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 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 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 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 New Zealand Books in Print 2004 written by Thorpe-Bowker Staff and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directory containing updated bibliographic information on all in-print New Zealand books. 33nd edition of an annual publication. The 12,500 book entries are listed by title, and there is an index to authors. Also provided are details of 975 publishers and distributors, and local agents of overseas publishers. The book trade directory includes: contacts for trade organisations, booksellers, public libraries and specialised suppliers; NZ literary awards and past winners; and sources of financial assistance for writers and publishers.
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 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 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 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 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 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 First Map How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand written by Tessa Duder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand, lavishly produced and richly illustrated. Since it was published by the Admiralty in 1816, James Cook's chart of New Zealand has long been regarded as one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of cartography. First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand tells the human story behind the creation of Cook's famous chart, following the progress of his six-month circumnavigation of New Zealand and piecing the map together as the narrative on H.M.B. Endeavour unfolds. It is a story of courage, dogged perseverance and Cook's extraordinary skills as both cartographer and seafarer. Scenes from Tessa Duder's evocative text are beautifully recreated by award-winning illustrator David Elliot in this exquisite large format edition. Published to coincide with the Tuia -- Encounters 250 commemoration of James Cook's 1769-70 journey around New Zealand.
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 Alex written by Tessa Duder and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving and inspiring story of Alex, a champion swimmer. Alex is swimming to qualify for the Olympic Games. In the past year she has fallen in love and has known what it is to lose – in swimming and in life. Alex faces intense competition and will have to swim the race of her life to achieve her dream.
Download or read book Jellybean written by Tessa Duder and published by Harper Collins New Zealand. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the United Kingdom in 1985, Jellybean is one of Tessa Duder's best loved children's novels, and tells the beguiling story of a lonely girl, Geraldine, called Jellybean, whose unconventional single mother is uncomfortably different from all her schoolmates' mothers. Her mother is a professional musician — but not even something cool like a singer or a rock star — she plays in the orchestra and occasionally in a jazz band in clubs. Jellybean is often left to her own devices, and feels sad and neglected. When a stranger comes into their life and she finds that he is someone from her mother's past, she begins to wonder if he is her mysteriously absent father. Jellybean also learns what she really wants, and that some things are so important to who you are, you have to make some challenging choices. And the hardest lesson of all is that sometimes you might want to hide away, but what you need to do is take your courage in your hands and be prepared to stand up and be seen. Published internationally in several editions, and a finalist in both Adult and Children's premier literary awards in this country at the time of its release, Jellybean is a poignant and timeless tale that has been out of print for the last ten years, and we are delighted to be able to revisit her enchanting story.
Download or read book The Catalogue of the Universe written by Margaret Mahy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning repackage of an intense teen romance introduces confident Angela and intellectual Tycho, who seem an unlikely pair. They share a passion for deciphering the universe outside their own personal struggles. To Angela and Tycho, it seems the universe can be ordered; their own lives cannot. As their family struggles swirl around them, they are suddenly desperate to discover where they fit in.
Download or read book The Word Witch written by Margaret Mahy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know about the Word Witch? Has she cast her spell over you? This bestselling book now comes with a CD of poems performed by Margaret Mahy. She can lasso with a limerick, haunt with a haiku and wrap you tight in a rhyme, quick as lightning. Her cauldron is a dictionary, her wand a mighty pen, and she stirs her words at midnight, making tempting treats for children, to please and tease and tantalise them with imaginary treasures and delectable dreams. She weaves words into adventures, sets verses wildly dancing, makes similes sing and stamp their feet and poems purr like pussycats who've eaten all the cream. Her name is Margaret Mahy. These are her spells.
