Reading List – Years 7 & 8

Douglas Adams Frances Hodgson Burnett Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Secret Garden Richard Adams Melvin Burgess Watership Down Cry of the Wolf Joan Aiken Kite A Touch of Chill Trudi Canavan Black Hearts in Battersea Magician’s Guild Fantasy Nightbirds on Nantucket The High Lord Stolen Lake Victor Canning Wolves of Willoughby Flight of the Grey Goose David Almond Lewis Carroll Skellig Alice Through the Looking Glass The Fire-eaters Alice In Wonderland Clay Peter Carter Lloyd Alexander Under Goliath Chronicles of Prydain The Sentinels Piers Anthony Agatha Christie Centaur Aisle The Body in the Library Bernard Ashley John Christopher Little Soldier Fireball Isaac Asimov The Tripods I Robot White Mountains Lynne Reid Banks Arthur C. Clarke The Indian in the Cupboard 2001 Nina Bawden David Clement-Davies Carrie’s War Fire Bringer Animal Malorie Blackman The Sight Animal Pig Heart Boy Stephen Cole Hacker The Wereling Series Terence Blacker Susan Cooper Boy2Girl Over Sea, Under Stone Stephen Bowkett The Dark is Rising series The Web: Dreamcastle Robert Cormier Tim Bowler Chocolate War Star seeker Bernard Cornwall Riverboy Sharpe novels Tony Bradman Arthur novels Bad boys Richmal Crompton John Branfield William at War The Day I Shot My Dad Michael Cronin Theresa Breslin Against the Day Death or Glory Boys Gillian Cross The Dream Master New World John Buchan Kevin Crossley-Holland The Thirty Nine Steps Shorts Anthony Buckeridge Arthur: the Seeing Stone Arthurian legend The Jennings series Reading List – Years 7 & 8

Roald Dahl Jamila Gavin Boy The Wheelwheel of Sury Going Solo Coram Boy The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Adele Geras Daniel Defoe Troy Robinson Crusoe Brian Glanville Charles Dickens Goalkeepers are Different Oliver Twist Morris Gleitzman Christmas Carol Toad Rage David Copperfield Kenneth Grahame Peter Dickinson Wind in the Willows Seventh Rave Greene, Roger L Franklin W. Dixon The Adventures of Robin Hood The Hardy Boys Series Myths of the Norsemen Arthur Conan Doyle Jacob Grimm The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Crime Fairy Tales The Lost World Science fiction David Grossman The White Company series Historical The Zig-Zag Kid adventure Herriot, James Alexandre Dumas If Only They Could Talk The Three Musketeers Adventure Let Sleeping Vets Lie Gerald Durrell Hicyilmaz, Gaye My Family and Other Animals And the Stars were Gold Deborah Ellis Carl Hiaasen The Breadwinner Flush Virginia Euwer Wolff Hoot Make Lemonade Stuart Hill John Fardell The Cry of Icemark series The Seven Professors of the Far North Susan Hill Anne Fine The Woman in Black Granny Project I’m King of the Castle Mrs Doubtfire Anne Holm C. S. Forester I am David Horatio Hornblower series Tom Holt Anne Frank Paint your Dragon Diary of a Young Girl World War II Horowitz, Anthony Cornelia Funke Alex Rider series Dragon Rider William Horwood Inkspell Duncton Chronicles Leon Garfield Ted Hughes Devil in the Fog Tales of the Early World Smith How the Whale Became Alan Garner Thomas Hughes Weirdstone Tom Brown’s Schoolday Moon of Gomrath Fantasy Norman Hunter Eve Garnett Professor Branestawm

