Copper Top

Published by DancingTuatara
ISBN:978-1-877192-38-8
Website:
www.dancingtuatara.co.nz/coppertop/
Distributed by Greene Phoenix Marketing
PO Box 5585, Terrace End
Palmerston North 4441
paul.gpm@xtra.co.nz

RRP: NZ$20
Category : Junior Fiction
Format: B-format paperback
Extent: 152 pp
Illustrations: black & white pen and ink illustrations throughout
Extras: Glossary, teacher resource notes & worksheet

Listen to Coral Atkinson

reading an excerpt from Copper Top

'‘Come back! Nugget, come back!’ My voice seemed strange in this empty place. I thought of the bushwhackers. Evil fellows ... like highwaymen, who robbed and killed poor travellers. What if some of them were to come and find me here ... ?

Alone in a strange land, orphaned Irish Aisling Lynch, aka Copper Top, searches the goldfields for her missing brother Tim, and their friend Rory. Will Copper’s feisty self-reliance and her remarkable dog Nugget prove enough for her survival?

Best-selling novelist Coral Atkinson turns her attention to junior fiction in this compelling tale of 19th-century New Zealand. Copper Top is a lively story about an engaging and delightful girl from the past, written for the adventurous young heroines of today.