Reading Crusader: Mark Robinson

Position: Centre

Favourite Books: Ogg, and Full Circle, by Bob Jones

Favourite Authors:

• John Grisham
• Lee Child

Favourite Types of Books:

• Thrillers
• Detective Stories
• Biographies (John Lennon, Pablo Escobar)
• War/Military books

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

Younger Fiction

Ball, Duncan
Selby supersnoop
Selby is the best crime-busting dog in the world. The fact that he is also a talking dog may have something to do with his success.

Myers, Laurie
Surviving Brick Johnson
Alex is convinced that the only way to survive Brick Johnson is to take karate classes. But who also turns up at the karate club…?

Scieszka, Jon
Sam Samurai
Thanks to the Green Book again, the Time Warp Trio find themselves in Japan during the time of the samurai warriors.

Older Fiction

Ashley, Bernard
Little soldier
Kaninda survives a brutal attack on his village in East Africa and fights with the rebel army. Then aid workers find him and take him to London where he is drawn into a dangerous local conflict.

Booth, Martin
PoW
Ted Foley has just joined the Navy as a ship’s boy when his destroyer HMS Nomad is sunk in the WWI Battle of Jutland. Rescued and taken to a German prisoner of war camp, Ted is determined to escape.

Cross, Gillian
On the edge
Tug is kidnapped and held by a strange couple in a remote cottage. But the more they talk to him and treat him as their son, the more Tug begins to doubt just who he really is.

Horowitz, Anthony
Stormbreaker
Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider learns of his uncle’s sudden death, and almost immediately starts asking questions. Then MI6 step in and he is recruited in his uncle’s place, to try and find the true secret of Stormbreaker.

Paulsen, Gary
The rifle
The story of a rifle, from when it was first made in colonial America, through the time of the American Revolution, down to the present day when something happened…

Wulffson, Don L.
Soldier X
A sixteen-year-old German boy is sent to the Russian Front in the last days of World War II. He is wounded, and as he lies waiting for the Russians to find him and kill him, he decides to take the clothes and identity of a dead soldier - a Russian.

Non-Fiction

Fleming, Fergus
Tales of real spies
The true stories of some of history’s most famous and daring spies, and what happened to some of those who didn’t make it.

Lane, Brian
Crime and detection
Tales of dastardly crimes and desperate criminals throughout history, and the fight to bring them to justice.

Robertshaw, Andrew
A soldier’s life: a visual history of soldiers through the ages
From a Roman legionary to a US marine, here are the lives of soldiers throughout history.

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