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Reading List
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Publications and websites
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There are lots of publications and useful websites which might help you to search out the best reading material from the plethora of books flooding the market:
Book for Keeps - the children’s book magazine; 6, Brightfield Road, London. SE12 8QF
http://www.booktrusted.com
A superb site offering reviews and recommendations of children’s books, including lists for specific age groups. Highly recommended!
http://books.guardian.co.uk/childrenslibrary/story/0,6194,149014,00.html
An excellent site offering reviews of classic children’s books as well as all the latest releases.
http://www.achuka.co.uk
Favours older children’s fiction; has links with Amazon.
http://www.readingmatters.co.uk
Written by a parent, this is an accessible way for students in key stages 2 to 4 to find fiction books to read. Users can find a book tailored to their tastes with the 'Bookchooser'. Good for “intelligent young readers”!
http://www.mrsmad.com
During the 1980s, Radio One hosted an execrable character called Mr Mad; thankfully, this site has nothing to do with him. Readers can send in their own book reviews, play Hangman, contribute to a story, read old jokes and get recommmendations.
Of all the English skills we can teach our children, the most rewarding, long-lasting and endlessly delightful is that of reading and the love of books, and I hope that as parents you might enjoy dipping into some of the books yourself and sharing the reading experience. I am sure that with your help and support, that the magic and enjoyment of reading will continue to be cultivated at Malsis.
Happy Reading!
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Year 4 Reading List
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Reluctant Readers
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf - Joan Aitken
The Last Slice of Rainbow - Joan Aitken
Harry and Bucketful of Dinosaurs - Ian WhyBrow
Laura’s Star - Klaus Baumgart
Monster in the Mirror - Jean Ure
Tale of the Turnip - Brian Alderson
The Hollyhock Wall - Martin Waddell
Dogknapped - Jan Page
Bad Boys and Naughty Girls - Rose Impey
Killer Mushrooms ate my Gran - Susan Gates
The Witch’s Dog - Frank Rogers
Newly Fluent Readers
Leila’s Magical Monster Party - Ann Jungman
It’s Too Frightening For Me - Shirley Hughes
The Troublesome Tooth Fairy - Sandi Toksvig
Shampoozel - Laurence Anholt
The Fossil Girl - Catherine Brighton
Dangerous Daisy - Bob Wilson
Amina’s Blanket - Helen Dunmore
Black Queen - Michael Morpurgp
Lizzie Zipmouth - Jacqueline Wilson
Dracula’s Tomb - Colin McNaughton
The Green Ship Quentin Blake
The Lemonade Genie - Adrian Boote
Horrid Henry Stories - Francesca Simon
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahll
The Twits - Roald Dahl
George’s Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
Confident Readers
The BFG - Roald Dahl
Puffin Book of 20th Century Verse - ed. Brain Patten
Puffin Book of 20th Century Stories - ed. Judith Elkin
I was a Rat - Phillip Pullman
Josie - Dutch Cooper
Charm School - Anne Fine
Toad Rage - Morris Gleitzman
Bessemer - Michael Ponsford and Derek Bainton
The Two Jacks - Tony Bradman
Pirate Pandemonium - Jeremy Strong
Amber Brow is Feeling Blue - Paula Danzinger
The Pyramid Incident - Terence Dicks
Buried Alive - Jacqueline Wilson
The Last Giants - Francois Place
Result - Neil Arksey
The Witch of Blackberry Bottom - Dick King-Smith
My Brother’s Ghost - Allan Ahlberg
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabahn - J.K. Rowling
The Big…..Series - Rob Childs
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Year 5 Reading List
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and others) - Roald Dahl
The “Harry Potter” series - J. K. Rowling
The Phoenix and the Carpet - E. Nesbit
The T.V. Kid (and others) - Betsy Byers
Aquilla, Bernard’s Watch, Matt’s Millions - Andrew Norris
The “Willard Price” series - Willard Price
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (and others) - C. S. Lewis
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid-Banks
The Silver Sword - Ian Serrailier
Moondial - Helen Cresswell
Double Danger, Forbidden Island, Froggett’s Revenge - Fiona Kelly
Waiting for Anya, Kensuke’s Kingdom, A Twist of Gold - Michael Morpurgo
The “Just William” series - Richard Crompton
The Owl Tree - Jenny Nimmo
The Dragon Slayer - Rosemary Sutcliffe
Beyond the Deepwoods (The Edge Chronicles) - Paul Stewart & Chris Riddle
The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
Behind Enemy Lines - J. Eldridge
The Seeing Stone (and others) - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Nightmare Stairs - Robert Swindells
Sticky Beak, Toad Rage (and others) - Morris Gleitzman
FoxBusters, The Sheep Pig - Dick King-Smith
Raspberries on the Yangtze - Karen Wallace
The Diary of a Killer Cat (and others) - Anne Fine
Scribbleboy - Phillip Ridley
Henry’s Leg - Ann Pilling
Johnnie’s Blitz - Bernard Ashley
Woof! - Allan Ahlberg
The Demon Headmaster - Gillian Cross
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler - Gene Kemp
Emil and the Detectives - Erich Kastner
In the Net - Michael Hardcastle
The Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban
The Iron Man - Ted Hughes
Stig of the Dump - Clive King
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
