Reading Crusader: Chris Jack

Position: Lock

Favourite Author: Tom Clancy

Favourite Types of Books:

• Detective stories
• War stories

Magazines:

• Auto Trader
• Buy, Sell and Exchange

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

Younger Fiction

Gwynne, Phillip
The worst team ever
Jimmy smells a dead rat when he joins the Matrafield Under-13 footy team. Why does the coach want them to keep on losing?

McBratney, Sam
Kristel Dimond, timecop
Kristel Dimond must track down the thief who used a Timehole to steal an invention from four hundred years in the future.

Morpurgo, Michael
Toro! Toro!
It is wartime, but Antonito is worried only by the thought that his pet bull Paco must go to the bullring and fight. Antonito plans to run away, but then the war enters his life with tragic results.

Older Fiction

Booth, Martin
Music on the bamboo radio
When the Japanese invade Hong Kong in 1941, Nicholas manages to escape to mainland China where, disguised as a Chinese peasant, he waits for news of his parents.

Cross, Gillian
Calling a dead man
Hayley will do anything to trace her missing brother, even if it means travelling to Russia and dealing with people determined to keep her from the truth.

Orlev, Uri
The island on Bird Street
Alex is waiting for his father to return - waiting in a secret hiding-place in the empty Jewish ghetto in Warsaw

Ridden, Brian
Whistle man
Garrett Clancy is just a few years younger than Ned Kelly, and sees Ned as a hero for the Irish poor. But becoming involved with the gang of Kelly sympathisers may be more dangerous than he realises.

Sutcliff, Rosemary
The eagle of the Ninth
The Ninth Legion disappeared into the mists of Northern Britain and were never seen again. Now Marcus is determined to find out what happened to his father, commander of the Ninth, and the missing eagle standard.

Westall, Robert
The machine-gunners
When Chas discovers the wreckage of a German bomber with its machine-gun still intact, he is determined to add the weapon to his collection of war souvenirs.

Non-Fiction

Guy, John
Weapons and warfare
A history of the ways in which warfare has been waged over the centuries, and how the great military leaders of the past can still influence today’s armies.

Platt, Richard
Villains: traitors, tyrants and thieves
Some of the nastier villains to have lived are revealed in this book, including one who shot another man for snoring!

Sanchez Vicario, Arantxa
The young tennis player
Hot tips from the world of professional tennis, from serves to backhands, and from topspin lobs to overhead smashes.

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