SECONDARY GREAT READS

Conspiracy 365 series

Gabrielle Lord

Ender's game

Orson Scott Card

Endgame-the calling

James Frey

Epic

Conor Kostick

Extra Time

Morris Gleitzman

Game theory

Barry Jonsberg

Girls can't hit

Tom Easton

Insignia

S. J. Kincaid

Looking for trouble and

finding it John Marsden

Otherworld

Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller

Play on!

Brunette Lenkic, Rob Hess

Roller girl

Victoria Jamieson

S.T.A.G.S

M.A. Bennett

The eye of minds James Dashner

The hunger games

Suzanne Collins

The leveller Julia Durango

The running dream

Wendelin Van Draanen

The six Mark Alpert

Wobbles: an olympic

story

York: The shadow cipher

Nadine Neumann Laura Ruby

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SUPERCHARGE YOUR SUMMER! Welcome to the SRC Secondary Activity Booklet—created with champions in mind. Completing the

activities in this booklet is just one way to participate in the 2017 Summer Reading Club Game On

program this year. Be sure to join in the SRC action at your library and online!

FIGURE IT OUT? Using only numbers 1 through 9, complete the equations so that the puzzle is true. Each number is

only used once.

At your library Sign up for your own

library membership card.

Borrow books from the great reads list.

Collect a reading log.

Ask your librarian for more information

about real life sporting champions,

games and technology.

Participate in the SRC activities at your

library to receive SRC themed

incentives and prizes.*

* Note: Programs, activities and incentives delivered

locally are provided at your library’s discretion. Check

with your librarian or library’s ‘What’s On’ to find out

what is on offer for you at your library this summer!

Summer Reading Club online www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub

Register Upload a picture Visit the Gallery

Meet our Bloggers

Bloggers

Visit Celebrity Corner

Have your say! Colour

Post a Book Rave Log your books

Please note:

Online summer reading club activities are independent to the programs, activities and incentives that may be offered

locally at your public library. Registration in the online program or logging books through the SRC website does not

enter you into library in-house competitions. Please talk to your local library staff for participation guidelines for local

library activities. For questions relating to online participation visit the SRC Website or contact the SRC Team at

summerreadingclub@slq.qld.gov.au

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DOUBLE PUZZLE Unscramble each of the clue words. Copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same

number to discover the hidden message. Hint: The clue words are all sports.

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COMPLETE THE PICTURE Use the picture as a guide, can you finish the picture below?

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE One of the timekeepers is not like the other. Can you find it?

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WORD SEARCH Can you find all 45 of these words? Words in the grid can be diagonal, forward, backward, up, and

down.

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Analog

Arena

Athlete

Audience

Board Games

Celebrate

Challenge

Champion

Coach

Coding

Commonwealth

Games

Crosswords

Cyberspace

Digital

Field

Games

Geocaching

Goal

Innovation

Internet

Mainframe

Medal

Multi-tasking

Orienteering

Participate

Play

Puzzles

Question

Read

Robotics

Science

Skill

Solve

Spectator

Sports

Sportsmanship

Stadium

Strategise

Supercharge

Team

Team Spirit

Technology

Trivia

Ultramarathon

Web master

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CROSSWORD Use the clues and titles from the Secondary Great Reads List to solve the crossword puzzle.

The list is available for download from the Summer Reading Club website.

Go to: http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub/secondary/great-reads/

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1. This story is a classic tale of war and

survival where children are trained

from a very young age through

increasingly difficult games to develop

their tactical genius.

3. When Nadine Neumann decides that

she wants to be an Olympic swimmer

at age eight, she trades a normal life of

school friends and parties for the rigors

of elite sports training.

4. This new title by Jason Segal and

Kristen Miller asks the question we’ll all

soon be asking: if technology can

deliver everything we want, how much

are we willing to pay?

5. This title is a heartwarming graphic

novel about friendship and surviving

junior high through the power of roller

derby.

7. From award-winning children's book

author, ___________, comes a funny and

moving story about a 14-year-old

Australian soccer genius and his

10-year-old sister/manager who

change the face of English Premier

League football.

9. Nine students. Three blood sports.

One deadly weekend. This title by M.A.

Bennett is sure to keep you enthralled

from start to finish.

11. This title by Brunette Lenkić and Rob

Hess explores the hidden history of

women’s Australian Rules Football.

13. To save humanity, they must give up

their own. In this title a select group of

other terminally ill teens must learn to

manipulate their new mechanical

forms and work together to train for

epic combat... before humanity is

destroyed.

ACROSS

2. In this series, written by ___________ 12 districts must compete

to the death as part of an annual Tribute.

6. In this title by _______________ Jamie's sister has been

kidnapped and Jamie is convinced he can save her using the

principles of game theory. But is strategy the best option when

his little sister's life is at stake?

8. In this title by ____________Tony and his friends are seriously

bored with their lives. They go 'looking for trouble', and once

trouble finds them - it doesn't want to let them go!

10. In this title, ______________ Fleur Waters never takes anything

seriously - until she turns up at her local boxing club one day.

12. In this title by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton, after

centuries waiting in secret, twelve unbroken bloodlines, armed

with hidden knowledge and lethal training, are called to take

humanity's fate into their hands.

14. In this title by __________, generations ago, violence was

banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts

are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game,

Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go

to university, get more supplies for you r community,

and fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and

out of the game is worth nothing.

