Reading Crusader: Reuben Thorne

Position: Blindside Flanker (No. 6)

Favourite Authors: Wilbur Smith; James Patterson

Favourite Types of Books:

• Thrillers
• Science Fiction
• Sports Biographies

Newspaper: The Press

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

Younger Fiction

Fine, Anne
Notso Hotso
Anthony the dog has a serious skin condition, but nobody’s doing anything about it.

Moloney, James
Intergalactic heroes
They knew that the old walkie-talkies didn’t really work, so where was the voice coming from? And what did it mean by “You have thirty seconds to decide the future of your species!”

Van Allsburg, Chris
Zathura: a space adventure
Left on their own for an evening, two boisterous brothers find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical space adventure board game. Sequel to Jumanji.

Older Fiction

Cooper, Susan
Green boy
When their island in the Bahamas is endangered by developers, Trey and his younger brother, Lou, find a way into the world of Pangaia where the environment is also under threat.

Gibbons, Alan
Shadow of the minotaur
Phoenix’s dad has helped create a virtual reality computer game that gets just a little too real. Before he knows it, Phoenix is fighting for his life in the world of the Ancient Greek myths.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Among the imposters
Luke Garner is out of hiding for the first time in his life, attending Hendricks School for Boys, and the only advice he has been given is to “blend in”.
Sequel to Among the hidden

Hobbs, Will
Jason’s gold
Jason stows away on board a ship bound for the goldfields of the Klondike. Together with his dog, King, he survives the dangers of the wild, including moose, bears and a subarctic winter, in this bone-chilling adventure.

Korman, Gordon
No more dead dogs
Wallace Wallace, football player and hero, refuses to tell a lie, not even a little white one. So when his teacher asks him for a book report, he says what he really thinks, and then the trouble begins.

Waugh, Sylvia
Space race
Thomas and his father look like any other father and son. But then Thomas learns that he and his father are not from Earth, and now they must rendezvous with their space ship.

Non-Fiction

Hammond, Tim
Sport
Another great Eyewitness guide - this time to all sports. It even asks, “Who performs a war-dance before every match” - but you know the answer to that, don’t you?

McQuillan, Andrew
The young rugby player
Tackle, pass, win a line-out - with this book you may end up wearing a Crusader shirt yourself!

Richardson, Hazel
How to - build a rocket
Find out how space travel first began and how it works, how to survive on the moon, and how to build a rocket to get you there!

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