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enter site Pull out your lucky red socks and relive New Zealand history in this tale set around the 1995 America’s Cup challenge. Cup Magic is told through the eyes of intermediate-age boy Mike Lucas, who has been sent to live with his grandparents while his parents are involved in secret Team New Zealand work. This well-told tale, written in diary format, brings to life the excitement and joy that New Zealanders put behind Black Magic and the America’s Cup. It provides education in this historic event and sailing terminology for older primary students and above.
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source site In Part 2, Mike goes with his parents to San Diego, California, and witnesses the intense preparations and key events in the qualifying races. He describes the yachting duels that culminate in Black Magic’s triumph, and their joyous homecoming.
Mike is an endearing and observant writer. Although his journal is probably a more heavily detailed account than a real 11-year-old would produce, it is good to remind a new generation of such crucial objects as New Zealand’s lucky red socks.
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“Cup Magic” is one of three new titles in Scholastic N.Z.’s popular “My New Zealand Story” series that uses the point of view of a young person to tell a story relating to a significant event in New Zealand history. As many will deduce from the title, Cup Magic, is a fictional recounting of events around the 1995 America’s Cup challenge when New Zealand became the second country, in the then one hundred and forty-four year history of the race, to beat the USA team and take the cup away from American shores.
Battye uses the point of view of 11 year-old Mike Lucas to tell the story of the build-up to, and race for, the cup. Mike is, at first, upset when his parents tell him that he will be living with his grandparents and changing schools so that his yachting parents are able to work on a new and secret job. However, he finds living with his grandparents has its upside when he is taught how to sail and he makes some firm friends at his new school. When he discovers that his parents are part of Team New Zealand and the challenge for the America’s Cup he finally understands all the secrecy and the many hours his parents have put in to their new job. He gets involved in some of the behind the scenes activities that occur in preparing for a major yacht race and he is very excited when he travels to San Diego with his family to witness the actual cup challenge.
The book is full of interesting details about yachting and sailing in New Zealand as well as facts about the 1995 campaign for the America’s Cup. Battye successfully uses the device of Mike being taught how to sail as a way of including the technical jargon associated with sailing in an accessible way for the reader. Having Mike as the son of parents who are involved behind the scenes of Team New Zealand (as a sail maker and boat builder) is also an effective way of being able to include a lot of information about how the campaign for the Cup went and to include insights into the main events and intrigue associated with the Cup. Through her young narrator Battye captures the excitement that the country felt in the final stages of the challenge and the adulation and euphoria with which Peter Blake, Russell Coutts and the team were greeted when they returned home to victory parades.
As with others in the series, the book is targeted at readers age 9 plus and would be an easy read for many Year 9 and 10 students. The writing is fast paced and is likely to appeal in particular to pre-teen boys and sailing enthusiasts.
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Mike Lucas wants to know why he’s being sent to live with his grandparents. There’s some big secret that no one’s telling him. At least Poppa is teaching him and his mate Hone to sail. But then Mike learns the reason for the secrecy: his parents are working with the Team New Zealand boat builders for the 1995 America’s Cup challenge. And then he finds out that the whole family is going to San Diego! Everyone is wearing their lucky red socks and excitement is feverish … can Black Magic bring home the Cup?
Mike’s fictional diary, providing background information on Team NZ’s 1995 challenge, will appeal to boys and girls as we gear up for this year’s America’s Cup regatta.
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Reviewer Bob Docherty
June 10 2013
The high standards made by this series are maintained in this insightful look at the America’s Cup at San Diego in 1995 in which the immortal words “the America’s Cup is now New Zealand’s Cup” were spoken on air by Peter Montgomery.
It wasn’t that easy though. The story of that campaign is told through the eyes of 12 year old Mike Lucas whose parents were behind the scene making the sails for NZ 32 and NZ 38.
All the skullduggery and subterfuge that have been the hallmark of the America’s Cup regatta are exposed here, particularly when a journalist after watching part of the race by Black Magic against the previous NZ contender NZ 20, called the NZ boat a dog with no chance.
All team members of this campaign are given a mention particular Christchurch woman Leslie Egnot who all but beat Dennis Connor with an all women crew.
The Red sock campaign to buy Team NZ another sail is highlighted and the fact that Sir Peter Blake was an avid Scrabble fan.
Told in diary form it covers all the races in the Louis Vuitton Cup and the 5-0 thrashing of Dennis Conner in the final.
Primary/intermediate in appeal but everybody will get something from this novel about a great chapter in NZ sporting life.
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