Aspiring it shames our past

it shames our past

Peter Beaven

as well as forestry and flower production

the Auckland City Mission’s unique and visionary wrap-around social services complex

to working with child sexual abuse

Aspiring it shames our pastAn engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all Winner of the Young Adult Fiction Award at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Fifteen year old Ricky lives in Aspiring, a town thats growing at an alarming rate. Rickys growing, too 67, and taller every day. But hes stuck in a loop: student, uncommitted basketballer, and puzzled son, burdened by his familys sadness. And whos the weird guy in town