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Book Launch | Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War

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Wed 4th December 2024 | 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Scorpio Books

120 Hereford Street
Christchurch, New Zealand

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Scorpio Books and Huia Publishers warmly welcome you to the launch of Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War by local author T K Roxborogh. This junior fiction title is the sequel to 2020’s Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea, supreme winner of the  Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and winner of the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award at the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Like every year, the summer brings new people to Tolaga Bay. It’s been a full year since Charlie saved his hometown from destruction at the hands of gods, warring sea creatures and natural disasters. Charlie and his younger brother, Robbie, are enjoying their normal lives – fishing off the wharf and helping out at their mum’s store – that is, until a visiting scientist is stabbed at the local campground, days before a meeting between local iwi and the government. So begins Charlie’s quest to uncover a mystery taking place in the hills above the town

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

T K Roxborogh (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri) is an award-winning author of more than thirty published works, both fiction and non-fiction. Her latest publication Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea won the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction and the supreme Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She teaches English and has been a writing mentor and judge for short stories and for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

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