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Year 4 Recommended Reading: View this reading list on our WHGS Accessit Library Catalogue Title Author The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Peter Pan J. M. Barrie Stitch Head Guy Bass The Peppermint Pig Nina Bawden El Deafo Cece Bell The Train to Impossible Places P. G. Bell Operation Gadgetman! Malorie Blackman The Children of Green Knowe Lucy M. Boston The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket John Boyne There’s a Werewolf in My Tent! Pamela Butchart When the Mountains Roared Jess Butterworth The Midnight Fox Betsy Byars Werewolf Club Rules! Joseph Coelho The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth Eoin Colfer Cosmic Frank Cottrell-Boyce How to Train Your Dragon Cressida Cowell Lizzie Dripping Helen Cresswell Charlie and the Chocolate Factory George’s Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach The Twits The Girl Who Stole an Elephant Nirzana Farook Bill’s New Frock Anne Fine The Family from One End Street Eve Garnett Give Peas a Chance Morris Gleitzman The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame The 13-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths The Griffin Gate Vashti Hardy The Falcon’s Malteser Anthony Horowitz LRC Recommended Reading Year 4 1 of 3 June 2021 Title Author Cookie! Series Konnie Huq One Dog and His Boy Eva Ibbotson Kid Normal Greg James & Chris Smith Race to the Frozen North Catherine Johnson Stig of the Dump Clive King The Hodgeheg Dick King-Smith The Queen’s Nose The Wild Way Home Sophie Kirtley The Legend of Podkin One-Ear Kieran Larwood The Highland Falcon Thief M. G. Leonard The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis Real-Life Mysteries Susan Martineau & Vicky Barker The Land of Roar Jenny McLachlan The Accidental Prime Minister Tom McLaughlin The World of Norm Series Jonathan Meres Max and the Millions Ross Montgomery The Weather Weaver Tamsin Mori The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Michael Morpurgo The Butterfly Lion The Worst Witch Series Jill Murphy The Railway Children E. Nesbit Lob Linda Newbery The Borrowers Mary Norton Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Robert C. O’Brien Danger is Everywhere David O’Doherty The Battle of Bubble and Squeak Philippa Pearce The Brilliant World of Tom Gates Liz Pichon Dog Man Series (Graphic Novels) Dav Pilkey Dragons at Crumbling Castle Terry Pratchett The Firework Maker’s Daughter Philip Pullman Goblins Philip Reeve Oliver and the Seawigs Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse Chris Riddell Guardians of Magic: The Cloud Horse Chronicles Michael Rosen’s A to Z: The Best Children’s Poetry from Agard to Michael Rosen (editor) Zephaniah LRC Recommended Reading Year 4 2 of 3 June 2021 Title Author The Explorer Katherine Rundell Varjak Paw S. F. Said The Journey Francesca Sanna Giant Kate Scott A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Dave Shelton The Hundred and One Dalmatians Dodie Smith My Brother is a Superhero David Solomons I, Cosmo Carlie Sorosiak The House at the End of Magic Amy Sparkes The Dragon in the Library Louie Stowell Ice Palace Robert Swindells Billionaire Boy David Walliams Code Name Bananas Cliffhanger Jacqueline Wilson The Suitcase Kid Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present Jamia Wilson Malala’s Magic Pencil Malala Yousafzai LRC Recommended Reading Year 4 3 of 3 June 2021 .

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