Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg

Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg

They dug a hole right there on our farm on the bank of the Mangawara and they put the box filled with gold inside it and covered it with dirt. And to keep the gold safe until they could return one of them placed a tapu on it. A tapu so that anyone who tried to touch the gold before they could come back for it would die. Titch is determined to find the gold hidden somewhere on her family's farm. It might be tapu but that won't put her off. Her dad has gone bankrupt, and she has had to leave her home in the city and move back with her family to smalltown Ngaruawahia, start a new school and find new friends. Could the hidden gold be the way to fix her family's money problems? Titch, her cousins and new friend Tania set out to find the gold. But an unexpected encounter with a creature from the nearby river sees Titch learn about her own Maori heritage and the dangers of messing with tapu. A fascinating insight into Maori legend and culture, Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure that shows what it's like to feel like an outsider in our own world. Winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults!

Stacy Gregg (Ngati Mahuta/Ngati Pukeko/Ngati Maru) is an award-winning, bestselling New Zealand writer. She grew up in Ngaruawahia and her essay about the town, The Maoris From The Town Side of the River won the Voyager national journalism award in 2023.
Stacy has written over thirty novels. Her Pony Club Secrets series has sold over 1.5 million copies globally and was adapted into the CBBC TV series Mystic.

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ISBN 13	9780241685242
ISBN 10	0241685249
Title	Nine Girls
Author	Stacy Gregg
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published	2024-04-04
Number of pages	288
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