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Juno of Taris (#1) by Fleur Beale
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Juno
'On Taris, we shave our heads. No. That's wrong. On Taris, we have our heads shaved for us.' You'd think life in a peaceful tropical island community would be idyllic. But the people of Taris follow strict rules to keep their isolated society functioning. Ages 12+. (SA: Year 6 - Year 9).
Lacey and the Drama Queens by Fleur Beale
Category: Children's Fiction
Prequel to Lucky for Some. Meet Lacey Turner again, at a younger age. Remember how Lacey had a passion for dancing in Lucky for Some? This book tells how she developed that passion. Lacey is firmly ensconced in her world. Her best friend Vanessa lives across the road and they do everything together. The ...Show more
Lucky for Some by Fleur Beale
Category: Fiction
Lacey Turner is a city girl. The idea of leaving her city life of friends, dancing lessons, school and hairdressers, to live in a ramshackle house in the country, is a nightmare. What does the country have to offer a girl like her?
Lyla (Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones) by Fleur Beale
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones
Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the comm ...Show more
Mission Girl (My New Zealand Story) by Fleur Beale
Category: Junior Fiction
When her tribe is defeated in battle, Atapo is captured and becomes a slave of her enemies. Freedom seems impossible; the penalty for runaway slaves is death. But when sickness strikes the village, Atapo is blamed - and now it is even more dangerous to stay. To save her life, she escapes to the Pakeha m ...Show more
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
Category: Middle Readers
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants! What happens when a group of school children, led by the resourceful ten-year-old Dance Violet, dare to ask those in power some hard qu ...Show more
Slide the Corner by Fleur Beale
Category: Children's
When Greg stands up to his father and achieves his dream of becoming a rally driver, he proves to his parents that he can be as successful as his more academic brother and sister. Greg is the odd one out at home-he doesn't like computers and isn't a brain like the rest of the family. He's bored at scho ...Show more
The Calling by Fleur Beale
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A novel about finding your calling, the extraordinary nun Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, and the realities of religious bigotry in late-nineteenth century New Zealand. 'Dreams were dangerous things.' It was the dream of Molly's dying mother that she would become a nun. It isn't, however, the dream of her ...Show more