The English Department believes that a love of reading is vital to every person; it is a skill for life. We aim to help each child to develop this skill.
The aim is for each child to read a minimum of six books per year from a range of genres: one each half term. So, each half term, they should read one from the list and, if they finish this quickly, they may then choose any other book from the library or from home. The same process will apply to each of the six half term and the books may be read in any order.
Required Reading List 2010 - 2011
If any parent objects, for whatever reason, to any book on the list please contact your child's English teacher for an alternative choice.
Mrs F J Drye - Head of English
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Y8 Challenging |
Y8 Good |
Y8 Easier |
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Junk |
The Outsiders |
Truckers |
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The Medici Seal |
Troy (Adele Geras) |
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar |
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Lord of The Flies |
I Robot (Asimov) |
The Diary of Adrian Mole |
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Of Mice and Men |
Across the Nightingale Floor |
Martyn Pig |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Noughts & Crosses |
Elsewhere / Inventing Elliot |
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Pawn of Prophecy |
Watership Down |
Numbers |
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Y7 Challenging |
Y7 Good |
Y7 Easier |
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Northern Lights |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
Once |
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Alice in Wonderland |
Mortal Engines |
The Ruby in the Smoke |
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Twilight |
Wolf Brother |
The Wizard of Earthsea |
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Counting Stars |
Horowitz Horror: 1 / Coraline |
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the Diary of Anne Frank |
And Then There Were None |
Cosmic |
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The Collected Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes |
Holes |
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom |
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Y6 Challenging |
Y6 Good |
Y6 Easier |
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Fire, Bed and Bone |
Cirque du Freak |
Foul Play / My Friend Walter |
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Black Beauty |
Room 13 |
Legend of the Worst Boy in the World |
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Howl's Moving Castle |
Artemis Fowl |
1st Mr Gum |
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Anne of Green Gables |
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler |
How to Train Your Dragon |
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Just William |
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
Spiderwick 1: The Field Guide |
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The Little White Horse / Tom's Midnight Garden |
The Snow-walker's Son |
Madame Doubtfire |
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Y5 Challenging |
Y5 Good |
Y5 Easier |
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Over Sea, Under Stone |
The Indian in the Cupboard |
My Story: Mill Girl / Ferno the Fire Dragon |
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Five Children and It |
The Borrowers |
3 Gripping Tales |
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Oscar Wilde's Short Stories |
Danny Champion of the World |
Cool |
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Redwall |
Short |
James & the Giant Peach |
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The Rats of NIMH |
The Thieves of Ostia |
Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood (Lee) |
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Kensuke's Kingdom |
Into the Wild (Erin Hunter) |
The Chicken Gave it to Me |
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Y4 Challenging |
Y4 Good |
Y4 Easier |
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The Magician's Nephew |
Charlotte's Web |
Bill's New Frock |
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The Secret Garden |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Star Striker Titch |
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Finn Family Moomintroll |
The Butterfly Lion |
Flat Stanley |
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Lion Boy |
1st Term at Mallory Towers / 1 Rob Child Collection |
Horrid Henry / My Naughty Little Sister |
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Stormbreaker |
101 Dalmations |
The Roman Soldier's Handbook |
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The Bad Beginning |
3 Asterix books |
Cool as a Cucumber |
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