Patu

Author : Tim Tipene

Paperback

Published : Thursday 1 November 2012

ISBN : 9781877514500

Price : €15.80

Description

In this powerful new novel for teenagers, 16-year-old Jahnine is having to fend for herself amidst a series of family misfortunes, with her mother is in hospital battling cancer and her brother gone without a trace. Family legend has it that a patu (greenstone club) taken during the Land Wars by her great-great-grandfather has left a curse on them.Determined to return the patu and lift the curse, Jahnine turns to a strange Maori boy, Andy, and follows him away from Auckland to try and put things right. Nothing turns out the way she imagines in this powerful, realistic novel from Tim Tipene.

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