15. Gamers and action fans of all types will dive straight into

the MEEP, a virtual-reality gaming world, thanks to Julia

Durango's cinematic storytelling. A touch of romance,

constant twists, and a vivid, multidimensional journey

through a tricked-out virtual city will keep readers flying

through to the breathtaking end.

A-MAZE-ING ADVENTURES

Help our Game On champion make it to the trophy before time runs out!

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GAME ON Alquerque is an ancient game from North Africa and the Middle East dating back to 1400 BC.

It is very similar to checkers. This game requires two players.

1. Collect or create tokens (12 of one colour for each player) or cut out the tokens below.

2. Set your game board up as shown in the picture below.

GAME PLAY

Players take it in turn to move a piece to an empty point,

either along a line or jumping over an opponent’s piece to

an empty point.

Jumping over an opponent’s piece captures that piece and

it is removed from the board.

More than one capture can be made in one move and the

direction of movement can also be changed.

The winner is the first person to remove all their

opponents’ pieces.

GAME TOKENS

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MASTER MINDS Grab some friends and give these ‘Would you rather’ questions a go! Two cards have been left empty

for you to create your own questions.

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WOULD YOU RATHER Crawl on your belly

OR

summersault everywhere

you went?

WOULD YOU RATHER Have no internet

OR

no mobile phone?

WOULD YOU RATHER Be stranded on a deserted

island for one year OR spend

one year with someone who

never stops talking?

WOULD YOU RATHER Have duck/webbed feet

OR

a long tail?

WOULD YOU RATHER Be able to predict the future

OR

change the past?

WOULD YOU RATHER Create a new popular App

OR

be a YouTube star?

WOULD YOU RATHER Be a superhero

OR

A super villain?

WOULD YOU RATHER Publish your diary

OR make a movie about

your most embarrassing

moment?

WOULD YOU RATHER Compete in the

Hunger Games

OR

the Divergent competition?

WOULD YOU RATHER Be super-fast

OR

super strong?

WOULD YOU RATHER If you were reborn in a new

life, be alive in the past

OR the future?

WOULD YOU RATHER Be a zombie

OR

fight the zombies in a zombie

apocalypse?

WOULD YOU RATHER Be on a survival reality show

OR

a dating game show?

WOULD YOU RATHER Have a rewind button

OR

a pause button on your life?

WOULD YOU RATHER Go into the past and meet

your ancestors OR go into

the future and meet your

great-great grandchildren?

WOULD YOU RATHER WOULD YOU RATHER WOULD YOU RATHER Be stuck in a Choose Your

Own Adventure book

OR

in a YA dystopian novel?

WHO SAID WHAT? Explore the Celebrity Corner guest profiles on the Summer Reading Club website. Match the Celebrity

Creative Tip to the author. Go to http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au/theclub/celebrity-corner

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1. Anita Heiss

2. Cristy Burne

3. Katrina Germain

4. Laura Sieveking

5. Mary Van Reyk

6. Michael Adams

7. Michael Hyde

8. Michael Panckridge

9. Steven Bajo O’Donnell

10. Z.F. Kingbolt

A. Read as much as you can. Apart from the awesome

stories, every author can teach you something about

writing.

B. For me, the idea for the story is super important.

Playing around with it and making it grow is so fun.

C. Writers are the powerhouse of our nation’s cultural

and creative industries, and it’s a privilege to be a

part of that.

D. Don’t ever be ‘too old’ or too busy to sit down and

write a story.

E. A writer has to keep their eyes, ears and heart open;

be observant; and wonder. Wonder why? Wonder

how come? Wonder what if?

F. Get off social media, shut down Facebook and

Twitter, stop making excuses about why you haven’t

got time and just start writing!

G. Create what makes you happy. Don’t just do easy

things. Work hard at something you love.

H. Everything you do for the first time will not be

perfect. In fact, it'll probably be bad. Terrible even.

Work hard, learn, be able to adapt and take criticism.

That's how you get good!

I. Write. If you only talk about it then you’re not a

writer… you’re a talker. Don’t be afraid to start.

J. You can find ideas anywhere—even in your rubbish

bin—but you have to do something with your ideas.

This summer, spend 10 minutes a day writing,

drawing or working on your idea. You’ll be surprised

what you can achieve.

SOLUTIONS Figure it out

Double Puzzle p2

Spot the difference p4

Word search p5

Crossword p6

A-maze-ing Adventures p7

Who said what? p11

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1. Anita Heiss - F

2. Cristy Burne - J

3. Katrina Germain - G

4. Laura Sieveking - E

5. Mary Van Reyk - A

6. Michael Adams - I

7. Michael Hyde - E

8. Michael Panckridge - B

9. Steven Bajo O’Donnell – H

10. Z.F. Kingbolt - C

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1. Athletics

2. Badminton

3. Basketball

4. Beach Volleyball

5. Boxing

6. Cycling Mountain

Bike

7. Cycling Road

8. Cycling Track

9. Diving

10. Gymnastics Artistic

11. Gymnastics Rhythmic

12. Hockey

Solution:

Share the Dream.

Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018

13. Lawn Bowls

14. Netball

15. Para

Powerlifting

16. Rugby Sevens

17. Shooting

18. Squash

19. Swimming

20. Table Tennis

21. Triathlon

22. Weightlifting

23. Wrestling

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