Violence 101
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Violence 101
By (Author) Denis Wright
Penguin Group (NZ)
Puffin
1st September 2008
New Zealand
Classifications
Young Adult
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
823.3
Winner of New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Best First Book 2009
Physical Properties
Paperback
176
Width 132mm, Height 197mm, Spine 14mm
160g
Description
Hamish Graham is intelligent, disciplined, resourceful and fearless, and scorns all weakness. His heroes include Charles Upham, Alexander the Great and Te Rauparaha - all men of action. But he is also a fourteen-year-old with an anger problem and a disturbing past, and these have landed him in a series of boys' homes for violent and troubled young offenders. The gripping series of events following his arrival at New Horizons culminates in a desperate rescue mission on a mountain that has already claimed the lives of two young soldiers.
Author Bio
This debut author, who has two teenage sons of his own, is an English teacher at a Wellington high school.
