WIDE READING SUGGESTIONS

LEVEL 1

Students should try to read as widely as possible, here are some suggestions:

Acceleration by Graham NcNamee

Across the nightingale floor by Ian Hearne
All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque
Animal farm by George Orwell
Bloody Liggie by Ken Catran
Brilliance of the moon by Lian Hearne
The catalogue of the universe by Margaret Mahy
Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Child X by Lee Weatherly
The chocolate war by Robert Cormier
The conch bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
D J Max by Lisa Forrest
Dear nobody by Bertie Doherty
Disconnected by Sherry Ashworth
Eyes in the shadows by Alan Bunn
Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Markus Zusak
The Giver by Lois Lowry

Grass for his pillow by Lian Hearne

Hiroshima by John Hersey
Holes by Louis Sachar
Holly Starcross by Berlie Doherty
Home boys by Bernard Beckett
Hot hits by Bernie Monagle
I am not Esther by Fleur Beale
Jerome by William Taylor
Jolt by Bernard Beckett
Kat’s fall by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Kissing the rain by Kevin Brooks
Kit’s wilderness by David Almond
Letters from the coffin trenches by Ken Catran
Letters from the inside by John Marsden
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Lord of the flies by William Golding
Making laws for clouds by Nick Earls
Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
No alarms by Bernard Beckett
Of mice and men by John Steinbeck
The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway
On a good day by Deborah Burnside
Orchard Street by Maurice Gee
The other side of truth by Beverley Naidoo
Out of tune by Joanna Orwin
Out walked Mel by Paula Boock
Owl by Joanna Orwin
Parvana by Deborah Ellis
The pearl by John Steinbeck
The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The raging quiet by Sherryl Jordan
The rats of Wolfe Island by Alan Horsfield
Raw by Scott Monk
Red cliff by Bernard Beckett
Red dog in bandit country told by Bill Redding to Fleur Beale
Rocco by Sherryl Jordon
Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Sanctuary by Kate de Goldi
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Shabanu: daughter of the wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons
Skeleton key by Anthony Horowitz
Skellig by David Almond
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Stoner and Spaz by Ron Koertge
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Strange objects by Gary Crew
Surviving Hitler: a boy in Nazi death camps by Andrea Warren
Talking to Adam by Sarah Ell
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Three’s a crowd by Penelope Huber
Thunder Road by Ted Dawe
To kill a mockingbird by (Nelle) Harper Lee
Tomorrow, when the war began by John Marsden
Turnabout by Margaret Haddix
Walking naked by Alyssa Brugman
Warlands by Rachel Anderson
Warehouse by Keith Gray
White lies by J. C. Burke
The whole of the moon by Duncan Stuart
You don’t know me by David Klass