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Under the Radar
With the same laugh-out-loud humour and street-wise storytelling, 'Under the Radar' is the sequel to 2019 Children’s Book Awards finalist 'Slice of Heaven'.
It’s another year at da MEHS for Sione and his mates, and so far Manawahe East High is living up to its other name of ‘heart attack high school’. For a start there are the girls like Lani and Wiki and the way they make things so complicated, and the mysterious new girl who’s somehow Sione’s responsibility. As if that wasn’t enough, some of his old softball team have become wannabe gangstas and are putting pressure on him to join their crew.
Outside the schoolyard, real gangs are circling, and a giant guy called Turtle has Sione in his sights. It seems that Sione’s plan to stay under the radar this year is harder than he thought.
It’s another year at da MEHS for Sione and his mates, and so far Manawahe East High is living up to its other name of ‘heart attack high school’. For a start there are the girls like Lani and Wiki and the way they make things so complicated, and the mysterious new girl who’s somehow Sione’s responsibility. As if that wasn’t enough, some of his old softball team have become wannabe gangstas and are putting pressure on him to join their crew.
Outside the schoolyard, real gangs are circling, and a giant guy called Turtle has Sione in his sights. It seems that Sione’s plan to stay under the radar this year is harder than he thought.
302 pages, Paperback
Published July 11, 2021
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Des O’Leary
2 books3 followersDes O’Leary started life in Greymouth and has taught at high schools in Fiji, Whakatāne and Kerikeri, and at Aorere College in South Auckland, where he took softball and rugby league teams and helped with the Samoan culture group. He is now a relief teacher at Papamoa College, Tauranga. He lives in the Bay of Plenty with his wife, Hazel. Slice of Heaven is his first novel.
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August 19, 2021
The thing that I really like about Des O'Leary's books is the sense of time and place - the characters are teenagers in South Auckland. I'll be interested to read some reviews of these books by kids to see if they rate them too (I think they will).
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