The Whale Rider

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Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to turn out her love, her leadership, and her destiny. Her other people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary “whale rider.” In each and every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief. But now there is not any male heir, and the aging chief is desperate to discover a successor. Kahu is his only great-grandchild–and Maori tradition has no use for a woman. But if hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the way forward for the Maori tribe, it’s Kahu who saves the tribe when she reveals that she has the whale rider’s ancient gift of communicating with whales.
Now to be had in simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions.
Feature film in theaters in June 2003!
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