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paradox ([personal profile] paradox) wrote2009-09-22 11:55 am
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NZ YA fiction that I love(d)

Young Adult fiction set in New Zealand or written by New Zealanders

I've read and enjoyed (and recommend!) the following:

Paula Boock
  • Dare Truth or Promise
Ken Catran
  • Deepwater Black
Kate De Goldi
  • Sanctuary
Tessa Duder
  • Alex
  • Alex in Winter
  • Alessandra: Alex in Rome
  • Songs for Alex
Maurice Gee:
  • Under the Mountain *
  • The Half Men of O
  • The Priests of Ferris
  • Motherstone
Gaelyn Gordon
  • Stonelight
  • Mindfire
  • Tripswitch *
  • Prudence M Muggeridge, Damp Rat
  • Take Me To Your Leaders
Patricia Grace
  • Potiki *
Sherryl Jordan
  • The Juniper Game *
  • Rocco
  • The Wednesday Wizard
  • Winter of Fire
  • Wolf-woman
  • The Raging Quiet
Jack Lasenby
  • Because We Were The Travellers
Margaret Mahy
  • The Haunting
  • The Change-Over *
  • The Catalogue of the Universe
  • Alchemy
Deborah Savage
  • Flight of the Albatross
Duncan Stuart
  • The Whole of the Moon

* The asterisked titles are books that really rocked my world when I first read them as a teenager.