Share a NZ book for children or teens you wish you'd read earlier.
Pōtiki.
Written by Patricia Grace.
First published Penguin, 1986.
Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but I *think* Pōtiki was an assigned book at high school. (In which case, it counts as for teens.)
If it wasn't, it represents what NZ literature came to mean for me: books I was supposed to read - the 'good for you' books - which were forced on me, at a time when I wasn't ready for them.
To be honest, it could have been Witi Ihimaera's Pounamu, pounamu.
But, to teenaged me, they all had the flavour of good-for-you vegetable reading.
Now, reading them, I appreciate them so much more. I am older, and my world view has grown.
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