Francis
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Sometimes the only way forward is to look to the past
A young woman leaves England to travel to New Zealand when she discovers she is pregnant. Coral's treasured son Tom grows up never knowing his father, and she is determined to keep it that way.
When Coral passes away, Tom and his family travel to Scotland to find what they can. There are questions only his father can answer.
But when tragedy strikes, Tom has to put his search aside, and focus...
2) Fire Island
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Keri Walker is 12 years old and is in a bit of strife. She has been on the end of some bullying from The Gang of Five and she's keen to make herself scarce when they are around. However, she can't help but step in when she finds a much younger child being bullied.
The Gang of Five thinks she snitched on them. On a school camp, they start a serious campaign. The camp is on an island, and there are plenty of exciting activities to look forward to;...
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With red hair and fair skin, Chloe stands out for all the wrong reasons at her new school. Especially as she also finds it difficult to talk to others outside her family. It is a relief when summer comes and she doesn't have to deal with unwanted attention. Keri, Mereana and Jess have been invited to spend time with Mereana's Grandmother in a small beach town. There is a welcoming pōwhiri at the local Marae, where Mereana and Chloe find out they...
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Jordan is deaf. He's been deaf all his life. It doesn't stop him doing anything he wants to do, and he's really good at doing a lot of things. It's just who he is.But Sando, his older brother, is very conflicted. It seems to Sando that everything revolves around Jordan.Keri and her friend Mereana are holidaying at the same beach town as Jordan and Sando. They make friends with the brothers and meeting Jordan is a revelation for the girls.There have...
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Keri Walker is a high- achieving all rounder who upsets her friends when she receives an award at school. Things get rapidly worse when her parents separate and she finds herself alone at a time when she really needs someone to talk to. Then, when looking after her little brother at the local shopping mall, she leaves him briefly and he disappears.
Thus begins the worst time in Keri's life. In the attempt to navigate her way through this nightmare...
6) Cold as Ice
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It's hard enough when your parents separate, but when they form new relationships, everything changes again. Keri's mother has met a new man and he has two children, Sara and Thomas. Sara, who is a couple of years older than Keri, makes it clear that they will never be best friends. Keri is content to leave it that way, but Sara's behaviour gets worse, and it's not just teenage moodiness.On a family ski holiday Keri finds herself in a dangerous situation....
7) Watch Me!
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When Claire finds a lump on her chest she can't imagine how it got there. She decides she must have knocked into something. Anyway, there's too much to do to worry about it. Her cousin Keri is coming to stay, there are the horse trekkers to deal with and three horses have gone missing.
Keri and Mereana arrive to stay for a week, and find themselves involved in more than just helping out on the farm and riding horses. Neighbouring farms have been...
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Sometimes you just want to read short stories, and sometimes you just want them about boys. Not girls.
In this book you will find boys being naughty; boys being good and boys just being. There's a story about tree climbing, one about a dog, one about graffiti and one about a model aeroplane.
I hope you enjoy these stories.