Orchard Street

Author: Maurice Gee

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  • : 17.95 NZD
  • : 9780143303879
  • : Penguin Group (NZ)
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  • : 07 April 2008
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : New Zealand
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  • : 144
  • : Personal awareness: family, relationship & social issues; Fiction
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Barcode 9780143303879
9780143303879

Description

Some very strange things are happening in Orchard Street. Ossie's dad is doing something illegal under the house; everyone is talking about the waterfront strike; adults are behaving in odd ways towards each other - and Ossie is falling in love

Author description

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's best-known writers for adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. Maurice Gee lives in Nelson with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.