Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School

8,313 pages read and 530 team points

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Mad Mabel

By Sally Hepworth

5 stars

Funny, great characters
Lessons on Living

By Nigel Latta

5 stars

Sad that this will be his last book. He's been giving sensible advice and commentary for what seems like a long time. The book reads just like him talking. It's easy to read and the lessons are positive.
How I learned to Understand the World

By Hans Rosling

5 stars

An inspiring life. I thought I knew why this man was well-known, I did not know him at all before reading this book. He was doctor who worked in dreadful conditions in Mozambique and dealt with an Ebola outbreak.
One day, everyone will have always been against this

By Omar El Akkad

5 stars

Confronting
Runt

By Craig Silvey

5 stars

Brilliant story that deservedly won several Book of the Year awards in Australia. One of the best children's books I've read in the last 12 months
The Next Day

By Melinda French Gates

3 stars

Not a tell-all book in any way. Interesting to read.
The singing Pipi

By Sharon C Fergusson

4 stars

Beautiful illustrations in a picture book about singing shellfish that alert whales to shallow water and stop them from beaching.
How Many Times

By Tim Tipene

3 stars

Picture book in English and Te Reo Māori about a mum asking for help and no one listens. The words end up littering the house- an interesting concept.
And Away

By Bob Mortimer

4 stars

Autobiography of the English comedian. He wrote this after having heart problems and being faced with his own mortality. Parts made me laugh out loud.
Gunk

By Saba Sams

5 stars

Engaging story. Definitely a writer I will read more of.
Elvie the Sheep

By Colleen Brown

4 stars

Based on a true story about a family's pet sheep- charming story
Ooey Gooey Louie

By Nikki Perry and Kirsty Roby

3 stars

Suitable for young children to early school years- a mouse who likes to get very messy but does not want a bath. Simple story Rhyming text
Stroll

By Sue Carpenter and Wina Witaria

3 stars

Suitable for small children, familiar scenes to talk about - sounds we hear
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda French Gates

5 stars

Extraordinary insight into how the world could change especially by empowering the women who are marginalised
No words for This

By Alison Mau

4 stars

Not the easy, glamorous life I expected.
Polkinghorne

By Steve Braunias

4 stars

All the details of the court case, the people and more. Steve Braunias interacts with the people in the case we have read about and gives sense of what it would be like to be in the courtroom.
Inky the Octopus

By Erin Guendelsberger

3 stars

Picture book about the octopus that escaped from an aquarium in NZ. Pages at the back with more information abour octopi in general
Stiff

By Mary Roach

5 stars

An exploration of the what happens to bodies after we die from donated to science to crimes against. Creepy and fascinating in parts
The Case of the Missing Stuff - Violet and the Velvets

By Rachael King

4 stars

School band competition. Themes of music, difference, teamwork. Very readable. A group of kids who are more misfit than cool put a band together. Rachael KIng, so you know it will be well written
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

By Bronnie Ware

3 stars

Written by a palliative carer. hat she learned from people facing death.
The investigator

By John Sanford

4 stars

As good as John Stanford books always are. Letty , the daughter of Lucas Davenport takes on a militia group
The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home

By Joanna Nell

5 stars

Funny and charming story of inmates who want to escape
Anything could happen

By Grant Robertson

4 stars

Easy to read. A reminder of all New. Zealand went through from 2016 and on including some hint of the personal side of politics.
Freedom

By Angela Merkel

5 stars
Cult Trip

By Anke Richter

4 stars

A journalist's investigation of four different cults, Centrepoint NZ, Gloriavale NZ, Agama Yoga school in Thailand and Osho ashram in India. Interesting/Alarming
White Moko

By Tim Tipene

4 stars

An interesting but at times appalling account of the author's life growing up in a dysfunctional immediate family and his positive connection to more functional Māori relatives through a stepfather.
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

By Patrick Ness

5 stars

Quirky and funny. Parts are laugh-out-loud. Year 5-6 + will love it
Crack-up Capitalism

By Quinn Slobodian

0 stars
Abundance

By Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

4 stars

While about America, many of the issues they discuss the reasons for a lack of progress in solving problems e.g. affordable housing, infrastructure, and climate change, also apply to other countries including us in NZ. Interesting ideas to ponder
The Storm We Made

By Vanessa Chan

5 stars

Malaysia. War 1935-1945. Powerful and memorable story about the terrible effects of war on a family.

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