Author Description

"['Tahuri - the runaway'] is joined here by more stories about Tahuri and other young girls as they grow up and move from the security of early childhood with their kuia and aunties, tro all sorts of encounters with cousins, brothers, neighbours, and pakehas from school. There is love and joy, but harashness too, as Tahuri carves out her own way, not wanting to go with boys, however much they get at her, ever searching for someone else like her...."--Back cover.