Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan

A list of recommendations… Compiled by John Vaughan

Edition: February 2017 © John Vaughan

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 1 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Books to Read Introduction This list is compiled based on my years as a teacher, encouraging my students into reading. The books or authors I have listed are ones which I have either had a lot of success with over the years as a teacher, or have been read by my students and recommended to me. The titles are targeted at the Year 7-8 age group, but can definitely be enjoyed by older (and sometimes younger) readers as well! I have entered them into the list because they have already proved themselves successful, and also because they are a “good read”, but please remember this is just ONE person's preferences and opinions, as are all book reviews. Everyone’s taste in reading is different, so I recommend you try a wide range of titles & authors. Some parents may disagree with my choices based on content, subject matter or suitability for level. That's okay with me! ☞ If you are in doubt about a book, read it yourself before offering it to your child!

I have read all these titles myself (and yes, I enjoyed them - they wouldn't be in this list, otherwise!) Please note that I will not read a book to a class without reading it myself first, just to check content. Having said that, there are some books in the list I would not read to classes because of the content, but I believe are suitable for home reading. ☞ You may wish to read the books aloud together with your child, or they are just as successful read quietly. Some books work better when read quietly. They simply don’t work read aloud! Getting them hooked You may notice a large number of ‘series’ or ‘serials’ in the list. Younger readers will often enjoy or "lock onto" a series of books. Let it happen! Series can often create a more interest in reading. Remember - the aim is to get the children reading. Don't worry if they don't vary their "diet" a lot. Once you see your child reading, gently prod them into trying a different book occasionally. See, the point is : They are reading! Get involved with your child’s reading. Ask your child to tell you what is happening in the story. Read it with them. Have a shared reading time in the evening. Ask if you can borrow the book to read at the same time (such as, while they are asleep). Let your children see you reading too. By showing your child that you value reading, it will encourage them. Books and Movies Do encourage your children to read a book BEFORE watching it on screen. Use movie titles which they are interested in and see if there is a book it is drawn from. Additionally, try to get the original book, not the book from the movie... Avoid ‘abridged’ versions of books. Encourage your child to read the author’s original works. My teaching experience is that the children find the book much more enjoyable, with greater scope for imagination. As one of my students put it, “With a book, you can make up your own pictures in your head. With a movie, you have to use someone else's pictures.” Ages As stated above, the main intended audience for this book list is Year 7 & 8 in the educational system (ages 10 - 13). This is not set in concrete. There are books in this list that younger readers will enjoy, and lots for older readers - including adults.

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 2 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan To adult readers, I say - try some of these titles. Our children are getting the privilege of some great writing! Don’t miss out through thinking you are too old for ‘kids’ books! Sources All the books listed are available through good bookstores, second-hand stores or online (at much cheaper prices) as well through libraries, both school and public. Talk to your child’s teacher about suitable reading levels and suggested titles, and the librarians at the public libraries. They will have a good knowledge of what is “in” amongst the kids today as well. Talk to your friends’ children and their parents also, to find out what people are reading. One online site well worth looking at is ABE Books (http://www.abebooks.com/) an online, world-wide second-hand book store search engine, with a wide variety of sources, good prices and very reliable service (to date!). Note to parents Horror and scare books are popular among intermediate aged children. I recommend parents check out the titles your children are reading. A good scare when I was a child came from a genuine ghost story. These days, horror is treated as something very ordinary. As a parent myself, it concerns me when children think someone being dismembered or killed brutally is 'fun'. Please read titles in this genre first - before your children, as I find some of these works rather tasteless, even disturbing - but do remember, this is just one reader's opinion! And lastly... There are lots of good authors and great titles out there that are not mentioned in this book list, and not all books by a particular author are listed in the majority of cases. It doesn’t mean I don’t think they are any good, it just means I haven’t read them - yet! So... Please, let me know if you come across a good book! I'm always looking to add to my list! John Vaughan Key:

✔ One of my favourites! ✹ Younger readers should enjoy these. ➽ Probably more suitable for older / stronger readers, or readers with more mature tastes. ✴! New Zealand Author ➣ Series ☞ Please Note

Note: Book titles in italics that have been added to series lists have not been read but are there for reference. Usually it is because the book is due to be published soon.

Please note: These are just my opinions (like all reviews). Your, or your children’s, opinions may differ! Good reading!

