Auckland Council Libraries: Fiction for teens by Auckland authors

Fiction for teens by Auckland authors

Featuring some of Tāmaki Makaurau’s most respected and talented authors, this exciting list of teen fiction includes stories of love, war and the struggles of everyday rangatahi.​

Alex

Tessa Duder

Book

The multi-award-winning series that follows the life of Alex, a vivid, engaging, complex, rebellious young woman, struggling with love, loss and school, while training to become an Olympic champion.

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Blitzkrieg

Brian author. Falkner

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Young Joe is living in pre-WWII Berlin when his British father is arrested for being a spy. After being forced to flee with his kiwi mother, he finds a harrowing route back into Germany and fights to save his father.

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Call me Madeleine

Kate S. Richards

Book

Betrayed by those she trusted, banished to a small town. Can a childhood friend help a young climate activist find hope in a burning world?

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Draw me a hero

N. K. (Nicola Katherine) Ashworth

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Jane is 14 years old, loves drawing and wears an old leather flying helmet. Facing another dull term at school, Jane loses herself in her art. But when she meets a boy with brooding good looks, Jane is drawn out of her introspective world.

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Indigo Moon

Eileen Merriman

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Book one of the gritty, fast-paced, thought-provoking The Eternity Loop series. Featuring a new generation with enhanced powers and even more deadly challenges.

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In our own backyard

Anne Kayes

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Liza reflects with her family on the protests of 1981 when the Springboks controversially toured New Zealand. Casting her mind back to when she was 15, she recalls love, friendship, bravery and first-hand experiences of racism.

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Jasper and the Well of Wizdom

Linda McNabb

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Clairvoyant boy Jasper, on finding an unusual coin, is transported to a new world where he is expected to defeat an evil queen.

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Mata oti = Eyes of death

Lani Wendt Young

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The virus has breached the island's borders. Paradise has fallen. The apocalypse is here. Our hero must safeguard her two nieces as Samoa battles the deadly virus that's raging across the world.

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Our violent ends

Chloe Gong

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The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move could mean death.

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The Rarkyn's Familiar

Nikky Lee

eBook

After witnessing her father’s brutal execution, the orphaned Lyss plots her revenge. But then she is trapped in a blood pact with a violent, other-worldly monster.

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Tim Te Maro and the subterranean heartsick blues

H.S Valley

Book

Two boys, initially rivals, gradually start to realise that beneath their animosity is something like friendship... or physical attraction. Soon, a no-strings-attached hook-up seems like a good idea. What could possibly go wrong?

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Under the radar

Des O'Leary

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Another year of high school for Sione and his mates means another year of complicated girls, wannabe gangsters and circling thugs. Can Sione fly under the radar as planned?

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