Fraser High School

138,248 pages read and 16,195 team points

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29,380 pts

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The Poet X

By Elizabeth Acevedo

5 stars
Kōhine

By Colleen Maria Lenihan

3 stars
The Gallows Bird

By Barbara Sumner

3 stars
Remarkably Bright Creatures

By Shelly Van Pelt

5 stars
Full Throttle

By Joe Hill

0 stars
We Who are Forged in Fire

By Kate Murray

4 stars
The Pillars of the Earth

By Ken Follett

0 stars
The Leonard Girls

By Deborah Challinor

4 stars
Blood Men

By Paul Cleave

4 stars

This man really does not like Christchurch.
Singing Home the Whale

By Mandy Hager

4 stars
Jake's Long Shadow

By Alan Duff

0 stars
Killer Harvest

By Paul Cleave

4 stars
I, Medusa

By Ayana Gray

0 stars
The Stars are a Million Glittering Worlds

By Gina Butson

3 stars
The Laughterhouse

By Paul Cleave

3 stars
Ferno the Fire Dragon

By Adam Blade

0 stars
Stone Blind

By Natalie Haynes

4 stars
Into the River

By Ted Dawe

0 stars

I read that this book was banned because of the graphic sex scene between two teenagers, as well as the drug use. Those two things are not even the most glaring problem with the book.
Night

By Elie Wiesel

4 stars
Lincoln in the Bardo

By George Saunders

4 stars

I'm going to ruminate on this one for a while.
Collecting Cooper

By Paul Cleave

4 stars

I have serious doubts that Christchurch harbours the number of serial killers that Cleave would suggest.
Cemetery Lake

By Paul Cleeve

3 stars

I love a detective thriller and I can appreciate a flawed detective. However, Tate might be too flawed. I'm stunned that it's the first in a series when surely he should be in prison. I'm definitely reading the next one though.
We Who Hunt the Hollow

By Kate Murray

3 stars
Falling into Rarohenga

By Steph Matuku

4 stars
Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus

5 stars
The Light Between Oceans

By M.L. Stedman

5 stars
Dreamquake

By Elizabeth Knox

0 stars
The Beat of the Pendulum

By Catherine Chidgey

0 stars

I have read 4 other novels of Chidgey's this summer and loved them all. This one feels like something a writer has gotten away with because they have already successfully published enough. Maybe a found novel is just not my jam, so I read some, flicked through and read bits at random, then decided to put it down. 25 pages done.
The Simple Gift

By Steven Herrick

2 stars

I did not love it. It feels like a romanticised, watered down version of homelessness.
Remote Sympathy

By Catherine Chidgey

5 stars
The Bookshop Detectives 2

By Gareth and Louise Ward

5 stars

Fun, quirky, and somewhat cheesy.
Tagus the Horse-man

By Adam Blade

0 stars

I read it, so I'm counting it.
Dreamhunter

By Elizabeth Knox

3 stars

I've begun a series. I intend to finish it.
Hine Toa

By Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

4 stars

I could have believed that this was a memoir by at least 3 different women. There are quite a few twists and turns.
Kings of this World

By Elizabeth Knox

3 stars

This reads a bit like someone really wanted to write a film script but ended up with a novel, right down to the occasional description of cinematography devices. I could see this going down well with young teens. It's an interesting world and concept. There were moments when the actions and descriptions became a bit convoluted.
Station Eleven

By Emily St. John Mandel

5 stars
In Our Own Back Yard

By Anne Kayes

4 stars

The exposition is a bit clunky but it is a young adult book, so I can forgive that. It explores important issues in NZ and global history.
Amma

By Saraid de Silva

5 stars

A sad story of generational trauma with an uplifting ending.
The Axeman's Carnival

By Catherine Chidgey

5 stars

Tense and sad and wonderful. I don't care that a few chapters could have been dropped with no impact on the story, I loved it.
Purple Hibiscus

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5 stars
The Parihaka Woman

By Witi Ihimaera

5 stars

An epic saga
Ash

By Louise Wallace

5 stars

A bleak look at life as a working mother, when you have a village but it sort of sucks.
Delirious

By Damien Wilkins

4 stars
The Book of Guilt

By Catherine Chidgy

5 stars
Long Way Down

By Jason Reynolds

5 stars
In the Dark Spaces

By Cally Black

3 stars
The Evening and the Morning

By Ken Follett

4 stars
Hekate

By Nikita Gill

4 stars
The Humans

By Matt Haig

5 stars
Carved in Blood

By Michael Bennett

5 stars
The Night Circus

By Erin Morgenstern

5 stars
Circle of Days

By Ken Follett

3 stars

Only the pages read after 1 December
The Mires

By Tina Makereti

5 stars
Pet

By Catherine Chidgey

5 stars
Lucky Thing

By Tom Baragwanath

4 stars
Wool Omnibus

By Hugh Howey

4 stars

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