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 3 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan SECTION 1 - New Zealand Authors: ✴ • ➽ Fifteen and Screaming (NB Contains sexual themes) • ✔ 1: I Am Not Esther 2: I Am Rebecca 3: Being Magdalene • Ambushed •➣ Lacey stories 1: Lucky For Some 2: Lacey & The Drama Queens • ➽ ➣ 1: Juno of Taris 2: Fierce September 3: Heart of Danger ✴ Bernard Beckett • ➽ Genesis ✴ • ✹ Many titles • Mrs McGinty’s Bizarre Plant

✴ Paula Brock •➽ Dare Truth Or Promise (NB Contains sexual themes) ✴ Alan Bunn • Eyes In The Shadows ✴ Pauline Cartwright • What! No TV? ✴ ✴ • The Onager • Something Wicked This Way Comes •➣ Deepwater series 1: Deepwater Black 2: Deepwater Landing 3: Deepwater Angels ✴ Shirley Corlett • The Stolen • Through Thick and Thin ✴ •➣ ✔ Shadrach 1: Bow Down Shadrach 2: Gladly Here I Come 3: Shadrach Girl • The Silent One ,,,and many other titles ✴ • The 10PM Question • ✔ From The Cutting Room Floor of Barney Kettle ✴ ✹ All titles • Hairy McLeary series • The Minister’s Cat • ABC • Dragon in a Wagon • ✹The Blue Balloon ✴ •➣ ➽ Alex (Serial) 1: Alex 3: Alessandra - Alex in Rome 2: Alex in Winter 4: Songs for Alex • The Tiggie Thompson Show • Hotmail • JellyBean ✴ Brian Falkner • Super Freak • Brainjack • The Tomorrow Code • The Project • Recon Team Angel: 1: The Assault 2: Task Force ✴ Vince Ford • ➣1: 2Much4U 2: SoMuch2Do 3: Possums2U • It’s A Try • The Dare Club • ➽ a handful of blue • BoyznBikes •➣ The Chronicles of Stone 1: Scorched Bone 2: Set in Stone 3: Tribal Ash ✴ •➣ ✔ The World of O (Serial) 1: The Halfmen of O 2: The Priests of Ferris 3: Motherstone • Under the Mountain • The FireRaiser • The Champion … plus other titles

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 4 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan ✴ Gaelyn Gordon •➣ 1: Stone Light 2: Mind Fire 3: Riverstone •✔ TripSwitch •✔ Prudence M Muggeridge, Damp Rat •➣ Alfred Brown 1: Several Things are Alive & Well and Living in Alfred Brown’s Head 2: Take Me To Your Leaders • The Other Worlds of Andrew Griffin ✴ Karen Healey • ➽ Guardian of the Dead • ➽ The Shattering • ➽ When We Wake (1) While We Run (2) ✴ Jane Higgins • ➽➣ 1: The Bridge 2: Havoc ✴ David Hair ✔ • ➽ The Aotearoa Series (Excellent series) 1: The Bone Tiki 2: The Taniwha’s Tear 3: The Lost Tohunga 4: Justice and Ut 5: Ghosts of Parihaka 6: Magic and Makutu ✴ ✔ Excellent New Zealand author - high interest for intermediate aged students. Loads of fun, great reading. Recommended to parents too! • See Ya Simon ✔ ✔ • Take it Easy ✔ • Cold Comfort • The Winning Touch. • Seconds Best ✔ • Curtain Up • Just Looking, Thanks • Afterwards • Time Out • Impact • Treasure Deep • Boots'n'All • Give It Hoops • Coming Back ✔ • The Name of The Game • Impact • Right Where It Hurts • Where All Things End • The Sleeper Wakes • Bodies and Soul • The High Wind Blows • Journey to Tangiwai • No Safe Harbour • Running Hot • The River Runs • My Brother’s War ✔ • Fat, Four-eyed and Useless • Sinking • Brave Company • The Deadly Sky • Enemy Camp ✴ ✔ ✴ Excellent New Zealand author - high interest for intermediate aged students. Loads of fun, great reading. Recommended to parents too! • Frog Whistle Mine • Shadows In The Ice • Phantom of Terawhiti • ✔ The Moa Cave • Cry Of The Taniwha • The Peco Incident • Whale Pot Bay • Where Cuckoos Call • Steel Pelicans • The Tooth • A Friend In Paradise • Project Huia • The Crocodile Nest • Cool Nukes • Skink Gully ✴ Phyllis Johnston • ✔ Brother, Sister, Soldier, Cousin ✴ VM Jones •➣ The Karazan Quartet 1: The Serpents of Arakesh 2: Beyond The Shroud 3: Prince of the Wind 4: Quest for the Sun • ➣ Pip (series) 1: Juggling With Mandarins ✔ 2: Shooting The Moon • Buddy

