Reading Crusader: Nathan Mauger

Position: Centre

Favourite Book: Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom

Favourite Types of Books:

• Sports Biographies
• Financial Books
• Spiritual Books (Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield)

Magazines: Ralph; FHM

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

Younger Fiction

Fine, Anne
How to cross the road and not turn into a pizza
Crossing the road safely is like anything else - you can learn how to do it. That's what Miss Talentino tells Simon and the rest of his class. But there is one big difference: if you get a question wrong in class, you won't end up as flat as a pizza!

Hesse, Karen
Just Juice
Juice’s Dad is out of work and has other problems that Juice doesn’t know about. But when she does find out what’s wrong, she realises she has to do something really important, both for her and her family.

McDonald, Meme
Flytrap
Nancy’s told the teacher she has a Venus Flytrap, and the teacher’s asked her to bring it to school - the only problem is, Nancy doesn’t actually have one.

Older Fiction

Bloor, Edward
Crusader
Roberta begins to question the place of the ‘Crusader’ virtual reality game in her family’s game arcade when it appears to incite racism and violence in her world.

Clements, Andrew
Frindle
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control

Cowley, Joy
Starbright and the Dream Eater
There is a prophecy that a Bright Star will save the world from the Dream Eater, an advanced life form which also knows of the prophecy and is hunting Starbright Connor.

Jones, V.M.
Buddy
Josh has set himself a challenge when he enters a triathlon. He’s a great sportsman, except in swimming, and before he can learn to swim, he must overcome his fear of the water.

Metzenthen, David
The colour of sunshine
When a new family comes into town it seems to Davey as if they’ve brought colour back into his world, after a long absence.

Winton, Tim
Blueback
Abel Jackson and his mother live in Longboat Bay. The only other long-term inhabitant is a giant groper, known as “Blueback” to Abel.

Non-Fiction

Bailer, Darice
Dive!
Your guide to snorkelling, scuba, night-diving, free-diving, exploring shipwrecks, caves and more.

Rossell, Judith
The lost treasure of the green iguana: a jungle maze adventure.
Are you brave enough and cunning enough to track through unexplored jungle teeming with dangerous and unusual creatures in search of treasure?

Woods, Michael
Ancient communication: from grunts to graffiti
Ancient people weren’t as primitive as you might think! Learn how people communicated in the past, and some of the ancient symbols which still survive today.

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