Lyla
Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones Series
Author: Fleur Beale
Author: Lyn White
Book 3 in the Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones series
Pages: 208
Published: 2018
Age: 11+
A gripping and personal story about one girl's experience of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftermath.
Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the community clean-up. But soon she discovers that it's not only familiar buildings and landscapes that have vanished - it's friends and acquaintances too. As the earth keeps shaking day after day, can Lyla find a way to cope with her new reality?
About the Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones Series
Reading age: 11+ years
A fiction series set in contemporary natural disaster zones. The inspirational stories of courage, resilience and hope give insight into the environment, culture and identity through a child's eyes.
Note: Readers who enjoy this series may also like the two companion series: Through My Eyes, and Through My Eyes: Australian Disaster Zones.