Year 7 Reading List (Please Note That Books on This List May Be Suitable for Children Aged 11+)
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Year 7 Reading List (Please note that books on this list may be suitable for children aged 11+) Biography AR Level Boyhood of Burglar Bill Allan Ahlberg 5.5 Real Lives: Winston Harriet Castor 6.8 Churchill Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 6.5 Martin Luther King Harry Harmer 4.4 Angus, Maisie & Travers The Lion Children McNeice Scott of the Antarctic Michael de-la-Noy 4.8 Shakespeare Bill Bryson 5.1 Children’s AR Level Classics The Wolves of Willoughby Joan Aitken 6.5 Chase The Incredible Journey Sheila Burnford 7.6 What Katy Did Susan Coolidge 7.2 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 8.4 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 5.1 Biggles Captain W.E. Johns 6.6 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 7.4 The Call of the Wild Jack London 8.0 Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery 7.3 The Railway Children E. Nesbit 5.5 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 5.1 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 8.3 Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild 5.7 The Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff 7.1 Multi- AR Level Cultural Thura’s Diary Thura Al-Windawi 6.1 The Child’s Elephant Rachel Campbell-Johnston 5.9 The Village by the Sea Anita Desai 6.0 The Heaven Shop Deborah Ellis 4.6 The Prince who walked Elizabeth Laird 5.1 with Lions Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah 7.1 Walkabout James Vance Marshall 5.9 The Other Side of Truth Beverley Naidoo 5.3 Haroun and the Sea of Salman Rushdie 6.9 Stories The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Alexander McCall Smith 5.9 Agency Face Benjamin Zephaniah 5.3 Historical AR Level Tiger, Tiger Lynne Reid Banks 5.4 The Boy in the Striped John Boyne 5.8 Pyjamas Victory Susan Cooper 5.9 Street Child Berlie Doherty 5.1 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 6.8 The Wool Pack Cynthia Harnett 6.5 At the Sign of the Sugared Mary Hooper 6.2 Plum The Star of Kazan Eva Ibbotson 6.1 Crusade Elizabeth Laird 7.4 Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 5.1 Sparrow Michael Morpurgo 5.5 The Ruby in the Smoke Phillip Pullman 5.3 Pirates! Celia Rees 5.4 The Silver Sword Ian Serrailler 5.5 Blitzcat Robert Westall 5.9 Fantasy AR Level Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 4.0 The Dark is Rising sequence Susan Cooper 5.3-6.2 Inkheart Cornelia Funke 5.4 Elidor Alan Garner 4.3 The Merlin Conspiracy Diana Wynne Jones The Wind Singer trilogy William Nicholson 5.2-5.4 Eragon Christopher Paolini 5.6 Wolf Brother series Michelle Paver 4.5-4.8 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 4.7 My Swordhand is Singing Marcus Sedgwick 4.9 The Hobbit, or There and J.R.R. Tolkein 6.6 Back Again Crime AR Level Jennings Anthony Buckeridge 6.1 The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd 4.1 The 7 Professors of the Far John Fardell 5.8 North The Curious Incident of the Mark Haddon 5.4 Dog in the Night-Time Silverfin Charlie Higson 5.9 Skulduggery Pleasant Derek Landy 4.9 The Roman Mysteries series Caroline Lawrence 4.2-5.2 Liar and Spy Rebecca Stead 3.8 The Mystery of the Katherine Woodfine 6.6 Clockwork Sparrow General AR Level Fiction My Name is Mina David Almond 4.2 Starseeker Tim Bowler 4.6 Ruby Holler Sharon Creech 4.3 Sky Hawk Gill Lewis 4.1 The Death Defying Pepper Geraldine McCaughrean 6.4 Roux The Daydreamer Ian McEwan 5.4 Wonder R.J. Palacio 4.8 The Pearl John Steinbeck 7.1 The Secret Diary of Adrian Sue Townsend 5.1 Mole, aged 13 3/4 .