Download or read book The Tiggie Tompson Show written by Tessa Duder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiggie, the daughter of a high-profile television and print journalist and a top corporate accountant, believes herself talentless and too fat. She dreams of being a famous photographer - photographers make images, their own doesn't matter. When Tiggie scores the role of a lifetime, she realises that this will set her roly-poly image in concrete. Her life has suddenly become very busy and extremely complicated. The powerful and glamorous world of television, a liberal school, an ambitious school production, pre-occupied parents, unlikely friendships and personal struggles culminate in a momentous, bitter-sweet year for Tiggie.
Download or read book Tiggie Tompson All at Sea written by Tessa Duder and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of a modern day young actress and the character she is to portray in a 19th century television drama, are about to collide.
Download or read book The Sparrow written by Tessa Duder and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitematā Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is young Harry, travelling alone and determined to return to family in England. But the more immediate challenge is finding food and shelter — and hiding the truth about Harry’s real identity and what was left behind in Van Diemen’s Land.
Download or read book The Tiggie Tompson Show written by Tessa Duder and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiggie believes she is plain, talentless and fat. To make it worse her mother is a glamorous TV journalist. Despite her wish for a quiet life, Tiggie is about to be discovered.
Download or read book English in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Lane Three Alex Archer written by Tessa Duder and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1989 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Download or read book Girl 13 written by Starla Griffin and published by Hylas Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares over forty thirteen-year-old girls from all over the world.
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Night Race to Kawau written by Tessa Duder and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 40 years, this adrenaline-packed winner of the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book has been gripping Kiwi kids. ‘He’s not there, Mum. He’s fallen overboard.’ What started as an exciting challenge turns into a nightmare when a gale unexpectedly develops during the night race to Kawau Island. Sam and her mother suddenly find themselves in charge of their yacht with a dangerous task ahead of them. It is the early 1980s, and technology on the yacht is limited: they are on their own. Will Sam be able to save her family?
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morrieson s Motel written by Gordon McLauchlan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moteliers Clarry and Lucy Claridge own a twelve-unit establishment in a small town in South Taranaki. On a weekend in March 1999 Morrieson's Motel is fully booked as several events and escapades just happen to coincide. Twelve of New Zealand's leading writers of fiction have combined to write a chapter each of the story of what happened at Morrieson's Motel on this eventful weekend. The result is mayhem, mystery, sex, suicide and an entertaining collection of short fiction. Authors are: Barbara Anderson, Catherine Chidgey, Tessa Duder, Maurice Gee, Kevin Ireland, Stephanie Johnson, Graeme Lay, Sue McCauley, Owen Marshall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Sarah Quigley, and Elizabeth Smither
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Children s Literature written by Daniel Hahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books. A fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature, this volume covers every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns
Download or read book Tiggie Tompson s Longest Journey written by Tessa Duder and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiggie Tompson's Longest Journey charts two journeys in Tiggie's life: her evolution as an actor in her role as Eliza Matthews in the television drama, The Longest Journey; and her struggle into womanhood. On one level, Eliza's and Tiggie's journeys are parallel: Eliza voyages through peril to a new home; and Tiggie makes the transition through the complexities and difficulties of modern teenage life to arrive at a greater maturity. Eliza and Tiggie are both feisty characters and their similarities in personality are interwoven with the juxtapositions between the concerns of a 19th-century girl and a millennium chick . One of the main threads that runs through the story is Tiggie's portrayal of Eliza in a rape scene. Tiggie is deeply affected by it and is traumatised by the plight of Eliza. The scene is made all the more difficult by the advances of Tiggie's gorgeous boyfriend, Gareth - and the contrast between acts of love and violence are explored as Tiggie grapples with her own sexuality.
Download or read book The Journal of Commonwealth Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
Download or read book Margaret Mahy written by Tessa Duder and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's author Margaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networks, noted by political leaders in Parliament and by children in classrooms throughout the country.Margaret was one of the world's leading authors for younger readers for four decades. In her own country she was popularly known as the writer in the multicoloured wig who wrote marvellously funny picture books and enchanted generations of school children. Her story had its fairy-tale elements. In 1968, a hard-pressed solo mother of two daughters, working as a librarian by day and writing long into the night, she was 'discovered' by a leading American publisher who flew 'to the end of the earth' to offer her a multi-book publishing contract.From those first picture books, through the great novels of the 1980s and new books and awards right up to the year of her death, she came to be regarded as the third in New Zealand's literary pantheon, alongside Katherine Mansfield and Janet Frame. In 2006 her achievements were recognised by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), awarding her the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the world's 'Little Nobel', for her distinguished contribution to children's literature.
Download or read book Songs for Alex written by Tessa Duder and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multi-award-winning story that has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of readers. Life is suddenly full of exciting possibilities for Alex. More swimming? University? Scholarships in America? And through it all Alex wonders if she will ever meet the mysterious Tom again? Ah, Rome. It seems a long way away now.
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.
