- demonstrated a convincing understanding of Hazel’s personal likes and dislikes (2), using specific examples -  Hazel ‘steps out of her own mind’ (3),
- made several personal connections to the story, thinking about their own tendency to be 'self-absorbed', and reflecting on the way this situation is common in real life.
https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/qualifications-and-standards/qualifications/ncea/NCEA-subject-resources/English/90854/90854-EXP-Student1-001.pdf

 

 | Title  | Author 
 | The Silent Ones  | Joy Cowley 
 | The Bone People  | Keri Hulme 
 | Paradise Lane  | William Taylor 
 | The Changeover  | Margaret Mahy 
 | Witi Ihimaera  | The Whale Rider 
 | Mission Girl  | Fleur Beale 
 | Katipo Joe (series)  | Brian Faulkner 
 | The Pōrangi Boy  | Shilo Kino 
 | Sunken Forest  | Des Hunt 
 | Rocco  | Sherryl Jordan 

 

 | Title  | Author 
 | Dawn Raid  | Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith 
 | Impossible  | Stan Walker 
 | Greta’s Story  | Valentina Camerini 
 | Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (young reader’s edition)  | Ashlee Vance 
 | Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism, and You  | Jason Reynolds and Ibrim X Kendi 
 | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind  | William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer 
 | Wink  | Rob Harrell 
 | My life, my fight  | Steven Adams 

 

 | Title  | Author 
 | Moone Boy (series, Books 1-4)  | Chris O’Dowd and Nick V. Murphy 
 | Billionaire Boy  | David Walliams 
 | The Boy in the Dress  | David Walliams 
 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  | Douglas Adams 
 | Boys don’t knit (in public)  | T. S. Easton 
 | Posted  | John David Anderson 
 | Locked Down  | Jesse O 

 

 | Title  | Author 
 | Little Women  | Louisa May Alcott 
 | Journey to the centre of the earth  | Jules Verne 
 | Anne of Green Gables  | L. M. Montgomery 
 | Charlotte’s Web  | E. B. White 
 | Emma  | Charlotte Bronte 
 | Treasure Island  | Robert Louis Stevenson 
 | Call of the Wild  | Jack London 
 | Dracula  | Bram Stoker 
 | Frankenstein  | Mary Shelley 
 | The Hobbit  | J. R. R. Tolkien 
 | Animal Farm  | George Orwell 

 

 | Title  | Author 
 | Fahrenheit 451  | Ray Bradbury 
 | A Wrinkle in Time  | Madeleine L’Engle 
 | The Outsiders  | S. E. Hinton 
 | The Chronicles of Narnia (series)  | C. S. Lewis 
 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  | Roald Dahl 
 | Holes  | Louis Sachar