Lesley Ayers

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Central Districts

Location:

Tauranga

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Publication #1 Making Waves

It should have been the trip of a lifetime. It was Mum and dad's idea. The whole family living on a yacht for a year, travelling through the Pacific. Idyllic, they thought. Lame, Jazzy thought. What about her friends? Her sport? Her life? Then the great adventure turns into a hideous nightmare.

#2 ON THE EDGE

When Brady's life spins into free fall who can he turn to? The horror of the school climbing wall. The jeers of bully Stan Mackersly make his nightmares real. Can the friendship of an elderly Russian help him? Or the magic of the golden flute? Can Brady put his own life on the line to save his worst enemy on a tramping trip in the Whrinaki Forest?

Net Navigator

When Marcus needs help with a school project, he sends out an SOS on a chatline. There, he finds the information he needs and a new friend he can talk to about all the things that bug him - school, bullies, vegetable and GIRLS!

Apple Tea and Camel Pee

Linley Jones combines many settings and themes in her first collection of award winning short stories. From the joys of a NZ childhood - the stink of rotten eggs gathered for eeling; the fossicking for treasure in the flotsam and jetsam on the beach; the challenges of growing up; the poignancy of being 'somewhere towards the end', and the gradual decline into old age and death - to the brashness and bold, raw beauty of New World Australia contrasting with Old World Europe and the dizzying excitement and charm of Turkey.