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Year 8 Reading List Year 8 Recommended Reading List R E C O M M E N D E D B Y Y O U R P E E R S D Y S T O P I A N Malorie Blackman – Pig Heart Boy Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games Anne Cassidy – Looking for JJ James Dashner – The Maze Runner Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl Series Sally Gardner – Maggot Moon Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (series) Michael Grant – Gone (series) Gillian Cross – Wolf, or Where I Belong Lois Lowry – The Giver James Dashner – The Maze Runner Veronica Roth – Divergent (series)* Siobhan Dowd - Bog Child Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (series) Michael Grant – Gone (series) Mark Haddon – Curious Incidents of the Dog in the NightTime Charlie Higson – Silverfin S.E Hinton – The Outsiders Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker H O R R O R / G H O S T S T O R I E S Lois Lowry – The Giver Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful Catherine Fisher – The Ghost Box Robert Muchamore - Cherub Derek Landy – Skullduggery Pleasant ( R.J Palacio - Wonder Stephanie Meyer – Twilight (series) Christopher Paolini – Eragon, Eldest, Brisinar Tom Palmer – Ghost Stadium Mal Peet - Keeper Marcus Sedgwick – My Swordhand is Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series) Singing J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series) Darren Shan – Cirque du Freak Series Louis Sachar – Holes, Small Steps Darren Shan – The Demonata Series Robert Swindells – Stone Cold Robert Swindells – Room 13 Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (series) John Wyndham – Day of the Triffids Benjamin Zephaniah - Face Chris Wooding – The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray M Y S T E R Y A N D A D V E N T U R E Agatha Christie – The Body in the Library Frank Cottrell Boyce – Millions, Framed, Cosmic Siobhan Dowd – The London Eye Mystery Charlie Higson – Silverfin (Young James Bond series) Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series) Andrew Lane – Young Sherlock Holmes Series Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing, The Medusa Project Andy McNab – Boy Soldier (series) Michael Morpurgo – Kensuke’s Kingdom Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke Louis Sachar – Holes, Small Steps Marcus Sedgwick – She Is Not Invisible, Blood Red, Snow White Year 8 Recommended Reading List F A N T A S Y H I S T O R I C A L A N D O T H E R C U L T U R E S Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (series) Cornelia Funke - Inkheart C.S Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia John Boyne – Boy In the Striped Pyjamas William Nicholson – The Wind Singer Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl Christopher Paolini - Eragon (series) Sally Gardner - I, Coriander Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights (series) Jamilia Gavin – Coram Boy Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series) Morris Gleitzman – Once, Then, Now, After J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series) Anne Holm – I Am David JRR Tolkien -The Hobbit, The Lord of the Mary Hooper – Petals in the Ashes Rings (series) Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Elizabeth Laird – The Garbage King, Kiss The Dust Tanya Landman – I am Apache Caroline Lawrence – Roman Mysteries Michelle Margorian – Goodnight Mister Tom or Back Home Michael Morpurgo – Only Remembered , Private Peaceful, War Horse Beverly Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke Celia Rees - Witch Child (series) C H A L L E N G E Y O U R S E L F Louisa M. Alcott – Little Women Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Agatha Christie – The Body in the Library Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the N O N - F I C T I O N Baskervilles Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, Great Tony Bradman (editor) – Stories of Expectations, Oliver Twist WW1 Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird Bill Bryson – Notes from a Small Island R.L Stevenson – Treasure Island Roald Dahl – Boy, Going Solo Jules Verne – Journey to the Centre of the Earth Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl H.G Wells – War of the Worlds Adeline Yen Mah – Chinese Cinderella John Wyndham – Day of the Triffids Year 8 Recommended Reading List L I T E R A R Y G R E A T S M O D E R N P O E T S William Blake - Tyger, Tyger, The Lamb John Agard - Flag, Put the Kettle On Robert Browning - My Last Duchess, Simon Armitage - Kid, Clown Punk Walter De La Mare - The Listeners Gillian Clarke - Catrin, Cold Knap Lake Emily Dickinson -Sonnet 43 Imtiaz Dharker - Blessing Rudyard Kipling - If Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine Christina Rossetti - Remember, Cousin Seamus Heaney - Follower Kate Tony Harrison - Long Distance II William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116, Sonnet Grace Nichols - Hurricane Hits England 130 Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner William Wordsworth - Daffodils W A R P O E T S Rupert Brooke - The Soldier Wilfred Owen - Futility Isaac Rosenburg - In the Trenches Siegfried Sassoon - Suicide in the Trenches.
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