Sandringham Learning Resource Centre Year 6 into 7 suggested reads If you read any books that you’ve not read before over the summer, you will receive house points in September. How can parents / carers help? As with anything, performance improves with practice. Encourage your child to read at home. We recommend at least half an hour of reading over the course of one week. Create a culture of reading at home by reading with your child and discussing books that each of you have read. When reading with your child, stop and ask questions to be sure that your child is understanding what they are reading. Humour – Funny stories Maz Evans: Who Let the Gods Out Cressida Cowell: The Wizards of Once series series Elliot Hooper has problems at This is the humorous adventure story of home and at school. After finding a a young boy Wizard and a young girl girl, who claims to be the Warrior who have been taught to hate constellation Virgo, in his cowshed, each other like poison; and the thrilling they must track down the other tale of what happens when their two gods to help catch Thanatos, the worlds collide. Daemon of Death. Book #1. Book # 1 Anthony Horowitz: The David Baddiel: Future Friend Diamond Brothers series The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is The Diamond Brothers are the bored. She goes to virtual school using world's worst detectives. When a G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and stranger offers Tim money for his overcoat, it seems like a stroke of parrot to hang out with, and can’t leave fortune. But the stranger gets shot her Living Space due to extreme heat and that could soon be the fate of and floods . Then Pip explores a glowing the Diamond Brothers. ring in a lab and finds herself in 2019. Frank Cottrell-Boyce: Noah’s Gold Helen Rutter: The Boy who made Everyone Laugh 11-year old Noah sneaks along on his sister's geography trip but six Billy is an 11-year-old boy with kids are marooned on an island. a big dream: to be a comedian, They're hungry & their teacher delivering pinpoint punchlines to vanishes. The phones and internet audiences hanging on his every word. don't work. There's no way of This seems impossible, as he has a contacting home. stammer. How will he find his voice if his voice won't let him speak? Charlie Higson: Worst Holiday David Solomons: My Cousin is a Ever. Time Traveller Stan is going on holiday to Italy Luke learns that his cousin is a time with his (fifth) best friend Felix traveller and she tells him that the and a load of strangers. Stan is machines are becoming intelligent and absolutely terrified. Luckily, his trying to take over the world. But Zack mum's given him an emergency has decided to give up his list that includes how to survive a superpowers and live as a normal shark attack, and what to do if he teenage nerd. Luke must rise to the gets kidnapped. challenge yet again ... Horror – Scary stories Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book Chris Priestley: Seven Ghosts Nobody Owens is a perfectly normal Jake is invited to a tour of a stately home boy. Well, he would be if he didn't and hears the stories of the seven ghosts live in a graveyard, being raised and who haunt the halls. But what are the educated by ghosts, with a solitary strange shapes following Jake as he walks guardian who belongs to neither the through the house? world of the living nor the world of All is not as it seems… the dead. Dyslexia-friendly Jonathan Stroud: Lockwood & Co. Darren Shan: Zom-B series series Zom-B is a radical new series about a Lucy Carlyle, a talented young zombie apocalypse, told in the first agent, arrives in London hoping person by one of its victims. The series for a notable career. Instead she combines classic Shan action with a finds herself joining the smallest, fiendishly twisting plot and hard- most ramshackle ghost-finding hitting and thought-provoking moral agency in the city, run by the questions dealing with racism, abuse charismatic Anthony Lockwood. of power and more. Book #1 Book #1 Joseph Delaney: The Wardstone Anthony Horowitz: Power of Five series Chronicles Matt has unusual powers. Raised in foster For years, the local Spook has been care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a keeping the County safe from evil. rehabilitation programme, only to find Now his time is ending, but who will sinister goings-on. He uncovers a terrible take over? Many apprentices have secret – eight guardians are protecting the tried. Just one boy is left: Thomas world from the Old Ones, beings banished Ward - the last hope. But does he long ago by five children. But devil stand a chance against Mother worshippers want to let the Old Ones back Malkin, the most dangerous witch in in... the County? Book #1 Book #1 Alex Bell: The Haunting Neil Gaiman: Coraline Waterwitch’s history is chilling. Built There is something strange about from the salvaged timber of a cursed Coraline's new home. It's the other house ship, the guest house’s dark secrets - the one behind the old door in the go far back. Emma is confined to a drawing room. Another mother and father wheelchair after an accident when with black-button eyes and papery skin she was ten. Seven years later, she are waiting for Coraline to join them returns there. But the ancient inn there. And they want her to stay for ever. still has its ghosts. If she ventures through that door, she Part of the Red Eye series may never come back. Charlie Higson: The Enemy series Ghost Stories: by various authors Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the A collection of spooky spine chillers, first in a jaw-dropping zombie including "The Signal-man' by Charles horror series. Everyone over the Dickens; ''Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to age of fourteen has succumbed to You, My Lad'" by MR James; 'The Body a deadly zombie virus and now the Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson; kids must somehow keep 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar themselves alive. Allen Poe; 'The Canterville Ghost' by Oscar Wilde; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. Dystopian and Science Fiction Sita Brahmachari: Where the River Pittacus Lore: Lorien Legacies series Runs Gold John Smith seems like an ordinary Shifa and her brother Themba live teenager, living a normal life with his with their dad in Kairos City, on a guardian Henri in Paradise, Ohio. But for future Earth decimated by climate John, keeping a low profile is essential change. Families sign their rights because he is not an ordinary teenager. away to the Freedom Fields He’s an alien from the planet Lorien, organisation that claims to look and monsters are out to kill him. after them if they opt in. Book #1 Polly Ho-Yen: Boy in the Tower Ross Welford: The Dog who Saved the World Seen through the eyes of Ade, a young boy who lives at the top of a Georgie befriends an eccentric scientist tower block with his mother, this and becomes the test subject for a story of a strange, menacing virtual-reality 3D version of the future. disaster which threatens the city of But then a deadly disease threatens the London and its residents into life of every dog and Georgie must extinction is a gripping tale. battle to save all canine- and even human- kind. Suzanne Collins: The Ballad of Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to Songbirds and Snakes the Galaxy. This is the prequel to The Hunger Arthur Dent’s house gets demolished. The Games. It can be read before or Earth follows shortly afterwards to make after The Hunger Games trilogy. way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced It is a dystopian novel about a that he's an alien. They are hurtling planet run by a tyrannical leader through space with a book inscribed with who keeps the population under the words: DON'T PANIC. control using sinister Games. Kirsty Applebaum: The Middler Michael Grant: Gone series Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in In the blink of an eye all the adults Fennis Wick, beyond which the disappear in a small town in southern Quiet War rages and dangerous California and no one knows why. Cut off from the outside world, Sam and his wanderers roam. Her brother Jed is friends must do all they can to survive. an eldest, revered, and special. Her Chaos rules the streets and gangs younger brother Trig is loved by form. Sides are chosen –weak or everyone. Maggie's just a middler; strong, cruel or humane. And then invisible. But one day, she meets there are those who begin to develop Una, a wanderer girl… powers . .Book #1 James Dashner: Maze Runner Lauren James: The Starlight series Watchmaker When the doors of the lift crank Hugo is an android who works at a open, the only thing Thomas prestigious school where aliens from remembers is his first name. But he's across the galaxy come to study. He surrounded by boys who welcome strikes up an unlikely friendship with him to the Glade – a walled pompous student Dorian, and together encampment at the centre of a they unearth a sinister scheme. terrible stone maze. The Gladers Dyslexia-friendly don't know why or how they came to be there – or what's happened to the world outside.