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SLANZA Reading Survey results 2017

SLANZA'S ANNUAL READING STATISTICS SURVEY

In December each year - the end of the New Zealand school year - school librarians pool their borrowing statistics to give a snapshot of the books that captured the imaginations of New Zealand school children that year.

2017 TOP BOOKS OVERALL
  1. The recruit / Robert Muchamore
  2. Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal / Jeff Kinney
  3. Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel / Jeff Kinney
  4. Everything, everything / Nicola Yoon
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TOP AUTHOR 2017
  1. Jeff Kinney
  2. Robert Muchamore
  3. Rick Riordan

TOP SERIES 2017
  1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid / Jeff Kinney
  2. Cherub / Robert Muchamore

TOP NEW ZEALAND TITLES
  1. I am not Esther / Fleur Beale
  2. I am Rebecca / Fleur Beale
  3. Sunken forest / Des Hunt
  4. Spark / Rachel Craw

TOP NEW ZEALAND AUTHORS
  1. Fleur Beale
  2. = Des Hunt
    = Stacy Gregg

TOP MAGAZINE 2017
  1. Upstart
  2. Frankie
  3. Dirt rider downunder

BEST BOOKS FOR RELUCTANT READERS
  1. Diary of a wimpy kid series / Jeff Kinney
  2. Life on the refrigerator door / Alice Kuipers

HIGH SCHOOLS: TOP BOOKS, AUTHOR AND SERIES
Top Book: The recruit / Robert Muchamore
Top Author: Robert Muchamore
Top Series: Cherub / Robert Muchamore
Diary of a wimpy kid / Jeff Kinney

INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY: TOP BOOK, AUTHOR AND SERIES
Top Book: Diary of a wimpy kid: the third wheel / Jeff Kinney
Top Author: Jeff Kinney
Top Series: Diary of a wimpy kid / Jeff Kinney

GIRLS SCHOOLS: TOP BOOK, TOP AUTHOR, TOP SERIES
Top Book : Everything, everything / Nicola Yoon
Top Author : Jacqueline Wilson
Top Series : Harry Potter / J.K. Rowling & I am not Esther / Fleur Beale

BOYS SCHOOLS: TOP BOOK, TOP AUTHOR, TOP SERIES
Top Book : The recruit / Robert Muchamore
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Top Author : Robert Muchamore
Top Series : Cherub / Robert Muchamore

CO-ED SCHOOLS: TOP BOOK, TOP AUTHOR, TOP SERIES
Top Book : Diary of a Wimpy kid : the third wheel / Jeff Kinney
Top Author : Jeff Kinney
Top Series : Diary of a wimpy kid
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    • Antarctica
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    • Fabric, textile, fibre - fiction
    • Family Relationships (Yr 7-8)
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    • Getting along with others
    • Grief and Death
    • Honesty and Truthfulness
    • Immigration
    • Memory
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  • Years 9-13
    • Set texts >
      • Set texts Y9-10
      • Set texts Y11-13
    • Graphic Novels for High Schools
    • Abandonment
    • Addiction
    • Ageism and Ageing
    • Altruism
    • Ambition
    • American dream
    • Asian Theme
    • Beauty or Ugliness
    • Betrayal
    • Between Muchamore and Child
    • Between Two Worlds
    • Black Civil Rights Fiction
    • Challenges facing women
    • Characters reinventing themselves
    • Characters who inspire
    • Child abuse
    • Childhood Innocence
    • Coming of age
    • Conformity
    • Consumerism
    • Courage
    • Dance
    • Death
    • Deception
    • Discrimination and Prejudice
    • Displacement
    • Domestic Violence
    • Dysfunctional Families
    • Dystopia
    • Eating Disorders
    • Emasculation
    • Epistolary
    • Euthanasia
    • Family confict
    • Fate
    • Fear
    • Forbidden Love
    • Forgiveness
    • Freedom
    • Friendship gone wrong
    • Good v Evil
    • Grief and loss
    • Growing Up
    • Human Trafficking
    • Ideal man
    • Identity
    • Imprisonment
    • Individualism
    • Injustice
    • Innocence
    • Insanity / Sanity
    • Intimacy and/or Closeness
    • Jealousy
    • Journeys
    • Loss of Innocence
    • Loyalty
    • Love lost and rediscovered
    • Male role in society
    • Man's inhumanity to man
    • Media and celebrities
    • Mental health issues
    • Mental Illness / Paranoia
    • Modern Gothic
    • Money
    • Mothers and daughters
    • Natural enviroment
    • Non-linear story line
    • Nuclear War
    • Outsiders in Society
    • Overcoming Challenges
    • Paedophiles
    • Pandemics, Viruses and Plagues
    • Perfection
    • Persecution
    • Personal Responsibility
    • Post-apocalyptic Zombies
    • Power and Control
    • Psychiatric Illness
    • Racism
    • Rags to Riches
    • Reading around I am not Esther
    • Reflecting on own Mortality
    • Regret
    • Religious Puritanism
    • Revenge
    • Role of Women
    • Romance - Male Perspective
    • Sexuality
    • Substance Abuse
    • Suppression of Women in NZ
    • Teenage pregnancy
    • Teenage Rebel
    • Time and its inescapable nature
    • Tolerance
    • Unexpected friendship
    • Violence
    • Violence as entertainment
    • War
    • Women restricted by culture
    • Zombies
  • Forms
    • Graphic novels
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    • Plays
    • Poetry
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  • Research
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