Challenge Rules

Rules for school and student Challengers

  1. You must register as a Challenger and keep a record of your reading on the Challenge website.
  2. You must be a student in a year level from Prep to Year 10 in 2013. You can be learning at a school or learning at home.
  3. You must read the following number of books during the Challenge:
Reading requirements for each year level
Year level Number of books Number from the Challenge book list
Prep 30 books 20 or more
Year 1 30 books 20 or more
Year 2 30 books 20 or more
Year 3 15 books 10 or more
Year 4 15 books 10 or more
Year 5 15 books 10 or more
Year 6 15 books 10 or more
Year 7 15 books 10 or more
Year 8 15 books 10 or more
Year 9 15 books 10 or more
Year 10 15 books 5 or more
  1. If you are in Prep, Year 1 or Year 2 you can read books by yourself or with someone else, for example, a parent, teacher, brother or sister, classmate, buddy or friend. They can help you or read the book to you if you are just learning to read.
  2. Your online books must be verified as read by a Coordinator in your school.
  3. All your information must be completed online before 12 September* 2013.

* Please note schools can set their own timelines within the dates advertised on the challenge website.

Rules for young children / preschool Challengers

  1. You must register as a Challenger and keep a record of your reading.
  2. You must be a young child who is not yet attending a school or is not of school age.
  3. Between February and 12 September 2013:  
If you are in: You must read: This many must be from the Challenge booklist:
Preschool 40 20  or more
  1. You can read books by yourself or with someone else, for example, a parent or guardian, carer, brother or sister, buddy or friend. They can help you or read the book to you if you are just learning to read.
  2. Your parent or guardian or the Challenge Coordinator at your Early Childhood Service will verify you have read the correct number of books and update your online record to reflect this.
  3. All your information must be completed online before 12 September 2013.

You can download a copy of the 2013 Challenge rules here. (Word - 40Kb)

Other information:

Have you read this?

cover of Taken Away
Taken Away

by Celine Kiernan

I think the fire changed us - me and Dom. Though I didn't feel much different at first, I think something inside of us opened up, or woke up. I think, all at once, we began to understand how easily things are broken and taken and lost. It was like walking through a door: on one side was the warm, cosy sitting room of our childhood; on the other, a burnt-out shell of ash and char.

Why I love reading…

I love reading because I believe in every story/novel there is a message.

Most of the books I read have a message that 'there is always hope' or 'You are not alone'.

Taila (Year 5)