Reading Crusader: Sam Broomhall

Position: No. 8

Favourite Books: River God, Seventh Scroll and Warlock, by Wilbur Smith. The Testament, by John Grisham.

Favourite Types of Books:

• Thrillers
• Sports Books
• Adventure

Newspaper: The Press

Magazine: Auto Trader, New Zealand Fishing News

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

Younger Fiction

Fine, Anne
Press “play”
Mum’s not there to get Nicky, Tasha and Little Joe up and out to school that morning. But she’s left a mysterious note on top of the cassette player. It just says ‘Press Play’.

Metzenthen, David
The red hot footy fiasco
Justine just happens to be in the park when a football is kicked out of the grounds. And she just happens to see where the ball goes, into the duck pond, before the pack of boys who collect the lost balls arrive on the scene.

Wilson, David Henry
Never steal wheels from a dog
Jeremy James is on a mission to save his hair, his tricycle, the Third World and his friend Richard’s smoking gran.

Older Fiction

Creech, Sharon
The Wanderer
Thirteen-year-old Sophie is on board The Wanderer, sailing with her cousins and uncles for England. But she finds that the adventure of the open sea is not the only journey she must make.

Cross, Gillian
Wolf
Danger is coming after Cassy. And behind it lurks the dark wolf-shape that seems to slink into everything.

Dickinson, Steve
Last cast
Zac and Rex have been mates forever. They both love fishing, any sort of fishing. When they discover Big Boris, the snapper down in the rock pool, the race is on to see who can catch him.

McCaughrean, Geraldine
Gold dust
Rumours of gold have hit the small town in Brazil where Inez and Maro live, and now the entire main street is being dug up as the gold fever hits.

Nicholson, William
The wind singer
Kestrel and her twin brother Bowman discover that all is not well in the city of Amaranth, and that they must restore the voice of the wind singer.
Wind on fire series

Platt, Richard
Pirate diary: the journal of Jake Carpenter
Describes the adventures of nine-year-old Jake as he discovers the thrills and perils of life on the high seas.

Non-Fiction

Aston, Claire
Shipwreck
Fast forward to find out how a ship came to be at the bottom of the sea, from its attack and sinking by pirates, to its discovery by divers centuries later.

Bailey, John
The young fishing enthusiast
Everything you need to know to begin fishing - equipment, clothing, techniques (but no local fishing holes).

Platt, Richard
Explorers: pioneers who broke new boundaries.
Follow these explorers as they travel by sea, river, land and ice - up the world’s highest peaks, into the ocean depths, and even into space.

Join the latest Reading Crusade.