Transformation of Minna Hargreaves

Description

Minna is a typical fourteen-year-old. She's urban, technologically savvy and has a strong peer group. She has a boyfriend who is the school hunk, and she is being encouraged to 'take the relationship to the next stage' by her friend Lizzie. Home is pretty much a non-event. Her mother seems distracted, her father breezes in and out but isn't really present, her brother is a stoner.Her life is turned upside down when Dad announces that he wants them to live on an off-shore island for a year and work to make it into a conservation island. Minna is horrified at the idea, as is her mother. All the more so when they discover that the whole venture is to be made into a reality TV series. To her utter dismay, Minna finds herself on an island, with only her family for company. There's no phone or email contact with the outside world. The helicopter ride to the island has made Mum sick and she doesn't seem to be recovering. Minna has to cope with new family dynamics, come to terms with the fact that her parents' marriage is doomed, and has to learn domestic arts that don't rate very highly on her excitement meter. First published 2007. SHORTLISTED YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY NZ POST BOOK AWARDS 2008

Awards

Winner of Storylines Notable New Zealand Books: Young Adult Fiction 2008. Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Children's Book Award: Senior Fiction 2008.

Author description

Fleur Beale is the author of Juno of Taris among many other award-winning books - she has now had more than 30 books published in new Zealand, with some also being published in the US and England. Fleur won the 2007 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book with Slide the Corner and the Esther Glen Award for Juno of Taris in the 2009 LIANZA Children's Book Awards.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9781869418366
• Publisher : Random House New Zealand Ltd
• Imprint : Random House New Zealand Ltd
• Publication date : March 2007
• Dimensions : 200mm X 133mm X 23mm
• Produced in : New Zealand
• Availability date : January 2011
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 286
• Dewey classification : 823.2
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Fleur Beale