ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Recommended Reading List
Year 7 and Year 8
Title / AuthorThe Diary of Pelly D / Adlington, L.J
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase / Aiken, Joan
The Face at the Window / Alcock, Vivien
Unique / Allen-Gray, Alison
City of the Beasts / Allende, Isobel
Clay / Almond, David
Skellig
Kit's Wilderness
The Fire Eaters
Counting Stars
Heaven Eyes
The Doll's House / Anderson, Rachel
Playing on the Edge / Arksey Neil
Little Soldier / Ashley, Bernard
Tiger Without Teeth
Celandine / Augarde, Steve
Jonathan / Bach, Richard
Livingston Seagull
The Printer's Devil / Bajoria, Paul
Chasing Vermeer / Balliett, Blue
Broken Bridge / Banks, Lynne Reid
Tiger, Tiger
The Thief of Always / Barker, Clive
The boy who didn't want to rule the world / Barker, Dominic
The Seagulls have Landed / Bateman, Colin
Hope was Here / Bauer, Joan
Rules of the Road
Carrie's War / Bawden, Nina
The Looking Glass War / Beddor, Frank
Dead Guilty / Belbin, David
Fish feet
Exodus / Bertagna, Julie
I Sound track
Cloud Busting / Blackman, Malorie
Dead Gorgeous
Dangerous Dare
Hacker
Tell me no lies
Pig Heart Boy
Double Fudge / Blume, Judy
Coyote Moon / Booth, Martin
POW
War Dog
Starseeker / Bowler, Tim
RiverBoy
Storm Catchers
Framed / Boyce, Frank Cottrell
Millions
The sisterhood of the travelling pants / Brashares, Ann
Death or Glory Boys / Breslin, Theresa
Divided City
Whispers in the Graveyard
Being Bindy / Brugman, Alyssa
Tiger, Tiger / Burgess, Melvin
The Secret Garden / Burnett, Francis
Spyhigh series / Butcher, A.J
Calypso Dreaming / Butler, Charles
Door in the Lake / Butts, Nancy
Molly Moon series / Byng, Georgia
All American Girl / Cabot, Meg
When Lightning Strikes
The Princess Diaries
Wenny has Wings / Carey, Janet Lee
Birthday Blues / Cassidy, Anne
Missing Judy
Dizzy, Indigo Blue, Drift wood / Cassidy, Cathy
Down the Wicket series / Cattell Bob
Number 99 / Cave, Patrick
The Present Takers / Chambers, Aidan
Warrior Girl / Chandler, Pauline
Michigan Moorcroft RIP / Chatterton, Martin
Tripods (series) / Christoper, John
Kalpana's dream / Clarke, Judith
Wolf on the Fold
Chasing Rainbows / Clarke, Julia
The Other Alice
Fire Bringer / Clement-Davies, David
Seven Daughters and Seven sons / Cohen
The Wereling / Cole Stephen
Weirdo's War / Coleman, Michael
Ruby Parker hits the small time / Coleman, Rowan
Artemis Fowl series / Colfer, Eoin
The Wish List
Benny and Babe
Daughter of Storms / Cooper, Louise
Demon crossing
Wings to fly / Cooper, Patrick
Victory / Cooper, Susan
King of Shadows
The Dark is Rising
Lion Boy / Corder, Zouzou
The Chocolate War / Cormier, Robert
Heroes / Cormier, Robert
Aliens ate my homework / Coville, Bruce
How to train your dragon / Cowell, Cressida
Jimmy Coates series / Craig, Joe
I heard the owl call my name / Craven
Heartbeat / Creech, Sharon
The Wanderer
Calling a dead man / Cross, Gillian
Demon Headmaster
Harriet's ghost / Crowley, Bridget
Feast of Fools
Cloudworld / Cunningham, David
The Named / Curley, Marianne
The Dark
Catherine called Birdy / Cushman, Karen
Boy / Dahl, Roald
Going solo
Danny Champion of the world
A Question of Courage / Darke, Marjorie
The spook's apprentice / Delaney, Joseph
Oliver Twist / Dickens, Charles
The Cup of the world / Dickinson, John
The Ropemaker / Dickinson, Peter
The Kin (series)
The Conch Bearer / Divakaruni, Chitra Banarjee
Firestar / D'Lacey, Chris
Tough Luck / Docherty, Berlie
Power monkey / Dowswell, Paul
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Doyle, Conan
Georgie / Doyle, Malachy
Who is Jesse Flood?