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 5 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan ✴ Sheryl Jordan •➣ The Adventures of Denzil, Apprentice Wizard 1: The Wednesday Wizard 3: Denzil's Great Bear Burglary 2: Denzil's Dilemma 4: The Silver Dragon •✔ The Juniper Game • Rocco • Secret Sacrament ✴ Elizabeth Knox • Mortal Fire ✴ • The Runaway Settlers • The Boy with Snowgrass Hair (with Ken Dawson) • A Canoe in the Mist ✴ • Most titles •✔ The Haunting • Kaitangata Twitch • The Changeover • Under-runners • The Margaret Mahy Storybooks ✴ Marie Manderson • The Keeper Of Secrets ✴ • 1: Letters to Lesley 2: Brain Drain ✴ Anna Mackenzie ➣ 1: The Sea-Wreck Stranger 2: Ebony Hill 3: Tide Song • Shadow of the Mountain ✴ Ged Maybury • The TriggerStone ✴ Ian Mune •✔ The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts ✴ James Norcliffe • The Loblolly Boy • The Loblolly Boy & The Sorceror ✴ Tania Kelly Roxborough •➽ Compulsion (NB Contains adult themes) ✴ Erin Skiffington • The Day After Forever ✴ Eliane Whitehouse • Young Exile ✴

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 6 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan SECTION 2 - Overseas Authors: Joan Aiken •✔ Midnight Is A Place Lloyd Alexander •➣ Taran Series 1: The Book of Three 2: The Black Cauldron 3: The Castle of Llyr 4: Taran Wanderer 5: The High King Anno Art based books (Series) (no text) • Anno’s Medieval World Avi • Romeo and Juliet together (and alive!) at last! • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle David Baldacci • The Finisher (1) The Keeper (2) Nina Bawden • The Finding Paul Berna • A Hundred Million Francs Judy Blume Many of her titles are suitable. ! •➣ Fudge 1: Tales of a fourth Grade Nothing 3: Fudge-a-mania ! 2: ✔ SuperFudge 4: Double Fudge ! • Just As Long As We’re Together • Blubber • Tiger Eyes Michael Bond •➣ ✹ Paddington Bear Series e.g. A Bear Called Paddington Kimberly Brubaker Bradley • The War That Saved My Life Bruce Brooks • The Moves Make The Man Adele Broadbent • Trouble In Time N.M. Browne • Basilisk Alyssa Brugman • Walking naked Margaret Buffie ✔ Canadian author - excellent but hard to get hold of! • The Haunting of Frances Rain (a.k.a. ‘Who Is Frances Rain?’) • The Dark Garden • My Mother’s Ghost • The Warnings • Angels Turn Their Backs • Out Of Focus • Winter Shadows ➣The Watcher’s Quest (series) 1: The Watcher 2: The 3: The Finder Alan Bunn • Eyes in the Shadows Richard Carpenter • Catweazle Dick Cate •➣1: Ghost Dog 2: Twister 3: Foxcover Ruth Chew • The Worst Witch Elsie Chapman • ➽ Dualed (1) Divided (2) John Christopher •➣ ➽ The Tripod Trilogy (Serial) 1: The White Mountains 2: The City of Gold and Lead 3: The Pool of Fire • The Lotus Caves Beverley Cleary Many of her titles are very good. ! •➣ ✔ Ralph Mouse 1: The Mouse & The Motorcycle. 2: Runaway Ralph 3: Ralph S Mouse • Otis Spofford •➣ Ramona (Series)

