NCEA  reading

Some suggestions to start you off...

Level 1, Fiction

Alex by Tess Duder (NZ)

The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne

The car by Gary Paulsen

Circles by William Taylor (NZ)

Driving force by Alan Bunn (NZ)

Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Marcus Zusak

Further back than zero by Fleur Beale (NZ)

Holes by Louis Sachar

How I live now by Meg Rosoff

The catalogue of the universe by Margaret Mahy (NZ)

Juggling with mandarins by V.M. Jones (NZ)

Kit's wilderness by David Almond

Letters from the inside by John Marsden

Love, Charlie Mike by Kate de Goldi (NZ)

The name of the game by David Hill (NZ)

Orchard Street by Maurice Gee (NZ)

Out walked Mel by Paula Boock (NZ)

Outlanders by Margaret Beames (NZ)

The outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Owl by Joanna Orwin (NZ)

Small holes in the silence : short stories by Patricia Grace (NZ)

Sold by Patricia McCormick

Stony heart country by David Metzenthen

Tomorrow, when the war began by John Marsden

Water in the blood by Alan Bunn (NZ)

The whale rider by Witi Ihimaera (NZ)

The whole of the moon by Duncan Stuart (NZ)

Wild pork and watercress by Barry Crump (NZ)

Level 1, Non-fiction

Going solo by Roald Dahl

No mean feat by Mark Inglis (NZ)

Reaching the summit by Alexa Johnston & David Larsen (NZ)

Red dog in bandit country by Fleur Beale & Bill Redding (NZ)

To the max by Mark Inglis (NZ)

Level 2, fiction

About a boy by Nick Hornby

The bean trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Closed, stranger by Kate de Goldi (NZ)

The color purple by Alice Walker

The curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon

Dogside story by Patricia Grace (NZ)

The god boy by Ian Cross

How I live now by Meg Rosoff

I am not Esther by  Fleur Beale (NZ)

Jessica by Bryce Courtenay

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (NZ)

Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman

Once were warriors by Alan Duff (NZ)

Owls do cry by Janet Frame (NZ)

The prodigal summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Red Cliff by Bernard Beckett (NZ)

Red rabbit by Tom Clancy

Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Sanctuary by Kate de Goldi (NZ)

Skin and other stories by Roald Dahi

Smith's dream by C.K. Stead (NZ)

Wild swans by William Nicholson

Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte

Level 2, Non-fiction

Bronte's story by Bronte Cullis & Steve Bibb

Cheese Cinderella : the secret story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

Desert flower : the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad by Waris Dirie & Cathleen Miller

It's not about the bike : my journey back to life by Lance Armstrong

Once in a house on fire by Andrea Ashworth

Tusedays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

touching the void by Joe Simpson

Whina : a biography of Whina Cooper by Michael King

Level 3, Fiction

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The kite runner by Khalid Hosseini

Load of the flies by William Golding

Potiki by Patricia Grace (NZ)

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

Level 3, Non-fiction

Alive! the story of the Andes survivors by Piers Paul Read

Angela's ashes by Frank McCourt

To the Is-land : an autobiography by Janet Frame (NZ)

Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody & William Hoffer