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

Alessandra (Plus)

Puffin Books

Alex

Children's Books

Puffin

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.

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

Alessandra: Alex in Rome

Oxford University Press

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

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.

Alex in Rome

Teen & Young Adult

'I have always known that in another life I was-or will be-a dolphin. I am a pink human, caught in a net of ambition and years of hard work. In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I'll either be ecstatic or a failure.' Fifteen-year-old swimming champ Alex Archer has her mind set on one goal-competing in the Olympic Games in Rome. Alex has been training hard for six years--but so has her archrival, Maggie Benton. Maggie isn't the only obstacle Alex must overcome. She's spread herself too thin at school, and at home she's worried about her grandmother's failing health. She needs complete concentration for the competition, but it's becoming harder to give her all. Then, her handsome boyfriend, Andy is in a terrible accident. Even if Alex can deal with all these unforeseen problems, can she beat Maggie to make it to the Olympic Games?

Starfire

Discusses the original Olympic Games of ancient Greece, describes what a Greek boy would have seen at a typical Olympics, recounts the end of the ancient Games and their modern revival, and introduces some of the leading athletes, ancient and modern.

Journey to Olympia: The Story of the Olympic Games

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

scholastic

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