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Gracehopper

Eighteen-year-old Grace has struggled all her life with her place in this family and in the world.

Obviously of Asian descent, she has been unable to get the truth about her parentage from her mother, a woman who is struggling with her own demons, that date back to her life in Taiwan where she survived an earthquake while giving birth to Grace. The two were evacuated back to New Zealand, never to return.

Grace has often had to be the adult in this dysfunctional relationship, and now she is faced with the fact that her only rock in her uncertain world, her grandmother, may be fading into a senility of sorts, and her long-lost best friend from childhood has returned to Wellington without having made any effort to find her.

Let down by those around her and faced with having to take on the burden of caring for her mother, Grace is teetering on the edge. Her only relief is imaginary conversations with Bruce Lee and her lessons and tutor in martial arts.

Is everything she thought she knew about to implode?

Gracehopper is a story about love and loss, friendship, countering differences, the search for a unique identity and the many faces of resilience.

Written by Mandy Hager

$30.00 incl. GST

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Volume Books~ Mandy Hager’s Gracehopper is brilliant; she writes about PTSD, bullying, relationships, drugs, trauma, and difference with sensitivity and honesty. Grace and Charlie are complex and compelling characters, who you can’t help but like. This is a novel for older teens about love, acceptance and forgiveness. Highly recommended.

About the Kiwi author

Mandy Hager Mandy Hager, author of Hindsight: Pivotal Moments in New Zealand’s History and Protest! Shaping Aotearoa, has written extensively for young adults and has also worked in the education sector previously for Global Education. She has an astonishing collection of awards, residencies, and recognition for her fiction work.

Additional information

Weight150 g
Dimensions19.8 × 13 × 2 cm
First published

2024

Format

Paperback edition

ISBN

9781990035357

Page count

352

Published by

OneTree House

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