Set in 1959 this is story of fifteen year old Alex, a champion swimmer who is swimming to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rome. This book won the New Zealand Story Book of the Year Award in 1988. The author has also written "Night Race to Kawau".

Alex (Plus Fiction)

Duder, Tessa

Literature & Fiction

Penguin New Zealand

Alex in winter

Puffin Books

Alessandra (Plus)

Alex

Children's Books

Puffin

<p>This book is an account of Tessa Duder's search for her Italian roots. Her great-grandparents emigrated to New Zealand from Italy in 1876, their youngest daughter, Elisa, was Tessa's maternal grandmother. Elisa passed on to Tessa a deep love of Italian opera, art and language. Tessa Duder is one of New Zealand's leading teenage fiction writers.</p>

In Search of Elisa Marchetti: A Writer's Search for Her Italian Family

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Group USA

Alex In Rome

Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd

Oxford University Press

Alessandra: Alex in Rome

Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome

In Lane Three, Alex Archer

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

<p>In Rome to compete in the 1960 Olympics, Alex Archer takes in the sights in the Eternal City, begins a relationship with an expatriate New Zealander, and prepares for the biggest swim meet of her life.</p>

Alex in Rome

Teen & Young Adult

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