Years 7-8 Reading List

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Nicholas Adams Blood Brothers Allan Ahlberg The Boyhood of Burglar Bill Louisa M. Allcott Little Women David Almond Skellig Kit’s Wilderness Jackdaw Summer Kevin Anderson Darkest Knight R. M. Ballantyne The Coral Island Malorie Blackman Pig Heart Boy Hacker Noughts and Crosses trilogy Frank Cottrell Boyce Cosmic Framed John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island The Lost Continent John Buchan The Thirty-nine Steps Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Child’s Elephant Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Monogram Murders (by Sophie Hannah) John Christopher The Guardians The Lotus Eaters Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series Airman B. R. Collins Game Runner Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games trilogy Wilkie Collins Moonstone Susan Cooper Ghost Hawk The Dark is Rising sequence

1 King of Shadows Helen Cresswell Moondial Gillian Cross The Demon Headmaster Sarah Crossan The Weight of Water Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone trilogy Richmal Crompton Just William series Roald Dahl Henry Sugar Going Solo Skin and other stories Tales of the Unexpected Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Oliver Twist Matt Dickinson Mortal Chaos Berlie Doherty Street Child Siobhan Dowd Bog Child Eileen Dunlop The House on the Hill Helen Dunmore Ingo Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals Lissa Evans Small Change for Stuart Anne Fine The Tulip Touch The Road of Bones Ian Fleming Casino Royale Charlie Fletcher Stoneheart Catherine Forde Fat Boy Swim Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Jackie French Slave Girl Cornelia Funke Ink Heart The Thief Lord Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book Coraline Paul Gallico The Snow Goose Leon Garfield Shakespeare Stories 1 and 2 Smith Alan Garner The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Jamila Gavin Coram Boy The Wheel of Surya The Robber Baron’s Daughter Adele Geras Troy Ithaka Alan Gibbons An Act of Love The Edge Shadow of the Minotaur Morris Gleitzman Once Now Then After Water Wings

2 Blabber Mouth John Gordon Fen Runners Helen Grant The Vanishing of Katharina Linden Ursula Le Guin The Wizard of Earthsea Willis Hall The Long and the Short and the Tall Jack Higgins The Eagle has Landed S.E. Hinton The Outsiders Mary Hoffman Stravaganza: City of Masks Ann Holm I am David Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider series Power of Five series Ted Hughes The Iron Man Eva Ibbotson Journey to the River Sea Geraldine Kaye Comfort Herself Judith Kerr When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Dick King-Smith The Sheep Pig Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book Just So Stories Charles Lamb Tales from Shakespeare Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant series Caroline Lawrence The Roman Mysteries Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie Robert Leeson The Third Class Genie C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom Adeline Yen Mah Chinese Cinderella Falling Leaves When a Girl is Born Margaret Mahy 24 Hours Aliens in the Family Simon Mayo Itch trilogy Anne McCaffrey Dragonflight Dragonquest The White Dragon Geraldine McCaughrean The White Darkness Forever X Stop the Train Ian McEwan The Daydreamer Allan Campbell McLean Master of Morgana Ribbon of Fire Michael Morpurgo War Horse Kensuke’s Kingdom A Medal for Leroy Private Peaceful Robert Muchamore Cherub series Andy Mulligan Trash

3 Bill Naughton The Goalkeeper’s Revenge E. Nesbit The Railway Children Patrick Ness A Monster Calls Garth Nix Sabriel Mary O’Hara My Friend Flicka R.J. Palacio Wonder Christopher Paolini Eragon Michelle Paver Wolf Brother Philippa Pearce Tom’s Midnight Garden Mal Peet Exposure Annabel Pitcher My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Terry Pratchett Mort Johnny and the Bomb Susan Price The Sterkarm Handshake Nightcomers Phillip Pullman Northern Lights trilogy Bali Rai City of Ghosts Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons Phillip Reeve Mortal Engines series Here Lies Arthur Philip Ridley Krindlekrax Kaspar in the Glitter Rick Riordan Percy Jackson series Veronica Roth Divergent J.K. Rowling Harry Potter series Katherine Rundell Rooftoppers Chris Ryan Rat Catcher Louis Sachar Holes Marcus Sedgwick The Book of Dead Days My Swordhand is Singing Revolver White Crow Ruth Sepetys Between Shades of Grey Ian Serraillier The Silver Sword Darren Shan The Demonata trilogy The City Book trilogy Cirque du Freak Vampire Prince Tunnels in the Dark Marla Fante Skyer Welcome Home Jellybean Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events series Ali Sparks Shapeshifter Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Edge Chronicles Rosemary Sutcliff The Eagle of the Ninth The Lantern Bearers Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels

4 Robert Swindells Stone Cold Brother in the Land Mildred Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Theodore Taylor The Cay Alfred, Lord Tennyson Arthurian Tales Sandi Toksvig Hitler’s Canary J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings trilogy Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer H.G. Wells The Time Machine The Island of Dr Moreau T.H. White The Sword in the Stone Chris Wooding The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray Paul Zindel The Pigman Marcus Zusack The Book Thief

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