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
​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

Results from 2013-2017