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Henry and the Flea
By Brian Falkner
This book is about a twelve year-old boy, Daniel, who has a special power- he can make the whole world turn into slow motion-except him. He wants to use this power to get him into the Warriors rugby league team. The coach does not think he is big enough but eventually he gives in and Daniel becomes a Warrior. In the team he makes a friend in Henry Knight, a big prop forward, who offers to take him to practices. They quickly become best mates and Daniel starts to pull away from his other school friends- Jason, Tupai and Fizzer. In The Warriors he is nicknamed the flea, because of his speed. Then it is the final of the NRL, and Daniel has just come on. Can he score the winning try?
Recommended reading age: 9-12
Angus, age 11
I Coriander
By Sally Gardner
Coriander gets a pair of magical shoes and when she puts them on she goes into a different world. When her dad gets married, to what he thought was a nice lady everything goes wrong when Master Hobie (Dad) gets sent away for a bad reason!
I really enjoyed this book heaps and just couldn't put it down once I had started reading it.
Recommended reading age: 12-14
Danielle, age 11
Spilled water
By Sally Grindley
There is a girl called Li Su Yan from the parts of Asia. Her father had died and her uncle is in charge of her now. Her mother is very poor. One day, Li Su Yan gets sold to a man and has live with him forever! This book is about sadness. But very gifted.
Recommended reading age: 9-13
Karen, age 10
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Into the wild (Warriors; book one)
By Erin Hunter
When I first saw this book I thought that it was one of those silly stories about talking animals. It turned out to be much more interesting than I originally thought.
It is about a kitten, Rusty, who lives with his owners in a big house by the woods, where there are rumoured to be vicious and wild clan cats, who fight for food and territory. He is well fed and happy with his life.
Then one day Rusty decides to go hunting in the forest, when he meets some wild cats from ThunderClan. He joins ThunderClan and becomes Firepaw, an apprentice warrior cat to Bluestar, the leader of ThunderClan.
More and more mysteries are revealed as he spends time with the clan. Are RiverClan and ShadowClan allies against ThunderClan? And can Tigerclaw, the fierce warrior be trusted?
This book is compelling and action-packed, and I recommend it highly.
Recommended reading age: 10
Angus, age 11
Titchy witch and the birthday broomstick
By Rose Impey
The first thing that happened was it was the witch’s birthday. She searched everywhere for her birthday presents while her mum and dad was sleeping then she went in the living room and a bird called Mr P gave her lots of birthday presents. She opened the biggest one, when she opened it, it was a broom stick and witch’s clothes then she started to fly around the room and then she flew out from the chimney, a baby fell from nowhere and she saved the baby. Her dad was a wizard and her mum was a witch. My favourite character is the witch.
Recommended reading age: 7-9
Fatana, age 9
The Serpents of Arakesh (The Karazan quartet)
By V.M. Jones
Adam Equinox is disruptive in class, has poor social skills, and is a bad influence on his classmates. He shows no interest in his schoolwork and needs to develop a sense of self-respect.
But a bad report is the least of Adam's problems. Abandoned outside the orphanage, he has no idea who - or where - his parents are, no friends, nothing he's good at, and nowhere he belongs.
When he signs up for a competition, his luck starts to change. In 25 words or less he has to say why he should get to meet Quentin Quested, inventor of Karazan (a series of awesome games) and go on a two-day trial of new, top secret computer science. Adam enters a world he'd never dreamed of - on a mission of life and death.
It's quite exciting, but a little befuddling in parts. The Serpents of Arakesh is the first book in the Karazan Quartet.
Recommend reading age: 10 - 16.
Jake, age 11
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