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This Māori Made Easy set of lessons accompanies the book by the same name written by Scotty Morrison.

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For more than 60 years, Gale, a Cengage Company has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights by all people, for all purposes.

That’s why Gale provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries.

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Here are a few resources specifically designed for teens.

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Our teen book group Mystery Ink get up to all sorts of fun. Here are a few activities you might like to try at home too.

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Golden Bay High Schools Wide Reading wiki.

This wiki has been set up to provide lists of resources for our students when selecting titles for their Wide Reading unit and also provide suggestions for themed reading. Just added Personal response list.

EPIC gives us access to thousands of electronic resources. Magazines, newspapers, biographies, reference works, images, ebooks, and multi-media. Resources cover all curriculum learning areas. Scroll down the page to access resources.
For use at home use Epic password : Username:gbhs
Password: 33gbhs

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