Congratulations to the 2024 award recipients
Premier's Medal : Olivia N, Alexandra N, Emma R.
Platinum Certificate : Abigail D.
Gold Certificate : Abigael O, Jayleigh D.
Participation Certificate : Alessandra R, Marian J, Christine J, Jennifer B, Stephanie B, Abbygael T, Ava M, Charlotte R, Clara B, Ella M, Hannah B, Harshpreet S, Ilaria O, Ireoluwa A, Katelyn S, Lani S, Mikayla F, Ruby I, Scarlett W, Victoria S.
Welcome to the 2025 NSW Premier's Reading Challenge.
Challenge opens : Monday 24th February 2025
Challenge closes : Friday 22nd August 2025
To complete the challenge you must read 20 books:
- a minimum of 10 books must be from the PRC Booklist
- a maximum of 10 books may be your own personal choice.
You must complete your online Student Reading Record by Friday 22nd August 2025.
Would you like to join the Premier's Reading Challenge for 2025?
Please see Mrs Harradine in the Library to sign up and receive your welcome pack.
How do I log into the challenge?
Please see the document below for step-by-step instructions on logging on, searching for, and logging your books.
More free eBooks and audioBooks for you!
Get the free Boundless mobile app. It is available from your mobile device's app store (e.g. Apple App Store, Google Play).
Open the Boundless app.
Find our College "St Patricks College".
Click on the St Pats School login (the blue bar). If not at College you will need to use your school email and password to confirm that this is you. You will only need to do this the first time as you will remain logged in, on that device.
Browse and tap a cover to borrow a title or place a hold.
As a St Patrick’s College student you have free access to a HUGE range of ebooks and audiobooks.
ePlatform by Wheelers is an eBook and audiobook platform St Patrick's subscribes to, for the benefit of all staff and students.
To install on your laptop, please use the following browser address, then sign in using your College email address and password:
https://stpatricksnsw.wheelers.co/ (Links to an external site.)
Alternatively the app can be downloaded on your mobile device (phone or Ipad). Once the app is downloaded, you can log in using your St Pat's login details and start browsing - step-by-step instructions are pictured below.
Once you are logged in to ePlatform select Saint Patrick's College Campbelltown.
There is a search bar at the top of the screen where you can search for an author or book title. Or if you want to browse just scroll down the screen.
To browse for books on the Premier's Reading Challenge list scroll past Latest additions, New/ Recent Releases, Listening Favourites and Popular titles. You will find the Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 books at the bottom. Click on View More to see more titles. There are hundreds of ebooks that you can choose from.
PRC eBooks
Currently, the library has an extensive collection of eBooks available for you to borrow. All of the titles are on the PRC 7-9 list. Please click on the image below to be taken to the library where you can browse through the 382 titles on offer.
This is a paper copy of your Personal Reading log. You may use this to record the books you have read BUT to complete the challenge you must log your books ONLINE.
The library have spare paper logs if you need them.
Below are the rules for the 2025 PRC
| Year | Total books | Min PRC books | Max personal choice | Lists |
| 7-10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 5-6, 7-9, 9+ |
| 3-10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | All Booklists |
* Books read after the challenge closes can be included in your tally for the following year.
* 3-10 challengers: You can read books on your own, read them with someone else, or someone can read them to you.
* 7-10 challengers: you must read the books on your own but someone else may help you choose them.
* You may read up to 5 books in any series on the PRC booklists. You may read up to 10 books from the same series as personal choice.
Below are the 2025 Booklists.
The booklist has now been updated with 368 new titles added at the beginning of Term 1, 2025.
Wondering how to locate PRC titles in the College Library Catalogue
Once you are logged into the Library page, click on the search icon and type 'Premier's Reading Challenge' in the search bar.
This will give you a list of all of the books and eBooks which are on the PRC Booklists.
While searching the clues to her missing mother's whereabouts, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, suddenly gets involved in the kidnapping of a young Marquess and must put the search for her mother on hold in order to save the spoiled girl from her dangerous captors.
Emily's and Navin's mother is kidnapped and dragged into a strange and magical world where, it seems, the children's great-grandfather has been before. It's up to the children to set things right and save their mother's life.
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the 'living books' - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be 'borrowed' to educate the children in the camp. But books are extremely dangerous. They make people think. And nowhere are they more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz, the children's block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor.
Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in Britain with her mum and baby brother, seeking asylum from war in Syria. When Aya stumbles across a local ballet class, the formidable dance teacher spots her exceptional talent and believes that Aya has the potential to earn a prestigious ballet scholarship. But at the same time, Aya and her family must fight to be allowed to remain in the country, to make a home for themselves, and to find Aya's father - separated from the rest of the family during the journey from Syria.
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe. But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things. Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf.
Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks - and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to pass four difficult and dangerous trials - or she'll have to leave the city and confront her deadly fate.
This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, not played. Tonight, I add it in - just because. We can all do with an extra note of grace. Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. James Crux is an aspiring street artist who promised his dad he wouldn't paint in public until he's finished school. When Crux witnesses Grace's impromptu performance on a deserted tram, he's inspired to paint her and her violin; and when Grace stumbles across her portrait in a Melbourne alley by an anonymous street artist, she sets out to find its creator. Grace Notes is a debut YA verse novel, set in one of the most locked-down cities in the world - Melbourne, 2020. For fans of Cath Crowley and Pip Harry. 'A classic in the making; Grace Notes is a vital balm of a book, a story to press into everybody's hands.' DANIELLE BINKS 'Poetry, music and art, woven together in an uplifting story about endless lockdowns and first love.' NOVA WEETMAN 'Comer captures the beats of Melbourne's 2020 and the unique experience of a generation of teens in one of the most locked-down cities in the world.' Books+Publishing 'Heart and soul triumph over Covid lockdowns and restrictions . . . Karen has used the verse novel to beguile, dance and demand layers of emotion and depth that only poetry can sustain. A masterful debut!' LORRAINE MARWOOD 'Like the grace note of the title, this beautiful story strikes the perfect tone, mixing colour, light and music at a time when we needed it most.' NICOLE HAYES 'A Romeo & Juliet tale of the modern era . . . Grace Notes [is] a compelling rallying cry for the pursuit of passion, of perseverance in the face of adversity, and the essential work of artists' Sydney Arts Guide
When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up a secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they can't find a truly exciting mystery to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't). Then Hazel discovers the body of the Science Mistress, Miss Bell - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls have to solve a murder, and prove a murder happened in the first place. But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test?
The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. "Howard is the best man I've ever known," her mother says, "he'll keep you safe." Why did her mother wait so long to tell her about him? Lina has a happy life in Seattle and doesn't want to leave. Shortly after she arrives at Howard's home, Lina meets Sonya, who gives Lina a diary that belonged to Lina's mother, the one she had kept while she was a photography student in Florence. While Lina is living her life and exploring Tuscany with her handsome neighbour, Ren, she follows in the footsteps of her mother and gets to know her as never before. She also finds out the truth about her father. Mostly she finds out about herself.
Everyone thinks they know what Jacob O'Leary can and can't do, and they're not shy about telling him either. But no one, not even Jacob, knows what he's truly capable of. And he's desperate for the chance to work it out for himself. When a shocking and mystifying crime sends his small country town reeling, and fingers start pointing at the newcomer, Jacob grabs the chance to get out in front of the pack and keep mob rule at bay. He's convinced that the police have accused the wrong guy; that the real villain is still out there. And he's determined to prove it, and himself, to everyone.
Jazz, short for Jasmine, and her parents have just moved to Brighton from Sydney, so that Jazz's dad, Mikey, can pursue his career as a music producer. Jazz is finding it difficult to fit into her new school, and her love of surfing seems destined to be quashed for ever. Not only do Brighton's beaches have stones instead of sand and the water is downright freezing but there's not a surfboard in sight. When she meets her older cousin, Amber, at a family dinner in London, Amber senses Jazz's unhappiness and tells her about the Moonlight Dreamers, a secret society of likeminded friends that she founded years earlier. Amber suggests that Jazz seek out a group of soulmates too and form her own Moonlight Dreamers. At first Jazz is wary, but then decides to leave postcards for prospective soulmates, just as her cousin had. And so a new group of Moonlight Dreamers is born. Allegra, Hope, Portia and Jazz may be very different but they soon become firm friends who are always there for one another. They listen to each other's problems and support each other's hopes – and help them make their dreams come true.
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