The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge

This has been completed for 2020 but students can continue to note down titles and authors of books they are reading in their own journals – ready to enter them when the NSW PRC 2021 opens next March. Reading from the end of the previous challenge is eligible to be entered in the next one.

Holiday reading

If you are wondering what to read this holiday, please consider asking the Teacher Librarian for suggestions.

The most popular books in the Primary Library currently are detailed below: 

Kindergarten to Year 2 
Students are finding Tedd Arnold’s Fly Guy books appealing. These are creating a big buzz with early readers. These popular books appeal to both the reluctant and eager readers as they are full of humour, have large text, bright illustrations and are particularly useful in helping students transition to reading independently.

Kindergarten to Year 4
Readers are rushing the Ninjago books off the shelves. There are 19 books in the Ninjago series. Authors: Greg Farshtey, Tracey West, and Kate Howard. These feature the battle between good and evil and are action-packed books with bright illustrations.

Book 1 Way of the Ninja recounts the kidnapping of Kai’s sister, Nya. Kai must learn Spinjitzu from Sensei Wu, a mysterious old man, to rescue her.

Also in the library is Lego Ninjago, Masters of Spinjitzu Character Encyclopedia. Author: Claire Sipi

Kindergarten to Year 6
Anything Star Wars is popular. From the large books that illustrate in detail the Star Wars vehicles to the many Star Wars novels .

These vary from the:

• Dorling Kindersley Readers DK1 Beginning to Read to DK4 Reading Alone.
• To Star Wars novels such as Return of the Jedi adapted by Brian Houlihan and the Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson

Years 2 to 6
Students are enjoying the books by Andy Griffiths, especially the Treehouse Series.

The treehouse started as a 13 storey treehouse that contained a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, and a secret underground laboratory. Wonder of wonders there was even a  marshmallow machine that shot marshmallows into your mouth whenever you were hungry.

The Treehouse series has grown over the years by increments of 13 with the addition of many exciting and different attractions such as a wave machine and snakes and ladders games with real snakes and ladders. The latest book is The 117-Story Treehouse: Dots, Plots Daring Escapes!

Years 5 and 6
Students are reading Rick Riordan’s many adventure novels, especially those with a Greek mythological background.

Examples are:

• Percy Jackson and the Greek heroes
• If you enjoyed Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods you will probably enjoy this book in which Percy Jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original Greek heroes.
• The Hidden Oracle Book 1 in The Trials of Apollo series.
  The god Apollo is cast down from Olympus by his father Zeus who has given him the form of a teenage boy in the modern-day world in New York. How can he survive until he can find a way to regain Zeus’s favour? He has many enemies who can destroy him in this earthly form and so he seeks help from the modern demigods in Camp Half Blood

Please remember to select some Holiday Reading!