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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
The recruit / Robert Muchamore
Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal / Jeff Kinney
Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel / Jeff Kinney
Everything, everything / Nicola Yoon
TOP AUTHOR 2017
Jeff Kinney
Robert Muchamore
Rick Riordan
TOP SERIES 2017
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / Jeff Kinney
Cherub / Robert Muchamore
TOP NEW ZEALAND TITLES
I am not Esther / Fleur Beale
I am Rebecca / Fleur Beale
Sunken forest / Des Hunt
Spark / Rachel Craw
TOP NEW ZEALAND AUTHORS
Fleur Beale
= Des Hunt
= Stacy Gregg
TOP MAGAZINE 2017
Upstart
Frankie
Dirt rider downunder
BEST BOOKS FOR RELUCTANT READERS
Diary of a wimpy kid series / Jeff Kinney
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
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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
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American dream
Asian Theme
Beauty or Ugliness
Betrayal
Between Muchamore and Child
Between Two Worlds
Black Civil Rights Fiction
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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
Non fiction
Plays
Poetry
Short stories
Research
Summer Reading
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