Plays
The Tempest by William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Recommended reading list for KS3 Kindertransport by Diane Samuels Science Fiction Sparkleshark by Philip Ridley
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J K Eleanor Cameron Rowling The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Face: The Play by Benjamin Zephaniah and Richard Conlon Whales on Stilts by M.T Anderson Our Day Out by Willy Russell Virals by Kathy Reichs Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix Adventure, Crime and Eager by Helen Fox Thriller Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson The Giver by Lois Lowry One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau A Murder Most Unladylike (series) by The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Robin Stevens Mrs Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH by Robert Alex Rider (series) by Anthony Horrowitz O’Brien Enola Holmes by Nancy Springer Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl Looking for Alaska by John Green Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlien The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline l’Engle Collins Doctor Who (series) by David Whitaker, Bill Strutton The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by and various authors. Nizrana Farook Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond The Boy Who Met a Whale by Nizrana The Iron Man by Ted Hughes Farook Fantasy Storm Catchers by Tim Bowler The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling Dowd Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer The Guggenheim Mystery by Robin Stevens and Siobhan Dowd The Hobbit by J RR Tolkien Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Historical Fiction and War Coraline by Neil Gaiman Black and British: A Short, Essential History The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman by David Olusoga Percy Jackson (series) by Rick Riordan The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Phillip Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo Pullman War Horse by Michael Morpurgo His Dark Materials (series) by Philip Pullman An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo Frostheart by Jamie Littler The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket Once by Morris Gleitzman Eragon by Christopher Paolini Dancing the Charleston by Jacqueline Wilson The House with the Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson The Midnight Guardians by Ross Montgomery Wolf Brother (series) by Michelle Paver The Silent Stars Go By by Sally Nicholls The Borrowers by Mary Norton Another Twist in the Tale by Catherine Bruton Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Witch Child by Celia Rees Ransom Riggs The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Hargrave The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by C S Lewis The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Relationships and what it The Austen Girls by Lucy Worsley means to be a young person When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne The Boy at the Back of The Class by Onjali Q Rauf The Boy at The Top of the Mountain by John Noughts and Crosses, Knife Edge, Checkmate and Boyne Double Cross by Malorie Blackman The Railway Children by E Nesbit Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman Terror Kid or Refugee Boy by Benjamin Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Zephaniah The Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series by The Silver Sword by Ian Serrailler Louise Rennison Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian Face by Benjamin Zephaniah Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story by Bali Rai The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Flour Babies by Anne Fine
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond Boy by Roald Dahl Non Fiction Skellig by David Almond No One is Too Small to Make a Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle Difference by Greta Thunberg Stig of the Dump by Clive King Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Ella on the Outside by Cath Howe that Changed the World by Rachel Ignotovsky Boy Underwater by Adam Baron A Short History of Nearly Everything by Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce Bill Bryson Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany The Faraway Truth by Janae Marks Jewell The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William The Life Changing Magic of Numbers by Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Bobby Seagull Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman Prisoners of Geography – Our World Explained in Twelve Simple Maps by Tim The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson Marshall Stone Cold by Robert Swindells Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Wonder by R J Palacio Margot Lee Shetterly The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird Poetry Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird On The Move by Michael Rosen A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines The Iron Wolf by Ted Hughes No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Out of Bounds by Beverley Naidoo Poems by Women by Ana Sampson Classic Fiction Happy Poems by Rodger McGough
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Michael Rosen’s A-Z The Best Children’s Poetry, from Agard to Zephaniah by The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Michael Rosen Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson SLAM! You’re Gonna Wanna Hear This Charlotte’s Web by E B White by Nikita Gill Call of the Wild by Jack London The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Watership Down by Richard Adams The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Mary Poppins by P. L Travers The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken Disclaimer: Occasionally these books explore complex themes. Always check that your The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper parent or guardian are happy with the content of the books that you are reading.