Te Kura o te Tauawa Halswell School
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Novella. Not a NZ book and I probably wouldn't teach it (for a number of reasons) but Cheever manages to turn suburban life into bittersweet poetry.
Great book for pre-teens and early teens. Fantastic example of indigenous sci-fi/fantasy and I really love how psychedelic Matuku has made the Māori underworld. Recommended.
At once beautiful, tragic and horrific, this a family saga set in Gaza and the US. It's a novel about the strength of generations of Palestinian women and their resolve to keep their family and community alive. There's laughter too. A feminist classic.