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Hormones and hedges David Hill
Into the River Ted Dawe Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775536048 Dappled Annie and the Tigrish Mary McCallum (Annie Hayward illus) Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781877579912 Anyone present when Into the River won the Senior Fiction and Book of the Year categories…
Tagged with: Annie Hayward, David Hill, Gecko Press, Issue 106, Longacre, Mary McCallum, Ted Dawe, Winter 2014
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
A lot to live up to, Caoilinn Hughes
When Our Jack Went to War Sandy McKay Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775533092 Brave Company David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143307570 Speed Freak Fleur Beale Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775534709 When Our Jack Went to War is “a fictional story based…
Tagged with: Caoilinn Hughes, David Hill, Fleur Beale, Issue 104, Longacre Press, Puffin, Random House, Sandy McKay, Summer 2013
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Wearing their ethics on their sleeves, Jack Ross
Mortal Fire Elizabeth Knox Gecko Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877579530 Dear Vincent Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775533276 There was a time when I used to wait eagerly for each new YA novel by Margaret Mahy. Starting with The Haunting…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Gecko Press, Issue 103, Jack Ross, Mandy Hager, Random House, Spring 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Cloaks and generic proper nouns, David Hill
A Necklace of Souls R L Stedman HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781775540069 Ghosts of Parihaka David Hair HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509233 Cattra’s Legacy Anna MacKenzie Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775533184 Phantom of Terawhiti Des Hunt HarperCollins, $20.00, ISBN 9781869509545 Whenever I’m taking…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, David Hair, David Hill, Des Hunt, HarperCollins, Issue 102, Longacre, R L Stedman, Winter 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
The hand of fear, Mandy Hager
Telling Lies Tricia Glensor HarperCollins, $20.00, ISBN 9781869509347 Earth Dragon, Fire Hare Ken Catran HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509415 There seems to have been a rash of books recently about our involvement in the two world wars, and both these YA…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 100, Ken Catran, Mandy Hager, Summer 2012, Tricia Glensor
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Superheroic coping, Tatjana Schaefer
Reach Hugh Brown HarperCollins, $23.00, ISBN 9781869509569 Broken Elizabeth Pulford Walker Books, $22.00, ISBN 9781921529887 Both Reach and Broken feature episodes of the superhero genre, and in each case this element of the story functions as an exploration into the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Pulford, HarperCollins, Hugh Brown, Issue 100, Summer 2012, Tatjana Schaefer, Walker Books
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review, Young adults
Myth making, Angelina Sbroma
The Enchanted Flute James Norcliffe Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781869799267 Heart of Danger Fleur Beale Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781869795436 In The Enchanted Flute, James Norcliffe (author of the celebrated Loblolly Boy series) makes classical myth the source and…
Tagged with: Angelina Sbroma, Fleur Beale, Issue 99, James Norcliffe, Longacre, Random House, Spring 2012
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
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