Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Ancient Pacific mythology tells of Telesa. Spirit women who are guardians of earth and gifted with the elemental powers of Air, Water and Fire. Telesa are vengeful and cruel. Tales to frighten children. Or are they more than that? From Washington D.C, comes Leila, a young woman in search of family, a p ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he's hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he's ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Covenant Keeper
Ocean’s Kiss is a Telesa World novel, inspired by the warrior goddesses of Pasifika mythology. A stranger from Daniel Tahi’s past appears bringing vital secrets and memories long thought lost. Now it appears that though Pele the fire goddess may have been defeated, there are others who stil ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: Children of the Furnace
`What we won was a small battle,' says Jace flat. `They'll be coming, fore we can turn this into a war.' Wil and Leah saved Jace from the Revout's Fires - but find out now, that was just the beginning. The Revelayshun's soldiers are riding to hunt down the Midwife. Only she can lead them to Wil's siste ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Three strange men stood behind her. 'You're not alone on Teddy Carnival's Beach,' said one, not asking a question but sounding as if he were giving her a warning. The Hamiltons look forward to their annual Christmas holiday on the New Zealand coast. Jack and Naomi, their five children and their guests ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
If the government can define a 'superior' race, where does the power end? In 1928 Parliament was on the brink of enacting a eugenic sterilisation law allowing the state to decide who was fit to breed. This was despite New Zealand's reputation for being a liberal country committed to equal opportunity f ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Fox is a fringe dweller, with a T branded on his cheek that marks him a thief. He lives on his wits and moves from village to village. As the story opens he sees a commotion and finds Wynter, chained by her father, working as a water diviner. She finds water for the drought-strapped village, but ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
“Lizzie Q why so blue?” Lizzie Quinn receives an anonymous letter in the mail. Then she is attacked. She goes back to school scared of her own shadow. A teacher she trusts finds a coach for a self defence class. But the letters keep coming and she knows the threat is s ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
A stranger just put Kelsey's boyfriend in a coma. The worst part? She asked him to do it. Seventeen-year-old Kelsey is dealing with a lot - an abusive boyfriend, a gravely ill mother, an absent father, and a confusing new love interest. After her boyfriend attacks her in public, a stranger on the end o ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
"So how did it all start? What did I think of Leila when I first saw her? Did I think she was breathtakingly beautiful the first moment I laid eyes on her? No. Did I fall madly in love with her on that first day we met? No... What did I notice first then? Her anger. She reeked of it." A novella that spe ...Show more
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
The thrilling, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to The Telesa Series. Leila's selfless act at the closing of When Water Burns, unleashed the demonic fury of Pele the Fire Goddess and now Daniel must fight an epic battle to free the one he loves. Unlikely allies come to his aid as a group of troubled ...Show more
