Reading Crusader: Leon MacDonald

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Favourite Books:

• Kiss the Girls, by James Patterson
• Blood Work, by Michael Connelly

Favourite Types of Books:

• Thrillers
• Detective Stories
• Sports and other Biographies

Magazine: FHM; Rugby News

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

Younger Fiction

Blacker, Terence
You have ghost mail
A new computer, but a strange message appears on the scream. “Help”. Is it an e-mail from a ghost?

Boote, Adrian
The lollipop knight
Lucy doesn’t want a groovy granddad. A plain ordinary one would do. But instead she’s got a loopy lollipop man who cranks about in a suit of armour.

Clark, Sherryl
Batter up!
Spit and Haggis have always been friends, so when the new school year starts, and Spit dumps her as a friend, Haggis wants to know why.

Older Fiction

Blackman, Malorie
Tell me no lies
Genna cuts out pictures for her scrapbooks, pictures of mothers, like the one she will never, ever see again. Mike is a new boy at school, a boy who is desperate not to be noticed, who has a secret so terrible it will haunt him forever. But Genna's sure she's seen Mike's face before. And now she's out to get him.

Fleischman, Sid
Bo & Mzzz Mad
When his father dies, Bo Gamage warily moves to the Mojave Desert home of his distant and estranged relatives, the Martinkas, where he finds that "Mad" lives up to her name, PawPaw despises him and Aunt Juna hopes he'll help search for the gold mine that started a family feud.

French, Jackie
Hitler’s daughter
A story is told while waiting at a bus stop - a ‘what if…’ story about a girl who may have been Hitler’s daughter.

Hager, Mandy
Run for the trees
Thirteen-year-old Ben gets caught in a campaign to expose political corruption and save native forests from exploitation. An adventure that races from West Coast wasp nests to Wellington's Beehive.

Reeve, Philip
Mortal engines
In a future where towns and cities can move around and prey on lesser settlements, only the strong and mobile can hope to survive.

Wynne-Jones, Tim
The boy in the burning house
Stirring up the past can be a dangerous business, but is Tim strong enough to confront the truth - at any cost?

Non-Fiction

Adams, Simon
Code breakers: from hieroglyphs to hackers
Codes from the past and present - and even some of your own.

Amrich, Dan
PlayStation 2 for dummies
How to have more fun with PlayStation 2, from the inside scoop on gaming techniques to tips, tricks and cheats to help you master the most popular PS2 games.

Prior, Natalie Jane
The encyclopedia of preserved people: pickled, frozen and mummified corpses from around the world.
Weird and weirder stories of what happened to some of the most famous bodies in the world.

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