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Suggested Reading List for Year 7 Below is a list of suggested books which your child may enjoy reading during the summer. The list is a guide and supports the genres and texts your child will read during Year 7 and Year 8. Novels Holes, Louis Sachar Tribes, Catherine Macphail Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor Face, Benjamin Zephaniah Animal Farm, George Orwell Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Gulliver’s Travels, Johnathan Swift Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne The End, Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle War Horse, Michael Morpurgo Kensuke’s Kingdom, Michael Morpurgo The Butterfly Lion, Michael Morpurgo Boy, Roald Dahl Best Friends, Jacqueline Wilson Carrie’s War, Nina Bawden Poetry Different Cultures Island Man, Grace Nichols Blessing, Imtiaz Dharkar Search for My Tongue, Sujata Bhatt ‘Mother, any distance greater than a single span’, Simon Armitage- from Book of Matches Death of a Naturalist, Seamus Heaney Before You Were Mine, Carol Ann Duffy Conflict Flag, John Agard The Right Word, Imtiaz Dharker Mametz Wood, Owen Sheers Poppies, Jane Weir Pre 1914 Poetry Bank The Eagle,Alfred Tennyson On my first Sonne, Ben Johnson The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found, William Blake NORD ANGLIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (Opening 1 September 2014) 11 On Tin Street, Lam Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong SCHOOL MANAGEMENT OFFICE 15/F Millennium City 3, 370 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong T: +852 3107 8158 E: [email protected] www.nais.hk Literary Heritage Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Nettles, Vernon Scannell Wind, Ted Hughes 2 .

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