Take Me to Your Leader
By (Author) Leonie Agnew
Penguin Group (NZ)
Puffin
5th March 2024
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Paperback
256
Width 135mm, Height 207mm, Spine 18mm
257g
Eleven-year-old Lucas has now got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for closure. What's his mum going to do if he and his sister have to start travelling to a school an hour or two away She can't drive them; she certainly can't afford boarding school fees and already works long hours in a poultry processing plant to keep the family going. If the school closure goes through, they might have to up sticks and leave. And there's no way Lucas is ever going to leave his dad's grave behind. He and a group of friends come up with a very quirky plot to revive their town and save their school - and the chaotic chain of events to follow are entirely unpredictable (and hilarious).
Leonie Agnew may or may not be living in South America with a poodle named Juan. She informs us that her days are spent drinking sangrias and teaching Juan how to bark in Spanish, while trading sombreros on the black market via her iPad. However, our sources have located her in Auckland, New Zealand. They claim she is an award-winning children's author, a former copywriter, and currently moonlights as a primary school teacher. It is possible she has a tendency to make things up. This is called lying, unless you write it down - then it is pleasantly referred to as being an author.