OneTree House wants to make sure readers can still access fantastic New Zealand books in this uncertain and unusual time of national covid-19 lockdown. That's why we have produced e-book versions of five top OneTree House titles.
Spearo - Mary-Anne Scott $14
Newly emigrated to New Zealand, Sean is finding it hard to fit in at school while coping with his grief and homesickness. Mason, a boy in his class who is a mad keen spearo, offers to teach him how to free dive and Sean agrees to take part in free diving and spear fishing training in order to take part in a competition. One accident and Sean is thrust into the front line of the competition – it is all up to him.
Sticking With Pigs - Mary-Anne Scott $14
Uncle Jeremy has been helping the family out for a while now, by dropping off meat he’s shot. The offer to go hunting sounds great to fourteen-year-old Wolf … a chance to get away from the family stress. But this hunting trip proves to be more than he bargained for.
If Only - Adele Broadbent $14
K’s first real try at breaking the rules proves to be a bit of disaster...but then that disaster meant she met a boy, she learnt the truth, and she just might get to save a life – the life of a whale.
Family secrets come to the fore in this new novel from Adele Broadbent, launched in support of Project Jonah.
Half My Life - Diana Noonan $14
Struggling teen Katy takes an unexpected journey to Greece to visit the family she has never met. Exploring the fragility of families, and the damage that can be wrought when unresolved issues of one generation shape the lives of the next, this story is also about hope, and the ability of families to survive and heal damaged relationships.
Cuz - Liz van der Laarse $14
River is offered the chance to crew on his uncle’s trawler with his annoying cousin Huia. When an accident leaves the two stranded on the coast of Fiordland they must work together to save themselves. Includes information on survival, bush lore, natural remedies, bush tucker and map of the region.
OneTree House is committed to our readers. Over the next few months we will be releaseing more of our titles, including:
Cassie Clark: Outlaw by Brian Falkner and Make a Hard Fist by Tina Shaw, both of which were shortlisted for 2019 Ngaio Marsh crime fiction awards;
Wynter's Thief by Sherryl Jordan, a 2020 Storylines Notable book.
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