NCEA LEVEL 1 WIDE READING RESPONSES
Recommendations for Reluctant Readers

Fiction:

ALM Y                 Kit’s wilderness by David Almond
ANG                    The Auschwitz violin by Maria Angels Anglada (Crosses to Level 2)
BEA Y                 Further back than zero by Fleur Beale (NZ)
BEA Y                 Playing to win (NZ)
BEC Y                 Jolt by Bernard Beckett (NZ)
BEC Y                 Lester by Bernard Beckett (NZ)
BEC Y                 Red cliff by Bernard Beckett (NZ)
COR Y                 You’ve got guts, Kenny Melrose by Shirley Corlett (NZ)
CRU                     Wild pork and watercress by Barry Crump (NZ)
HIL Y                    The name of the game by David Hill (NZ)
JAR Y                   Inside by Julia Jarman
LAI Y                    A little piece of ground by Elizabeth Laird
LON Y                  Call of the wild by Jack London
MAR Y                 Tomorrow, when the war began by John Marsden
MCC                    The road by Cormac McCarthy (Crosses to Level 2)
MET Y                  Stony heart country by David Metzenthen
MOR Y                 Alone on a wide, wide sea by Michael Morpurgo
PAU Y                  The car by Gary Paulsen
PAU Y                  The tent by Gary Paulsen
ROX Y                  Compulsion by Tania Roxborogh (NZ)
SED Y                  Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
SIM Y                    Resistance by Craig Simpson
SME Y                  The edge of nowhere by John Smelcer
SWI Y                   Stone cold by Robert Swindells
ZUS Y                   Fighting Ruben Wolf by Marcus Zusak
ZUS Y                   When dogs cry by Markus Zusak (Crosses to Level 2)

Non-Fiction:

796.5                   Touching the void by Joe Simpson (Crosses to Level 2)
796.522 Y            No mean feat by Mark Inglis (NZ)
796.522 Y            Reaching the summit by Alexa Johnston & David Larsen (NZ)
796.522 Y            To the max by Mark Inglis (NZ)
904                       Alive: the true story of the Andes' survivors by Piers Paul Read (Crosses to Level 2/3)
904                       The perfect storm: a true story of man against the sea by Sebastian Junger (Crosses to L 2/3)
918.61 Y              Red dog in bandit country by Fleur Beale & Bill Redding (NZ)
92 MUN Y            Legend of speed: the Burt Munro story by Tim Hanna & David Larsen (NZ)
940.53 WIE         Night by Elie Wiesel (Crosses to Level 2/3)