Lopini the Legend
Author(s): Feana Tu'akoi
NZ Middle Fiction | 07 - June | Storylines Notable Books 2023
When Lopini is replaced as kapa haka leader at school, he starts to spiral. It doesn’t matter that he thinks it’s a good idea, or that he agreed to the change in the first place. He’s a hard-out perfectionist and this feels like a public failure.
Lopini’s best mate, Fi, thinks he’s overreacting. After all, he’s so successful that everyone at school calls him Lopini the Legend. But Lopini still freaks out whenever something goes wrong – and he HATES it.
He decides to practise failing, so he won’t feel like that anymore. Can Lopini still be a legend, if everyone knows he isn't perfect?
Product Information
Feana Tu‘akoi is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, with a background in educational publishing. She has more than 230 titles to her name, ranging from poems to plays to articles to books, and her work has appeared in anthologies, on radio and in most media forms. Her books for children have been translated into various languages, from Samoan to Spanish. She is the author of the highly successful What Is A...? science series for children, which is also available in te reo Māori. Lopini the Legend, Tu‘akoi’s junior fiction manuscript, won the 2022 Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award.
General Fields
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- : Scholastic New Zealand Limited
- : Scholastic New Zealand
- : 01 June 2023
- : books
Special Fields
- : Feana Tu'akoi
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 176