LIBRARY
McKinnon Secondary College
VICTORIAN PREMIERS' READING CHALLENGE
Congratulations to our avid readers who participated in the Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge for 2025. They were part of the Challenge’s 20th birthday and joined generations of young Victorians in sharing their love for reading.
Across Victoria, more than 76,237 children and students completed the Challenge, and together, 3,092,257 books were read.
CONGRATULATIONS
Year 7
Siddharth Narayanan
Jashan Penumuchu
Harvey Evans
Raphael Goldman
Evelina Long
Arielle Rees
Mitali Pardeshi
Rebecca Xie
Arhan Angadi
Maia Norgate-Burke
Maisie Lai
Bani Sandhu
Yash Nijjar
Ishin Garg
Jamie Jahya
Year 8
Jaydon Prakash
Yijun Zhou
Jana Bryant
Anna Chiu
Eloise Lai
Year 9
Yael Ben Yosef
Dhruvi Mittal
Lara Sumer
Lachlan Cravino
Year 10
Shreya Panwar
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Our reading challenge participants were asked to share their favourite book of the year and here are their recommendations:
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- Spark by M.G Leonard
- Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
- The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams
- Once by Morris Gleitzman
- The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
- History is all you left me by Adam Silvera
- Powerless by Lauren Roberts
- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
- A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
- Powerless by Lauren Roberts
- Visual History World War 2
- Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan
- Think Again by Adam Grant
- The Hate you Give by Angie Thomas
- Keeper of Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger
- I Hope this doesn't find you by Ann Liang
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
These recommendations now form part of a library display we will leave up well into 2026.
Happy holidays!
Janene Watson
Resource Centre Manager