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Ted Dawe

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Ted Dawe


Born
New Zealand
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Genre
Young Adult, Fiction


Ted Dawe, who has had a long career as a teacher, stunned readers with his impressive first novel, Thunder Road – winner of the Best First Book Award and Senior Fiction category of the coveted New Zealand Post Children's and Young Adults Book Awards. His subsequent YA novel K Road was published to warm reviews.

Into the River won the supreme Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award at the 2013 NZ Post Children's Book Awards.

Ted lives in Auckland, New Zealand, where he teaches English to foreign students. ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 910 ratings · 208 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Into the River
3.49 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
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The Book That Made Me
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3.71 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions
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Thunder Road
3.94 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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Into the World
3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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And Did Those Feet...
3.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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K. Road
3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Answering to the Caul
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions
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