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Reading Crusader: Corey Flynn

Corey FlynnPosition: Hooker

Favourite Types of Books:

  • Thrillers
  • Detective stories
  • Horror
  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy

Magazines:

  • Ralph
  • FHM
  • NZ Rugby

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

Younger Fiction

Ball, Duncan
Emily Eyefinger and the black volcano
Having an eye on the end of your finger can be useful if you’re one of those people who keep having adventures.

Deary, Terry
The ghosts of Batwing Castle
Molly and Wilkin J. Wilkins join forces to hunt for a treasure which appears only once every ten years and is guarded by a groaning ghost and a vicious vampire.

Scieszka, Jon and Lane Smith
Baloney (Henry P.)
Henry P. may be from another planet but he’s got problems just like you.

Older Fiction

Baillie, Allan
Treasure hunters
Pat joins his father on an old boat off the coast of an Indonesian island to search for the world’s richest shipwreck. But then the political turmoil on the island spills over and their expedition gets caught up in the violence.

Blacker, Terence
The angel factory
Tom has the perfect family - in fact, too perfect. When he tries to find out what their secret is, he uncovers the existence of the Angel Factory.

Gaiman, Neil
Coraline
Coraline finds a secret corridor behind a locked door, a corridor that takes her into a house very similar to her own, but with counterfeit parents and a quest on which her survival, and more, depends.

Harlen, Jonathan
Brain scam
Emma has invented an amazing miniature camera that can be inserted into the brain of an animal to keep track of where it goes. But imagine if this camera was transplanted into children, the worst-behaved children, so that their every move could be watched and controlled.

Pratchett, Terry
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents
A boy with a flute and a plague of rats. Sound familiar? This time, the setting is the fantastic Discworld, and these particular rats have been living on the compost heap at the wizard’s university, which means that anything could happen.

Rodda, Emily
The forests of silence
The power of the Shadow Lord is growing, and a quest for the seven missing gems from the legendary Belt of Deltora is the only hope for the doomed land.
Deltora quest

Non-Fiction

Barnett, Alex
Black holes and other space oddities.
Learn about black holes, warping space and time, and just what it could mean for time travel.

Malam, John
Gladiator: life and death in ancient Rome
Find out how gladiators were trained to fight to the death on the sands of the Colosseum.

Woodford, Chris
Criminal investigation
Everything you may ever want to know about forensic science, DNA fingerprinting, and other mysteries of the criminal investigation world.

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