Reading Crusader: Scott (Razor) Robertson
Position: No. 8
Favourite Authors: James Patterson
Favourite Types of Books:
- Thrillers
- Detective Stories
- Sports Biographies
Magazine: NZ Surf
If Scott’s books sound like your sort of books, try these:
Younger Fiction
Clements, Andrew
Jake Drake class clown
This year Jake has the grumpiest teacher ever, and so he decides to become the class clown to try and get her to smile. It’s not one of his better ideas, and one that lands him in problems with his teacher, his principal, and his parents!
David, Lawrence
Horace Splattly: the Cupcaked Crusader
Horace is the guinea pig in his sister’s scientific experiments, but when he eats her cupcakes, he becomes the Cupcaked Crusader, flying through the skies of Blootinville to foil evil and dastardly plots.
Pinkwater, Daniel
The werewolf club meets Dorkula
Henry Count Dorkula, the new kid in town, claims to be a vampire. When strange things start happening, the Werewolf Club is more than ready to believe him.
Older Fiction
Beale, Fleur
Playing to win
Denny is new in town, and feeling more than a bit out of things. But his dream is to play rugby for the school first fifteen, and maybe this can keep him going.
Dickinson, Steve
Jenna’s wave
Jenna is no longer allowed to play rugby with the boys - and there’s no girls’ team. She turns to surfing instead, and her determination to succeed is boosted by the advice she gets from the old surfer who waits on the beach.
Sefton, Catherine
The kidnapping of Suzie Q
Suzie Q and her mum are at the local supermarket when a hold-up goes wrong and Suzie is taken hostage. When she realises that her captors are a bunch of amateurs, with no idea of what they’re doing, Suzie starts to get really worried.
Van der Laarse, Liz
Not even
Trouble seems to follow Luke, but a summer spent with his grandfather up north fishing, bodysurfing and playing touch rugby begins to make a difference. A trip home convinces Luke the city has nothing for him, but on his return north, disaster strikes.
Winton, Tim
Lockie Leonard, legend
Lockie Leonard, human torpedo, returns in another surf and action-packed adventure from Lockie’s weird world.
Zindel, Paul
The surfing corpse
A P C Hawke mystery. Did Timmy Warner really plunge to his death on the class field trip?
Non-Fiction
Loizos, Constance
Skateboard!: your guide to street, vert, downhill, and more.
An action-packed guide sharing the excitement and special moves of all forms of boarding - to the extreme!
Sommerville, Donald
100 greatest sports champions
Read about champions from every sport - from basketball to Sumo wrestling, or from tennis to triathlon.
Mason, Paul
Surfing
Welcome to the world of goofy feet, floaters, tail slides and Bettys.
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