Upper Key Stage 2 Reading Challenge List

St. Lawrence College Upper Key Stage 2 Reading Challenge List

Upper KEY STAGE 2

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St. Lawrence College Upper Key Stage 2 Reading Challenge List

Artemis Fowl Alex Rider Stormbreaker by by Eoin Colfer 2001 Anthony Horowitz 2000 Puffin Walker

Artemis Fowl is a series of They told him his uncle eight science fiction fantasy died in an accident. He novels written by Irish author wasn't wearing his seatbelt, Eoin Colfer, featuring the they said. But when eponymous character, fourteen-year-old Alex finds Artemis Fowl II, the twelve- his uncle's windshield year-old son of an Irish crime riddled with bullet holes, he lord. knows it was no accident. He is a child prodigy who What he doesn't know has dedicated his life to yet is that his uncle was criminal activities and leads the Fowl criminal killed while on a top-secret mission. But he is empire, which has been established by his family about to, and once he does, there is no turning for generations. back.

Journey to the River Sea Private Peaceful by Eva Ibbotson 2001 by Michael Morpurgo 2003 Macmillan Children's Books Harper Collins Children's Books

Orphan Maia is thrilled to For young Private learn she is to live with Peaceful, looking back over relatives in South America his childhood while he is on and cannot wait to night watch in the experience the sights, battlefields of the First World sounds and smells of the War, his memories are full of Amazon. family life deep in the Bright, passionate, countryside: his mother, adventurous, determined Charlie, Big Joe, and Molly -- and resourceful, Maia is extremely talented in the love of his life. Too young to be enlisted, music and has a great zest for life. She journeys Thomas has followed his brother to war and to the Amazon to live with her relatives, the now, every moment he spends thinking about Carters, who exploit, neglect and abuse her, only his life, means another moment closer to keeping her under their roof for the sake of her danger. parents' money.

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Percy Jackson & the Lightning Skellig Thief By David Almond 1998 By Rick Riordan Puffin 2005 Hodder Children's Books

Percy could have Unhappy about his baby sworn his pre-algebra sister's illness and the chaos teacher turned into a of moving into a dilapidated monster and tried to kill old house, Michael retreats him. When Percy's mom to the garage and finds a finds out, she knows it's mysterious stranger who is time that he knew the truth something like a bird and about where he came from, something like an angel. and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She Through his friendship sends Percy to Camp Half with Mina and the stranger Blood, a summer camp for demigods, where he in the shed, he learns many things. learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, god of the Sea.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of The Witches Unfortunate Events by Roald Dahl The Bad Beginning 1999 Puffin 1983 by Daniel Handler Scholastic This is not a fairy-tale. This Violet, Klaus, and Sunny is about REAL WITCHES. Real Baudelaire are enjoying a grey witches don't ride around on day at the beach, when a broomsticks. They don't even banker named Mr. Poe wear black cloaks and hats. approaches them with some They are vile, cunning, horrible news: Their parents detestable creatures who have died in a tragic fire. ... disguise themselves as nice, Mr. Poe ends up taking the children to live ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're with Count Olaf—a distant relative whom the face to face with one? Well, if you don't know kids have never met. yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children!

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The Diamond of Drury Lane The Hobbit Cat Royal Series by J.R.R. Tolkien By Julia Golding Egmont 2006 Harper Collins Children's 1937 Cat Royal, orphan, The Hobbit met with adventurer and ward of the instant critical acclaim when Theatre Royal, lives among it was first published in 1937. the most gifted actors and Now recognized as a musicians of the age. She timeless classic, this rubs shoulders with the introduction to the hobbit highest in society and plays Bilbo Baggins, the wizard in the gutter of Covent Gandalf, Gollum, and the Garden with the lowest. spectacular world of Middle- We are pleased to earth recounts of the present to you her story, a tale of one hidden adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and diamond, two bare-knuckle boxers, and three dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the dreaded enemies... Magnificent. Unforgettable!

The Lion, the Witch and the The Wolves of Willoughby Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Chase by Joan Aiken Harper Collins Children's 1950 Delacorte Press 1962

They opened a door and There are wolves outside entered a world--Narnia--the the walls of Willoughby land beyond the wardrobe, the Chase, but for cousins Bonnie secret country known only to and Sylvia, the real danger Peter, Susan, Edmund, and lies inside. Wicked wolves Lucy. and a grim governess Lucy is the first to stumble threaten Bonnie and her through the back of the cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's enormous wardrobe in the parents leave Willoughby professor's mysterious old country house, Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the discovering the magic world beyond. At first, no cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe one believes her. But soon Edmund, Peter and what is happening to their once happy home. Susan, too, discover the magic and meet Aslan, The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, the Great Lion, for themselves. and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like And in the blink of an eye, they are changed orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours forever. of drudgery will never cease. How will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?

