Recommended Reading
10/11+ RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Michael Morpurgo – The Dancing Bear, The Wreck of the Zanzibar, The Marble Crusher, Kensuke’s Kingdom, The Butterfly Lion
Dick King-Smith – The Hodgeheg, Clever Duck; Friends and Brothers, George Speaks, The Fox Busters etc.
Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons
Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden
Clive King – Stig of the Dump
Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book
C.S. Lewis – The Narnia Series
Penelope Lively – The Whispering Knights
John Masefield – The Box of Delights
Mary Norton – The Borrowers
Phillipa Pearce – Tom’s Midnight Garden
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Alison Uttley – A Traveller in Time
Robert Swindells - Hurricane Summer
Ann Turnbull - A Long Way Home, No Friend of Mine
Jill Paton Walsh – Fireweed
Phillip Ridley – Scribbleboy
Nina Bawden - Carrie's War
Esther Hautzig - The Endless Steppe
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell – Stormchaser
Lemony Snicket – A Series of Unfortunate Events
Paul Steward and Chris Riddell - Beyond the Deepwoods
Johanna Spyri – Heidi
Richmal Crompton – Just William (Series)
Johann David Wyss - Swiss Family Robinson
Michelle Magorian – Goodnight Mister Tom
Ted Hughes – The Iron Man
Anne Fine – Bill’s New Frock, Diary of a Killer Cat (series), A Sudden Puff of Glittering Smoke
Shirley Hughes – The Lion and the Unicorn
Anthony Browne – Voices in the Park
Jeanne Willis – Dr. Xargle’s Book of Earthlets
Eoin Colfer – The Legend of Spud Murphy
Nigel Hinton – Beaver Towers
Humphrey Carpenter – Mr Majeika Series
Roald Dahl – The Magic Finger, Matilda, The Twits, Boy etc.
Jacqueline Wilson – The Cat Mummy, Cliffhanger, Buried Alive!
BOYS' FAVOURITES
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl Series
Robert Westall
Eric Kastner
Anthony Horrowitz
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
GIRLS' FAVOURITES
Jacqueline Wilson
Enid Blyton
Louisa M. Alcott
Georgia Byng
Cornelia Funke
Laura Ingalls Wilder
ANIMAL LOVERS
Michael Morpurgo – The Butterfly Lion
Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals
Brian Jacques – Redwall Series
Dick King-Smith
Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
E.B. White – Charlotte’s Web
Richard Adams
Colin Dann
FANTASY AND SCI-FI LOVERS
J.R.R. Tolkein
Robin Jarvis
H.G.Wells
Lynn Reid Banks
Dianna Wynne Jones
Jules Verne
Garth Nix
Brian Jacques
Peter Dickinson
Alan Garner
Ursula K. Le Guin
John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes
POEMS
Roger McGough
Benjamin Zephania
READING CHALLENGES
Jostein Gaarder – Sophie’s World
J.K. Rowling – The Harry Potter Series
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
