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- AFFIRM Aranui family festival [updated]
- Holiday reading 2011
- Best books 2011 competition
- Parenting [updated]
- The Body Festival of Dance and Physical Theatre [updated]
- Dance [updated]
- Beaulah Pragg and the Silver Hawk
- John Marsden’s flying visit to Christchurch
- NCEA music resources
- Places to go [updated]
Best books of 2011
We’re putting together a list of the best books of 2011 and we need your help.
We’ve picked the Top 5 books for older readers and young adults.
And in our competition, you voted Plague by Michael Grant as the top YA book.
Thanks for voting - find out more about the competition on the Christchurch Kids Blog.
The finalists:
- A monster calls Patrick Ness
- There is no dog Meg Rosoff
- My sister lives on the mantelpiece Annabel Pitcher
- Plague Michael Grant
- You against me Jenny Downham
28 November 2011
Previous winners
- Penny Downing won the iPod Nano.
- Madeline Davison took home The knife of never letting go in our Patrick Ness competition.
- Hamish Brookes-Lockie went to Armageddon in March.
- Luke Wattchow was the big winner in our laptop competition in July 09.
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