Reading List – Years 7 & 8

Brian Jacques Anne McCaffrey Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales Dragonflight Robin Jarvis Geraldine McCaughrean Deptford Mice series Plundering Paradise Whitby series Cliff McNish W. E. Johns The Doomspell Trilogy Biggles series Anthony McGowan Diana Wynne Jones Hell Bent Eight days of Luke Andy McNab Chrestomanci Payback Dalemark series Terrorist Tim Wynne Jones Michelle Magorian A Thief in the House of Memory Goodnight Mr Tom Terry Jones Back Home Saga of Eric the Viking John Masefield The Knight and the Squire Box of Delights Norman Juster William Mayne The Phantom Tollbooth Earthfasts Judith Kerr Livi Michael When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Frank and the Black Hamster of Nashiz Garry Kilworth Spike Milligan Spiggot’s Quest Treasure Island Rudyard Kipling Michael Molloy Jungle Book The Witch Trade Just So Stories Michael Morpurgo Kim Kensuke’s Kingdom Derek Landy Private Peaceful Skulduggery Pleasant Robert Muchamore Caroline Lawrence Class A Pirates of Pompeii Beverley Naidoo Michael Lawrence Web of Lies The Iron, the Switch and the Broom Journey to Jo’burg Cupboard Edith Nesbit The Aldous Lexicon Railway Children Ursula Le Guin Phoenix And The Carpet The Earthsea Trilogy William Nicholson Gaston Leroux Wind Singer Trilogy The Phantom of the Opera Garth Nix C.S Lewis Sabriel The Chronicles of Narnia Mister Monday Penelope Lively Mary Norton Ghost of Thomas Kempe Borrowers series Wild Hunt of Hagworthy Edna O’Brien London, Jack Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk and Fairy White Fang Stories Call of the Wild Pat O’Shea The Hounds of the Morrigan Reading List – Years 7 & 8

Kenneth Oppel S. F. Said Silverwing Varjak Paw George Orwell Brian Selznic Animal Farm The Invention of Hugo Cabret Christopher Paolini Ian Serraillier Eragon Silver Sword Gary Paulsen There’s No Escape Blue Light Darren Shan Michelle Paver The Saga of Darren Shan Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Alex Shearer Mervyn Peake The Lost Letters From a Lost Uncle Bootleg Chocolate Phillipa Pearce The Great Blue Yonder Tom’s Midnight Garden Paul Shipton Mel Peet Bug Muldoon and the killer in the rain Keeper Nicky Singer K. M. Peyton Feather Boy Beethoven Lemony Snicket Anne Pilling The bad beginning Henry’s Leg Justin Somper Terry Pratchett Vampirates Disc World series Robert Louis Stevenson Philip Pullman Treasure Island Adventure His Dark Materials trilogy Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Arthur Ransome Kidnapped Swallows and Amazons Stewart, Paul and Riddell, Chris Old Peter’s Russian Tales The Edge Chronicles Celia Rees Ian Strachan Truth or Dare Journey of 1000 miles Philip Reeve Jonathon Stroud Mortal Engines Bartimeaus trilogy Justin Richards Rosemary Sutcliff The Invisible Detective: Legion of the Dead Eagle of the Ninth Hans Peter Richter Sword and the Circle Friedrich Robert Swindells James Riordan Brother in the Land When the Guns Fall Silent Room 13 Rick Riordan Swift, Jonathon Percy Jackson series Gulliver’s travels Katherine Roberts Andrew Taylor The Seven Fabulous Wonders The invader J. K. Rowling James Thurber Harry Potter series 13 clocks Chris Ryan J. R. R. Tolkien Alpha Force series The Hobbit Louis Sachar Lord of the Rings Holes Reading List – Years 7 & 8

Sue Townsend Rich Yancey Growing Pains of Adrian Mole The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ Kropp Mark Twain Benjamin Zephaniah Tom Sawyer Gansta Rap Prince and the Pauper Teacher Jean Ure Tea Leaf on the Roof Plague 99 Rutgers Van der Loeff Children on the Oregon Trail Verne, Jules Around the World in 80 Days 20000 Leagues Under the Sea Journey to Centre of the Earth Jill Paton Walsh A Parcel of Patterns Dolphin Crossing Keith Waterhouse Billy Liar H. G Wells Time machine War of the worlds Kathryn Wesley The 10th Kingdom Robert Westall Machine Gunners T. H. White Sword in the stone Eric Williams Wooden horse Tad Williams Child of an ancient city Henry Williamson Tarka the otter Animal Nicholas Wilde Death knell Oscar Wilde Happy Prince Jeanette Winterson Tanglewreck P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves John Wyndham Day of the Triffids