| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14196 | NZ1 | Discipline and Punishment in New Zealand | James & Dominique Marshall, Dunmore Press, 1997 | A monograph on discipline and punishment in education and schooling in New Zealand. | - |
| 14197 | NZ2 | Don’t Look Back – The David Bassau Story: How an Abandoned Child Became a Champion of the Poor | Philippa Tyndale, Allen & Unwin, 2004 | This rags-to-riches biography tells the story of David Bassau, once an orphan, now a millionaire businessman and founder of Opportunity International, one of the world's largest aid organisations. How an abandoned child became a champion of the poor. | Anglican Boys' Home New Zealand |
| 14198 | NZ3 | Family Matters | Bronwyn Dalley | ||
| 14199 | NZ4 | Hand Me Down: The True Story of an Illegitimate Child | Leigh Bonheur, Ure Smith, 1971 | The autobiography of an illegitimate child. | Adoption |
| 14200 | NZ5 | Let Me Tell You – Mending a Broken Childhood | Anthony McCabe, Reed Books, 1998 | A powerful story of a childhood destroyed by sexual abuse. Anthony portrays a disturbing picture of growing up in Christchurch during the 1930s. | Foster Care |
| 14201 | NZ6 | Never Let Go | Pat Rafter, A.H. & A. W. Reed Ltd, 1972 | The remarkable story of Mother Suzanne Aubert, a pioneer in Maori education and social services. The book is also an important study of New Zealand history and sociology of education. | Timaru Home of Compassion, Loreto Home Wagga Wagga Australia |
| 14202 | NZ7 | Only an Orphan | Peggy Crawford, MJC Publishing, 1995 | First-hand accounts of life in Children's Institutions in New Zealand. | St Hilda's Orphanage Otane, Anglican Boys' Home, Salvation Army Home, Masterton, Brett Home & more |
| 14203 | NZ8 | Reference Guides -Orphanages and Children’s Homes in Otago and Southland | University of Otago, Hocken Collections | General information and details of Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Homes, Government Institutions, Anglican Homes, Catholic Homes, Presbyterian Homes and Salvation Army Homes. | Otago Benevolent Institution, Bowmont Street Home, Lorne Farm, Industrial School Caversham, Dunedin Boys' Home, Elliot Street Home, Dunedin Family Home, Otekaike Rest Home, St Mary's Orphanage, Anglican Memorial Home for Boys, Children's Rest Home, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage for Girls, St Joseph's Boys' Home, Presbyterian Orphanage and Children's Home, Presbyterian Boys' Home, Glendining Home, Nisbet Home, Marama House, Victoria Memorial Home, Cameron Home, Gladstone Home, Allison Home, Inglenook Home, Sutherland Home, Tweed Street Boys' Home, Highfield Home, Girls' Home Middlemarch, Anderson's Bay Orphanage and Day school and Young Women's Industrial Home |
| 14204 | NZ9 | State Ward | Alan Duff, Random House New Zealand, 1994 | A fictional moving, powerful novel about facing your crimes, about freedom and about redemption, from the renowned author of Once Were Warriors. Charlie Wilson is sent to Riverton Boys' Home as a state ward. | Riverton Boys' Home |
| 14205 | NZ10 | The Magician’s Son – A Search for Identity | Sandy McCutcheon, Viking, 2005 | The story of a boy who was taken from his family and told they'd never existed. | Adoption |
| 14206 | NZ11 | What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? | Alan Duff, Random House Australia or Vintage, 1996 | A fiction book made into a film. It is six years since Jake's daughter Grace hanged herself. His wife left him, and his son was killed in a gangland fight. His only consolations are drink and his memories. His daughter Polly is determined to escape the violence that is destroying the Maoris. But can Jake redeem himself too? The passionate and uncompromising sequel to Once Were Warriors. | - |
| 14207 | NZ12 | Say Sorry – A Harrowing Childhood in Two Catholic Orphanages | Ann Thompson with Fiona Craig, Penguin Books, 2009 | Say Sorry documents the abuse inflicted on Ann after she was placed in a Catholic Orphanage in Christchurch at just two months old and the ongoing consequences in her life after institutionalisation. | Nazareth House |
| 14208 | NZ13 | A Family from Barra: An Adoption Story | Beryl Martin, Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, 1997 | Beryl Martin learned in her 50s that she had been adopted and set out to reclaim her history, finding family in Barra, an island in the Hebrides. | Adoption |
| 14209 | NZ14 | Stolen Lives | Netta England, Hamilton New Zealand, 2014 | A New Zealand foster child's story from the 1940s and 1950s. Based on the true accounts of Netta England's life. Stolen Lives is the record of Netta's journey from a neglected and abused state ward, to a woman who discovers her heritage and creates a positive life regardless of her upbringing. | Foster Care |
| 14210 | NZ15 | Minnie Dean – Her Life & Crimes | Lynley Hood, Penguin Books, 1994 | Minnie Dean was the New Zealand's most famous childcare worker. The book raises disturbing questions. Was Minnie Dean guilty as charged? | - |
| 14211 | NZ16 | The Story of Dingwall | Published by The Dingwall Presbyterian Orphanage Trust Board | A booklet on the background of the founder David McNair Dingwall. | Dingwall Presbyterian Orphanage |
| 14212 | NZ17 | Charitable Aid & Social Welfare Records | Archives of New Zealand, Christchurch Regional Office | Archives that document government administered charitable aid and social welfare in Canterbury and Westland areas. Includes brief histories and lists of associated records. | Armagh Street Depot, Burnham Industrial School, Canterbury Orphanage, Selwyn House, Christchurch Orphan Asylum & more |
| 14213 | NZ18 | The Road to Hell – State Violence Against Children in Postwar New Zealand | Elizabeth Stanley, Auckland University Press, 2016 | The book explores the story of 105 New Zealand children taken from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence from the 1950s to the 1980s and placed under state care in residential facilities. | Epuni, Kingslea, Kohitere & Allendale |
| 14214 | NZ19 | Social Welfare Residential Care – Volume III A selection of Boys’ and Girls’ Homes 1950-1994 | Ministry of Social Development | This Volume details the physical description of each of the Homes, resident profiles, length of stay, work and training, health, staffing, schooling, absconding, secure care, discipline, physical punishment, drugs & alcohol & smoking, contact with field social workers, visiting committee, contact with families, prep for discharge. | Owairaka Boys' Home, Wesleydale Boys' Home, Hamilton Boys' Home, Epuni Boys' Home, Christchurch Boys' Home, Dunedin Boys' Home, Allendale Girls' Home & Miramar Girls' Home |
| 14215 | NZ20 | 1900 New Zealand Stoke Industrial School, Nelson – Report of Royal Commission on, together with Correspondence, Evidence and Appendix | Commissioners appointed by the Governor, 1900 | Report on the St Mary's Industrial School for Boys at Stoke together with the evidence and appendix. | St Mary's Industrial School at Stoke |
| 14216 | NZ21 | Little Criminals – The Story of a New Zealand Boys’ Home | David Cohen, Random House New Zealand, 2011 | Cohen was one of the 100,000 children and young people who passed through the residential system before it was wound down in the 1980s. His engrossing book revisits Epuni, one of the most controversial of the homes, tracking down former residents, staff members, policy-makers and classified documents. He sets his insider account against the wider culture of the period, including the episodic moral panics that led to Epuni's establishment, the ideology that sustained it, and the racial back-story that explode in the national consciousness many years too late. | Epuni Boys' Home |