Author(s): Ritchie, Rayma

Children Fiction

Reading age 9 to 12. Huia lives in a small country town up North and she is really tired of her drab, boring life with her noisy, boisterous extanded family and problems at school. One day, her parents surprise her with a dressing table for her bedroom. It is quite old and a bit battered but it is the first piece of furniture she has ever owned, and it has a wonderful mirror. And in a drawer, she finds a diary and this discovery opens up a whole new world to her..