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 7 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Babbette Cole • ✹ Dr Dog • ✹ Drop Dead • ✹ Two Of Everything Eoin Colfer • ✔ Airman • ➣ Artemis Fowl (series) 1: Artemis Fowl 2: The Arctic Incident 3: The Opal Deception 4: The Eternity Code 5: The Lost Colony 6: The Time Paradox 7: The Atlantis Complex Suzanne Collins • Gregor The Overlander (5 books in series) Zizou Corder • Lee Raven, Boy Thief Sharon Creech •✔ Love That Dog Helen Cresswell • Ellie and the Hagwitch Karen Cushman • Catherine Called Birdie Roald Dahl Any titles •✔ Danny The Champion Of The World •✔ Boy Ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois •➽ Dark Alchemy Paula Danziger • Various titles Meindert DeJong • Many Titles *May appeal to younger readers if read aloud • Shadrach Kate DiCamillo • The Tale of Despereaux Chris d'Lacy •➣ The Last Dragon Chronicles 1: The Fire Within 2: Icefire 3: Fire Star 4: The Fire Eternal 5: Dark Fire 6: Rain & Fire 7: Fire World 8: The Fire Ascending Frederic S Durbin ✔ ➽ Dragonfly R Meade Faulkner •✔ Moonfleet Anne Fine •✔ Goggle Eyes • Flour Babies …and most other titles Nicholas Fisk Many titles •✔ The Worm Charmers • AntiGrav • Grinny • A Rag, A Bone, A Hank of Hair • Wheelie in the stars • Space Hostages • BackLash • Time Trap Jenni Fleetwood • The Intergalactic Omniglot Sid Fleischman • ➣ McBroom Nils-Olos Franzen • Agaton Sax (Series) Neil Gaiman • The Graveyard Book • Neverwhere • Untitled sequel 2017 • Stardust Leon Garfield Most titles - I recommend... • ✔ Smith Alan Garner • 1: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen • 2: The Moon of Gomrath• • 1: Elidor • 2:The Owl Service • 3: Red Shift Morris Gleitzman •➣ 1: Blabber Mouth 2: Sticky Beak • Worry Wart

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 8 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Alison Goodman • Singing the Dog Star Blues • Lady Helen & The Dark Days Club Kenneth Graham • The Wind in the Willows Alastair Graham • Full Moon Soup [Graphics only; no text] • Full Moon Afloat [Graphics only; no text] Kenneth Graham • The Wind in the Willows John Grisham • 1: Theodore Boone 2: The Abduction 3: The Accused 4: The Activist 5: The Fugitive 6: The Scandal Jason Hightman • The Saint Of Dragons Ted Hughes • The Iron Man Norman Hunter • ➣ Professor Branestawm Steve Jackson • ➣ Fighting Fantasy Various Authors • ➣ Twist-a-plot Anne Holm • I am David Mary Hoffman •➣ Stravaganza series 1: City of Masks 2: City of Stars 3: City of Flowers Anthony Horowitz •➣ ✔ The Power of Five (Gatekeepers) 1: Raven’s Gate 2: Evil Star 3: Nightrise 4: Necropolis 5: Oblivion •➣ Alex Rider 1: Stormbreaker 2: Point Blanc 3: Skeleton Key 4: Eagle Strike 5: Scorpia 6: Ark Angel 7: Snakehead Isabel Hoving • The Dream Merchant Paul Jennings Almost any title (short stories) e.g. Unreal Catherine Jinks • The Future Trap • 1: A Very Unusual Pursuit 2: A Very Peculiar Plague 3: A Very Singular Guild Judith Kerr •➣ “Out of the Hitler Time” series 1: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 2: Bombs On Aunt Dainty (a.k.a. ‘The Other Way Round’) 3: A Small Person Far Away Jeff Kinney • Diary of a Wimpy Kid Elizabeth Laird •➽ Jake’s Tower Derek Landy •➽ ✔ ➣ Skulduggery Pleasant (series) NB: These books get darker and more adult as the series progresses 1: Skulduggery Pleasant 2: Playing With Fire 3: The Faceless Ones 4: Dark Days 5: Mortal Coil 6: Death Bringer 7: Kingdom of the Wicked 8: Last Stand of Dead Men 9: The Dying of the Light • The End of the World (2x short stories) • Tanith Low: Maleficent Seven (associated title) Madeleine L’Engle • A Wrinkle In Time CS Lewis •➣ Narnia (Series)(Serial) 1: The Magician's Nephew 2: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 3: The Horse and His Boy 4: Prince Caspian 5: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 6: The Silver Chair 7: The Last Battle Rebecca Lisle • Shrubbery Skulduggery Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 9 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Jack London • Call Of The Wild • White Fang

