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Lyla by Fleur Beale6/22/2023 ![]() Many of her friends have already left and her constant companion is her neighbour, Matt, a boy she really doesn’t have much time for. Lyla is thirteen - too young for the student army, not allowed anywhere there is danger. Her mother is part of the emergency team in the city and her father, after not hearing from him for two days, is back at the hospital. As she heads out of the city, she loses her friends, finds others she has to help, drawing on her ability to stay calm in a crisis - possibly having parents who are a police officer and a nurse might have helped. They all have an earthquake plan: go home. It swirled and lifted in great clouds.” She knows she has to get out. ![]() “The white stuff in the air wasn’t fog, it was dust. ![]() Lyla is thirteen, almost fourteen, when the Christchurch earthquake of February 22nd 2011 strikes. Fleur Beale is an exceptional writer and once again she gets into the head of a teenage girl. ![]()
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