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Fleur Beale

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Fleur Beale is the author of many award-winning books for children and young adults - she has now had more than 40 books published in New Zealand, as well as being published in the United States and England. Beale is the only writer to have twice won the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book: with Slide the Corner in 2007, and I Am Not Esther in 2009. She won the Esther Glen Award for distinguished contribution to children's literature for Juno Of Taris in the 2009 LIANZA Children's Book Awards. Fierce September won the YA category in the 2011 NZ Post Children's Book Awards and the LIANZA Young Adult Award in 2011. In 2012 she won the Margaret Mahy Medal for her outstanding contribution to children's writing, and in 2015 she was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. In 1999, Beale was Dunedin College of Education's Writer in Residence. A former high-school teacher, Beale lives in Wellington.

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I Am Rebecca

20th November 2014

I Am Rebecca

Life inside a religious cult becomes too much for 16 - year - old Rebecca when she finds out who she is to marry.... MoreI Am Rebecca

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I am Not Esther

1st June 2003

I am Not Esther

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A Respectable Girl

1st March 2006

A Respectable Girl

It is 1859 in the raw new township of New Plymouth where Hannah Carstairs walks between two worlds. To her English fathe... MoreA Respectable Girl

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The Boy in the Olive Grove

11th January 2013

The Boy in the Olive Grove

On the night of her seventeenth birthday Bess Grey sees images of a witch - burning unfold in front of her as if in a mo... MoreThe Boy in the Olive Grove

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Skyracer

20th June 2003

Skyracer

Jack is mad about trucks but not about his mum's boyfriend, Steve. On Jack's birthday, Steve gives him a surprise presen... MoreSkyracer

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Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

12th July 2018

Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 eart... MoreLyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

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I Am Rebecca (16pt Large Print Edition)

20th November 2014