Pittacus Lore • ➣1: I Am Number 4 2: The Power of Six 3: The Rise of Nine 4: The Fall of Five 5: The Revenge of Seven 6: The Fate of Ten 7: United as One Lois Lowry • The “Giver” Quartet Morris Lurie • ✹ The 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race Michelle Magorian • ✔ Goodnight Mr Tom • ✔ A Spoonful of Jam • ✔ Back Home Mercer Mayer • ✹ Many titles Nicola Morgan •✔ ➣ The Highwayman (series) 1: The Highwayman’s Footsteps 2: The Highwayman’s Curse Lara Morgan •➣ ✔ The Rosie Black Chronicles 1: Genesis 2: Equinox 3: Dark Star Paddy Mounter • Attilla the Hen Robert Muchamore • ➣ CHERUB series Andy Mulligan • ➽ Trash Phyllis Reynolds Naylor • The Agony of Alice Jan Needle • Bogeymen William Nicholson •➣ The series 1: 2: The Wind On Fire 3: Andre Norton • Crosstime Agent (1) • The Crossroads of Time (2) Mary Norton • Bedknob and Broomstick Robert C O’Brien •➣ ✔ Mrs Frisby Series started by Robert O’Brien, & continued by his daughter Lesley Conly 1: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Lesley Conly 2: Racso and the Rats of NIMH 3: RT, Margaret and the Rats of NIMH Kenneth Oppel •➣ The Silverwing Series 1: Silverwing 2: Sunwing 3: Firewing P.J. Palacio • Wonder Katherine Paterson • ✔ Bridge to Terabithia Christopher Paolini •➣ ✔ ➽ The Inheritance Cycle Trivia note - he started writing this at age 16! 1: Eragon 2: Eldest 3: Brisingr 4: Inheritance Barbara Park • Dear God, Help! Love, Earl Ruth Park • Callie James Patterson •➣ ✔ Maximum Ride 1: The Angel Experiment 2: School's Out - Forever 3: Saving the World 4: The Final Warning 5: Max 6: Fang 7: Angel 8: Nevermore Kit Pearson • A Handful of Time

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 10 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Tamora Pierce •➣ Wild Magic 1: Wild Magic 2: Wolf Speaker 3: The Emperor Mage 4: Realms of The Gods Chris Powling & Scoular Anderson • Harry’s Party Terry Pratchett •➣ Truckers Series 1: Truckers 2: Diggers 3: Wings Willard Price • Any titles Martin Radford • Where’s Wally? (Series) - puzzle books - little text Kathy Reichs • “Virals” series 1: Virals 2: Seizure 3: Code 4: Exposure 5: Terminal 6: Trace Evidence Lynne Reid • The Indian in the Cupboard • The Return of the Indian V.A. Richardson • ➣ Windjammer series 1: The House of Windjammer 2: The Moneylender’s Daughter 3: The Street of Knives Willo Davis Roberts • Sugar Isn’t Everything Thomas Rockwell •✔ How to Eat Fried Worms • How to Fight a Girl Emily Rodda • Pigs Might Fly • Finders keepers Mary Rodgers • Freaky Friday • A Billion For Boris Michael Rosen •✔ Quick! Let's Get Out Of Here! J K Rowling •➣ The Harry Potter Series: Harry Potter and... 1: ... The Philosopher's Stone 2: ...The Chamber Of Secrets 3: ...The Prisoner of Azkaban 4: ...The Goblet of Fire 5: ...The Order of the Phoenix 6: ...The Half-Blood Prince 7: ...The Deathly Hallows Gillian Rubinstein • Foxspell •➣ SkyMaze series - 1: Space Demons 2: Skymaze 3: Shinkei Chris Ryan •➣ The ‘ALPHA Force’ series 1: Survival 2: Rat-catcher 3: Desert Pursuit 4: Hostage 5: Red Centre 6: Hunted 7: Blood Money 8: Fault Line 9: Black Gold 10: Untouchable Louis Sachar • Holes • Small Steps Margaret Sefton • Sleepers on the Hill Tor Seidler • A Rat’s Tale Ian Serrailier •✔ The Silver Sword Marlene Fanta Shyer • Welcome Home Jellybean Matthew Skelton • ➽Endymion Spring Dodie Smith • I Capture The Castle Phil Smith • The Unknown Zone Donald Sobol • Encyclopedia Brown (Series) Ivan Southall • Various titles • Ash Road Jerry Spinelli • Maniac Magee • PickleMania

