Tina Shaw

About Griffen's Heart (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Told in smart, nifty prose by a veteran writer, this YA story is gentle with tough moments, and has real heart-appeal for 12 to 15-year-olds. James Griffen is sixteen, with a bad heart. He's on the hospital waiting list for a valve replacement. Meanwhile his physical activities are seriously curtailed so he gets about on his dead father's Vespa - his lifeline. He's a nerd. In contrast, his younger brother Ryan is tough and worldly-wise with a smart mouth. Reflective, funny, self-deprecating, James falls for the hottest chick' in school - who's also the unlikeliest catch. Roxy is more like Ryan: cool, streetwise and angry. James is loyal in his affections and in spite of the thrashing his heart gets in the pursuit, he and Roxy form an odd bond. There's a street-fighting crisis, a near-death, and James finally gets his operation. A romantic, contemporary, urban story with great tension that will apepal to girls and boys.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781869799007
• Artikelnr.: 43816756

Autorenporträt

Tina Shaw is the author of five novels for adults. She was First Runner-Up at the 2003 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. She is a former recipient of the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship, and has held the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. She was Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato in 2005, and has since been writing junior and young adult fiction.