… my right foot slipped on the accelerator. The engine revved, and the car shot forward. For half a second my eyes met Ash’s. He was staring past me, through the windscreen. He began to yell something. Somehow I knew what it was. I wrenched my head round, foot stabbing for the brake. And there was the girl, right in front of us.

Tara is heading home. Ryan is driving his mates. Neither of them is paying attention. The tragedy that follows changes many lives.

Finalist, New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2005

It’s 1974, and a dark, cold New Zealand winter. So when Darryl’s mum announces she is going to the remote Pacific island of Mangareva for work, and she’s taking him with her, he is thrilled.

But even as Darryl soaks up the warmth and peaceful beauty of French Polynesia, his holiday is darkened by violent anti-nuclear protests. Plus there’s Alicia, with her furious outbursts against all Pacific nuclear tests. Darryl knows she’s talking rubbish.

What he doesn’t know is that when he boards Flight 766 to fly home, his life and the lives of others will be changed forever.

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It’s 1942, and the tiny farming town of Featherston is about to receive hundreds of Japanese soldiers into its prisoner-of-war camp. Ewen, whose dad is a guard there, can’t stop wondering about the enemy just down the road. Some say the captives are evil and cruel and should be treated harshly — or shot. But when Ewen and his friends ride out to the camp to peep through the barbed wire, the POWs just seem like … well, people.

Then a new group from a captured warship arrives and the mood in the camp darkens. Guards and inmates begin to clash. As tension builds the boys are told to stay away. But on 25 February 1943, Ewen and his friends are there at the moment the storm breaks — and terrible, unforgettable events unfold before their eyes.

Finalist, Junior Fiction Award and Children’s Choice Junior Fiction Award, New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2016

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A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during the Second World War.

Pete and Paul yelled together. ‘Bandit! Nine o’clock! Bandit!’

Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at them.

Eighteen-year-old Jack wanted to escape boring little New Zealand. But he soon finds that flying in a Lancaster bomber to attack Hitler’s forces brings terror as well as excitement. With every dangerous mission, he becomes more afraid that he’ll never get back alive. He wants to help win the war, but will he lose his own life?

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