Suggested Reading List

Letter to Parents of Boys entering Y7-8

Friday 3 July 2020

Dear Parents

Recommended Reading for Senior Section

Reading is important at all ages, but it can sometimes be tricky to find an author and type of book that you like.

Listed below are some recommendations for boys in the Senior Section. This is not a list to tick off, but some suggested books that might be of interest. There are a mixture of authors, as well as modern and classic books, that should help to inspire and capture the imagination of boys in Year 7 and Year 8.

Please continue to encourage your sons to read an array of non-fiction books, alongside their fiction books, and encourage them to read a variety of books by different authors. If he becomes entrenched in the work of a particular author, you may wish to encourage him to intersperse each book with that of a different author.

In addition to the suggested books and authors below, there is also a good selection of books on the Carnegie Award shortlist. The link for this current year is below. Happy reading! https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/cilip-carnegie-medal-shortlist-2020/

Year 7

Watership Down - Richard Adams The Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thompson The Island at the End of Everything - Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper Wolf - Gillian Cross Some Places More Than Others - Renée Watson The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley-Holland Boy and Going Solo - Roald Dahl The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner Minders - Diana Hendry A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard Tug of War - Catherine Forde War Horse - Michael Morpurgo Stone Cold - Robert Swindells Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman The Indian in the Cupboard Trilogy - Lynne Reid Banks Black Beauty - Anna Sewell The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff The Cay - Theodore Taylor The Secret Diary of Andrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend Cue for Treason - Geoffrey Trease The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Blitzcat - Robert Westall The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White Raptor - Paul Zindel The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Pig Heart Boy - Malorie Blackman The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman The Garbage King - Elizabeth Laird The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak The Call of the Wild - Jack London Twelve Minutes to Midnight - Christopher Edge A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair - Nicholas Fisk

Year 8

Madame Doubtfire - Anne Fine Welcome to Nowhere - Elizabeth Laird The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton Animal Farm - George Orwell Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah The Coral Island - R.M. Ballantyne Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham Flambards - K.M. Peyton The Flame Trees of Thika - Elspheth Huxley Goggle Eyes - Anne Fine The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Small Steps - Louis Sachar How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff I am David - Anne Holm Joby - Stan Barstow Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell The Tulip Touch - Anne Fine The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams The Dam Busters - Paul Brickhill The Giver - Lois Lowry Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson Tightrope - Gillian Cross I’m the King of the Castle - Susan Hill The Woman in Black - Susan Hill Unbearable - Paul Jennings Treasure Island - R.L. Stevenson The Haunting - Margaret Mahy Z for Zachariah - Robert O’Brien Shadowmancer - G.P. Taylor