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By: Tessa Duder,William Taylor

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Dan (struggling with small town life in Northland and searching out blonde jokes on the net) starts on an email correspondence with Jess (14, lonely and scared on a year-long Pacific voyage with her family as the hurricane season approaches). As Jess heads southwards their emails build up, and they get to know each other. And swap more jokes.

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179

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Penguin Group (New Zealand)

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0141308850

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9780141308852

Alex

By: Tessa Duder

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Alex

By: Tessa Duder

The moving and inspiring story of Alex, a champion swimmer. Alex is swimming to qualify for the Olympic Games. In the past year she has fallen in love and has known what it is to lose – in swimming and in life. Alex faces intense competition and will have to swim the race of her life to achieve her dream.

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176

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Penguin Books

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0143318047

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9780143318040

Is She Still Alive?

By: Tessa Duder

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Is She Still Alive?

By: Tessa Duder

Is she still alive?: scintillating tales for women of a certain age. In 2003 tessa Duder spent six months in Europe as the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. Internationally renowned for her superb childrens' and young adult novels, tessa used her time in Menton to write something very different. the result is a superb collection of thirteen stories for women who have moved beyond youth and into maturity, who have seen and experienced much of what life has to offer, and wear their years with pride. the wonderful, wise and witty women she has created will strike a chord with their tales of loves and dreams they have lived and lost, their tragedies and their triumphs and most of all, their enduring spirit and often unexpected strength. Is she still alive is the question women of a certain age hear all too often - in tessa Duder's wonderful new stories the answer is a resounding yes.

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246

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HarperCollins

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ISBN 10

0730401294

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9780730401292

Carpet of Dreams

By: Tessa Duder

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Carpet of Dreams

By: Tessa Duder

When Sara goes to stay with her grandmother, she discovers a dusty old Turkish carpet in the attic. Mesmerised by beautiful animals woven into the carpet, she embarks upon a magical and dreamlike journey that takes her back through time and place, to ultimately discover the roots of her family. Suggested level: junior, primary.

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HarperCollins Australia

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020719999X

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9780207199998

The Sparrow

By: Tessa Duder

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The Sparrow

By: Tessa Duder

An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitematā Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is young Harry, travelling alone and determined to return to family in England. But the more immediate challenge is finding food and shelter — and hiding the truth about Harry’s real identity and what was left behind in Van Diemen’s Land.

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308

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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176104768X

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9781761047688

Night Race to Kawau

By: Tessa Duder

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Night Race to Kawau

By: Tessa Duder

For 40 years, this adrenaline-packed winner of the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book has been gripping Kiwi kids. ‘He’s not there, Mum. He’s fallen overboard.’ What started as an exciting challenge turns into a nightmare when a gale unexpectedly develops during the night race to Kawau Island. Sam and her mother suddenly find themselves in charge of their yacht with a dangerous task ahead of them. It is the early 1980s, and technology on the yacht is limited: they are on their own. Will Sam be able to save her family?

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213

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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ISBN 10

0143776827

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9780143776826

Alex in Winter

By: Tessa Duder

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Alex in Winter

By: Tessa Duder

Tragedy has entered Alex's life, and during the long winter she tries to cope with grief and uncertainty about her future. But this time the battle is within herself - and something only Alex can win.

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168

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Penguin Books

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0143318063

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9780143318064

In Lane Three, Alex Archer

By: Tessa Duder

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In Lane Three, Alex Archer

By: Tessa Duder

Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

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272

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Starfire

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0553290207

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9780553290202

In Lane Three, Alex Archer

By: Tessa Duder

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In Lane Three, Alex Archer

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Starfire

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0553290207

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9780553290202

Alessandra

Alex in Rome

By: Tessa Duder

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Alessandra

Alex in Rome

By: Tessa Duder

As a member of the New Zealand swimming team, fifteen-year-old Alex gets her first taste of independence as she faces the challenges of competition in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

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0195582306

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9780195582307

Simply Messing about in Boats

By: Tessa Duder

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Simply Messing about in Boats

By: Tessa Duder

Discusses the pleasures and techniques of boating.

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0868676284

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9780868676289

Night Race to Kawau

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Night Race to Kawau

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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0143776827

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9780143776826

The Warrior Virgin

By: Tessa Duder,Martin Baynton,Laughton Pattrick

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The Warrior Virgin

By: Tessa Duder,Martin Baynton,Laughton Pattrick

A play which tells of the fifteenth century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft. Suggested level: secondary.

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086863686X

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9780868636863

Mercury Beach

By: Tessa Duder

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Mercury Beach

By: Tessa Duder

Bingo Best and her family are newcomers to Mercury Beach, complete with twin BMWs and cases of champagne. At the local school Bingo is the fat girl, the rich girl whose father is something important in television and whose mother is a famous actor who goes up to Auckland by helicopter. A bizarre fund-raising event, a revival of the old Queen Carnival, draws Bingo into a group of friends who soon become a major force in the fund-raising business. But this Queen Carnival of the 90s turns out to be full of surprises and twists.

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191

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Puffin

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ISBN 10

0140385754

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9780140385755

The Making of Alex the Movie

By: Tessa Duder

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The Making of Alex the Movie

By: Tessa Duder

The author of Alex examines the adaptation of her novel to film: the process of scripting, producing and filming, the changes that were necessary, and why. Suggested level: secondary.

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1869431162

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9781869431167

Songs for Alex

By: Tessa Duder

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Songs for Alex

By: Tessa Duder

Having returned from the Olympics in triumph, Alex has some difficult decisions to make about her future.

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224

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Puffin HC

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0140363890

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9780140363890

Dragons

By: Tessa Duder,Kelvin Hawley,Jacqui Brooks

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Dragons

By: Tessa Duder,Kelvin Hawley,Jacqui Brooks

Discusses people's beliefs about dragons and describes some dragons from folklore.

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0868674605

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9780868674605

Margaret Mahy

A Writer's Life, a Literary Portrait of New Zealand's Best-loved Children's Author

By: Tessa Duder

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Margaret Mahy

A Writer's Life, a Literary Portrait of New Zealand's Best-loved Children's Author

By: Tessa Duder

A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's author - a new edition. Margaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networks, noted by political leaders in Parliament and by children in classrooms throughout the country. Margaret was one of the world's leading authors for younger readers for four decades. In her own country she was popularly known as the writer in the multicoloured wig who wrote marvellously funny picture books and enchanted generations of school children. Her story had its fairy-tale elements. In 1968, a hard-pressed solo mother of two daughters, working as a librarian by day and writing long into the night, she was 'discovered' by a leading American publisher who flew 'to the end of the earth' to offer her a multi-book publishing contract.From those first picture books, through the great novels of the 1980s and new books and awards right up to the year of her death, she came to be regarded as the third in New Zealand's literary pantheon, alongside Katherine Mansfield and Janet Frame. In 2006 her achievements were recognised by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), awarding her the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the world's 'Little Nobel', for her distinguished contribution to children's literature.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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1775540170

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9781775540175

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