Rimu: The Tree of Time

Book Author Lauren Keenan
Rights Available World excl. NZ

On the way to school, Amorangi realises he forgot to bring an old object to school to talk about. Quickly, he and his sister, Millie, decide to travel back in time and find something. They’ve travelled back before, after all. He pulls a piece of bark from a nearby rimu and pockets it to ensure they return then they jump back in time. Then begins an adventure that they nearly don’t make it back from as one of their ancestors dies, and Amorangi and Millie find themselves fading away. In their travels, the children experience aspects of events in New Zealand history, such as the Taranaki wars, the Tarawera eruption, the Wahine disaster and quarantine on Matiu/Somes Island, and the attitudes of people and the way people lived.

About the Author
Lauren Keenan (Te Ātiawa ki Taranaki) is a writer of junior novels, short stories and popular psychology with a Master of Arts in New Zealand history. Lauren was a winner at the 2017 Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers and a finalist in the 2019 awards. She was also a participant in Te Papa Tupu mentoring programme. Her short stories have appeared in Huia Short Stories collections in 2015, 2017 and 2019, and in 2020, her book The 52 Week Project (Allen and Unwin) was published. In 2023, Lauren’s breakout junior fiction novel, Amorangi and Millie’s Trip Through Time, was published by Huia Publishers and became an immediate success as a core text for the Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum. In 2024, her book The Space Between (Penguin Random House) came out for young adults. Rimu: Tree of Time is the second novel in Lauren’s Amorangi and Millie adventure series.

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Description

Publisher
Huia Publishers

Extent
248pp

Format
210  x 138mm

Binding
Paperback

Category
Children’s

Genre
Junior Fiction

Age range
10-13 years

Publication Date
July 2024

Rights Available:
World excl. NZ

Rights Agents:

World
Eboni Waitere
rights@huia.co.nz

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