Reading Crusader: Aaron Mauger
Position: No. 12
Reading Interests:
- Non-fiction
- History
Favourite Types of Books:
- Thrillers
- Detective stories
- Horror
- Sports or other biographies
If Aaron’s books sound like your sort of books, try these:
Younger Fiction
Myers, Walter Dean
Smiffy Blue: ace crime detective
Investigate the case of the missing ruby and other mysteries with the world’s greatest detective, Smiffy Blue.
Nimmo, Jenny
The bodigulpa
Something has taken over Daniel’s greenhouse. Is it a monster? A ghost? A plant? Just what exactly is the bodigulpa?
Oldfield, Jenny
Not now, Nathan!
Nathan might be super-brainy, but when his pet spider, Leggs, goes missing, it’s Daisy who organises the search for the missing arthropod.
Older Fiction
Arrigan, Mary
Baldur’s bones
A long-dead Viking warrior and a plague of evil supernatural rats fight to settle a centuries-old feud.
Cheaney, J. B.
The playmaker
Richard Malory has come to London to find his father, but when he realises that someone is trying to make him leave the city, he finds a place to hide on stage with Shakespeare’s company at the Globe.
Hobbs, Will
Down the Yukon
After Dawson City’s Great Fire of 1899, Jason and his friend Jamie canoe down the Yukon River across Alaska in a desperate race to the goldfields at Nome.
Lawrence, Iain
The smugglers
After his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.
Sequel to The wreckers.
Paulsen Gary
Mr Tucket
It’s 1848, and Francis Tucket is travelling with his family on the Oregon Trail. Kidnapped by Indians, Francis is rescued by a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to survive in the wild.
Paulsen, Gary
Soldier’s heart
Fifteen-year-old Charley longs to join the Union forces and fight against the Confederate rebels. But nothing has prepared him for the horror of war.
Non-Fiction
Blumberg, Rhoda
Shipwrecked!: the true adventures of a Japanese boy
Japan had been cut off from the rest of the world for over two hundred years when a 14 year-old Japanese fisherman was shipwrecked 300 miles from home. Even if Manjiro survived, would he be allowed to return to Japan?
Myers, Walter Dean
The greatest: Muhammad Ali
The story of the Louisville Lip, a.k.a. Cassius Clay, a.k.a. Muhammad Ali, a.k.a. The Greatest.
Platt, Richard
Castle diary: the journal of Tobias Burgess, page
Eleven-year-old page Toby Burgess describes life in a thirteenth-century castle, and the people - from the Constable guarding the castle, to the Gong Farmer who cleans the garderobes. (Read the book to find out what he does!)
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