Level+1+-+Fiction

=LEVEL ONE: = = = =**FICTION titles & theme suggestions **=
 * Abomination by Robert Swindells - families,sects, abuse
 * The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie - racism, alcoholism, family relationships, ambition
 * Acid by Emma Pass
 * Across the nightingale floor by Lian Hearn - loyalty, survival, ambition
 * Against the storm by Gaye Hicyilmaz - poverty
 * Alone on a wide wide sea by Michael Morpurgo - orphans, hardships, survival
 * Animal farm by George Orwell - corruption
 * Big game by Dan Smith - survival, terrorism
 * Bootleg by Alex Shearer - political control, health education
 * Boy 21 by Matthew Quick
 * The boy in striped pyjamas by John Boyne - war victims
 * The bridge by Jane Higgins (NZ) - future, friendship, war
 * The car by Gary Paulsen
 * Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson - slavery, abuse
 * Chalkline by Jane Mitchell - child soldiers, voilence
 * Chinese cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
 * The chocolate war : a novel by Robert Cormier - bullying
 * Coming home by Gaye Hicyilmaz - political crimes, family
 * The crossing by Mandy Hager (NZ) - social control, survival, deception
 * Cuckoo in the nest by Michelle Magorian - prejudice, family
 * Curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon - disability, autism, family relationships
 * Daughter of smoke and bone by Lani Taylor
 * Drum, girls & dangerous pie by Jordan Sonnenblick - family relationships
 * Edge of nowhere by John E Smelcer - survival
 * Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin - afterlife
 * The fault in our stars by John Green - terminal illness
 * Feed by M.T. Anderson - heroes, control
 * Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Marcus Zusak - family relations, survival
 * Further back than zero by Fleur Beale (NZ) - alcohol, teenagers
 * Gangsta rap by Benjamin Zephania - music, gangs
 * Genesis by Bernard Beckett (NZ) - future
 * The giver by Lois Lowry - individuality, social control
 * Gulf by Robert Westall - war
 * Havoc by Jane Higgins (NZ) - future, survival, war
 * The heaven shop by Deborah Ellis - orphans, disease
 * Hell Island by Mathew Reilly
 * How I live now by Meg Rosoff - family relations, war victims
 * I am David by Anne Holm - survival, refugees
 * I am not Esther by Fleur Beale (NZ) - cults, religion, families
 * If I stay by Gayle Forman - death, family, love, choices
 * Jolt by Bernard Beckett (NZ) - survival, revenge
 * Krystna's story by Halina Ogonowska-Coats
 * Letters from the coffin-trenches by Ken Catran - letters, war
 * Letters from the inside by John Marsden - family life, letters, friendship
 * Lester by Bernard Beckett (NZ) - prejudice
 * A little piece of ground by Elizabeth Laird - belonging
 * Looking for Alaska by John Green - relationships
 * Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta - family relationships
 * Lord of the flies by William Golding (Level 1 or 2) - survival, human behaviour
 * Love, Charlie Mike by Kate de Goldi (NZ) - family, love story
 * Mutuwhenua by Patricia Grace (NZ) - women
 * My sisters keeper by Jodie Picoult
 * The name of the game by David Hill (NZ) - segregation
 * A necklace of souls by R.L. Stedman (NZ)
 * Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman - prejudice
 * Of mice and men by John Steinbeck - disabilities
 * Orchard Street by Maurice Gee (NZ) - relationships, strikes & lockouts, community life
 * On the Jellicoe road by Melina Marchetta - homeless, friendships,
 * The other side of truth by Beverley Naidoo - courage, family
 * The outsiders by S.E. Hinton - gangs, family relations
 * Owl by Joanna Orwin (NZ)
 * Paper towns by John Green - coming of age
 * Parvana (series) by Deborah Ellis - abandonment, survival, belonging, violence
 * Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
 * The raging quiet by Sheryl Jordan (NZ) - Tolerance, abuse, prejudice, disability
 * Red cliff by Bernard Beckett (NZ) - prejudice, heroes
 * The red necklace: a story of the French Revolution by Sally Gardner - war
 * Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
 * Rocco by Sherryl Jordan (NZ) - relationships
 * Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred Taylor - civil rights, prejudice
 * Sleepwalking by Nicola Morgan - brain-washing, good & evil
 * A small free kiss in the dark by Glenda Millard - war, family, alienation
 * Small holes in the silence : short stories by Patricia Grace (NZ, short stories)
 * Smashed by Mandy Hager - friendship, loyalty, violence
 * Sold by Patricia McCormick - children, prostitution, social conditions
 * Tamar by Mal Peet
 * The 10pm question by Kate de Goldi - anxiety, families, individuality
 * Ten things I hate about me by Randa Abdel-Fattah - families, friendship, prejudice
 * The trap by John E Smelcer - survival
 * Thunder road by Ted Dawe (NZ) - crime, loyalty
 * Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - supernatural, romance
 * To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee (Level 1 or 2) - racism
 * Tomorrow, when the war began by John Marsden - survival, war
 * We were liars by E. Lockhart - family relations, friendships
 * The whale rider by Witi Ihimaera (NZ) - women, family relations
 * What I saw and how I lied by Judy Blundell - coming of age, family relations
 * The whole of the moon by Duncan Stuart (NZ) - terminal illness
 * Wilderness by Roddy Doyle - family relations


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