Bolton School: KS3 Reading List

Author Title LEVEL 1 TEXTS Adams, Douglas Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Richard Watership Down Alcock, Vivien The Monster Garden Almond, David The Fire-eaters/Skellig Barlow, Steve Vernon Bright and Frankenstein’s Hamster Bawden, Nina The Finding Bertegna, Julie Exodus Blacker, Terence The Angel Factory Boyne, John Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Buckeridge, Anthony Jennings Goes to School Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass Cattell, Bob Glory in the Cup Child, Lauren Utterly Me, Clarice Bean Compton, Richmal Just William (series) Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising (series) Corder, Zizou Halo Cottrell Boyce, Frank Millions Cowell, Cressida How to Train your Dragon Dahl, Roald Boy/Going Solo Durrell, Gerald My Family and Other Animals Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book/Coraline Gibbons, Alan Shadow of the Minotaur/Caught in the Crossfire Grant, Michael Gone (series) Gleitzman, Morris Once Higson, Charlie The Enemy Ibbotson, Eva The Star of Kazan Jarvis, Robin The Deptford Mice Trilogy Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book Laird, Elizabeth The Garbage-King Le Guin, Ursula A Wizard of Earthsea Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Magorian, Michelle Just Henry McCaughrean, Geraldine The Death Defying Pepper Roux Morpurgo, Micheal War Horse/Kensuke’s Kingdom/Private Peaceful Nesbitt, Edith Five Children and It Norton, Mary The Borrowers O’Hearn, Kate Shadow of the Dragon (series) Oppel, Kenneth Silverwing Pattou, Edith North Child Paver, Michael Wolf Brother: The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Pratchett, Terry Nation Riordan, Rick Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Rowling, J.K. series Sage, Angie : (series) Shearer, Alex Bootleg/The Lost Singer, Nicky Feather Boy Westall, Robert The Machine Gunners/Kingdom by the Sea Wilde, Oscar The Happy Prince/The Selfish Giant Wilson, Jacqueline Double Act

LEVEL 2 TEXTS Abrahams, Peter Down the Rabbit Hole Allen-Grey, Alison Unique Asher, Jay Thirteen Reasons Why Ashley, Bernard Johnny’s Blitz Blackman, Malorie Noughts and Crosses (trilogy) Brooks, Kevin Road of the Dead Brooks, Terry The Sword of Shannara (series) Burgess, Melvin An Angel for May/Kite Clare, Cassandra The Mortal Instruments Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War Crichton, Michael Jurassic Park/The Lost World Cross, Gilian Wolf/After Tomorrow David, Keren When I Was Joe de Bernieres, Louis Red Dog Doherty, Bertie Dear Nobody Dowswell, Paul Auslander Falkner, J. Meade Moonfleet Frank, Anne The Diary of Anne Frank Gardner, Sally I, Coriander Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Hearn, Julie Rowan the Strange Hearn, Lian Across the Nightingale Floor Higson, Charlie Silverfin Hill, Susan I’m the King of the Castle Holm, Anne I Am David Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker Laird, Elizabeth Crusade Lott, Tim Fearless Mah, Adeline Yen The Chinese Cinderella Malley, Gemma The Declaration/The Resistance Marks, Graham Kai-ro McCaughrean, Geraldine Stop the Train/The Kite-rider McInerney, Monica Those Faraday Girls McKenzie, Stephanie Blood Ties/Girl Missing Meyer, Stephanie Twilight (series) Nicholson, William The Wind Singer Pattern, Brian The Story Giant Peterson, Will Triskellion Peyton, K.M. Flambards Picoult, Jodi Mercy/The Pact Pratchett, Terry The Discworld (series) Pullman, Philip His Dark Materials Trilogy Rai, Bali Rani and Sukh/The Whisper Stevenson, R.L. Treasure Island Sutcliff, Rosemary The Eagle of the Ninth Reeve, Philip Mortal Engines/Fever Crumb Rosoff, Meg Just in Case Sedgwick, Marcus My Swordhand is Singing Simpson, Joe Touching the Void Swindells, Robert Brother in the Land/Room 13 Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit Townsend, Sue The Diary of Adrian Mole Twain, Mark Tom Sawyer Verne, Jules 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Waterhouse, Keith Billy Liar Zephaniah, Benjamin Face/Refugee Boy

LEVEL 3 TEXTS Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Ballard, J.G. Empire of the Sun Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Clancy, Tom Rainbow Six Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim Cormier, Robert I Am the Cheese/Heroes Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist/Great Expectations Dickinson, Peter Eva Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes (series) Eliot, George Silas Marner Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby Forster, E.M. A Passage to India Garner, Alan The Owl Service Golding, William Lord of the Flies Greene, Graham Brighton Rock/Our Man in Havana Grisham, John The Firm Hardy, Thomas The Mayor of Casterbridge Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea Hill, Susan The Woman in Black Hines, Barry A Kestrel for a Knave Hornby, Nick Fever Pitch/High Fidelity Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go James, Henry The Turn of the Screw Keneally, Thomas Schindler’s Ark King, Stephen The Shining/The Green Mile Lawrence, Louise Children of the Dust Le Carre, John The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet London, Jack The Call of the Wild/White Fang Matheson, Richard I Am Legend McNab, Andy Brave Two Zero Naylor, Doug The Last Human Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go Newberry, Linda Sisterland O’Brian, Robert C. Z for Zachariah Orwell, George Animal Farm Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country Price, Susan The Sterkarm Handshake Poe, Edgar Alan Tales of Mystery and Imagination Read, Piers Paul Alive Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye Shusterman, Neal Unwind Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath Tolkein, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings Waugh, Evelyn Decline and Fall Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds Wodehouse P.G. Jeeves and Wooster (series) Wyndham, John Day of the Triffids/The Midwich Cuckoos Zusak, Markus The Book Thief