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Set in Auckland during the 1990's, Tiggie Tompson is a teenage girl struggling to come to terms with herself. Tiggie thinks she's dumpy, plain and talentless, she knows that her parents and teachers think she's a loser and at school she's the butt of jokes. To make it worse her mother is a glamorous television journalist, with a famous face. At her new liberal school all she wants is to continue leading a quiet life. However, things don't turn out quite as she planned, Tiggie Tompson is show more about to be discovered. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary. show lessTags
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Tessa Duder, one of New Zealand's most honored children's writers, was the president of the New Zealand Society of Authors. She taught a course in children's writing at the Wanaka Autumn Art School and has done much to benefit artists' rights. She has received Esther Glen Awards for Alex, Alex in Winter and Alessandra: Alex in Rome. She also won show more an AIM Children's Book Award for Senior Fiction for Songs for Alex. She will be featured at the annual Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children's Writers and Illustrators 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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