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Glory or gory? Caitlin Walker
The Bakehouse Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781776570072 Viewed from a distance of seventy-plus years, 1943 was history soup, everything mixed up, and it was difficult to separate reality from what he had read or been told. One event,…
Tagged with: Caitlin Walker, Gecko Press, Issue 115, Joy Cowley, Spring 2016
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
The challenge of being, Tatjana Schaefer
The Falconer’s Daughter N K Ashworth RSVP, $25.00 ISBN 9780987658760 Being Magdalene Fleur Beale Random House, $20.00 ISBN 9781775537670 It almost goes without saying that novels for the young adult or teen reader are about the quest for personal identity.…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, Issue 115, N K Ashworth, Random House, RSVP, Spring 2016, Tatjana Schaefer
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Bringing the front line home, Sarah Dickson
Evie’s War Anna MacKenzie Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775537656 Anna Mackenzie’s book gives the reader an insight into WWI through the perspective of Evie, an 18-year-old New Zealander living in England. Shortly after her family arrives there for their tour of…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Issue 114, Longacre, Sarah Dickson, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
What’s a New Zealand novel? Sue Esterman
Enemy Camp David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143309123 Lullaby Bernard Beckett Text, $26.00, ISBN 9781922182753 Open Your Eyes, Jackson Ryder Rudy Castaneda Lopez Escalator Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473295691 It has been interesting to read three such different but compelling books.…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Escalator Press, Issue 114, Puffin, Rudy Castaneda Lopez, Sue Esterman, Text, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
“thethrillingalchemy”, Emma Martin
From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle Kate De Goldi Longacre, $30.00, ISBN 9781775535768 Kate De Goldi’s writing for children and young adults has been acclaimed for its vibrancy and verisimilitude. De Goldi often takes the reader into psychologically complex…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Emma Martin, Issue 113, Kate De Goldi, Longacre
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Tourism and real life, Abby Loader and Abby Simpson
Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 Bugs, by Whiti Hereaka, is an honest narrative that confronts the reader with the everyday life of Bugs, “as in bunny”. Sixteen-year-old Bugs is struggling to hold onto childhood pal Jez, as he…
Tagged with: Abby Loader, Abby Simpson, Autumn 2016, Huia, Issue 113, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Distance and familiarity, Lucy Prestidge
To the Is-Land Janet Frame Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781869411305 The first volume of Janet Frame’s autobiography was initially a bit daunting to me. Not only because it’s the work of one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers, but because…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Janet Frame, Lucy Prestidge, Random House
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
At the whim of larger, terrifying forces, Angelina Sbroma
The Deadly Sky David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143308157 The Red Suitcase Jill Harris Mākaro Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780994106902 Spark Rachael Craw Walker, $22.00, ISBN 9781922179623 David Hill’s The Deadly Sky is set in 1974, when the nuclear proliferation of…
Tagged with: Angelina Sbroma, Autumn 2015, David Hill, Issue 109, Jill Harris, Mākaro Press, Puffin, Rachael Craw, Walker
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Boys’ own adventures, Tina Shaw
Singing Home the Whale Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775536574 Magic and Makutu David Hair HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509330 If these two titles are anything to go by, New Zealand young adult fiction is in good shape. These are…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, David Hair, HarperCollins, Issue 109, Mandy Hager, Random House, Tina Shaw
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Sex-free romance and YA cred, Paula Morris
Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 When We Wake Karen Healey Allen & Unwin, $22.00, ISBN 9781742378084 Awakening Natalie King Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143570790 Bugs, the eponymous protagonist of Whiti Hereaka’s first YA novel, is unimpressed with much of…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Huia, Issue 108, Karen Healey, Natalie King, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2014, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
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