Reading Crusader: Richard McCaw

Position: Openside Flanker

Favourite Authors:

• Tom Clancy
• Jeffrey Archer (Kane and Abel)
• Bryce Courtenay (Power of One)

Favourite Types of Books:

• Thrillers
• Sports Biographies
• Other Sports Books

Newspaper: The Press

Magazine: FHM; Ralph

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

Younger Fiction

Krensky, Stephen
Louise, soccer star?
Louise has dreams of being the star of her soccer team, but this season she has problems with her game. Or is she just having problems with the flashy new player from England?

Metzenthen, David
The red boxing gloves
Two kids from different sides of town - both boxers, and both ready to fight each other just for being different.

Moloney, James
A box of chicks
Mervyn loves any animal, but when he comes home with a box of day-old chicks his mother isn’t nearly as excited as he is.

Older Fiction

Beale, Fleur
Ambushed
“Hi Tyler. My sister just told me you’d arrived at school. I bet nobody would talk to you, just like they wouldn’t talk to me when I first came. And then dear old Alex and Corky and Gray turn up and want to be friends. If you don’t want to get sucked in like I did, then phone me tonight!”

Cowley, Joy
Froghopper
Felicity, Petros and Liberty Green think they're the luckiest kids on earth - their artist mum and woodcarver dad have decided to take them sailing round the Marlborough Sounds for a year!

Cronin, Michael
Against the day
It is 1940 and the Nazis have invaded Britain.. All over the country the German military is in control, and the people are being ground into submission. But slowly a resistance is building…

Gleitzman, Morris
Boy overboard
Soccer-mad Jamal and Bibi are forced to leave Taleban-ruled Afghanistan when their mother’s secret school is discovered by the authorities. Together, they join the flood of refugees trying to reach Australia.

Honey, Elizabeth
Remote man
When Ned’s mother threw the frying-pan at the TV set they both knew things need to change. But Ned didn’t really count on being posted off to the Northern Territory, and getting caught up in a chase from Australia to the United States to crack an international gang of endangered animal smugglers.

Korman, Gordon
Island. Book one: Shipwreck
Six children find themselves on trip with a difference. But after a storm hits the Phoenix, the group are shipwrecked on an island, with little hope of survival or rescue.

Non-Fiction

Anderson, Colin
How to catch fish
The best ways to catch fish, whether you’re using a hand-line, a fly-rod, or surf-casting. You can even find out how to skin an eel!

Barker, Amanda
Windsurfing
Part of the Radical Sports series, with information on equipment, safety, skills and everything you need to know to have a great time on the water.

MacQuitty, Miranda
Sharks and other scary sea creatures
Just remember that the hungrier a shark is, the better its sense of smell. Watch out!

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