Nine Girls

Winner of the two main children''s book awards in Aotearoa New Zealand: the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award 2024.

They dug a hole right there on our farm on the bank of the Mangawara and they put the box filled with gold inside it and covered it with dirt. And to keep the gold safe until they could return one of them placed a tapu on it. A tapu ...