Reading Crusader: Scott Hamilton

Position: Fullback/Wing

Favourite Types of Books:

• Thrillers
• Detective Stories
• Sports Biographies
• Other Sports Books

Newspaper: Press

Magazines:

• Ralph
• FHM
• Men’s Health

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

Younger Fiction

Ahlberg, Allan
The woman who won things
Meet the Gaskitts, especially Mrs Gaskitt, who wins surprising things.

Cowley, Joy
Dragon slayer
If George the dragon slayer gets his way, all of the McDragon clan will end up as suits of armour or dragon burgers.

Mark, Jan
Long lost
When George’s family inherit a lot of money, does he also inherit a family curse?

Older Fiction

Gillian Cross
Tightrope
Ashley lives two lives, one as a devoted and well-behaved daughter who never gets into trouble, and one as Cindy, graffiti artist. And then she comes to Eddie Beale's notice, and when Eddie Beale says jump, everybody turns cartwheels.

Ford, Vince
Somuch2do
Davin’s school project is about making money, but as far as his family and mates can tell, chooks, pigs, worms and eels aren’t the obvious way to go about it.

Hirsch, Odo
Something’s fishy, Hazel Green
When a thief steals two lobsters, Hazel Green knows there’s something fishy going on, but she needs all her detecting skills to solve the mystery.

Horowitz, Anthony
Point blanc
Sequel to Stormbreaker. Alex has another mission to carry out for MI6, this time in a snow-bound chateau in France, where another sinister master-mind has plans to take over the world.

Noonan, Diana
A whistle from the Blunder
Cadence is spending the holidays in the remote township of Burchfield. The whistle of a steam train wakes her at 6 o'clock in the mornings, but there is no railway line and no train, not any more. Cadence decides to investigate.

Van Draanen, Wendelin
Sammy Keyes and the curse of Moustache Mary
While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbour, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.

Non-Fiction

Burnie, Richard
Masterthief
You must collect evidence so that you have a cast-iron case against suspected criminal Mr Fabrizzi by the time you raid the Masterthief’s premises at the end of the book.

Dowswell, Paul
Tales of real survival
Extraordinary stories of real people who faced disasters and death but survived.

Oxlade, Chris
Crime-fighting
There’s more than fingerprints to the science of fighting and solving crime.

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