Reading Crusader: Ben Blair

Position: Fullback

Favourite Books: Books by Jeffrey Archer

Favourite Types of Books:

• ‘Gangster’ Stories
• War Stories
• Detective Stories
• Sports Biographies
• Other Sports Books

Newspaper: Most

Magazines:

• Sports magazines
• Ralph
• FHM

If Ben’s books sound like your sort of books, try these:

Younger Fiction

Gervay, Susanne
I am Jack
Jack has been happy at school, until the day George Hamel begins calling him Bum Head. As the teasing and bullying builds, Jack finds life harder and harder, but how can he tell the people who could change things - his mother and his teacher?

Cowley, Joy
Dragon fire
Someone wants to get rid of all dragon fire in the forest. Will ace detective Robbie and cousin Meg trak down the culprit and give the McDragons back their fire?

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman
Nate the Great and the big sniff
Nate depends on his dog Sludge to help him solve all his cases, but Sludge can’t help him this time because Sludge is lost!

Older Fiction

Beckett, Bernard
Jolt
Marko awakes to find himself hidden from the world in a psychiatric ward. As he remembers the events of the past days following the earthquake which ripped his world apart, he realises the ‘Doctor’ means to kill him…

Cross, Gillian
New world
Miriam has been asked to test a new virtual reality game, but as she and her playing partner, Stuart, get deeper into the game they realise that something is going wrong - somebody is using their own private nightmares against them.

Hughes, Dean
Soldier boys
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II. Their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.

Naidoo, Beverley
The other side of truth
After their mother is shot, Sade and her brother Femi must be smuggled out of Nigeria to England. But even when they are in London, they are still in danger. Alone and penniless, who can they trust?

Swindells, Robert
Dosh
If you’re a working kid in this town part of your pay goes for protection to the Push gang run by Froggy Flitcroft. Maisie and her mates have had enough, and they form Pull, in opposition.

Vondra, Josef
No-name bird
1975, and the Portuguese are pulling out of East Timor. Fourteen-year-old Jose has a chance to escape the troubles and go to Lisbon. But he hates the thought of leaving his family, especially now when he has the chance to own and train a fighting cock.

Non-Fiction

Hill, Anthony
Soldier boy: the true story of Jim Martin, the youngest ANZAC
At just fourteen years old, Jim Martin sailed from Melbourne to Gallipoli, and the horrors that waited there

Jackson, Donna
The bone detectives: how forensic anthropologists solve crime and uncover mysteries of the dead
Find the secrets hidden in the bones and how their discovery helps to solve crimes.

Ross, Stewart
Bandits and outlaws
The truth about outlaws, highwaymen, smugglers and robbers from the bandit gangs of ancient China to the desperadoes of today.

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