Thunder Road by Ted Dawe - ISBN: 9781877135873
Paperback
Trace is sick of small town life. He moves to Auckland and finds himself rooming with Devon who’s cynical, charismatic and seems to know what he’s playing at. Trace is soon embroiled in street-racing, then crime and drugs - he’s messing with a world of strict codes and brutal enforcement.

Thunder Road

  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2003

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.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 whi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781877135873
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:198mm x 128mm x 21mm
About The Author

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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