Recommended Reading List
Recommended Reading List
Year Seven
Here is a wide variety of books with something for every taste. Some books are more challenging than others, but are really worthwhile so don’t be discouraged. Some are out of print and can only be found in libraries, others you can get from our bookshop. Enjoy them!
| Douglas Adams | Hitchhiker series | |
| Richard Adams | Watership Down | |
| Joan Aiken | Wolves of Willoughby Chase series | |
| Louisa M Alcott | Little Women | |
| Malorie Blackman | Dangerous Reality | |
| Judy Blume | Tiger Eyes | |
| Martin Booth | Music on the Bamboo Radio | |
| Theresa Breslin | Whispers in the Graveyard | |
| Melvyn Burgess | Kite | |
| Bill Bryson | Notes from a Small Island | |
| Notes from a Big Country | ||
| D Clement-Davies | Fire Bringer | |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl series | |
| Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising series | |
| Sharon Creech | Ruby Holler | |
| Gillian Cross | Born of the Sun | |
| Chris D'Lacey | The Fire Within series | |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | |
| Berlie Doherty | Street Child | |
| Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | |
| Deborah Ellis | Breadwinner | |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Number Devil | |
| Anne Fine | Madame Doubtfire | |
| Anne Frank | Diary of Anne Frank | |
| Paul Gallico | The Snow Goose | |
| Leon Garfield | Smith | |
| Alan Garner | Weirdstone of Brisingamen | |
| Alan Gibbons | Shadow of the Minotaur | |
| Morris Gleitzman | The Other Facts of Life (and others) | |
| Cynthia Harnett | The Wool Pack | |
| James Herriot | Vet in Harness | |
| Nigel Hinton | Collision Course | |
| Anne Holm | I am David | |
| Nick Hornsby | Fever Pitch | |
| Anthony Horowitz | Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series) | |
| Brian Jacques | Redwall series | |
| Judith Kerr | When Hitler Stoke Pink Rabbit | |
| Gary Kilworth | Welkin Weasels series | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Jungle Book | |
| Ursula Le Guin | Wizard of Earthsea | |
| Jack London | Call of the Wild | |
| Catherine MacPhail | Tribes | |
| Michelle Magorian | Back Home | |
| Goodnight Mr Tom | ||
| Adeline Yen Mah | Chinese Cinderella | |
| Margaret Mahy | The Haunting | |
| Anthony Masters | Shark | |
| Beverley Naidoo | Out of Bounds | |
| William Nicholson | Wind Singer | |
| Robert O’Brien | Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | |
| Kenneth Oppel | Silverwing series | |
| Gary Paulsen | Hatchet series | |
| Christopher Paolini | Eragon | |
| Terry Pratchett | Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents | |
| Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines | |
| Philip Ridley | Scribbleboy | |
| J K Rowling | Harry Potter series | |
| Louis Sachar | Holes | |
| Ian Strachan | Throwaways | |
| Robert Swindells | Thousand Eyes of Night | |
| J R R Tolkien | The Hobbit | |
| Sue Townsend | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole | |
| Mark Twain | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
| Karen Wallace | Raspberries on the Yangtze | |
| Robert Westall | Machine Gunners | |
| T H White | The Sword in the Stone |
June 2007