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Suggested Reading Lists
Many parents have been asking about suitable books for their children to read. The English Department has compiled a list of titles and authors for each year group - but the list is not exhaustive and an amazing range of new books are released each month.
Parents should be aware that the suggested titles are aimed towards a range of reading abilities in each year group. Some titles may not be suitable for your child's reading comprehension level.
Parents are also advised to monitor their children's reading as some of the titles suggested may contain vocabulary or subject matter that you may prefer your child not to encounter.
Although the lists are in year groups, please feel free to browse and select books from other lists if you feel your child would enjoy them. Do not feel that they have to read every book on the list. After all, we want to encourage children to read widely for their own enjoyment and develop a real love of the written word.
Use the links below to jump to the list you require.
Year 3 into 4 Suggested Reading List
Coming soon
Year
4 into 5 Suggested Reading List
Click HERE for .pdf printable version
Class
Readers – please do not read at home:
The
Sheep Pig,
Dick King Smith
Tales of the 4th Grade Nothing, Judy Blume
Space Baby, Henrietta Branford
How the Whale Became, Ted Hughes
I am a Rat, Philip Pullman
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Suggested
Book List:
The
Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips,
Michael Morpurgo
The Little Gentleman, Phiippa Pearce
The Adventure series, Willard Price
Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff
MacB, Neil Arksey
The Narnia series, CS Lewis
(N.b. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a class reader in Year 5)
Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Glory Gardens series, Bob Cattell
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Betrayal, Grace Cavendish
The Boggart, Susan Cooper
Down with the Dirty Danes, Gillian Cross
Salt Pirates of Skegness, Chris d’Lacey
Boy Overboard, Morris Gleitzman
Pure Dead Magic, Debi Gliori
Secret of Platform 13, Eva Ibbotson
Stig of the Dump, Clive King
The Thieves of Ostia and series,
The Killer Underpants, Michael Lawrence
The Sleeping Sword, Michael Morpurgo
The Marble Crusher, Michael Morpurgo
The Borrowers, Mary Norton
A Dog So Small, Phillipa Pearce
Mouse Attack, Manjula Padma
Dog’s Can’t Tell Jokes, Louis Sacher
The Lemony Snickett books
Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
Charlotte's Web, E B White
Leopard Trail, Elizabeth Laird
The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burford
The Redwall series, Brian Jacques
Puffin Young Reader Series, Dick King Smith
Super Fudge, Judy Blume
Famous 5, Secret 7 and St Claire’s Series, Enid Blyton
Tracy Beaker Series, Jacqueline Wilson.
Also other Jacqueline Wilson Books
My Secret Unicorn and other series, Linda Chapman
The BFG, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and The Witches, Roald Dahl
Year 5 into 6 Suggested Reading List
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Class
Readers – please do not read at home:
The
Queens Nose – Harmony’s Return,
Steve Artridge
Just so Stones, Rudyard Kipling
Woof, Allan Ahlberg
Danny
– Champion of the World,
R. Dahl
The
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,
CS Lewis
Kids
Night in (Collection of Short Stories),
Variety of Authors
Grimstones
Ghost, Mary Arrigan
The
Family from
One End Street, Eve Garnett
Suggested Book List:
Turbulence,
Jan Mark
Lionboy, Zizou Corder
The Star of Kazan, Eve Ibbotson
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
I, Coriander, Sally Gardner
Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
The Deptford Mice trilogy and others, Robin Jarvis
War Game, Michael Foreman
The Adventure series, Willard Price
Black Hearts in Battersea, Joan Aiken
As Good as Dead in Downtown, Niel Arksey
The Indian in the Cupboard series, Lynne Reid Banks
Carrie’s War, Nina Bawden
Pig-Heart Boy, Malorie Blackman
The Mouse and His Child, Russell Hoban
P.O.W, Martin Booth
Storm Chasers, Tim Bowler
Fire, Bed & Bone, Henrietta Branford
The Jennings books, Anthony Buckeridge
Frindle, Andrew Clements
The Demon Headmaster, Gillian Cross
Up On Cloud Nine, Anne Fine
Smith, Leon Garfield
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
The Owl Service & Elidor, Alan Garner
Gift of the Gab & Puppy Fat, Morris Gleitzman
Pure Dead Magic, Debi Gliori
How to Train Your Parents, Pete Johnson
Rescuing Dad, Pete Johnson
The Lady and the Squire, Terry Jones
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Gene Kemp
The Thieves of Ostia,
The Otterbury Incident, C. Day Lewis
The Haunting, Margaret Mahy
A Little Lower than the Angels, Geraldine McCaughrean
Aquila, Andrew Norriss
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff
Hurricane Summer, Robert Swindells
Harry & the Wrinklies, Alan Temperley
Boy & Going Solo, Roald Dahl
The Midnight Fox, Betsy Byars
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Hundred and One Dalmations, Dodie Smith
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Year 6 into 7 Suggested Reading List
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Class
Readers – please do not read at home.