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A fascinating, funny and Darkness had come to the moving Victorian novel town. Strange things were featuring Hetty Feather. happening in the dead of Hetty Feather was just a night. Children would put a baby when her mother left tooth under their pillow for her at the Foundling Hospital. the tooth fairy, but in the Hetty longed to find her real morning, they would wake up mum -- and finally her wish to find… a dead slug; a live was granted. spider; hundreds of earwigs But just as they have found each other, they creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. are separated again, as Hetty leaves the home to Evil was at work. But who or what was behind become a maid of all work to Mr Buchanan. Set it…? in London in the 1870s, this sequel to Hetty David Walliams is at his wicked best in this Feather is a wonderfully evocative and original cheeky tale of children’s dreaded fears! historical novel.

The Name of This Book is Secret Inkheart By Pseudonymous Bosch 2008 By Cornelia Funke 2003 Usborne Books Scholastic

As much as he'd love to One cruel night, sing the praises of his book (he Meggie's father reads aloud is very vain), he wouldn't want from a book called you to hear about his brave INKHEART-- and an evil ruler 11-year old heroes, Cass and escapes the boundaries of Max-Ernest. Or about how a fiction and lands in their mysterious box of vials, the living room. Symphony of Smells, sends Suddenly, Meggie is them on the trail of a magician smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she who has vanished under strange (and stinky) has only read about in books. Meggie must learn circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want to harness the magic that has conjured this you to know about the hair-raising adventures nightmare. For only she can change the course that follow and the nefarious villains they face. of the story that has changed her life forever. You see, not only is the name of this book This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a books, about imagination, about life. Dare to secret. A Big Secret. read it aloud.

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The Brilliant World of Tom Gates The Garbage King By Liz Pichon By Elizabeth Laird Scholastic 2011 2003 Macmillan

The hilarious diary of Tom Inspired by the true story of Gates charts his progress an African childhood lived on the through the trials and edge of destitution, award- tribulations of his life. Tom winning Elizabeth Laird's The scribbles the world from his Garbage King takes readers on an point of view, each page is an unforgettable emotional journey. explosion of hand-written When Mamo's mother dies, rants, funny stories and he is abandoned in the shanties of Addis Ababa. dynamic cartoons. 'All I want to do is get tickets to Stolen by a child-trafficker and sold to a farmer, see the best band ever, DUDE3, when they come he is cruelly treated. Escaping back to the city, he to town. It’s not easy when I’m up against Delia, meets another, very different runaway. Dani is my weirdo big sister, and all my plans seem to get rich, educated - and fleeing his tyrannical father. me into MAJOR TROUBLE…' This book oozes Together they join a gang of homeless street personality and with so much going on it promises boys who survive only by mutual bonds of trust to maintain the attention of young readers for and total dependence on each other. hours at a time.

The Wild Folk The Wishing Spell: Book 1 The By Sylvia V. Linsteadt Land of Stories 2018 Usborne By Chris Colfer 2013 Little, Brown Books for Young Readers In the land of Farallone, the City Alex and Conner Bailey's world dwellers' greed for stargold is about to change. When the threatens to destroy the mystical twins' grandmother gives them a Wild Folk. Their only hope rests treasured fairy-tale book, they with two young hares and their have no idea they're about to human companions – Tin, a City enter a land beyond all imagining: boy with a passion for invention, Land of Stories, where fairy tales and curious Country girl Comfrey. are real. To protect the stargold Tin and Comfrey face But as Alex and Conner soon discover, the impossible tasks, each stranger than the last. And stories they know so well haven't ended in this every creature they meet on their extraordinary magical land - Goldilocks is now a wanted journey, from the tiniest ant to the grizzliest witch, fugitive, Red Riding Hood has her own kingdom, has a crucial role to play in saving the land they and Queen Cinderella is about to become a love. mother! A timeless adventure filled with wonder, this is The twins know they must get back home the first book in the magical Stargold Chronicles. somehow. But with the legendary Evil Queen hot on their trail, will they ever find the way?

