Secrets at Red Rocks
$17.60
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
When a boy finds a sealskin in a cave, he unlocks an ancient spell that tips him into a terrifying adventure.
Selkie mythology meets Wellington’s rugged, windswept south coast in this spine-tingling adventure novel, which won the 2013 Esther Glen Medal for Junior Fiction.
Jessie stared at him, hard. ‘It is not a story. It is real. Jake, if you have stolen a sealskin, then whoever it belongs to will be stuck in human form.’ Jake was surprised to see tears form in her eyes. ‘You…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776953462 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1776953460 |
| Author: | Rachael King |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 8-14 |
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Rachael King
Rachael King is a writer, reviewer, former literary festival director, and ex-bass player living in Otautahi Christchurch.
She is the author of two standalone novels for children:
- Red Rocks, which won the Esther Glen Medal in 2013.
- The Grimmelings, published in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. It topped the bestselling NZ junior fiction list in 2024, was shortlisted for the NZ Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards, and won a Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award.
Rachael is publishing the first book in a junior chapter book series, Violet and the Velvets, in 2025.
Her two novels for adult readers, The Sound of Butterflies and Magpie Hall, were published in nine languages altogether.
Rachael received a Waitangi Day Honour Award in 2020 from the New Zealand Society of Authors for her work at WORD Christchurch bringing Behrouz Boochani to New Zealand. In 2023, she was named Best Reviewer at the Voyager New Zealand Media Awards.
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