Reading Crusader: Mark Hammett
Position: Hooker
Favourite Books:
- River God
- Seventh Scroll
- Warlock (by Wilbur Smith)
- Earthchild series
Favourite Types of Books:
- Sports biographies
- History
- Biographies
- Investment books
Magazines: Consumer
If Mark’s books sound like your sort of books, try these:
Younger Fiction
Playing to win
Three stories about competing - and maybe not always winning.
Durant, Alan
Spider McDrew
Spider McDrew is usually one step behind everyone else because he’s so busy dreaming, but he does have a special talent for surprises.
Pilkey, Dav
The adventures of Captain Underpants
Who's faster than a speeding waistband, more powerful than boxer shorts, and able to leap tall buildings without getting a wedgie - yes - it's Captain Underpants!!
Older Fiction
Cadnum, Michael
The book of the lion
Edmund is waiting to be punished for his master’s crime when he is offered the chance to join the crusade to the Holy Lands under Richard the Lionheart.
Lawrence, Iain
The wreckers
When John Spencer survives the wreck of his father’s ship on the Cornish coast and makes his way to the nearest village, he thinks he’s suffered the worst that could happen to him. But it’s a village of wreckers, who lure ships onto the rocks, and will not let any survivors live.
Lynch, Chris
Gold dust
Richard has a dream to be the next baseball Gold Dust Twins - the best pair of rookies in a team. Unfortunately he needs the other twin, and when Napoleon Charles Ellis arrives at his school, Richard thinks he’s found the right partner- or has he?
Nix, Garth
The fall
Tal lives in the mysterious Castle, where a strict hierarchy of ranks controls his every move. But when his father disappears, his life is turned upside down, and a desperate quest to steal a Sunstone becomes even more perilous.
Seventh Tower series
Roberts, Katherine
The great pyramid robbery
Magic, murder and mayhem spread through the Two Lands when Senu, the son of a scribe, is caught up in a plot to rob the great pyramid of Khufu.
Seven Fabulous Wonders
Wilkinson, Carole
Prince in exile
Someone has tried to kill spoilt and selfish Prince Ramose, but he is alive and in hiding, in the Valley of the Tombs. Can he survive, and win back his position as heir to the throne of Egypt?
Ramose series
Non-Fiction
Malam, John
Mummies and the secrets of Ancient Egypt
Find out about the strange gods and magic beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians, and how they discovered the art of mummy-making.
Richardson, Hazel
How to -- build a time machine
Take a journey through time and space, and find out just how risky a business time travel could be!
Stanley, Diana
Saladin: noble prince of Islam
The story of Saladin, the great military leader who united his people against the crusading forces of the West.
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