Author(s): Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod

Young Adult

Home-grown literary heroes, established contemporary authors, and award-winning emerging writers have been brought together in this new short story collection. Sixteen stories have been selected specifically for New Zealand/Aotearoa secondary English classroom teaching, with stories exploring ideas about identity, activism awareness, coming-of-age, society, and family.

Sixteen short stories from home-grown literary heroes, established contemporary authors, and award-winning emerging writers are brought together in this new collection. Exploring identity, activism awareness, coming-of-age, society, and family from the Aotearoa New Zealand perspective. Includes:

Foreword by Mandy Hager 
Baby Doll  by Gina Cole
Fitu  by Lani Wendt Young 
Out of Zone  by Rajorshi Chakraborti 
Tent on the Home Ground  by Witi Ihimaera
The Queen’s chain  by Anahera Gildea 
The Lake and the River by Elsie Locke
Effigies of Family Christmas by Owen Marshall
Free as a bird by David Hill
The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield
Letters from Whetu by Patricia Grace
A Good Boy by Frank Sargeson
Days of Our Lives by J.P. Pomare 
the names in the garden by Tracey Slaughter
Nineteen Seconds by Russell Boey
Atul by Nithya Narayanan
Gutting by Ting J. Yiu