ACTION AND ADVENTURE STORIES
Title | Author | Call Number |
Robert Langdon SERIES | Brown, D | Adventure BROWN |
Jack Ryan SERIES | Clancy, T | Adventure CLANCY |
State of Fear | Crichton, M | Adventure CRICHTON |
The NUMA Files SERIES | Cussler, C | Adventure CUSSLER |
The Odessa File | Forsyth, F | Adventure FORSYTH |
A Perfect Spy | Le Carre, J | Adventure LECARRE |
Hellfire | Ryan, C | Adventure RYAN |
ASIAN STORIES
Title | Author | Call Number |
Life of Pi: a novel | Martel, Y & Vickers, S | Adventure MARTEL |
Three Cups of Tea: one man’s extraordinary journey to promote peace . . . one school at a time | Mortenson, G & Relin, D.O | Biographies MORTENSON |
The White Tiger | Adiga, A | General ADIGA |
Sold | McCormick, P | General MCCORMICK |
Shantaram | Roberts, G.D | General ROBERTS |
Cloudwish | Wood, F | General WOOD |
Son of Heaven | Wingrove, D | Fantasy WINGROVE |
AUSTRALIAN STORIES
Title | Author | Call Number |
My First Lesson | Various | Short Stories MY |
Sidekicks | Kostakis, W | General KOSTAKIS |
A Fraction of the Whole | Toltz, S | General TOLTZ |
The Slap | Tsiolkas, C | General TSIOLKAS |
Breath | Winton, T | General WINTON |
One Would Think the Deep | Zorn, C | General ZORN |
Shame and the Captives | Keneally, T | Historical KENEALLY |
CRIME AND SUSPENSE STORIES
Title | Author | Call Number |
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington | Conant, J | 940.5486 CON |
Suspect | Crais, R | Suspense CRAIS |
The Betrayal | Erskine, Y.A | Suspense ERSKINE |
The Godfather | Puzo, M | Suspense PUZO |
Dead Point | Temple, P | Suspense TEMPLE |
CLASSICS
Title | Author | Call Number |
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller | Calvino, I & Weaver, W | Classics CALVINO |
The Outsider | Camus, A | Classics CAMUS |
The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway, E | Classics HEMINGWAY |
Brave New World | Huxley, A | Classics HUXLEY |
War and Peace | Tolstoy, L | Classics TOLSTOY |
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION
Title | Author | Call Number |
Pure Trilogy SERIES | Baggott, J | Fantasy BAGGOTT |
Pulse SERIES | Carman, P | Fantasy CARMAN |
Seeker | Dayton, A | Fantasy DAYTON |
Interworld SERIES | Gaiman, N & Reaves, M | Fantasy GAIMAN |
Tales of Otori SERIES | Hearn, L | Fantasy HEARN |
Wool SERIES | Howey, H | Fantasy HOWEY |
Throne of Glass SERIES | Maas, S | Fantasy MAAS |
Lightbringer SERIES | Weeks, B | Fantasy WEEKS |
GENERAL FICTION
Title | Author | Call Number |
The Yearbook Committee | Ayoub, S | General AYOUB |
The Incredible Here and Now | Castagna, F | General CASTAGNA |
Words in Deep Blue | Crowley, C | General CROWLEY |
When We Collided | Lord, E | General LORD |
The Stars at Oktober Bend | Millard, G | General MILLARD |
The Truth | Palin, M | General PALIN |
Six | Tayleur, K | General TAYLEUR |
Everything is Changed | Weetman, N | General WEETMAN |
One Would Think the Ocean | Zorn, C | General ZORN |
HORROR
Title | Author | Call Number |
The Aeronaut’s Windlass | Butcher, J | Horror BUTCHER |
Passage Trilogy SERIES | Cronin, J | Horror CRONIN |
The Shining | King, S | Horror KING |
The Walking Dead SERIES | Kirkman, R | Horror KIRKMAN |
Party Games | Stine, R.L | Horror STINE |
99 Coffins | Wellington, D | Horror WELLINGTON |
INDIGENOUS STORIES
Title | Author | Call Number |
Season of Hate | Costello, M | Indigenous General COSTELLO |
The Lieutenant | Grenville, K | Indigenous General GRENVILLE |
Freedom Ride | Lawson, S | Indigenous General LAWSON |
That Deadman Dance | Scott, K | Indigenous General SCOTT |
Demons at Dusk: Massacre at Myall Creek | Stewart, P | Indigenous General STEWART |
SPORT STORIES
Title | Author | Call Number |
Big Thursday | Brooksbank, A | Adventure BROOKSBANK |
Stand-off | Smith, A | Adventure SMITH |
Casey Stoner: pushing the limits | Stoner, C & Roberts, M | Biographies STONER |
My Private Pectus | Thamm, S | General THAMM |
WAR STORIES
Title | Author | Call Number |
Songs of a War Boy | Adut, D.T. | Biographies ADUT |
An Act of Love | Gibbons, A | General GIBBONS |
Wolf by Wolf | Graudin, R | General GRAUDIN |
Schindler’s List | Keneally, T | General KENEALLY |
Black Rock White City | Patric, A.S. | General PATRIC |
After Darkness | Piper, C | General PIPER |
August . 1914 | Solzenitsyn, A | General SOLZENITSYN |
Code Name Verity | Wein, E | General WEIN |
Whether students see themselves as ‘readers’ or not, reading is still an essential 21st century skill. Students are probably reading more than ever; the preferred text may be Tweets or Facebook updates rather than a paperback, but reading is still a vital skill in analysing all manner of texts, understanding traditional and social media and communicating online and offline.
The Christopher Brennan Library Readers’ Cup Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable students to experience a wide variety of quality literature as well as some non-fiction. It is not a competition per se, but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. The challenge will involve students from Years 7 to 10 reading from a specified booklist to complete the challenge.
The Christopher Brennan Library Readers’ Cup Challenge is a competition that rewards students who enjoy and who are good at reading. Just as students who are good at sport receive rewards, good readers will receive recognition in the form of a certificate. Prizes will also be awarded to the top readers in each year level. In addition, a Cup will be awarded to the student who receives the highest overall points for the challenge.
The Challenge runs from Monday 22 May to Friday 25 August 2017. Students must complete their online submission forms by 11:59 pm Friday 25 August 2017. | |
Students must read from the set booklist for their year level. | |
Books are listed under genre headings. To be eligible for the challenge students must read from at least six (6) genre categories. | |
One point is awarded for every book that is read. | |
An additional 10 points will be awarded if the student reads books from ALL categories. | |
The Christopher Brennan Library Readers’ Cup will be awarded to the overall point winner for the challenge. |