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 11 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Robert Swindells • Room 13 • My Girl • I Hate My Brother Maxwell Potter Colin Thiele • The Fire in the Stone JRR Tolkien ➽ • ✔ The Hobbit John Rowe Townsend • Gumbles Yard Geoffrey Trease • Historical stories Karen Thomson Walker • The Age of Miracles Ronald Welch • ✔ The Gauntlet Ross Welford • Time Traveling With A Hamster Robert Westall • ✔ The Machine Gunners E B White • Charlottes Web • Stuart Little Forrest Wilson • ➣ SuperGran! (Series of three books) Jacqueline Wilson • GlubbSlyme Jane Yolen • The Dragon's Boy

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 12 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan SECTION 3: ➽ For older / more mature readers: Note: An ability to handle mature / adult themes is needed for many of these titles. Douglas Adams •➽➣ The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Series) 1: The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy 2: The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe 3: Life, The Universe And Everything 4: So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish 5: Mostly Harmless 6: And Another Thing... Emily Barr •➽ The One Memory of Flora Banks John Boyne •➽ The Boy In Striped Pyjamas Cassandra Clare ➽ •➽➣ The Mortal Instruments 1: City of Bones 2: City of Ashes 3: City of Glass 4: City of Fallen Angels 5: City of Heavenly Fire •➽➣ The Infernal Instruments (prequel to ‘The Mortal Instruments’) 1: Clockwork Angel 2: Clockwork Prince 3: Clockwork Princess •➽➣ The Dark Artifices 1: Lady Midnight 2: Lord of Shadows 3: The Queen of Air & Darkness Suzanne Collins ➽ •✔➣ The Hunger Games 1: The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire 3: Mockingjay Ally Condie •➽➣ 1: Matched 2: Crossed 3: Reached James Dashner •➽➣ Maze Runner 1: Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials 3: The Death Cure 4: (Prequel) The Kill Order •➽➣ The Mortality Doctrine 1: The Eye of Minds 2: The Rule of Thoughts 3: The Game of Lives Arwen Elys Dayton •➽ Resurrection Catherine Egan •➽ Julia Vanishes Catherine Fisher •➽✔ 1: Incarceron 2: Sapphique James Follett • ➽ EarthSearch • EarthSearch II Gail Forman •➽ 1: If I Stay 2: Where She Went James Frey •➽➣ Endgame 1: The Calling 2: Sky Key 3: TBA John Green •➽ The Fault In Our Stars • Looking for Alaska • Paper Towns Philippa Gregory •➽➣ Order of Darkness series 1: Changeling 2: Stormbringers Frances Hardinge •➽ The Lie Tree Rachel Hartman •➽➣ 1: Seraphina 2: Shadow Scale Diana Wynn Jones •➽➣ • Part 1: The Dark Lord of Derkholm • Part 2: Year Of The Griffin Caitlin Kittredge •➽➣ The Iron Codex 1: The Iron Thorn 2: The Nightmare Garden 3: The Mirrored Shard Derek Landy •➽ ✔ ➣ Demon Road (series) NB Very adult themes 1: Demon Road 2: Desolation 3: American Monsters

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 13 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Joan Lindgard •➽➣ The Sadie and Kevin books 1: The 12th of July 2: Across The Barricades 3: Into Exile 4: A Proper Place 5: Hostages to Fortune E Lockhart ✔ •➽ ✔ Excellent writer • We Were Liars • Fly On The Wall • ✔ The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks • The Boyfriend Quartet 1: The Boyfriend List 2: The Boy Book 3: The Treasure Map of Boys 4: Real Live Boyfriends John Marsden •➽➣ ✔ The Tomorrow Series 1: Tomorrow When The War Began 2: The Night Is For Hunting 3: The Third Day The Frost 4: Darkness Be My Friend 5: The Other Side Of Dawn 6: The Night Is For Hunting 7: The Other Side Of Dawn •➽ ➣ ✔ The Ellie Chronicles 1: While I Live 2: Incurable 3: Circle Of Flight • South of Darkness Kimberley McCreight •➽➣ The Outliers 1: The Outliers 2: The Scattering 3: TBA Richelle Mead •➽➣ Vampire Acadaemy •➽➣ Bloodlines 1: Vampire Academy 1: Bloodlines 2: Frostbite 2: The Golden Lily 3: Shadow Kiss 3: The Indigo Spell 4: Blood Promise 4: The Fiery Heart 5: Spirit Bound 5: Silver Shadows 6: Last Sacrifice 6: The Ruby Circle •✔ Soundless • The Glittering Court Garth Nix •✔ The Old Kingdom (Excellent series) 1: Sabriel 2: Lirael 3: Abhorsen 4: Clariael (prequel) 5: Goldenhand Phillip Pullman •➽➣ His Dark Materials (Series) 1: Northern Lights 2: The Subtle Knife 3: The Amber Spyglass •➽➣ The Sally Lockhart Mysteries (Series) 1: The Ruby In The Smoke 2: The Shadow In The North 3: The Tiger In The Well 4: The Tin Princess Lissa Price •➽➣1: Starters 2: Enders Michael Pryor •➽➣ The Extraordinaires - 1: The Extinction Gambit 2: The Subterranean Strategem Veronica Roth •➽ 1: Divergent 2: Insurgent 3: Allegiant •➽ 1: Carve The Mark 2: TBA Jonathan Stroud ✔ •➽➣ The Bartimaeus Series 1: The Amulet of Samarkand 2: The Golem's Eye 3: Ptolemy's Gate 4: The Ring of Solomon •➽ Buried Fire •➽ The Leap •➽ The Last Seige •➽ Heroes of the Valley •➽ Lockwood & Co series 1: The Whispering Skull 2: The Screaming Staircase 3: The Hollow Boy 4: The Creeping Shadow