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Lavine
Suggested
Book List:
The
Time Wreccas series,
Val Tyler
Alone on the Wide Wide Sea, Michael Morpurgo
Ghost Writer, Julia Jarman
Clay, David Almond
Framed, Frank Cottrell Boyce
The New Policeman, Kate Thompson
Stealing Stacy, Lynne Reid Banks
Exodus, Julie Bertagna
Al Capone Does My Shirts, Gennifer Choldenko
Time Bomb, Nigel Hinton
Not the End of the World, Geraldine McCaughrean
Wolf Brother series, Michelle Pavar
Eragon and Eldest, Christopher Paolini
The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge
Skellig, David Almond
Fire Eaters, David Almond
As Good as Dead in Downtown, Neil Arksey
Carrie’s War, Nina Bawden
The Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
Tales of the Greek Heroes, Roger Lancelyn Green
King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
Tulip Touch, Anne Fine
The Owl Service, Alan Garner
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner
Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin
Soccer Mad, Michael Hardcastle
Toad Rage, Morris Gleitzman
The ‘Earthsea’ Quartet, Ursula le Guin
King Soloman’s Mines, Rider Haggard
Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson
Homeward Bounders, Diana Wynne Jones
Archer’s Goon, Diana Wynne Jones
The Garbage King, Elizabeth Laird
Enemies of Jupiter,
White Fang and The Call of the Wild, Jack London
They do Things Differently There, Jan Mark
The Kite Flyer, Geraldine McCaughrean
Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce
Witch Child, Celia Rees
Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve
Mercedes Ice, Philip Ridley
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
Kidnapped!, Robert Louis Stevenson
Muddle Earth, Paul Stewart
Raspberries on the Yangtsee, Karen Wallace
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings
The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares
Anne Frank’s Diary
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Flour Babies, Anne Fine
School Stories, chosen by Jan Mark
The Edge Chronicles series, P Stewart and C Riddell
Year 7 into 8 Suggested Reading List
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Class
Readers – please do not read at home.
The
Windsinger
– William Nicholson
Roald Dahl Short Stories
Tulip Touch – Anne Fine
Madame Doubtfire – Anne Fine
Kensuke Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
Year 7 into 8 Suggested
Book List:
Malvolio's
Revenge,
Sophie Masson
Shade's Children, Garth Nix
Kissing the Rain and Lucas, Kevin Brooks
Looking for JJ, Anne Cassidy
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
Postcards from No Man's Land, Aiden Chambers
Divided City, Theresa Breslin
Tamar, Mal Peet
The White Darkness, Geraldine McCaughrean
Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld
Troy, Adele Geras
A Gathering Light, Jennifer Donnelly
The Sharpe series, Bernard Cornwall
Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo
The Discworld Series, Terry Pratchett
The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis
Buddy, Nigel Hinton
Kit’s Wilderness, David Almond
The ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ series, Douglas Adams
Fire-Eaters, David Almond
Fake, K.K.Beck
The Sally Lockhart trilogy, Philip Pullman
Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Whispers in the Graveyard, Theresa Breslin
Martyn Pig, Kevin Brooks
Just in Case
The Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ stories, A Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin
Piggies, Nick Gifford
Love that Dog, Sharon Creech
Saffy’s Angel, Hillary McKay
The ‘Earthsea’ Quartet, Ursula le Guin
Across the Nightingale Floor series, Lian Hearn
The Garbage King, Elizabeth Laird
Lord of the Nutcracker Men, Iain Lawrence
The Kite Rider, Geraldine McCaughrean
No Turning Back, Beverley Naidoo
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman (challenging)
Short Stories, Edgar Allen Poe
Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve
The Wave, Morton Rhue
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred E Taylor
A Solitary Blue, Cynthia Voigt
Fantasy Stories, chosen by D Wynne Jones
Blitzcat, Robert Westall (easy)
The Dark Horse, Marcus Sedgwick
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Darling Buds of May, HE Bates
The Machine Gunners, Robert Westall
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Pompeii, Robert Harris
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
Out of India, Jamila Gavin
Kingdom by the Sea, Robert Westall
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend
Kes (also published as
A Kestrel for a Knave), Barry Hines (colourful language)
Dune, Frank Herbert
Stone Cold, Robert Swindells
I’m the King of the Castle, Susan Hill
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austin
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
Smash, Robert Swindells
The Outsiders, S E Hinton
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
Running on Ice, short stories
2001 A Space Odyssey, Arthur C Clarke
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Year 8 Suggested Book List
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The
Road to Nab End, William
Woodruff
1984, George Orwell
Of Mice and Men & The Pearl, John Steinbeck
Junk, Melvyn Burgess
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Touching the Void, Joe Simpson
Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Empire of the Sun, J G Ballard
You Don’t Know Me, David Klass
Sagittarius Rising, Cecil Lewis
The Railway Man, Eric Lomax
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte