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Nine Girls

By Stacy Gregg
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Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers. An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg - winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of... Read More
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Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.

An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg - winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction!

They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it. To keep it safe until they could return, one of them placed a tapu on it. A tapu so that anyone who tried to touch the gold would die.

Titch is determined to find the gold buried somewhere on her family's land. It might be cursed but that won't put her off.

Then an unexpected encounter with a creature from the river reveals secrets lying beneath its surface . . .

As Titch uncovers the truth about the hidden treasure, she learns about her own heritage - and what it's like to feel like an outsider in your own world.

A story about growing up in a time of social unrest in early 1980s New Zealand, Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure woven with suspense from the author of Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal.

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INFORMATION

Barcode: 9781776958146

Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 March 2024

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Length: 22.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Stacy Gregg (Ngati Mahuta/Ngati Pukeko/Ngati Maru) grew up in Ngaruawahia, the small but culturally significant town where Nine Girls, her multiple-award-winning children's novel, is set. Stacy's first book with Penguin Random House UK/NZ, Nine Girls takes place in the socially tumultuous late seventies and early eighties in New Zealand and won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2024. It is written for a readership of 10 -13 years but holds just as much appeal for adult audiences, exploring similar themes to her 2022 essay published in The Spinoff, 'The Maoris From the Town Side of the River', which won a New Zealand Voyager Journalism Award in 2023. Stacy has previously published 32 middle-grade fiction novels with HarperCollins UK and remains HarperCollins New Zealand's third best-selling children's author of all-time, after David Walliams and Dr Seuss. Her Pony Club Secrets series has sold over 1.5 million copies globally in English alone and later became the CBBC TV series Mystic, which ran for three seasons. Stacy's second series Pony Club Rivals continued to define and dominate pony genre fiction before she moved into stand-alone hardbacks. The first of these, The Princess and the Foal, released in 2013 and was based on the true-life story of Princess Haya of Jordan, written with the blessing of HRH. Stacy travelled to the royal palaces and stables of Jordan for research and since then has travelled to Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Russia and Iceland to research her novels. Before her winning sweep in the national book awards, Stacy has been eight times a finalist and a consecutive three-time winner of the Children's Choice Award. She has also twice won TV's WhatNow Children's Choice Award for middle-grade fiction. Stacy's other titles for younger readers include the junior fiction series, Spellbound Ponies, the picture books In or Out and The Easter Bunny Hunt for HarperCollins UK, and the popular Mini Whinny series for Scholastic. Her screenwriting credits include Mystic and the Acorn TV series, My Life Is Murder, starring Xena Warrior Princess's Lucy Lawless. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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