Here is some light reading suitable for young readers. Relax during quiet time while building vocabulary and reading confidence.
Be Your Best by
The inside story of the greatest comeback in Australian sport Be Your Best is the inside story of the greatest comeback in Australian sporting history—and what it can mean for you. In his own words Geoff Huegill tells the story of his life, from world champion and world record holder, to the depths of despair and depression during his retirement. In Be Your Best we follow Geoff on his inspirational comeback, a story that truely captured a nations imagination. We learn what it took for Geoff to loose 80 lbs and transform himself from lost soul to national hero. In Be Your Best Geoff shares the philosphies behind this inspirational transformation, and explains how anyone can use these same principles to be their best!
Dave Mirra: BMX Superstar by
Extreme sports have become some of the most popular sports among young people and they have begun to create their own superstars. Dave Mirra is one such star. This biography gives readers an intimate look at the master of BMX's rise to fame. Highlighting Mirra's work ethic, loyalty, and commitment to his sport and his fans, this high-energy, picture-packed book also explores Mirra's continued success at the top.
Diary of a motocross freak by
Written in the form of a diary, this volume is part of a series for children aged nine years and over. Each book in the series explores a particular sport through the eyes of a fan.
Fundamental Baseball by
This popular series features a winning combination of action photos and easy-to-follow instructions that will enable young sports enthusiasts to become champions at their sport of choice.
Fundamental Basketball by
This popular series features a winning combination of action photos and easy-to-follow instructions that will enable young sports enthusiasts to become champions at their sport of choice.
Fundamental Golf by
This popular series features a winning combination of action photos and easy-to-follow instructions that will enable young sports enthusiasts to become champions at their sport of choice.
Tony Hawk: Skateboarding Champion by
Tony Hawk is the master of skateboarding. What kids see of Tony on television is just one dimension of this talented sports star. This book tells how Tony got started in skating, explores the relationship between Tony and his dad, and highlights what Tony has done to make himself a perennial champion.
Cyclone Tracy : the diary of Ryan Turner by
Ryan and his best friend Nev, both love fishing. They spend all their spare time at the wharf, or out on Darwin Harbour fishing for barra and keeping an eye on the weather. But when Ryan makes a new friend, his Dad is not pleased. But troubles with Dad are nothing compared with what lies ahead, when Cyclone Tracy hits. Ages 10+
The Goldseekers by
A fascinating story of the goldfields. Of the hardships, injustices and triumphs of the human spirit. Ages 10-14. (SA: Year 6 - Year 9).
I am David by
David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone - who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they won't catch up with him...
Pharaoh by
The people call Prince Narmer the Golden One' - a boy with the brightest future ahead of him. Handsome and talented, he is destined to be King of Thinis, the greatest town in Egypt and, for Narmer, the centre of the world.Then his whole life ...
Give peas a chance by
Fifteen clever tales, featuring a host of Morris's beloved characters and some new ones! While Ginger and her dog, Anthony organise the ultimate party, Wilton the worm meets Aristotle the nose germ in an unexpected location and Ben tries to save the world by not eating his vegetables.
Just shocking! by 
Swashbuckler by
A special reissue of the much-loved 1996 CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers Unhand that innocent young traveller, you blaggard, or I'll run you through and leave your carcass here for the birds to pick clean. Meet Anton. Kids think he's a fruit loop because he talks like a pirate. But new boy, Peter McNeill, needs a friend and the boys soon discover they have the same problem - their dads. Peter's father has gambled away all their money, but Anton's dad . . . now that's a different story. Some things just have to be faced up to and it takes courage, it takes a hero who laughs at danger, a warrior willing to battle dragons, it takes a swashbuckler! A rip-roaring adventure from one of Australia's master storytellers.
The complete adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka by
Charlie and the chocolate factory -- Charlie and the great glass elevator.
Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone by
Wizards -- Juvenile fiction
Magic -- Juvenile fiction
Children's stories
The ruins of Gorlan by
(Ranger's apprentice ; bk. 1). Will is small for his age, but agile and energetic. All his life, he has dreamed of becoming a great knight like the father he never knew, so he is devastated when he is rejected as an apprentice to Castle Redmont's Battleschool. Instead he is apprenticed to Halt, the mysterious Ranger whose uncanny ability to move unseen is thought to be the result of black magic. Reluctantly, Will learns to use a Ranger's secret weapons: a bow and arrow, a mottled cloak and a stubborn little pony. It may not be the sword and battlehorse he longs for, but when Will and Halt set out on a desperate mission to prevent the assassination of the King, Will finds that a Ranger's weapons are not so useless after all.
The Falcon's Malteser by
When Herbert Timothy Simple is kicked off the police squad for incompetence, he changes his name to Tim Diamond and opens his own private detecive agency. The only problem is that Tim Diamond is the worst detective in the world. Luckily, his younger brother, thirteen-year-old Nick, is the real brains behind the operation! But then the vertically challenged Johnny Naples entrusts Tim Diamond with a package worth over five million dollars. Next day, Johnny's dead, Tim feels the heat, and Nick gets the package - and every crook in town on his back! -- back cover.
The Frankenstein factory by
(Spy High ; 1)
As students at a special high school that trains them to be secret agents, six teenagers struggle to complete the training exercises as a team before being sent out into the field to sink or swim.
Hover car racer by
This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer who is selected to attend the famed International Race School, the brutal gateway to the professional circuit. There he will contest against the best young racers on the planet - on some of the wildest circuits you can imagine - all of them wanting one thing: to graduate from the race school and get a contract to compete in the big time on the international pro circuit.
The lab : agent Six of Hearts is about to live his worst nightmare by
YA. AU Author. Sixteen-year-old agent Six of Hearts is the first human to be grown from designer DNA. He can run faster, jump higher and react more quickly than anyone else. Six escaped from his creators, a sinister underground organisation called "The Lab", when he was a baby. Now, he works for the Deck, a group of vigilantes who are trying to protect "the Code" - the moral values set down before the world descended into anarchy. When the Deck begins investigating the Lab, Six walks a tightrope between his two worlds, trying to keep his origins a secret. Then he meets Kyntax, a boy with the same DNA. 12 yrs+
Shelter : a Mickey Bolitar novel by
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
