{"id":1172,"date":"2025-06-03T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2025-06-05T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T08:52:06","slug":"the-whale-rider-witi-ihimaera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/the-whale-rider-witi-ihimaera\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WHALE RIDER \/ Witi Ihimaera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In every generation since the legendary &#8216;whale rider&#8217;, a male descendant inherits the title of chief. But now there is no male heir-there&#8217;s only Kahu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She should be next in line for the title, but her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no use for a girl. But Kahu will not be ignored. And in her struggle, she has a unique ally: the ancient whale rider himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a fierce determination and the power of her gifts, Kahu may be able to strengthen her tribe&#8217;s ancestral connections, earn her great-grandfather&#8217;s attention-and lead her community to a bold new future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can she embrace her destiny and become the next whale rider?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ecolint.mlasolutions.com\/m5\/catalog\/?installation=CHASEC&amp;urlcommand=search&amp;query1=0000073570&amp;MARCATTRIBUTE1=001&amp;MARCATTRIBUTE2=&amp;MARCATTRIBUTE3=&amp;op1=0000000002&amp;lexile=&amp;view=shareitem&amp;viewposition=0000073570&amp;databases=0000000109\">The Whale rider<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, F IHI, 162 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every generation since the legendary &#8216;whale rider&#8217;, a male descendant inherits the title of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/the-whale-rider-witi-ihimaera\/\" class=\"more-link btn btn-link\">Read More&hellip; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue reading THE WHALE RIDER \/ Witi Ihimaera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[125,957,229,143,118,1132,1135,1133,1134],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juvenile-fiction","category-slider","tag-fiction","tag-grandfathers","tag-human-animal-communication","tag-juvenile-works","tag-magic","tag-maori-new-zealand-people","tag-new-zealand","tag-sex-role","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icebean.online\/chasec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}