Year 7

SUGGESTED READING

Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve

John Carter of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidor – Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Enemy Stars – Poul Anderson
The Robot Series – Isaac Asimov
King Solomon’s Mines – H Rider Haggard

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Jack Finney

His Majesty’s Starship – Ben Jeapes

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Cirque de Freak - Darren Shan

Witch Child – Celia Rees
Stig of the Dump – Clive King

The Artemis Fowl Series Eoin Colfer

Haunting of Alaizabel - Clay Chris Wooding

The Dark is Rising Series – Susan Cooper

The Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett

The Narnia Series – C.S. Lewis

His Dark Materials Series – Phillip Pullman

The Once and Future King – T.H. White

Knights of the Lost Domain – Julian Atterton
The Hounds of the Morrigan – Pat O’Shea

The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkein

The Young Bond Series - Charlie Higson

Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
James Bond – Ian Flemming

Biggles – Captain WE Johns

A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket

The Borrowers – Mary Norton

Across the Roman Wall - Theresa Breslin
Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
The Dark Room- Rachel Seiffert
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall
Remembrance - Theresa Breslin
A Homecoming for Kezzie - Theresa Breslin
Out of the Hitler Time - Judith Kerr

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Father Brown Stories – G.K. Chesterton

Jamaica Inn - Daphne DuMaurier
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

Shakespeare Stories – Leon Garfield

Coraline – Neil Gaiman

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - Robert C O'Brien

Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian

Holes – Louis Sacher

Tightrope - Gillian Cross

Clockwork - Philip Pullman

Year 7

SUGGESTED AUTHORS

David Almond - Skellig

Rachel Anderson - Paper Faces

Malorie Blackman - Hacker

Tim Bowler – Shadows

Richmal Crompton – The William Series

Gillian Cross – Wolf

Michael Morpurgo - Arthur High King of Britain

Berlie Doherty - Dear Nobody

Anne Fine - Flour Babies

Frances Mary Henry - Chandra

Robert Swindells - Stone Cold

Sue Welford - The Night After Tomorrow

Ann Holm - I am David

Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie

Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons

Richard Adams – Watership Down

Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass

Dianna Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle

SOME CHALLENGING BUT UNMISSABLE CLASSICS

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkein

Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Pearl – John Steinbeck

The books listed here are general suggestions only - a starting point. For suggestions that may be more to your personal taste: ask your English teachers, librarians, parents, brothers, sisters and especially your friends.