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LIZARD'S TALE

Weng Wai Chan

It's Singapore in 1940, and war is just around the corner - but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs.

When he steals a small teak box from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself in a dangerous world of wartime espionage. Lizard doesn't know who to trust.

How is the mysterious Japanese code book inside the box connected to his friend Lili, a girl full of secrets and fighting skills? Can he trust her, or will she betray him in the end?
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Published 2019-07-01 by Text Publishing

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I loved streetwise Lizard; his loyalty, grit and optimism as he grapples with the criminal underworld, his lost uncle and the shadowy manoeuvres and menaces of WWII. Funny, moving and full of action, LIZARD'S TALE is a spy story where the kids are more than capable of handling themselves, the stakes are high and there's a surprise or secret around every corner. -- Leanne Hall, award-winning author of This is Shyness and Iris and the Tiger

Winner of 2020 New Zealand Book Award for Children and Young Adults prize for Junior Fiction. The award ceremony can be viewed online here. Read more...