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 14 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan JRR Tolkien ✔ •➽ The Hobbit •➽➣ The Lord of the Rings 1: The Fellowship of the Ring 2: The Two Towers. 3: The Return of the King Ann & Jeff Van Der Meer •➽➣ Steampunk Vol 1 & 2 Tommy Wallach •➽ We All Looked Up Dan Wells •➽➣ 1:Partials 2: Fragments 3: Ruins Scott Westerfeld •➽➣ Uglies: 1: Uglies 2: Pretties 3: Specials 4: Extras Rick Yancey •➽➣ The 5th Wave 1: The 5th Wave 2: The Infinite Sea 3: The Last Star Moira Young •➽➣ Dust Lands 1: Blood Red Road 2: Rebel Heart 3: Raging Stars

Section 4: Older Authors

The following authors would probably be termed “old fashioned” by our children. Certainly they are not as popular as they were in our day or our parents’! Do not, however, discount or disregard the story telling power of these authors, although it may be much harder to persuade your children to try them!

RM Ballantyne • The Coral Island Robert Louis Stevenson • Various titles • Treasure Island •➣ Kidnapped •➣ Catriona Richmal Crompton • William stories Arthur Conan Doyle • Sherlock Holmes Charles Dickens • A Christmas Carol (and other titles) PG Wodehouse • Hot Water • Jeeves stories • Blandings Castle stories

(And seriously, get your older child to read "Winnie The Pooh" by AA Milne! There's a lot of humour for older readers in there too!) There’s now a “Winnie The Pooh” sequel by David Benedictus, “Return To The Hundred Acre Wood”.

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Look ahead for reading. I love the anticipation! Have a selection of books in a pile on your bookshelf waiting to be read.

David Hair • Empress of the Fall Ransom Riggs • Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children Book 2) Frances Harbinge • A Face Like Glass W Bruce Cameron • A Dog’s Purpose Moira Young • Rebel Heart (Dust Lands series Book 2)

Section 6: Books I want to get my hands on...!

This section contains other books which have been recommended to me but which, for one reason or another, have not been included in the list above. Often it is just a case of not yet having had time to read them, or it may be hard to get hold of a copy.

Alyssa Brugman • Finding Grace ✴ Fleur Beale • The Taming of Joe Banks • Grogan Louis Sachar • Small Steps (Sequel to “Holes”)

Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 16 Books To Read: Current Edition: 2017.01 © J Vaughan Section 7: Picture Books

Although this seems an odd section to have in a list of books for 11-13 year olds, these books are a great read. Encourage your children to read them to other, younger children as well as enjoying the fun of the books themselves...

Julie Donaldson Multiple Titles (very popular with my grandchildren) • The Gruffalo • Tabby McTat Giles Andreae • Giraffes Can’t Dance Ruth Park • When The Wind Changed Rod Clement • Counting On Frank Lynley Dodd • Hairy McLeary series Babbette Cole • Dr Dog

This section will be expanded... once I get my lists organised... ;o)

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Quiz Answers: 1. Charlotte Bronte 2. Mark Twain 3. Snoopy/Charles Schulz 4. William Shakespeare 5. Katherine Mansfield 6. Margaret Mahy 7. Joy Cowley 8. Maurice Gee Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! 20