Dawn Raid
by Pauline Vaeluaga Smith and Mat Hunkin
Twelve-year-old biracial Sofia (Samoan/white) lives in New Zealand in the mid-1970s.... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Pacific Islander / Oceania
Year Published 2021
- Text Complexity
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Emigration and immigration
- Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction
- Protest movements--Fiction
- Polynesians--New Zealand--Fiction
- Families
- Protest movements
- Polynesians--Social conditions
- Nineteen seventies
- Brothers and sisters
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- Polynesians
- Polynesians--New Zealand--Social conditions--20th century--Juvenile fiction
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction
- Polynesians--Civil rights--New Zealand--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction
- Polynesians--New Zealand--Juvenile fiction
- Family life--Fiction
- Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General
- Race relations
- Protest movements--Juvenile fiction
- Protest movements--New Zealand--Juvenile fiction
- Families--Juvenile fiction
- Diary fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Australia & Oceania
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- Global Reading
- Great Middle School Reads
- Race and Racism
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ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2023
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World History & Culture Selection, 2022

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