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Leeslys van ‘n 15-jarige dogter

12 January 2025
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My boekwurm is weer terug op stoom nadat sy laas jaar deur ‘n fase gegaan het wat nie baie gelees het nie.

In 2024 het sy 31 Afrikaanse en 73 Engelse boeke gelees. Dis ver van die 200-300 boeke wat sy vroeër jare gelees het, maar met alles wat saam met hoërskool gepaard gaan is dit ook te verstane dat sy nie meer so baie tyd soos voorheen kry vir lees nie. Wanneer sy wel tyd het kan sy maklik vir ‘n dag lank verdwyn en net lees en lees en lees.

Haar gunsteling Afrikaanse boeke vir die jaar was Die Tweede verslag van ‘n buitengewone ontmoeting deur Rona Rupert, Momo deur Michael Ende en Tonke Dragt se reeks boeke Die Brief vir die Koning en Geheim van die Wilde Woud. In Engels wat haar gunstelinge 3 reekse. Dit was Deborah Ellis se The Prison Runner en Beyond the Barricade, Joanne Macgregor se Turtle Walk en Rock Steady en Clive Mantle se The Treasure at the Top of the World en A Jewel in the Sands of Time.

Sy het die volgende boeke gelees in 2024:

Afrikaans
1. Die Meisie met Uitroeptekens in haar Oë en ander stories – Pam Macmillian uitgewers
2. Maya se Musketier – Marga Jonker
3. Blits: Perlemoendiewe – Nadine en Adriaan Blom
4. Pienk is nie vir Sissies nie – Christien Neser
5. Blits: Operasie Hoërskool – Nadine en Adriaan Blom
6. Die Poniehoewe-klub – Mary Sadler
7. Ons Koba – Adriaan Snyman
8. Klipkuil – Adriaan Snyman
9. Die Poniehoewe-klub 2: Die Eerste Gimkana – Mary Sadler
10. Die Poniehoewe-klub 3: Rosette vir Dapper – Mary Sadler
11. Ek sal moet leer dans, Shaleen – Rena Schuler
12. Skaduwees in die see – Colin Thiele
13. Die Poniehoewe-klub 5: Mandjies word Boontjies – Mary Sadler
14. Die Poniehoewe-klub 6: Dressuur vir Dommie – Mary Sadler
15. Simonetta en die Spinnekop – Elsabe Steenberg
16. Projek Paddaprins – Maritha Snyman
17. Projek Boontjierank – Maritha Snyman
18. Projek Doringrosie – Maritha Snyman
19. Twee Blou Fietse – Le Roi Steenkamp
20. Die Kinders van Sengeti – Elmar Steyn
21. As mens geluk kon proe – Zelda Bezuidenhout
22. Dit vat Guts – Annelie Ferreira
23. Momo – Michael Ende
24. Jungu Josh 2: Die Kryger van Aboemondja – Constant van Graan
25. Jungu Josh 3: Die Waters van Wafu – Constant van Graan
26. Die Brief vir die Koning – Tonke Dragt
27. Geheim van die Wilde Woud – Tonke Dragt
28. Wit Oemfaan – FA Venter
29. Kondensmelk- Christien Neser
30. Die Tweede verslag van ‘n buitengewone ontmoeting – Rona Rupert
31. Hier’s die Bende – Phil Olivier

Engels
1. The Pearls of Lutra – Brian Jacques
2. Plague – Malcolm Rose
3. The Prison Runner – Deborah Ellis
4. Beyond the Barricade – Deborah Ellis
5. Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery – Keren David (Nota van haar is dat sy glad nie van die boek gehou het nie)
6. Dreaming the Bear – Mimi Thebo
7. The Sound of Whales – Kerr Thomson
8. A Girl called Justice – Elly Griffiths
9. Louisiana’s way Home – Kate DiCamillo
10. A Boy called Ocean – Chris Higgins
11. The World’s Worst Parents – David Walliams
12. How to look for a lost dog – Ann M Martin
13. Turtle Walk – Joanne Macgregor
14. Undercover Girl 1: Secrets – Christine Harris
15. Katy’s Pony Surprise – Victoria Eveleigh
16. The Bellmaker – Brian Jacques
17. Paper cuts – Yvonne Collins & Sandy Rideout
18. Undercover Girl 2: Fugitive – Christine Harris
19. The Treasure at the Top of the World – Clive Mantle
20. Rock Steady – Joanne Macgregor
21. Undercover Girl 3: Nightmare – Christine Harris
22. Undercover Girl 4: Danger – Christine Harris
23. A Jewel in the Sands of Time – Clive Mantle
24. Invictus – Ryan Graudin
25. Murder most unladylike – Robin Stevens
26. Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’dell
27. Sweet 16: Keeping Secrets – Melinda Metz
28. Dancing the Charleston – Jaqueline Wilson
29. The Astounding Broccoli Boy – Frank Cottrell Boyce
30. Academy of Dance: BFF Breakup – Margaret Gurevich
31. Millions – Frank Cottrell Boyce
32. The key to the Indian – Lynne Reid
33. The One that got away – Josh Lacey
34. A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair – Nicolas Fisk
35. Pocahontas: True Princess – Mari Hanes
36. Mary-Kate and Ashley Sweet Sixteen: Never Been Kissed – Emma Harrison
37. Drina: Ballet for Drina: “I Want to be a Dancer!” – Jean Estoril
38. Drina: Ballet for Drina: Dance to your Shadow – Jean Estoril
39. Drina: Drina’s Dancing year: Drina Goes to the Dominick Scool – Jean Estoril
40. Drina: Drina’s Dancing year: A Future Ballerina? – Jean Estoril
41. Drina: Drina Dances in Exile: Ballet in Buckinhamshire – Jean Estoril
42. Drina: Drina Dances in Exile: Ballet Elsewhere – Jean Estoril
43. Drina: Drina Dances in Italy: Ballet in London – Jean Estoril
44. Drina: Drina Dances in Italy: Ballet in Italy – Jean Estoril
45. Still a Work in Progress – Jo Knowles
46. Flora in Love – Natasha Farrant
47. Time for Jas – Natasha Farrant
48. Callanish – William Horwood
49. Toby Jug – Denis O’Connor
50. Sektion 20 – Paul Dowswell
51. Peril en Pointe – Helen Lipscombe
52. Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls 2: Power Play – Beth McMullen
53. Mascot – Anthony John
54. Alex Rider: Nightshade Revenge – Anthony Horowitz
55. In a Blue Velvet Dress – Catherine Sefton
56. The Missing Bookshop – Katie Clapham
57. Agent Weasel and the Fiendish Fox Gang – Jack East
58. Billy and the Minpins – Roald Dahl
59. The Animals Nobody Wanted – Elisabeth Beresford
60. Best Friends – Jacqueline Wilson
61. Girls under Pressure – Jacqueline Wilson
62. Opal Plumstead -Jacqueline Wilson
63. Hetty Feather – Jacqueline Wilson
64. My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
65. Heart of Danger – Eliot Schrefer
66. The Elephant in the Room – Holly Goldberg Sloan
67. The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare
68. And the Stars were Burning Brightly – Danielle Jawando
69. The Wolrd’s Greatest underachierver and the crazy classroom cascade – Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver
70. Second Fiddle – Siobhan Parkinson
71. Wildfire – Chris Ryan
72. Journey to the River Sea – Eva Ibbotson
73. The Dragonfly Pool – Eva Ibbotson