Nov 27, 2008 · The Whale Rider. Kindle Edition. An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'.
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May 1, 2003 · The Whale Rider. Hardcover – May 1, 2003. Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny. Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief.
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New ...
Whale Rider. A Maori village faces a crisis when the heir to the leadership of the Ngati Konohi dies at birth and is survived only by his twin sister, Paikea (Academy Award nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes, "Star Wars: Episode III"). Though disregarded by her grandfather and shunned by the villagers, 12-year-old Paikea remains certain of her ...
The Whale Rider is definitely in my top ten list of all-time favorite books. I absolutely adore everything about it, and really do think there’s something everyone can relate to in this story. If you’ve ever felt discriminated against because of your gender, this is the book for you.
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