KS3 Reading List
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Year 7 Reading List Fiction The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn * Mark Twain 1884 The Diary of a Young Girl * Anne Frank 1946 The Narnia series * C.S. Lewis 1950-56 The Dark is Rising * Susan Cooper 1973 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy * Douglas Adams 1979 Pig Heart Boy * Malorie Blackman 1997 The Lie Tree * Frances Hardinge 2015 Cogheart Peter Bunzl 2016 The Wolf Wilder Katherine Rundell 2016 La Belle Sauvage * Philip Pullman 2017 The Skylarks’ War Hilary McKay 2018 Check Mates Stewart Foster 2019 Call Down the Hawk Maggie Stiefvater 2019 Non-Fiction The Lost Words Robert Macfarlane 2017 Big Ideas for Curious Minds The School of Life 2018 Have You Eaten Grandma? Gyles Brandreth 2018 Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies: Scarlett Curtis 2018 Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means No One is Too Small to Make a Difference * Greta Thunberg 2019 Poetry The Rattle Bag * Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 1982 Poems to Live Your Life By Chris Riddell 2018 * Available in the LRC Year 8 Reading List Fiction Robinson Crusoe * Daniel Defoe 1719 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 Death On the Nile * Agatha Christie 1937 The Day of the Triffids * John Wyndham 1951 The Flame Trees of Thika Elspeth Huxley 1959 Cider With Rosie * Laurie Lee 1959 Born Free Joy Adamson 1960 I’m the King of the Castle * Susan Hill 1970 The City of Secret Rivers Jacob Sager Weinstein 1972 Tuck Everlasting Nathalie Babbitt 1975 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings * Maya Angelou 1982 Hatchet Gary Paulson 1986 Number the Stars * Lois Lowry 1989 Wolf Gilly Cross 1990 Tomorrow, When the War Began John Marsden 1993 Steal Away Home Lois Ruby 1994 Moon Over Manifest Clare Venderpool 1995 Postcards From No Man’s Land Aidan Chalmers 1999 Hope Was Here Joan Bauer 2000 The Artemis Fowl series * Eoin Colfer 2001 Dangerous Reality * Malorie Blackman 2004 How I Live Now * Meg Rosoff 2004 Jenny Valentine Finding Violet Park Jenny Valentine 2007 Bog Child * Siobhan Dowd 2008 A Monster Calls * Patrick Mess 2011 The Way We Were * Meg Rosoff 2011 The Land of Stories Chris Colfer 2012 The Wolf Wilder Katherine Rundell 2015 Welcome to Nowhere Elizabeth Laird 2017 The Survival Game * Nicky Singer 2017 Non-Fiction V.I.P Winston Churchill 1948 My Family and Other Animals * Gerald Durrell 1956 Touching the Void * Joe Simpson 1988 Travels on My Elephant Mark Shand 1991 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson 2006 Walking Home Simon Armitage 2012 I am Malala * Malala Yousafzai 2013 Walking Away Simon Armitage 2015 Poetry The Complete Edgar Allen Poe Collection Quick Let’s Get Out of Here Michael Rosen Plays The Importance of Being Earnest * Oscar Wilde Our Day Out * Willy Russell * Available in the LRC Year 9 Reading List Fiction Day of the Triffids * John Wyndham 1951 James Bond series * Ian Fleming 1953 The Lord of the Rings * J.R.R. Tolkien 1954 Cider With Rosie* Laurie Lee 1959 The Owl Service * Alan Garner 1967 The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy * Douglas Adams 1978 The Bourne Identity * Robert Ludlum 1980 The Discworld series * Terry Pratchett 1983 Debt of Honour Tom Clancy 1994 His Dark Materials trilogy * Philip Pullman 1995 Face * Benjamin Zephaniah 1999 The Other Side of the Truth Beverley Naidoo 2000 Noughts & Crosses trilogy * Malorie Blackman 2001 Mortal Engines quartet * Philip Reeves 2001 Martyn Pig * Kevin Brooks 2002 Eragon * Christopher Paolini 2002 The Da Vinci Code * Dan Brown 2003 Caught in the Crossfire * Alan Gibbons 2003 Keeper * Mal Peet 2003 Looking for JJ Anne Cassidy 2004 Framed * Frank Cottrell Boyce 2005 Boy Soldier * Andy McHab 2005 The Book Thief * Marcus Zusak 2005 The Road of Bones Anne Fine 2006 The Hunger Games series * Suzanne Collins 2008 Gone series * Michael Grant 2008 Chaos Walking trilogy * Patrick Ness 2008 Guantanamo Boy * A Perera 2009 Drama A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare 1605 Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare 1612 Pygmalion G.B. Shaw 1913 Pigeon English (adapted: Gbolahan Obisesan) Stephen Kelman 2003 DNA * Dennis Kelly 2008 Poetry Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats * T.S. Eliot 1939 The Whitsun Weddings Philip Larkin 1964 Bilbo’s Last Song J.R.R. Tolkien 1973 Bull David Elliott 2017 The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo 2018 * Available in the LRC .