Fierce September

Young Adult Fiction Finalist

Fierce September
Fleur Beale
Random House New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86979-328-9 pb RRP $19.99
Target age 12+

The stunning sequel to Juno of Taris (shortlisted for the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards).

Juno and the Taris inhabitants must leave their dying island. The young people look forward to a wider life Outside, but Outside too has its problems. It is two-year-old Hera, with her uncanny ability to foresee events, who saves the Taris people from the injury and death prepared for them by an underground group of protestors.

Fleur Beale lives in Wellington and is the author of more than 30 books published in New Zealand, the US and the UK. Fleur won the 2007 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book with Slide the Corner and the Esther Glen Award for Juno of Taris in the 2009 LIANZA Children’s Book Awards.