Description
Category
Children’s
Genre
Young Adult
Age range
10-14 years
Publication Date
July 2021
Book Author Steph Matuku
Rights Available World excl. NZ
Fourteen-year-old twins, Tui and Kae, are sucked into a portal and dragged down to Rarohenga, the Underworld, a shadowy place of infinite dark levels, changing landscapes and untrustworthy characters.
Awards
Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction Award, 2021
About the Author
Steph Matuku (Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga, Te Āti Awa) writes picture books, junior fiction and young adult novels as well as writing for stage and screen. Her young adult novels Flight of the Fantail and Falling into Rarohenga and junior novel Whetū Toa and the Magician were Storylines Notable Books. Whetū Toa and the Magician was also shortlisted in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2019. Her picture book The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke was shortlisted in the Booklovers Children’s Book Awards 2022 and in the picture book and illustration categories of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2022. Her latest picture book The Dream Factory was a finalist in the Russell Clark Award for Illustration in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2024.
Category
Children’s
Genre
Young Adult
Age range
10-14 years
Publication Date
July 2021