The Champion
  • Published: 7 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143303886
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 180
  • RRP: $14.99

The Champion

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7 Apr 2008
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What do you answer when people say, 'Who was the most important person you've ever known?'... It was Jackson Coop. He changed my life - Jackson and the things that happened in those two weeks.
It is summer 1943 in a small New Zealand town, and a wounded American soldier is coming to stay with 12-year-old Rex and his family. Rex is full of expectations, but from the moment Jackson steps down from the bus there are surprises - and how could anyone predict the dramatic events which will unfold in the days to come?
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  • Published: 7 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143303886
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 180
  • RRP: $14.99
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About the author

Maurice Gee

Maurice Gee (1931-2025) has long been considered one of New Zealand's finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults, young adults and children, and has won numerous literary awards, including the UK's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. Maurice is survived by his wife Margareta, two daughters and a son.

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Also by Maurice Gee

The Severed Land
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics)
Plumb Trilogy
Prowlers
Under the Mountain
Access Road
The Fat Man
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