Description
Grow Big by Paula Morris is a historical fiction story that imagines the life of Ngāti Wai tūpuna on the east coast of Northland in the late 1700s. The story follows a young boy named Moka who helps his whānau prepare the land for planting kūmara. Through a day of hard work and small challenges, Moka learns that strength is not just about size, but about perseverance, contribution, and working together as a community.
Thanks to The Ministry of Education for producing this text.
Keywords include: ash, community, cultivation, food gathering, hard work, humility, kūmara, marae, Māori life, perseverance, whakataukī, planting, tūpuna, whānau, working together
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