Reading List

Suggested books for Year 6

  • Richard Adams – Watership Down
  • Alan Ahlberg – The Boyhood of Burglar Bill
  • Joan Aiken – Midnight is a Place / The Wolves of Willoughby Chase / The James III Sequence
  • David Almond – Skellig / Heaven Eyes / Kit’s Wilderness
  • Philip Ardagh – The Eddie Dickens trilogy
  • Neil Arksey – Playing on the Edge
  • Lynne Reid Banks – The Indian in the Cupboard
  • Nina Bawden – Carrie’s War / The Peppermint Pig
  • Malorie Blackman – Thief / Tell Me No Lies / Pig Heart Boy / Hacker
  • Jon Blake - The Last Free Cat
  • Judy Bloom – Superfudge / Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret
  • John Boyne – The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
  • Betsy Byars – The Midnight Fox
  • Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland
  • Simon P Clark - Eren
  • Arthur C Clarke – Dolphin Island
  • Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl series, The Supernaturalist, Half Moon Investigations
  • Zizou Corder – Lionboy
  • Helen Cresswell - Moondial
  • Gillian Cross – The Demon Headmaster series / The Great Elephant Chase / Wolf
  • Roald Dahl – Boy / Going Solo
  • Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
  • Anita Desai – Village by the Sea
  • Peter Dickinson – The Kin / The Weathermonger
  • Chris D’Lacey – The Last Dragon Chronicles / Shrinking Ralph Perfect / The Salt Pirates of Skegness
  • Berlie Doherty - Granny was a Buffer Girl / A Parcel of Patterns / Children of Winter / Street Child
  • Helen Dunmore – Ingo
  • Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner series
  • Penelope Farmer – Charlotte Sometime
  • Anne Fine - Up on Cloud Nine / The Tulip Touch / Madame Doubtfire  
  • Jackie French - Hitler’s Daughter
  • Cornelia Funke – Inkheart / Inkspell / The Thief Lord
  • Leon Garfield - Smith
  • Alan Garner – The Owl Service / Elidor / The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
  • Adèle Geras - A Candle in the Dark
  • Alan Gibbons – Warriors of the Raven
  • Elizabeth Goudge – Little White Horse
  • Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • Charlie Higson – The Young Bond series
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden / The Little Princess
  • Anne Holm - I am David
  • Anthony Horowitz – The Power of Five series / Alex Rider series / Granny
  • Erin Hunter – Warrior Cats series
  • Norman Hunter - The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawn
  • Brian Jaques – Redwall
  • Diane Wynne Jones – Eight Days of Luke / The Chrestomanci series (For fans of Harry Potter) / Charmed Life
  • Norman Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Elizabeth Kay – The Divide / Back to the Divide
  • Gene Kemp     The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
  • Judith Kerr – When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
  • Dick King-Smith – The Crowstarver
  • C S Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia series
  • Penelope Lively – The Ghost of Thomas Kemp
  • Jack London – Call of the Wild
  • Michelle Magorian – Goodnight Mr Tom
  • Geraldine McCaughrean – Stop the Train / The Stones are Hatching / A Little Lower than Angels / Peter Pan in Scarlet
  • Stephen Moore – Tooth and Claw
  • Michael Morpurgo – Out of the Ashes / Private Peaceful / Alone on the Wide Sea / Adolphus Tips / Why the Whales Came / Kensuke’s Kingdom / Farm Boy / War Horse / Friend or Foe / Robin Of Sherwood…
  • Beverley Naidoo – Journey to Jo’burg / The Other Sied of the Truth
  • E Nesbit – Story of the Treasure Seekers / Five Children and It
  • William Nicholson – The Wind on Fire trilogy / The Noble Warriors trilogy
  • Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone series / The Snow Spider series
  • Mary Norton – The Borrowers
  • Ian Ogilvy – Measle and the Mallockee
  • Christopher Paolini – Eragon / Eldest
  • Michele Paver – Wolf Brother / Spirit Walker / Soul Eater
  • Phillipa Pearce – Tom’s Midnight Garden
  • Terry Pratchett – Johnny and the Bomb / Diggers / The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
  • Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials trilogy / The Firework Maker’s Daughter / Clockwork
  • Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons
  • Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter series
  • Louis Sachar – Holes
  • Ian Serrallier - The Silver Sword
  • Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
  • Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword Song / The Mark of the Horse Lord / Beowulf: Dragon Slayer / The Eagle of the Ninth / The Silver Branch / The Witch’s Brat
  • J R R Tolkien – The Hobbit
  • Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Sylvia Voight – The Homecoming
  • Machine Gunners – Robert Westall
  • T H White – Sword in the Stone
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie
  • Henry Williamson – Tarka the Otter
  • Jacqueline Wilson – The Illustrated Mum / Suitcase Kid / Vicky Angel / My Sister Jodie / Jacky Daydreams
  • Adeline Yen Mah – The Chinese Cinderella

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