Mophead : how your difference makes a difference / by Selina Tusitala Marsh.

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Marsh, Selina Tusitala [author,, illustrator.]

Material type: Text

9781869408985
1869408985

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DDC classification:

NZ821.3 B 23

Summary: "A moving graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand ... At school, Selina is ridiculed for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her 'mophead'. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until one day - Sam Hunt plays a role - Selina gives up the game. She decides to let her hair out, to embrace her difference, to be WILD! Selina takes us through special moments in her extraordinary life. She becomes one of the first Pasifika women to hold a PhD. She reads for the Queen of England and Samoan royalty. She meets Barack Obama. And then she is named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. She picks up her special tokotoko, and notices something. It has wild hair coming out the end. It looks like a mop. A kid on the Waiheke ferry teases her about it. So she tells him a story . . ."--Publisher information.

List(s) this item appears in: Pink Shirt Day: Books on stopping bullying and promoting inclusiveness | Hāwera Reading Vine | Hāwera Reading Vine - New Zealand Award Winners

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Junior Non Fiction	Eltham LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Non Fiction	920 PEOPLE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		I2192827
Junior Non Fiction	Hāwera LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Non Fiction	920 PEOPLE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	14/04/2023	I2199003

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"A moving graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand ... At school, Selina is ridiculed for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her 'mophead'. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until one day - Sam Hunt plays a role - Selina gives up the game. She decides to let her hair out, to embrace her difference, to be WILD! Selina takes us through special moments in her extraordinary life. She becomes one of the first Pasifika women to hold a PhD. She reads for the Queen of England and Samoan royalty. She meets Barack Obama. And then she is named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. She picks up her special tokotoko, and notices something. It has wild hair coming out the end. It looks like a mop. A kid on the Waiheke ferry teases her about it. So she tells him a story . . ."--Publisher information.

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