Aspiring Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker

Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker both sought and found their respective birthparents at different stages of their lives and have become advocates for other adopted New Zealanders

as well as extensive interviews

North & South

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Aspiring Jo Willis and Brigitta BakerAn 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