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41,089 pages read and 3,733 team points

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Tessa E

3,326 pts

(3,072 pages read)

A rover's story

By Jasmine Warga

5 stars

My favourite book of the summer. Couldn't put it down, similarities to The Wild Robot. Very topical in today's climate with AI.
The Black Swan - The impact of the highly improbable

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3 stars

Nassim Taleb has regularly come up on my feed as an intellect of note, so this summer I tackled one of his more known works The Black Swan by audio book. All 15 hours and 48 minutes of it. It was at times tedious and monotonous and at times interesting and noteworthy. I came away with a sense of being explained all manner of things about the world and then feeling like I know nothing at all. My core takeaway is to get comfortable with uncertainty.
Parvana

By Deborah Ellis

5 stars

A gripping intense read I grabbed it for my TBR this summer because our highschool students explore themes of gender inequality and oppression and want to supplement their reading with different texts. This fits the bill nicely, it's both short in length but very accessible as written from a child's POV. Would recommend for mature Intermediate students and up.
Magyk

By Angie Sage

4 stars

I read this to my 7 year old daughter over the summer - suits lovers of the fantasy realm, it trots out all the usual fantasy cliches. Magyk - witches - swamp boggarts - wizards - magyk rings and dragons to name a few. Like Harry Potter there is a tad of violence so be prepared for a read aloud.
Autobiography of a geisha

By Sayo Masuda

3 stars
The writing desk

By Di Morris

5 stars

Children Book Awards book set in Colonial New Zealand. Would interest fans of historical fiction
Raising securely attached kids

By Eli Harwood

4 stars
Renegades

By Marissa Meyer

4 stars
Restart

By Gordan Korman

0 stars

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Tauraroa Area School

41,089 pages read and 3,733 team points

Team members

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Tessa E

A rover's story

The Black Swan - The impact of the highly improbable

Parvana

Magyk

Autobiography of a geisha

The writing desk

Raising securely attached kids

Renegades

Restart

Tauraroa Area School

41,089 pages read and 3,733 team points

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