Tev

'My name's Tevita Martin and I'm fourteen. But I'll be fifteen in less than two months. My parents call me Tev, usually, and Tevita when they're annoyed with me. There's been a lot of "Tevita" lately. That's the reason I'm being packed off to my mum's family in Tonga, to "sort me out, get rid of a few demons" as Dad put it.'

But Tev gets more than his parents bargained for. First there's the big culture shock of life in Tonga, then a cyclone, a death in the family, a grand passion . . . and a whole lot more.

Tev's journey from Perth to Tonga, his mother's country of birth, for Christmas holidays becomes "the adventure of a lifetime" when he confronts physical, emotional and cultural difficulties to learn much about himself and his family.