Holiday Reading 2003

New Zealand YOUNG ADULTS

Beckett, Bernard Home boys
Bunn, Alan Eyes in the shadows: This novel focuses on a young model who is being stalked by a stranger, and a photography student whose powerful images capture various layers of bullying at his school.
Catran, Ken Dawn hawk: When Focus's great-aunt Petronel dies, aged 86, Bryce and Focus have the beginning and the end of a poem as the only clues to a long-forgotten mystery. A title in the Crime waves series.
Catran, Ken Jacko Moran, sniper: The first of a trilogy focusing on twentieth-century wars.
Catran, Wendy Katie Raven's fire: Historical novel set in Waimate.
Dawe, Ted Thunder road: Thunder Road – the street where racers go to test their machines, and their nerve.
Duder, Tessa Tiggie Tompson's longest journey: Final in the Tiggie Tompson trilogy.
Jones, V. M. Juggling with mandarins: Younger brother Pip finds success and fulfilment on the climbing wall.
MacKenzie, Anna High tide: A tramping trip goes disastrously wrong when a teacher is swept away by the sea.
MacLean, Glynne Roivan: Book one of The A'nzarian chronicle.
Owen, Julia Beneath the surf: Yasmin's first ever real summer holiday begins badly when Dad announces he won't be coming. Nevertheless, Mum is determined to make the holiday a success. It proves to be a summer of change, of testing loyalties and coming of age. Not just for Yasmin.
Taylor, William Pebble in a pool: Popular students Paul Carter and Adrian Vanderlaar enter their senior year full of the confidence and reckless bravado of boys sure of their place in the pecking order of high school. But Adrian drinks too much one night, and in a gruesome accident he is paralyzed and his girlfriend, Lauren, is killed. The outpouring of grief in their school starkly contrasts with a decidedly more muted reaction to the gay-bashing murder of another fellow student, which the school administration uses as a cautionary lesson for the student body.
Todd, Penelope Watermark: 18-year-old city girl, Zillah, just finished school, pushes fear aside and jumps track. She abandons her safe summer holiday plans, and takes the train to the wild West Coast. Her destination: an empty shack on a dangerous tidal river.