Clockwork - Phillip Pullman
The Falcon’s Malteser, Groosham Grange (and others) - Anthony Horowitz
Suitcase Kid, How to Survive Summer Camp (and others) - Jacqueline Wilson
The “Jennings” series - Anthony Buckeridge
What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge
Horrible Histories series - Terry Dreary
Horrible Science series - Nick Arnold
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Year 6 Reading List
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The Midnight Fox, The Eighteenth Emergency - Betsy Byers
Jennings and Derbyshire (and others) - Anthony Buckeridge
Flour Babies, Charm School, Madame Doubtfire (and others) - Anne Fine
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban (and others) - J. K. Rowling
The Lottie Project, Buried Alive, Bad Girls (and others) - Jacqueline Wilson
The Crowstarver, Harry’s Mad - Dick King-Smith
The Wreck of the Zanzibar, Kensuke’s Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid-Banks
The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
Kite - Melvyn Burgess
Tremors - Rebecca Lisle
The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
The Stones are Hatching - Geraldine McCaughrean
The Silver Sword - Ian Serrailier
Keeping Henry, Carrie’s War (and others) - Nina Bawden
War Dog - Martin Booth
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - Robert C. O’Brien
Castle Minalto - John Branfield
Grinny, Trillions - Nicholas Fisk
Fruit and Nutcase - Jean Ure
The Giant Goldfish Robbery - Richard Kidd
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Danny Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
War Boy - Michael ForemanThe Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
Groosham Grange, The Falcon’s Malteser (and others) - Anthony Horrowitz
The “Redwall” series - Brian Jacques
The “Narnia” series - C. S. Lewis
Thunder and Lightenings - Jan Mark
Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard
The “Biggles” series - Capt. W. E. Johns
Bernard’s watch - Andrew Norris
Minders - Diana Hendry
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aitken
The Mum Trap - Ruth Symes
Wheel of Surya - Jamilla Gavin
The Great Elephant Chase - Gillian Cross
The Lie Spider - Pippa Goodheart
The Ogre Downstairs (and others) - Diana Wynne-Jones
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler - Gene Kemp
Pirate Pandemonium - Jeremy Strong
Conrad, the Factory Made Boy - Christine Nostlinger
Superfudge - Judy Blume
The “Deptford Mice” series - Robin Jarvis
Skellig - David Almond
The Pig Heart Boy - Michelle Magorian
Rattus Rex, Crows in a Winter Landscape - Colin McLaren
Arthur and the Seeing Stone (and others) - Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Angel Factory - Terrence Blacker
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
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Year 7 Reading List
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Boy, Going Solo - Roald Dahl
Blitzcat, The Machine Gunners (and others) - Robert Westall
Thunder and Lightening (and others) - Jan Mark
The Wierdstone of Brisingham - Alan Garner
Skellig, Kit’s Wilderness - David Almond
An Angel for May (and others) - Melvyn Burgess
Call of the Wild, White Fang - Jack London
The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Homecoming - Cynthia Voight
Abomination, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells
The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White
Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
Dark is Rising series - Susan Cooper
The Lion Tamer’s Daughter - Peter Dickinson
Redwall series - Brian Jacques
The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico
Why the Whales Came - Michael Morpurgo
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris, Smith - Leon Garfield
Black Hearts in Battersea, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aitken
The “Redwall” series - Brian Jacques
Fudge, Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume
The Otterbury Incident - C. Day-Lewis
Arthur and the Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Truckers, Diggers (and others) - Terry Pratchett
Carrie’s War - Nina Bawdwen
Firebringer - David Clement-Davies
The Tulip Touch, Flour Babies, Goggle Eyes (and others) - Anne Fine
Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
Conrad’s War - Andrew Davies
Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Indian trilogy - Lynne Reid-Banks
I am David, The Hostage - Anne Holm
The Deptford Mice Series, The Whitby Witches (and others) - Robin Jarvis
Goodnight Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
The Wizard of Urthsea series - Ursula Le Guin
Holes - Loius Sacher
The Cay - Theodore Taylor
Hatchet, Blue Light (and others) - Gary Paulson
Raptor - Paul Zindel
Stone Cold, Abomination, Brother in the Land (and others) - Robert Swindells
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Arpino Assignment - Geoffrey Trease
The Whispering Nights (and others) - Penelope Lively
Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliffe
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Year 8 Reading List
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Children will dip in and out of adult books at this age as well, some of which will be less than suitable! It is important that reading is positively encouraged at this crucial part of their Prep School education, and a gentle guiding hand towards more challenging reading material may well be necessary!
