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 two very different novels, although both integrate Māori culture into the storyline, and both feature a boy as the main protagonist.