Recommended Reading List
Recommended Reading List
Year Five
Here is a wide range of books for every taste! They are not all in print at the moment so some of them can only be obtained from a library but they are too good to miss. The rest you can get from your bookshop. If you like a book then find other titles by the same author. Read and enjoy!
| Louise M Alcott | Little Women | |
| Alan Ahlberg | Woof! | |
| Philip Ardagh | Unlikely Exploits series | |
| Neil Arksey | Flint | |
| Lynne Reid Banks | Indian in the Cupboard | |
| Nina Bawden | The Peppermint Pig | |
| Malory Blackman | Hacker | |
| Judy Blume | Superfudge | |
| Lucy Boston | The Children of Green Knowe | |
| Sheila Burnford | The Incredible Journey | |
| Betsy Byars | The Midnight Fox | |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | |
| Lauren Child | Utterly Me, Clarice Bean | |
| Beverly Cleary | Ramona the Brave | |
| Bruce Coville | Russell Troy, Monster Boy | |
| Richmal Crompton | Just William | |
| Sharon Creech | Love That Dog | |
| Gillian Cross | Great Elephant Chase | |
| The Demon Headmaster series | ||
| Roald Dahl | Any title | |
| Colin Dann | Journey to Freedom | |
| Hunter Davies | Snotty Bumstead | |
| Flossie Teacake series | ||
| Terry Deary | Spark Files series | |
| Horrible Histories series | ||
| J. Eldridge | Warpath series | |
| Anne Fine | Charm School | |
| Michael Foreman | War Boy | |
| Eva Garnett | The Family from One End Street | |
| Morris Gleitzman | Blabbermouth | |
| Willis Hall | The Last Vampire | |
| Anthony Horowitz | Groosham Grange | |
| Stormbreaker | ||
| Harry Horse | Last Castaways | |
| John Houghton | Oswain Tales | |
| Ted Hughes | The Iron Man | |
| The Iron Woman | ||
| Madhur Jaffrey | Seasons of Splendour | |
| Paul Jennings | Unbelievable! | |
| Inigo Jones | Zagwitz: The Lost Isle of Telijencia | |
| Terry Jones | The Knight and the Squire | |
| Gene Kemp | Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler | |
| Richard Kidd | Giant Goldfish Robbery | |
| Clive King | Stig of the Dump | |
| Dick King-Smith | Any titles | |
| Caroline Lawrence | Roman Mysteries | |
| C S Lewis | The Magician’s Nephew (Narnia series) | |
| Livi Michael | Frank and the Chamber of Fear | |
| Michael Morpurgo | Out of the Ashes | |
| Andrew Norriss | Aquila | |
| Mary Norton | The Borrowers series | |
| Philippa Pearce | Way to Sattin Shore | |
| Philip Pullman | Clockwork | |
| Emily Rodda | Deltora Quest series | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone | |
| Dodie Smith | 101 Dalmations | |
| Lemony Snicket | Series of Unfortunate Events series | |
| Joanna Spyri | Heidi | |
| Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell | Edge Chronicles series | |
| Alan Temperley | Harry and the Wrinklies | |
| Ian Whybrow | Sniff | |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little House in the Big Wood series | |
June 2007