Summary
Which street racer really controls the strip? An award-winning YA novel full of fast cars, burn-offs and an unwritten code of loyalty.
‘Thunder Road’. You find it in any city after the cops are in bed. It’s where street racers go to test their machines - and their nerve. For me it was … the steep rising pitch of the turbo, the screaming tyres and curtain of white smoke hanging behind me: all the stuff that spells street racing.
Trace is 19 and has grown out of small-town ways.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781877135873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1877135879 |
| Author: | Ted Dawe |
| Publisher: | Random House New Zealand Ltd |
| Imprint: | Longacre Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 128mm x 198mm |
| Audience Age: | 13 |
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Ted Dawe
Ted Dawe 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 Childrens and Young Adults Book Awards. His subsequent YA novel K Road was published to warm reviews. Into the River won the 2013 New Zealand Post Book of the Year and caused great controversy over its inclusion of sex scenes and swearing. Ted lives in Auckland, New Zealand, where he teaches English to foreign students.
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