The bats' nest /
Anne de Roo.
- 134 pages : map ; 22 cm
Novel for children.
British redcoats, with their cannon and rockets, march to subdue the Maori tribes in the north led by the fearless Chief Hone Heke. Fourteen year old Jacky, living with Heke and his people, becomes caught up in bewildering and violent conflict between two cultures that of his Maori mother, and that of his British father.