Year 7 Reading List
Classics Real Life/ Teenage
The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Skellig – David Almond Carroll Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson Feather Boy – Nicky Singer Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Love Aubrey – Suzanne La Fleur Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson Tom’s Midnight Garden – Phillipa Pearce Maggot Moon – Sally Gardner Wonder – R.J. Palacio
Withering Tights – Louisa Rennison Animal Stories Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephaniah Counting by 7’s – Holly Goldberg Warhorse – Michael Morpurgo Apple and Rain – Sarah Crossan Kaspar: Prince of Cats – Michael Morpurgo Love That Dog – Sharon Creech Watership Down – Richard Adams The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame Adventure/Mystery
Fantasy Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo Why the whales came – Michael Morpurgo Harry Potter (1-4) – J.K. Rowling Born To Run – Michael Morpurgo The Spiderwick Chronicles - Tony Di Terlizzi & Holly Black The hundred and one Dalmations – Dodie Smith Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket Film/TV Tie-ins
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke Matilda- Roald Dahl Coraline - Neil Gaiman Percy Jackson (Complete series) Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge C.S. Lewis Five Children and It – E. Nesbit History The BFG – Roald Dahl
Goodnight Mr. Tom – Michelle Magorian Trash – Andy Mulligan
(WW2) Comical The Diary of Anne Frank The Boy in Striped Pajamas – John Boyne Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden A Midsummer Tights Dream – Louisa A Traveller In Time – Alison Uttley3 Rennison (Sequels to Withering Tights) Gangsta Granny – David Walliams
Billionaire Boy – David Walliams