Welcome to the 2022 NSW Premier's Reading Challenge.
Challenge opens : 28th February 2022
Challenge closes : 19th August 2022
To complete the challenge you must read 20 books:
- a minimum of 15 books must be from the PRC Booklist
- a maximum of 5 books may be your own personal choice.
You must complete your online Student Reading Record by Friday 19th August 2022.
Want to join the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge?
Just see Mrs Denford in the library to sign up and receive a Welcome Pack.
How do I login to the PRC website?
Click on the file below for instructions.
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.
Axis360 is a new platform for eBooks and audiobooks.
The College Library subscribes to this platform allowing free access to eBooks and audiobooks for all students and staff.
To access the collection on your laptop:
Click this link:
Click on Login in the top right corner
Then click on St Pats School login (the blue bar).
Browse and tap a cover to borrow a title or place a hold.
To access the collection on your phone:
Download the Axis 360 app - it’s free from the App Store.
Open the Axis 360 app.
In the search My Library bar type "St Patricks College”
Click on St Patricks College Australia
Then click on St Pats School login (the blue bar).
Sign in using your school email address and password (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 or place a hold.
The 2022 PRC Booklists can be found below.
Please note: you may read books from the 5-6 Book List, 7-9 Book List and the 9plus Book List.
Series Books
If you are reading books from a series please note: only three books from the series can be read as part of a student's official reading. Students may read and enter up to five other books from the series, not as part of their official reading, but in their personal choice books. See Series lists below to find out which series are included in the challenge.
Need a PRC book in a hurry?
We have a selection of PRC books on display in the Library ready to grab and go (please see a Library team member to borrow).
How do I find PRC books in the Library catalogue?
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance is obsessed with nature, diagnosing medical conditions and comforted by counting by 7's. Tragically her parents are killed in a car accident and Willow must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself. As she pieces her life back together, she discovers the connections that bind us all as families.
Clem Timmins can't wait to see her best friends after being apart all summer holidays. But when they get back together, things have changed. Bridge is boy-crazy and acting like a different person. Ellie is wearing a bra and having a real-life romance. Clem feels left behind. When she makes friends with Tom, suddenly everyone's gossiping about whether they're going to be a couple. Clem's got no interest in having a boyfriend. Or does she? At school camp, Bridge crosses the line and Clem has to ask herself - can she keep growing up with her friends when they're growing apart? This story of fitting in and falling out perfectly captures how it feels to balance on the edge of who you are and who you want to be.
You know those movies where teenagers have the summer of their lives? This summer is probably not going to be that. Here lies Maisie Martin, dead from embarrassment, aged sixteen. The last thing Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing this summer is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. Not when her Dad is AWOL for Christmas and her best friend starts going out with the boy she's always loved. But Maisie's got something to prove. And she's not going to let anything or anyone, including herself, hold her back.
This isn't just about me. It's also about the other people in my life - my mother, my father, my dead sister Sky, my penpal Denille, Rich Uncle Brian, Earth-Pig Fish and Douglas Benson From Another Dimension. These are people [with the exception of Earth-Pig Fish, who is a fish] who have shaped me, made me what I am. I cannot recount my life without recounting elements of theirs. This is a big task, but I am confident I am up to it.
Introducing Candice Phee: twelve years old, hilariously honest and a little ... odd. But she has a big heart, the very best of intentions and an unwavering determination to ensure everyone is happy. So she sets about trying to 'fix' all the problems of all the people [and pets] in her life.
The true story of Anzac girl Sister Alice Ross-King, who sailed to war in December 1914 and became the most decorated woman in Australia.
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street. Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing...the colour of her skin.
When her parents announce their impending separation, Natalie can't understand why no one is fighting or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She'd always imagined she would end up with Zach one day, in the version of her life that played out like a TV show, with just the right amount of banter, pining and meaningful looks. Now everything has changed and nothing is quite making sense. Until an unexpected romance comes along and shakes things up even further.
It's not because Bel's mother was murdered. It's not because her father is a politician. Bel writes to a Death Row prisoner as an easy way out of an assignment. But now he's written back. Drawn to Micah's world inside a Thai prison, she finds herself falling for the boy with ragged hair, shackles and a terrible past. Will Bel lose him too? And could it mean losing the people who mean the most to her at home? Whatever happens, none of them will ever be the same...
Five students walk into detention. Only four leave alive. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad boy Nate is one step away from a life a crime. Prom queen Andy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't even talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it's no accident. All of them are suspects. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them.
Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Daniel: I've always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store, for both of us.
Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his dog Rowdy for company. He has stayed alive for two winters--hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a ruthless man named Ramage. But Finn's isolation is shattered when a girl runs onto the beach. Rose is a Siley--an asylum seeker--and she has escaped from Ramage, who had enslaved her and her younger sister, Kas. Rose is desperate, sick, and needs Finn's help. Kas is still missing somewhere out in the bush. And Ramage wants the girls back--at any cost. Finn, Rose and Kas try their hardest to look after each other in the harsh post-apocalyptic world. They suffer setbacks, difficulties brought on by adults but also sometimes as a consequence of their own poor decisions. They're kids--they make mistakes. They stuff up but they find a way through. There are no superheroes, no magical powers to help them out of life-threatening situations. A novel about honor, friendship and love, and a gripping realist teen survival narrative. Mark Smith runs outdoor education programs for young adults. His writing has won a number of awards.The Road to Winter is his first book. He lives in coastal Victoria, Australia.
Meet 11-year-old Bindi. She's not really into maths but LOVES art class and playing hockey. Her absolute FAVOURITE thing is adventuring outside with friends or her horse, Nell. Bindi is a verse novel for mid-upper primary students. Written ‘for those who plant trees’, Bindi explores climate, bushfires, and healing. Written from the point of view of 11-year-old, Bindi and her friends on Gundungurra Country.
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of 'Moon Over Mississippi', she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen - and when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!
Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that's starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery's mum. But how can two kids travel such big distances across a dry, barren, and dangerous landscape? Well, when you've got five big doggos and a dry-land dogsled, the answer is you go mushing. But when Emery is injured, Ella must find a way to navigate them through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people.
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.
Every day, we see a problem we would like to fix. A piece of rubbish in a green, grassy park. Plastic water bottles buried in the sand at the beach. A garbage bin overflowing onto the street. A skinny, stray dog. A homeless person on a cold day.These problems seem impossible for one person to change. But we can fix them, if we each do our part - one step at a time. This practical guide is designed to empower kids to make changes in their lives to help make a difference in the world. Includes information, ideas and activities, and interspersed with features on amazing children around the world.
It's the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forwards. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the 'now', living off the scraps that were left behind. Among these are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo is in a coma and she's estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance. Then a handsome time traveler, Ellis, arrives with an important mission that makes Jules question everything she knows about life and love. Can Jules wake Romeo and rewrite her future?
Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn't stick out more if she tried. Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book - he thinks he's made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor. Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose.
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and the her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.
A girl wakes up on a self-driving bus. She has no memory of how she got there or who she is. Her name tag reads Cecily. The six other people on the bus are just like her: no memories, only name tags. There's a screen on each seat-back that gives them instructions. A series of tests begin, with simulations projected onto the front window of the bus. The passengers must each choose an outcome; majority wins. But as the testing progresses, deadly secrets are revealed, and the stakes get higher and higher. Soon Cecily is no longer just fighting for her freedom - she's fighting for her life.
The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known.
Let's hear it for the Australian women who have shaped our history and are expanding our future! Shout-outs to 50 awesome Australian women with easy-to-read biographies of their incredible achievements. From Cathy Freeman to Turia Pitt, Edith Cowan to Julia Gillard, Mum Shirl to Vali Myers, plus rally car drivers, molecular biologists and more, this book is a celebration of women in all fields, from all walks of life, and from Australia's past and present. Brought to life by colourful illustrations from female artists, Shout Out to the Girls is the ultimate inspirational read for young and old. All royalties from sales of this book go to The Smith Family.
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all? Now featuring a brand-new chapter told by bully Julian.
Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new girl boldly crosses over to the boys' side and outruns everyone. That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. Together they create Terabithia, a magical kingdom in the woods where the two of them reign as king and queen, and their imaginations set the only limits. Then one morning a terrible tragedy occurs. Only when Jess is able to come to grips with this tragedy does he finally understand the strength and courage Leslie has given him.
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.
A maid with a plan. A squire with a secret. A missing jewel. A kingdom in turmoil. Maven and Reeve have three days to solve the mystery of the Fire Star. If they don't, they'll lose everything. This could be a complete disaster . . . or the beginning of a friendship.
In this new graphic novel edition of the very first Baby-Sitters Club book, Raina Telgemeier captures all the drama of the original in warm, spunky illustrations. Witness Kristy's eureka moment, when she gets the idea for a "baby-sitters club" and enlists her best friends, shy Mary Anne and artistic Claudia, in an exciting new venture. But the baby-sitting business isn't the only thing absorbing their attention: Kristy is having a hard time accepting her stepdad-to-be, and the newest member of the gang, Stacey, seems to be hiding a secret.
The certificates you can receive for completing the Challenge are:
| First year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Second year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Third year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Fourth year | Gold certificate |
| Fifth year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Sixth year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Seventh year | Platinum certificate |
| Eigth year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Ninth year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Tenth year | Challenge completion certificate |
| Every year from Year 3 to Year 9 (inclusive) | Medal |
N.B. Only Year 9 students (and Year 10 students in 2021) are eligible to receive a medal.
Creative Christians. (2020, September 2). [Teenager with laptop]. [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/oUyfE8l8sRI