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Becket Keys Church of England School Summer Reading A LEVEL & GCSE RES Reading skills are important titles to choose from! We read and would suggest for for every student to ensure have listed a few here that other students so let us know their success in school and you might like, you can via Twitter @BecketKeys with when they move into the catch up with the latest a picture of you and the workplace. In addition, ‘books of the month’, read a book and a couple of lines reading can be a fun and biography about someone about it and we can pass on imaginative activity you are interested in or a your ideas. for young people, which fictional story about a If you would like to do a opens doors to all kinds of subject you are interested in. book report then please do! new worlds for them. RET have set a Summer Send it to It improves their vocabulary, Reading Challenge below; [email protected] and helps with visualisation, see how many of these you we will pass it on. imagination and can can check off over the Enjoy reading! provide them with role summer break. We have models. They will learn useful listed here a wide range of information and can even books, hopefully you will see help towards saving the something that interests you. planet as reading saves the Try and read 2-3 book over constant drain of electricity the summer break. that video games and Whether it is a newspaper, consoles have! magazine or one of the We would love it if all of our recommendations below students were to do some make sure that you get extra reading over the reading! We would love to summer. There are so many see what books you have 9/9/2016 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL Summer Reading Recommendations BECKET KEYS SUMMER READING CHALLENGE How many of these reading activities can you complete before September? Three would be great but a full house would be even better. Give it a go! Read a newspaper article Read a book that has been Read a book that has been about an important news made into a film. recommended to you by a story. friend or family member. Read a graphic novel Read a book from Read a book by an author or comic book. the Carnegie medal you have never shortlist (from any year – read before. does not have to be this year). https://carnegiegreenaway.or g.uk/cilip-carnegie-medal- shortlist-2020/ Read ‘You Are Listen to an audiobook. Free Read or listen to a Awesome: Find Your ones are available poem. You can find loads Confidence and Dare to be at www.audible.co.uk. to choose from Brilliant at (Almost) at www.poetryfoundation. Anything’ by Matthew org. Syed. Page 2 of 19 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL Summer Reading Recommendations Year 7-8 Reading List Wild At Heart: Animal Stories Way fo the Warrior: Chris Michael Morpurgo Bradford Animals Stories Varjak Paw The Reluctant Assassin: The Outlaw Varjak Paw: S.F Said Eoin Colfer Blitzcat: Robert Westall Stories The Letter for the King: Skulduggery Pleasant Series: Tonke Dragt Derek Landy Pirates! Celia Rees The House of Silk: Antony Horowitz Foul Play Series: Tom Haddon Young Sherlock Holmes: Andrew Lane Tarka the Otter: Henry Williamson Watership Down: Richard Adams Charlotte’s Webb: E.H. White Apache: Tanya Landman Saving Finnegan: Sally Grindley Rooftoppers: Katherine Rundell Cowgirl: G.R Gemin An Island of Our Own: Sally Nicholls War Horse: Michael Morpurgo The Wolf Wilder: Katherine The Hound of the Baskervilles: Itch: Simon Mayo Rundell Arthur Conan Doyle Medusa Project Series: Dreaming the Bear: Mimi Thebo Smart: Kim Slater Sophie McKenzie Call of the Wild: Jack London Smith: Leon Garfield Humour Butterfly Lion: Michael Morpurgo Small Change for Stuart: Wilderness by Roddy Doyle Lissa Evans Hacker: Malorie Blackman Adventure Young Bond Series: Charlie Higson Geek Girl: Holly Smale Skeleton Key and Alex Rider Framed, Millions & Cosmic: Series: Anthony Hotowitz Frank Cottrell Boyce Page 3 of 19 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL Summer Reading Recommendations The Other Side of the Galaxy: The Book of Dead Days: Jamie Johnson Series: Jamie Thompson Marcus Sedgwick Dan Freedman Socks are not Enough: Mark Lowery Love, Life & Dark Lord: The Teenage Years: Relationships Jamie Thomson We are all Made of Molecules: Goblions: Philip Reeve Susin Nielsen The Boy in a Dress: Drawing with Light: Julia Green David Walliams Georgia Nicholson Series: Louise Rennison Boy in Darkness: Mervyn Peake Ghost & Horror Under My Hat (Short Stories): Jonathan Strahan Stories The Crowfield Curse: The Graveyard: Neil Gaiman Robert Walsh The Demon’s Lexicon: Sara Rees Brennan Ways to Live Forever: Sport Marjorie Darke Total Football Series The Glass Swallow: Julia Golding