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Time Travelling with a Hamster Radio Boy By Ross Welford By Christian O’Connell Harper Collins 2016 Harper Collins 2017

A story that crosses time and Spike’s your average generations, for adventure- awkward 11 year old, funny loving readers young and old. and cheeky. When he becomes “My dad died twice. Once the first presenter ever to be when he was thirty nine and sacked from hospital radio, he again four years later when he decides to carry on from a was twelve.” makeshift studio in the garden On Al Chaudhury’s twelfth shed, with the help of his best birthday his beloved Grandpa friends Artie and Holly. Byron gives him a letter from Al’s late father. In it, Week by week, word gets around and soon Al receives a mission: travel back to 1984 in a Spike is a star. When Spike begins to believe his secret time machine and save his father’s life. own hype and goes too far with his mocking of Al soon discovers that time travel requires the school headmaster, a hunt is launched for daring and imagination, all without losing his pet the mysterious Radio Boy. hamster, Alan Shearer… Can Spike remain anonymous? Will he Time Travelling with a Hamster is a funny, become famous and popular? The answer is heart-warming race-against-time, an adventure mostly no… that you won’t be able to put down. Just Call Me Spaghetti-Hoop Boy The Explorer By Lara Williamson By Katherine Rundell 2016 Usborne 2017 Bloomsbury Children’s Books

My name is Adam Butters. I From his seat in the tiny live on planet Earth, I like eating aeroplane, Fred watches as the spaghetti hoops and I've decided mysteries of the Amazon jungle I'm going to be a SUPERHERO. pass by below him. He has Everyone loves superheroes, always dreamed of becoming they solve problems and make an explorer, of making history people happy, and that's good and of reading his name because my mum needs cheering amongst the lists of great up. Also, I've found out that before I was adopted discoveries. If only he could land and look about my real mum called me ACE. So now I've just got him. to prove to the world that's what I am. One As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred mission at a time... is suddenly left without a choice. He and the Hilarious, heart-warming and heart- three other children may be alive, but the jungle breaking in equal measure, this is a story about the is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, power in all of us to be extraordinary. the chance of getting home feels impossibly small. Except, it seems, someone has been there before them.

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Malamander (The Legends of Nevermoor: The Trials of Eerie-on-Sea) Morrigan Crow By Thomas Taylor by Jessica Townsend Walker Books 2019 Orion Children's Books 2018

Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea WINNER OF THE in the winter. Especially not WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S when darkness falls and the BOOK PRIZE 2018 YOUNGER wind howls around Maw Rocks FICTION CATEGORY and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now Morrigan Crow is cursed, some swear they have seen the destined to die on her unctuous Malamander creep… eleventh birthday. But, as the Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the clock strikes midnight, she's whisked away by a Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost remarkable man called Jupiter North and taken things to their rightful owners is not easy – to the secret city of Nevermoor. especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened to Violet There, she's invited to join the Wundrous Parma’s parents twelve years ago. Eerie-on-Sea Society. Mystery, magic and protection are hers has always been a mysteriously chilling place, - if only she can pass four impossible trials, using where strange stories seem to wash up. And it just an exceptional talent. Which she doesn't have... got stranger... The House with Chicken Legs Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship by Sophie Anderson Adventure Usborne Publishing 2018 by Vashti Hardy 2018

Twins Arthur and Maudie Marinka dreams of a Brightstorm receive word in normal life, where her house Lontown that their famous stays in one place long explorer father has died in a enough for her to make failed attempt to reach the friends. But her house has southernmost point in the chicken legs and moves on world. Not only that, but he without warning. has been accused of stealing fuel before he died! The For Marinka's twins don't believe the news, and they answer grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits an ad to join a new attempt to reach South between this world and the next. Marinka longs to Polaris. It's their only hope of learning the truth change her destiny and sets out to break free from ... and salvaging their family's reputation. her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has As the winged ship Aurora sets sail, the twins other ideas... must keep their wits about them and prove themselves worthy of the rest of the crew. But will Arthur and Maudie find the answers they seek?

