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Dreamboat Dad

By: Alan Duff
Narrated by: Ollie Howlett
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Yank is an ordinary enough teenager, except that he lives in a thermal wonderland (frequented by tourists eager to view the geysers and boiling mud) and except for the fact that one of those tourists (an American soldier visiting during the Second World War) was his father.

The locals gave the boy the nickname of Yank, a name that makes him different and ensures his mother's husband will never accept him as his own. So who was Yank's real father? Yank has only his dreams to fill the void, until the day a letter arrives ...

©2008 Alan Duff Creative Limited (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing
Coming of Age Family Life Genre Fiction

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'It's an optimistic story, Duff at his gentlest.' (Otago Daily Times)
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