Auckland Girls' Grammar School

16,161 pages read and 1,702 team points

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Vanesssa

3,294 pts

(2,110 pages read)

The Bell Jar

By Sylvia Plath

4 stars

Another classic text I've somehow managed to avoid reading until now. Elegant, infuriating and desperately sad. And it used to be a Year 13 standard!
A Little Princess

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

3 stars

I read this (in)famous 19th century children's story in one sitting on a rainy Sunday, having realized, when my daughter told me how much she'd loved it as a kid, that I'd never actually read it. Kind of enjoyable as a soap opera.
Furysong

By Rosaria Mundi

5 stars

I enjoyed the second book of this trilogy so much I bought this finale as soon as I finished it; I wasn't disappointed. Immensely satisfying plotting - within its fantasy setting of a world of dragons and different peoples, it reflects with intense fidelity the choices, challenges, risks and opportunities of real life.
I Am Not Esther

By Fleur Beale

3 stars

Given the visibility of militant Christian nationalism in the US these holidays, this story felt topical; Gloriavale, too, was in the news. As the cover says, it's a classic NZ novel; Beale evokes the frightening claustrophobia of controlling, patriarchal religion through the eyes of a teenage girl forced to submit to it.
Flamefall

By Rosaria Mundi

5 stars

Number two in a high-fantasy trilogy. Thrilling plot, lots of action, and complex character development as well as epic themes of power, love, tragedy, and justice. And dragons.
Telesā: The Covenant Keeper

By Lani Wendt Young

3 stars
The Paradise Generation

By Sanna Thompson

5 stars

A slowburner for me; then it suddenly became a page-turner. Set some long way into the future, this is Aotearoa after Plagues have killed billions and rising sea levels have made parts of Wellington uninhabitable. The dystopian elements of this society are revealed very gradually; like 16-year-old Kieran, we’re lulled by the familiar, until he’s forced by events to make some brave choices. With themes including genetic engineering, climate change, freedom and autonomy, authoritarianism and love, this would be a really good text for senior students.

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16,161 pages read and 1,702 team points

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Vanesssa

The Bell Jar

A Little Princess

Furysong

I Am Not Esther

Flamefall

Telesā: The Covenant Keeper

The Paradise Generation

Auckland Girls' Grammar School

16,161 pages read and 1,702 team points

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