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The Girl of Ink & Stars Cogheart by Kiran Millwood Hargrave by Peter Bunzl Chicken House 2016 Usborne Publishing 2016

Forbidden to leave her Lily's life is in mortal peril. island, Isabella dreams of the Her father is missing and now faraway lands her cartographer silver-eyed men stalk her father once mapped. When her through the shadows. What friend disappears, she could they want from her? volunteers to guide the search. With her friends - Robert, The world beyond the walls is a the clockmaker's son, and monster-filled wasteland - and Malkin, her mechanical fox - beneath the dry rivers and Lily is plunged into a murky smoking mountains, a fire demon is stirring from and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that its sleep. those she holds dear may be the very ones to Soon, following her map, her heart and an break her heart... ancient myth, Isabella discovers the true end of Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in this her journey: to save the island itself. gripping Victorian adventure.

The Land of Roar The Boy At the Back of the Class by Jenny McLachlan & Ben Mantle by Onjali Rauf Egmont 2019 Orion Children's Books 2018

Believing is just the beginning . . . There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but When Arthur and Rose were now a new boy called Ahmet is little, they were heroes in the sitting in it. Land of Roar, an imaginary world He's nine years old (just like that they found by climbing me), but he's very strange. He through the folding bed in their never talks and never smiles and grandad’s attic. Roar was filled doesn't like sweets - not even with things they loved – dragons, mermaids, ninja lemon sherbets, which are my favourite! wizards and adventure – as well as things that But then I learned the truth: Ahmet really scared them isn't very strange at all. He's a refugee who's run Now the twins are eleven, Roar is just a away from a War. A real one. With bombs and memory. But when they help Grandad clean out fires and bullies that hurt people. And the more the attic, Arthur is horrified as Grandad is pulled I find out about him, the more I want to help. into the folding bed and vanishes. Is he playing a That's where my best friends Josie, Michael joke? Or is Roar . . . real? and Tom come in. Because you see, together we've come up with a plan. . .

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Evernight The Wild Way Home by Ross MacKenzie by Sophie Kirtley 2020 Andersen Press 2020 Bloomsbury Children's Books

Thousands of years ago, the When Charlie's longed-for Evernight came to the Silver brother is born with a serious Kingdom and turned heart condition, Charlie's world is everything to darkness and turned upside down. Upset and chaos. It was only defeated afraid, Charlie flees the hospital thanks to the skill and bravery and makes for the ancient forest of the Witches. But now the on the edge of town. There Evernight is about to return, Charlie finds a boy floating face- released by the evil Mrs Hester, and the only spell down in the stream, injured, but alive. But when that might stop it is lost, deep below the great city Charlie sets off back to the hospital to fetch help, of King's Haven. it seems the forest has changed. It's become a Then orphan Larabelle Fox is about to be place as strange and wild as the boy dressed in catapulted into an adventure, facing wild magic deerskins. For Charlie has unwittingly fled into and mortal danger – and a man who casts no the Stone Age, with no way to help the boy or shadow . . . return to the present day. Or is there?

Demon Dentist Sapphire Battersea by David Walliams 2013 By Jacqueline Wilson 2011 Harper Collins Children’s Books Random House Children’s Books

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Sky Song The Goldfish Boy by Abi Elphinstone 2018 by Lisa Thompson and Mike Simon & Schuster Children's UK Lowery 2017

In the snowy kingdom of A story about finding Erkenwald, whales glide between friendship when you're lonely - icebergs, wolves hunt on the and hope when all you feel is tundra and polar bears roam the fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew glaciers. But the people of this is trapped in his bedroom by land aren’t so easy to find - crippling OCD, spending most of because Erkenwald is ruled by an his time staring out of his evil Ice Queen and the tribes must stay hidden or window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go risk becoming her prisoners at Winterfang Palace. about their business. Join Eska, a girl who breaks free from a Until the day he is the last person to see his cursed music box, and Flint, a boy whose next door neighbour's toddler, Teddy, before he inventions could change the fate of Erkenwald goes missing. Matthew must turn detective and forever, as they journey to the Never Cliffs and unravel the mystery of Teddy's disappearance - beyond in search of an ancient, almost forgotten, with the help of a brilliant cast of supporting song with the power to force the Ice Queen back. characters. This is a story about an eagle huntress, an Page-turning, heartbreaking, but ultimately inventor and an organ made of icicles. But it is life-affirming, this story is perfect for fans of Can also a story about belonging, even at the very You See Me, The Curious Incident of the Dog in edges of our world . . . the Night Time and Wonder.

The Name of This Book is Secret Inkheart By Pseudonymous Bosch 2008 By Cornelia Funke 2003 Usborne Books Scholastic

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