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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
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
Don’t we live in America? Rose Lovell-Smith
A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction Anna Jackson, Geoff Miles, Harry Ricketts, Tatjana Schaefer and Kathryn Walls Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736970 Chapter four of this collection of essays by five authors is called “Utopia”.…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Autumn 2012, Geoff Miles, Harry Ricketts, Issue 97, Kathryn Walls, Rose Lovell-Smith, Tatjana Schaefer, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Young adults
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Young adults
Girls under fire, Tatjana Schaefer
Copper Top Coral Atkinson Dancing Tuatara, $20.00, ISBN 9781877192388 Real Life Ella West Longacre Press, $19.99, ISBN 9781877460395 Brother Sister Soldier Cousin Phyllis Johnston Longacre Press, $17.99, ISBN 9781877460319 Three novels about teenage girls disconnected from their families and trying…
Tagged with: Coral Atkinson, Dancing Tuatara, Ella West, Issue 90, Longacre Press, Phyllis Johnston, Tatjana Schaefer, Winter 2010
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Dreaming on, Tatjana Schaefer
Dreamquake Elizabeth Knox HarperCollins, $27.99, ISBN 0732281946 “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”: L P Hartley’s famous opening to The Go-Between has become proverbial, and most media nowadays enjoy the occasional nostalgia-trip into this exotic…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, HarperCollins, Issue 80, Summer 2007, Tatjana Schaefer
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults