New Zealand Girl: Rebecca and the Queen of Nation

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'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.

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