Julie and Me…and Michael Owen The Fault in our Stars: John Green makes Three: Alan Gibbons Head over Heels: Colette Victor Extra Time: Morris Gleitzman Annexed: Sharon Dogar Coraline: Neil Gaiman Six Steps to a Girl Series: Sophie McKenzie A Ghost Story: Cliff McNish Enemy Series: Charlie Higson Girl with a White dog: Anne Booth Ghost Trouble: Pete Johnson Room 13: Robert Swindells The Nest: Kenneth Oppel The Company of Ghosts: Berlie Doherty The Bubble Wrap Boy: Phil Earle Foul Play Series: Tom Palmer Page 4 of 19 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL Summer Reading Recommendations Author Spotlight boys were beaten Although he has written frequently. His unhappy numerous books, Michael is Michael Morpurgo experiences at boarding probably most famous for his school would later inform his book War Horse which was novel The Butterfly Lion. After six originally written in , it tell the years at The Abbey school story of the deadly chaos of the in Ashurst Wood, Morpurgo then First World War as one horse went to the King's School, witnesses the battle from both an independent sides of the trenches. Joey tells school in Canterbury, Kent, where the powerful story of true Michael Morpurgo was born in he felt less homesick than at his friendship surviving in terrible 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, previous school. times. This book was made into a as Michael Andrew Bridge, the Morpurgo attended the Royal theatre production that became second child of actor Tony Van Military Academy Sandhurst but the most successful show made Bridge and actress Kippe by the National Theatre and is he quickly realised that a soldier's Cammaerts. Both RADA graduate life was not for him and left after now a film made by Stephen s, his parents had met when they nine months. Spielberg. were acting in the same repertory company in 1938. Morpurgo's Morpurgo later went to study Michael Morpurgo has written brother Pieter was born in 1942. at King's College London, reading more than one hundred book for When Morpurgo was born the English, French, and Philosophy children and won many awards following year, his father was and he then joined the teaching for his work. stationed in Baghdad. While Van profession with a job War Horse Bridge was away at war, Kippe at Wickhambreaux Primary Boy Giant Cammaerts met Jack Morpurgo School in Canterbury, Kent. He Flamingo Boy who became Michaels step-father also, from 1968, briefly taught The Fox & the Ghost King when his mother got remarried in at St. Faith's School in Mudpuddle Farm Series 1946. Although they were not Cambridge. From Hereabout Hill formally adopted, Morpurgo and It was when Micchael was Private Peaceful his brother took on their step- teaching that he became inspired The Giant’s Necklace father's name. to become a writer. The writer Why the Whales Came Michael and his brother were and poet Ted Hughes was a great An Eagle in the Snow evacuated to Northumberland influence and mentor for him at Homecoming when they were very young. After the start of his career and he Not Bad for a Bad Lad returning to London, the family published his first book in 1974. Little Manfred lived at Philbeach Gardens, Earl's Michael married his wife Claire Kasper – Prince of Cats Court, where the children played when he was 19 years old and The Butterfly Lion in the bombsites. Morpurgo went they have three children, The Sleeping Sword to primary school at St Sebastian, Horatio and Rosalind, Matthias, Earl's Court. The family who are all named after For more information about later moved to Bradwell-on- Shakespearian characters. Sea in Essex, where Morpurgo Michael and the books he has would live during the school Michael Morpurgo became the written head to his website: third person to fill the two-year holidays, having been sent to https://www.michaelmorpurgo.com/ boarding school in Sussex when position of Children’s Laureate, he was seven years old. The from 2003 to 2005. school was very strict and the Page 5 of 19 BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL Summer Reading Recommendations Year 9 Reading List 13. Chocolate Box Girls: Cathy 33. Hitchhikers Guide to the Cassidy Galaxy: Arthur C. Clarke 14. Chronicles of Narnia: C.S. 34. Holding Up the Universe: Students often ask for book Lewis Jennifer Niven recommendations. Previously we 15. Consumed: Abbie Rushton 35. Holes: Louis Zachar have collated the following list 16. Cross my Heart Hope to 36. Hunger Games: Susan from Year 9 students who shared Die: Sara Shepard Collins their favourite books. Here are 37. I was Here: Gayle Forman listed their 100 favourite reads! It 38. If I Stay: Gayle Forman is a fascinating list! How many 39. I'm Forever Blowing have you read? Bubbles: Brian Williams 40.