Recommended Reading List
Recommended Reading List
Year Six
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 your bookshop. Enjoy them!
| Richard Adams | Watership Down |
| Joan Aiken | Wolves of Willoughby Chase series |
| Louisa M Alcott | Little Women |
| Nina Bawden | Carrie’s War |
| Malorie Blackman | Pig-Heart Boy |
| Judy Blume | Tiger Eyes |
| Theresa Breslin | Whispers in the Graveyard |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice Through the Looking Glass |
| Bob Cattell | Glory Gardens series |
| D Clement-Davies | Fire Bringer |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl series |
| Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising series |
| Gillian Cross | Demon Headmaster series |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |
| Stephen Elboz | House of Rats |
| Anne Fine | Madame Doubtfire |
| Goggle Eyes | |
| Michael Foreman | War Boy |
| Anne Frank | Diary of Anne Frank |
| Cornelia Funke | Thief Lord |
| Alan Garner | Weirdstone of Brisingamen |
| Alan Gibbons | Whose Side Are You On? |
| Morris Gleitzman | The Other Facts of Life |
| Cynthia Harnett | The Wool Pack |
| Carl Hiaason | Hoot |
| Anna Holm | I am David |
| Anthony Horowitz | Stormbreaker |
| Falcon’s Malteser | |
| Brian Jacques | Redwall series |
| Captain W E Johns | Biggles series |
| Erich Kastner | Emil and the Detectives |
| Gene Kemp | The Clock Tower Ghost |
| Dick King-Smith | Any title |
| Judith Kerr | When Hitler stoke Pink Rabbit |
| Rudyard Kipling | Jungle Stories |
| Caroline Lawrence | Roman Mysteries |
| Michael Lawrence | Maggot Pie |
| Hilary Mckay | Saffy's Angel |
| Cliff McNish | Doomspell |
| Michelle Magorian | Back Home |
| Goodnight Mr Tom | |
| Adeline Yen Mah | Chinese Cinderella |
| Margaret Mahy | The Haunting |
| Michael Morpurgo | Amazing Story of Adolophus Tips |
| Jenny Nimmo | Midnight for Charlie Bone |
| Robert O’Brien | Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
| Garry Paulsen | Hatchet series |
| Terry Pratchett | Truckers trilogy |
| Willard Price | Arctic Adventure (and others) |
| Philip Ridley | Krindlekrax |
| J K Rowling | Harry Potter series |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island |
| Robert Swindells | Room 13 |
| J R R Tolkien | The Hobbit |
| Mark Twain | Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Robert Westall | Machine Gunners |
| E B White | The Trumpet of the Swan |
| T H White | The Sword in the Stone |
| Various Authors | My Story series |
June 2007