Yo, Shark Bait by Vicki Simpson
New Zealand is producing some wonderful literature with a huge variety of themes and subjects. Vicki Simpson has won an award for this outstanding novel by a first time author.
Yo, Shark bait! is about exactly what the title indicates, fishing. Actually it is more a coming-of-age story, but don’t tell any reader that or they will decide the whole idea is boring. Rory is a mad keen fisherman, but one day while fishing with his father, he goes overboard and is greeted by a shark once he hits the water. Suddenly fishing isn’t quite so great. To make things worse, his school friends find out what happened and the teasing is unbearable. Just to make life a little worse, a teacher nominates Rory to run a fishing competition. But Rory can hardly stand the thought of fishing…
I found this book surprisingly good. The characters were strong and the situations believable, if at times the mystery was a little contrived.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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