Book List – Year 5 & 6
I have listed books that are worth a read. Perhaps you can find them in your local library – remember librarians will order books for you if you can’t see them on the shelf – or put them on your Christmas list! Some of the books are quite old now and may be purchased second-hand. Keep an eye out in charity shops or see if you can find someone selling a copy online. Many of the authors listed have written other titles so you could give these a try as well.
If you have a Challenge Book (and even if you don’t) please choose a book every now and again and write a short book review. I enjoy hearing about the stories you have read.
I have read many of the books but not all of them. You may need to check with an adult before reading as some of the books may be written for readers aged one or two years older than you. This means that the themes, and occasionally the language, are intended for an older audience.
Let me know the books you have enjoyed (and the ones that you didn’t). I love book talk!
Have fun.
Mrs Livermore
Joan Aiken. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
David Almond. Skellig
Max Arthur. Forgotten Voices of the Second World War
Nina Bawden, Carrie’s War, Peppermint Pig.
Malorie Blackman. A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E. Thief, Dead Gorgeous, Pig Heart Boy, Hostage
John Blake. The Last Free Cat
Theresa Breslin. Starship Rescue
Melvin Burgess. Angel for May
Betsy Byars. The Midnight Fox
EionColfer. Artemis Fowl Series, The Supernaturalist, Half Moon.
Susan Cooper. The Boggart, The Dark is Rising sequence
ZizouCorder. Lionboy
Frank Cottrell. Millions, Framed.
Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons, The Wanderer, The Great Elephant Chase, The Unfinished Angel
Helen Cresswell. Bagthorpe Saga
Chris D’Lacey. Icefire
Berlie Doherty. Street Child.
Paul Dowswell. Powder Monkey
Helen Dunmore. Ingo
Jim Eldridge. Daring World War 2 Stories
Penelope Farmer. Charlotte Sometimes
Anne Fine. Flour Babies, Madame Doubtfire, Goggle Eyes
Michael Foreman. War Game, War Boy.
Cornelia Funke. The Thief Lord, Inkspell, Inkheart, Dragon Rider
Alan Garner. The Owl Service
Susan Gates. Iron Head, The Spud from Outer Space, Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran.
Alan Gibbons. Whose side are you on? Warriors of the Raven.
Morris Gleitzman. Water Wings, Blabbermouth, Belly Flop
Elizabeth Goudge. Little White Horse
Sally Grindley. Broken Glass
Diana Hendry. Harvey Angell
Anne Holm. I am David
Anthony Horowitz. Diamond Brothers Series
Eva Ibbotson. Secret of Platform 13. Journey to the River Sea
Judith Kerr. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
Clive King. Stig of the Dump.
Penelope Lively. A Stitch in Time, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe.
Hilary Mackay. The Exiles
Michele Magorian. Goodnight Mr Tom
Jan Mark. Thunder and Lightning
Geraldine McCaughrean. Stop the train.
Michael Morpurgo. Out of the Ashes, Alone on the Wide Sea, Why the Whales Came.
Beverly Naidoo, Journey to Jo’burg
Linda Newberry. The Treasure House
Jenny Nimmo. The Snow Spider Trilogy, Charlie Bone Trilogy.
Andrew Norris. Aquila
C. O’Brien. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nihm
Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother Series
Philippa Pearce. The Dog so Small, Tom’s Midnight Garden
Annabel Pitcher. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Philip Pullman. Clockwork, Northern Lights
Terry Pratchet. Johnny and the Bomb, Diggers.
Philip Pullman. Dark Materials series
Anthony Read. The Baker Street Boys.
Philip Reeve. Mortal Engines
Chris Riddell. Goth Girl
Philip Ridley. Scribbleboy. Mighty Fizz Chilla
Louis Sacher. Holes, Small Steps, There’s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom.
F. Said. Varjak the Paw
Jeremy Strong. Mad Iris, The Ghost in the Bath
Robert Swindells. Room 13, In the Nick of Time, The Thousand Eyes of Night.
G.P Taylor. Shadowmancer
Ruth Thomas. The Runaways
Catheryinne M. Valente. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Boat of her Own Making
Sylvia Waugh. Mennyms
Robert Westall. In the Nick of Time, Stormsearch, The Cats of Seroster, Blitzcat, The Machine Gunners
Diana Wynne-Jones. Dogsbody, A Tale of Time City
Classics.Richard Adams. Watership Down
Joan Aiken. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Frank L Baum. Wizard of Oz
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland.
Susan Coolidge. The Katy Books.
Richard Crompton. Just William
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist
Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers
The Diary of Anne Frank
Kenneth Graham. Wind in the Willows
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden, The Little Princess.
Laura Ingalls Wilder. The Little House on the Prairie.
ToveJansson Finn. Family Moomintroll
Eric Kastner. Emil and the Detectives
Rudyard Kipling. Just So Stories, Jungle Book.
C.S Lewis. Narnia
Jack London. The Call of the Wild
John Masefield. Thhe Box of Delights
Louisa May. Little Women
John Meade Falkner. Moon Fleet
L M Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables / Edith Nesbit. Five Children and It, The Railway Children
M Norton. The Borrowers
Philippa Pearce. Tom’s Midnight Garden
E.Porter. Pollyanna
Arthur Ransome. Swallows and Amazons.
Lynne Read. The Indian in the Cupboard
Anna Sewell. Black Beauty
Dodie Smith. 101 Dalmations, I Capture the Castle
Johanna Spyri. Heidi
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island
Noel Streatfield. Ballet Shoes.
J.R Tolkien. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings.
L Travers. Mary Poppins.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Jules Verne. Around the World in 80 Days