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Winslow Boy - Terence Rattigan
War Boy - Michael Morpurgo
Selected Short Stories - Saki
Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Crowstarver, Godhanger - Dick King-Smith
Tightrope - Gillian Cross
Stormbreaker, Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz
A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
Holes - Louis Sacher
Redwall series - Brian Jacques
Bloodtide - Melvyn Burgess
Devil-in-the-Fog, Smith, Mr. Corbett’s Ghost - Leon Garfield
Coram Boy - Jamilla Gavin
Stone Cold (and others) - Robert Swindells
Treasure Island - Robert-Louis Stevenson
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas - Paul Zindel
Complete Ghost Stories - M. R. James
The Tulip Touch - Anne Fine
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Machine Gunners, Scarecrows - Robert Westall
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, House in Norham Gardens - Penelope Lively
Unseen - Paul Jennings
Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
Tom’s Midnight Garden - Phillipa Pearce
I am David - Anne Holm
The Hornblower books - C. S. Forrester
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White
A Pack of Liars (and others) - Geraldine McCaughrean
The Flame Trees of Thika - Elspeth Huxley
The Power and the Glory (and others) - Graham Greene
A Solitary Blue - Cynthia Voigt
Kit’s Wilderness - David Almond
The Scarecrows (and others) - Robert Westall
Sharpe’s Rifles (and other ‘Sharpe’ titles) - Bernard Cornwell
The Nine Taylors, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy Sayers
Jeeves and Wooster stories - P. G. Wodhouse
The Haunting - Margaret Mahy
Trouble is my Business (and others) - Raymond Chandler
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
and any “Classics” by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen etc.
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Scholarship Reading
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These books are, of course, suitable for the whole of Year 8.
Selected Short Stories - Saki
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
White Fang - Jack London
Animal Farm, 1984 - George Orwell
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Candide - Voltaire
The Golden Warrior - Hope Muntz
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Knight With Armour - Alfred Duggan
The White Guard - Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - Siegfried Sassoon
The Power and the Glory, Brighton Rock, Scoop (and others) - Graham Greene
Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Cakes and Ale - Somerset Maugham
The King in Yellow - R.W. Chambers
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Winnesburg Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Iron Wolf; Watership Down - Richard Adams
An Anthology - The War Poets
In the Heart of the Country; The Jacaranda Tree; Love for Lydia;
The Happy Countryman; Fair stood the wind for France - H. E. Bates
A Man for all Seasons - Robert Bolt
Greenmantle, The Three Hostages, 39 Steps - John Buchan
The Outsider - Albert Camus .
Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, The Christmas Books
Our Mutual Friend, Oliver Twist (and others) - Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms,
Fiesta, Green Hills of Africa (and others) - Ernest Hemingway
Goodbye Mr Chips - James Hilton
Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
A Moment of War; Midsummer Morning; Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Decline and Fall, Officers and Gentlemen - Evelyn Waugh
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Skellig - David Almond
Empire of the Sun - J G Ballard
River Boy, Midget - Tim Bowler
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Firebringer - David Clement-Davis
Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Over Sea, under Stone - Susan Cooper
After the First Death - Robert Cormier
St Agnes’ Stand - Thomas Eidson
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
If Only they Could Talk, It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet - James Herriot
I’m the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting - Susan Hill
Kes - Barry Hines
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
The Nature of the Beast - Janni Howker
Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
Silverwing - Kenneth Oppel
Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Oranges and Murder - Alison Prince
Cold Tom - Sally Prue
Staying On - Paul Scott
Old Mali and the Boy - D R Sherman
The Edge Chronicles - Paul Stewart
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkein
Adrian Mole’s Diaries - Sue Townsend
Morality Play - Barry Unsworth
Raspberries on the Yangtze - Karen Wallace
The Watch House - Robert Westall
Verse: The Rattlebag (edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, published by Faber) is a useful anthology.
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