Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019

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?