Introduction -- Waking up at 6:00 a.m. / Charlotte Boyle -- By the light of a torch / Mia Venmore -- Saturday funday / Talia Paul -- Microbiome bond / Freya Kelly -- Not really an ode to my $1 Hat / Rebecca Kingswell -- Honey / Elena Hadlow -- Daydreaming lilies / Ella Somers -- The distinction between hugs / Nain Alfante -- The first day of school / Catherine Davidson -- You I and the sky / Tia Skaf -- Lemon and quadrilaterals / Justine Klassen -- Eclipses & photosynthesis / Tierney Reardon -- Green apples and hip-bones / Lucy Nie -- In conversation / Isla Thomas -- Snakebite ice cream / Simon Brown -- Dissolved unease / Melicen Barber -- Wheat / Aria Oliver -- The heat / Zora Patrick -- Proprium / Billie Douglas -- The mandarin peel / Sophia Barlow -- It's weird being happy / Zed Levack -- Different but good / Maya Neupane -- Pumice stones / Emma Uren -- Raspberry seeds / Ana Menzies -- Seagulls / Abby Mason -- Between birthdays / Isabel Li -- Alternative Sunday morning / Samantha Jory-Smart -- Who / Helena Mayer -- Piano girl / Gracie McKay-Simpson -- The lizard girl / Elizabeth Steel -- Ode to Just Bear / Claudia Meads -- Some sort of ode / Nina Richardson -- Gongoozler / Francesca Towers -- Requiem for an old church / Piper Whitehead -- Urbs aeterna / Nain Alfante -- State Highway One / Monique Thorp -- The softest, softest place / Alice Park -- Give up / Samantha Skovlund -- Kiss / Niki Menzies -- Bedtime stories / Samantha Skovlund -- Turangawaewae / Portia Ngaha-Dodd -- Malapoa Estate / Talia Thomas -- City Lights / Hayley Xie -- Teine Lalelei / Teine Latelei -- The girl with brown-and-gold hair / Morgan Dolfing -- Old truths of Dunnykirk Manor / Adelaide Perry -- The Cinderella hours / Zed Levack -- The pair / Robert Brodnax -- Word / Samantha Skovlund -- Around the world in 8000 characters / Helena Mayer -- Directions to home / Maya Neupane -- Living underwater / Leah Dodd -- Her / Tia Skaf -- Iris in the rain / Samantha Jory-Smart -- 7:31 / Xavier Dickason -- Past present post / Charlotte Williams -- One hundred and twenty-four / Francesca Towers -- Thoughts of you / Lillian Balfour -- For Michael / Susie Olssen -- The smell of seaweed / Caitlyn Penney -- Interrogation / Abby Mason -- Post-mortem Interrogation / Georgia Jennings -- Tutanekai's flute / Hope Edwards-Poad -- Nine ways of coping with death / Leah Dodd -- The Earth is home / Zoë Ambrose -- Patience / Isabella Hadlow -- Lap Yuk / Xulu Lin -- The man in the bed is saying goodbye / Abby Mason -- Nan's fence / Merci de Har -- Risking the ditch / Arabella Marshall -- My Ms Havisham / Anna Hamilton -- Plum pudding / Adelaide Perry -- The colour of midnight / Charlotte Williams -- The night dance of the street cat / Duncan Matchett -- Me and Catbot / Isabel Chen -- Old cat / Lola Gibbs -- Molten mouth / Simon Brown -- Fair is foul / Zoë Ambrose -- Anglers / Liam Kelly -- Beyond the page / Gideon Chan -- Social justice commandments of love ... / Nain Alfante -- Just right / Celia Allen -- Pacman has an aneurysm / Simon Brown -- The bell tolls / Kate Twomey -- The tree / Francesca Towers -- Mr Damocles / Elizabeth Steel -- The end of the world as we know It / Celia Allen -- Inconsiderate awakenings / Charlotte Boyle -- Warpwood House / Freddie Gormack-Smith -- Caraphernelia / Elix Hart -- Rosemary and I / Aimee Norrie -- The Dalton family / Victoria Tong -- Vegan butcher / Ayesha Hourston -- The dolls / Kate Twomey -- Crack between the doors / Derrin Smith -- The desk / Liam Kelly -- Aimée Céline Moreau / Rosa Dykes -- Surge / Isabella Hadlow -- A bad business / Elizabeth Steel -- Disappointment / Charlotte Boyle -- Parallel paths / Kate Atkinson -- Assassin / Nickly Dachs -- The deductionist / Amid Taylor -- Dead bird / Erin Meek -- Monument / Piper Whitehead -- A collection of shapes at the art gallery / Xiaole Zhan -- Bernini is the one who decided ... / Piper Whitehead -- Window / Xavier Dickason -- The day she refused / Danielle Tripp -- On the red stoep / Meche Phillips -- Streets of my childhood / Isabelle Robertson -- There, then not / Logan Trigg -- On swallows and light / Isabelle Robertson -- The truth of Frost / Elliott Hughes -- Orphan 217 / Finlay Langelaan -- Vaccine / Azriel Taylor -- The watcher women / Adelaide Perry -- The clinic / Margaret Li -- Lily of the valley / Charlotie Williams -- Waiting room / Claudia Meads -- Lilacs / Leah Dodd -- Flower / Emma Uren -- To let / Nina Richardson -- Word count / Billie Douglas -- Five missed calls / Ngaire Ferriss -- Self inflicted / Meché Phillips -- Newsflash / Caroline Shepherd -- Reality check-in / Talia Paul -- Small print / Nina Richardson.
Summary:
Collection of poetry and short stories written by teenagers conveying the attitudes of young New Zealanders. Suggested level: senior secondary.
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