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Reviews
Joanna Ludbrook, Radio New Zealand ~ [A] New Zealand classic that should be in every home, classroom and library.
Judges, New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ~ [A] taonga from a masterful storyteller…a book that not only exemplifies the highest standards, but that we believe will make a lasting contribution to Aotearoa’s national literature for children and young adults.
Adele Broadbent, What Book Next? ~ From Bata Bullets, beer crates, and talk of Bastion Point, the memory of orange and khaki vinyl chairs, Axminster carpet and the movie Jaws, these places in time had me immersed in the story with main character, Titch. I learnt along with her the story of the land her family now lived on and its painful history. But there is much humour too … A beautiful snapshot of New Zealand through the eyes of a young girl discovering more about her whakapapa and iwi.
About the Kiwi author
Stacy Gregg (Ngāti Mahuta/Ngāti Pukeko/Ngāti Maru) grew up in Ngāruawāhia, the small but culturally significant town where Nine Girls, her multiple-award-winning children’s novel, is set.
Nine Girls takes place in the socially tumultuous late seventies and early eighties in New Zealand and won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2024. It is written for a readership of 10 –13 years but holds just as much appeal for adult audiences, exploring similar themes to her 2022 essay published in The Spinoff, ‘The Māoris From the Town Side of the River’, which won a New Zealand Voyager Journalism Award in 2023.
