Penny's home is a South Island high country farm. After winning a university scholarship she is forced to confront the realities of her isolated lifestyle and choose between everything she loves and a new life in the city.
NZ and Pacific Novels
- Author:NOONAN, DianaSummary:
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
Ish is introduced to Lutha's Headland, a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He distrusts Lutha and her beautiful, elegant friend and lieutenant Kalik. Ish wishes to escape but he cannot go alone, as this...
- Author:CHIDGEY, CatherineSummary:
Clifford Stilton taught his son Gene about fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities. After Clifford's death the family packs away his meticulous diaries but their contents still affect the lives of Gene and Gene's...
- Author:Taylor, WilliamSummary:
Maxwell, Freddo's awful brother, gets him into trouble all the time. Every one but Freddo's stepmother, thinks Maxwell is wonderful, until the day when Maxwell finally gets his comeuppance.
- Author:COWLEY, JoySummary:
In 2005 Jordan and her two younger brothers survive a plane crash but are stranded on the West coast of New Zealand. In 1805 a young Maori slave, who has the gift of sight, is hiding in the same Fiordland location. He realises he needs...
- Author:BOOCK, PaulaSummary:
This story explores the widening gap between rich and poor and two teenagers' battle to bridge it with their friendship.
- Author:FALKNER, BrianSummary:
Daniel wants to play for the New Zealand Warriors. Even though he is only twelve he gets into the team. He has a secret that allows him to compete with the adults but during his season on the team he learns a lot about being 'grown...
- Author:COWLEY, JoySummary:
Flea, Pete and Libby think they're the luckiest kids on earth when the family goes sailing around the Marlborough Sounds for a year. Will their new life at sea be full of dolphins and great fishing or will cramped spaces,...
- Author:CATRAN, KenSummary:
When the new owners of Boot Creek's French fries factory want to close it down, it is a disaster for the town. Soon gravestones start flying through the air, a long-forgotten crime is uncovered and a nuclear bomb brings new meaning...
- Author:BUNN, A. G.Summary:
Steve wants to run the Coast-to-Coast race at all costs, to push himself to the limit and beat the clock. Kel also wants to enter but is battling a life-threatening disease. Together they must use all their strength to face what the...
- Author:CATRAN, KenSummary:
One by one, people are dying as they play with virtual reality. Rhonda, a loner with a sense of curiosity, draws her friend Preben into a dangerous world of technology, intrigue and mind games in an effort to find out just what is going...
- Author:ORMSN, LorraineSummary:
In Marlborough Sounds in the 1820s sixteen-year-old Lizzie is forced to become the child bride of a notorious whaler. Her life is a living hell, until she meets a young Maori preacher. In the present day Bel, also aged sixteen, is sent...
- Author:HUNTER, EirlysSummary:
Finn's father, Bill, has vanished. When Finn sees Bill on the computer screen being hauled away by soldiers, he tries to summon his father back to the real world, but he doesn't reappear. Bill is trapped in Coralia and Finn...
- Author:HILL, DavidSummary:
Craig likes a good challenge but gets rather more than he bargained for when Fitz, the arrogant and gung ho chopper pilot paid to fly Craig and Lisabeth up into the mountains, lands them all in a situation that could well cost lives....
- Author:JONES, V. M.Summary:
Adam's much anticipated return to the Quested Court is overshadowed by the disappearance of Hannah, the young daughter of computer-games expert and creator of Karazan, Quentin Quested. Once more the five friends must face the...
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
Aunt Effie and her many nieces and nephews are off in search of treasure in the pirate-infested waters of the Hauraki Gulf and the Waikato River. Meanwhile back in Auckland, One Tree Hill has sprung a leak and Rangitoto Island is...
- Author:TAYLOR, WilliamSummary:
Annie lives in a small New Zealand town. Life's only problems are how to get rid of her kid brother, that the Jock Squad may be taken off TV and that hair dye does not have predictable results. When she discovers her best friend...
- Author:Batistich, AmeliaSummary:
A collection of stories centred on Dalmatian families in New Zealand.
- Author:Duder, TessaSummary:
Alex has won the race to qualify for the Olympic swimming team but trying to cope with the publicity and Andy's death makes it a long winter before the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
- Author:Duder, TessaSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place in the New Zealand swimming team to go to the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.