Aliens don't eat bacon sandwiches / Dunmore, Helen
Ingo
The City of Ember / Duprau, Jeanne
Behind Enemy Lines / Eldridge, Jim
Tank Attack
London Siege
Under a war-torn sky / Elliot, L.M
Murkmere / Elliot, Patricia
Ambergate
The Breakwinner / Ellis, Deborah
The Heaven shop
Goldenwing / Everrey, Jordan
Laura Silva and the charmed bracelet / Everrey, Jordin
The 7 professors of the far north / Fardell, John
Girl Named Disaster / Farmer, Nancy
The Sea of trolls
Charlotte / Farmer, Penelope
Sometimes
Helicopter man / Fensham, Elizabeth
Flour babies / Fine, Anne
Goggle Eyes
The tulip touch
Up on Cloud Nine
Darkhenge / Fisher, Catherine
Oracle trilogy
Abracadabra kid / Fleishman
Grinny / Fisk, Nicholas
The Mrs Marridge project / Fisk, Pauline
The cinnamon tree / Flegg, Aubrey
Fat Boy Swim / Forde, Catherine
The moonlight man / Fox, Paula
The Diary of Anne Frank / Frank, Anne
Hitler's Daughter / French Jackie
Change the locks / French, Simon
Dragon rider / Funke, Cornelia
The thief lord
Hello? Is anybody there? / Gaarder, Jostein
Sophie’s World
Through a glass darkly
Coraline / Gaiman, Neil
I, Coriander / Gardner, Sally
The invisible boy
Devil in the Fog / Garfield, Leon
Elidor / Garner, Alan
Rebels / Gascoigne, Russell
Don't mess with angels / Gates, Susan
35 kilos of hope / Gavalda, Anna
Coram boy / Gavin, Jamila
Chicken / Gibbons Alan
The Edge
Shadow of the Minotaur trilogy
The defender
Piggies / Gifford, Nick
Adults only / Gleitzman, Morris
Once
Face to face / Glover, Sandra
It didn't happen
The diamond of Drury Lane / Golding, Julia
Dork in Disguise / Gorman, Carol
Dork on the run
The lottery / Goobie, Beth
Little white horse / Goudge, Elizabeth
How the hangman lost his heart / Grant, K.M
When a girl is born / Grant, Pamela
Hunting the cat / Gray, Keith
The lasting / Gross, Philip
The disappearance / Guy, Rose
The ice road / Haar, Japter
Taylor 5 / Halam, Ann
Fly by night / Hardinge, Francis
The cockroach war / Harlan, Jonathan
Leonardo and the death machine / Harris, Robert J.
Thursday's child / Hartnett, Sonia
Soraya the storyteller / Hawke, Rosanne
The merrybegot / Hearn, Julie
Chains / Hendry, Frances Mary
Chandra
The music of dolphins / Hesse, Karen
Flush / Hiaasen, Carl
Girl in Red / Hicyilmas, Gaye
Blood fever / Higson, Charlie
Silverfin
The cry of the icemark / Hill, Stuart
A Kestrel for a knave / Hines, Barry
Buddy / Hinton, Nigel
Time bomb / Hintin, Nigel
I Am David / Holm, Anne
Rice without Rain / Ho, Minfong
Amy / Hooper, Mary
At the sign of the Sugared Plum
Mates, dates series / Hopkins, Cathy
Alex Rider series / Horowitz, Anthony
Raven's gate
The dream merchant / Hoving, Isabel
Across Five Aprils / Hunt, Irene
Meltdown / Hutton, Sam
Dial a Ghost / Ibbotson, Eva
Journey to the river sea
The Star of Kazan
My scary fairy godmother / Impey, Rose
Peace weavers / Jarman, Julia
How Hedley Hopkins did a dare etc / Jennings, Paul
Tongue-tied
Pagan's crusade / Jinks, Catherine
Traitor / Johnson, Pete
Conrad's fate / Jones, Diana Wynne
Fire and hemlock
The boy in the burning house / Jones, Tim Wynne
Dance of the assassins / Jubert, Herve
The Shamer's daughter / Kaaberbol, Lene
Strawgirl / Kay, Jackie
The divide trilogy / Kay, Elizabeth
If this is the real world / Keaney, Brian
Jacob's ladder
Noodle head / Kebbe, Johnathan
The burying beetle / Kelly, Ann
The naming of William Rutherford / Kepton, Linda
The tail of Emily Windsnap / Kessler, Liz
The water Babies / Kingsley, Charles
The raiders / Kilworth, Gary
Trouble in two centuries / Kitchen, David
The rainbow opera / Knox, Elizabeth
Epic / Kostic, Conor
The book of everything / Kuijer, Guus
The fire within etc
Nostradamus / Larkin, John
Instant noodles
The last word according to Alex / Lamb, Kathryn
Jake's tower / Laird, Elizabeth
A little piece of ground
Borderland trilogy / Lassiter, Rhiannon
The Roman mystery series / Lawrence, Caroline
Small eternities / Lawrence, Michael
Shield of fire / Leader, Alice
Red white and blue / Leeson, Robert
Narnia Series / Lewis C. S
The flame tree / Lewis, Richard
Across the Barricades / Lingard, Joan
Quadehar the sorcerer (The book of stars) / L'Homme, Erik
Little darlings / Llewellyn, Sam
The book of three series / Lloyd, Alexander
Whitefang / London, Jack
The giver / Lowry, Lois
Roxy's baby / MacPhail, Catherine
Goodnight Mr Tom / Magorian, Michelle
A Spoonful of jam
The Chinese Cinderella / Mah, Adeline Yen
The changeover / Mahy, Margaret
The haunting
A bridge to the stars / Mankell, Henning
Riding Tycho / Mark, Jan
Blazing star / Markham, Lynne
Bitter sweet / Marks, Nadia
Flight of the fisherbird / Martin, Nora
The mob (Crow Chronicles Part 1) / Martini, Clem
Wicked / Masters, Anthony
Bullies don't hurt / Masters, Anthony
The Outcasts / Matthews, Laura S.
Greenfingers / May, Paul
One chance / May, Steve
The life shop / McAllister, Margaret
Cyrano / McCaughrean, Geraldine
The Kite Rider
Stop the train
The gods and their machines / McGann, Oisin
Boy band blues / McKain, Kelly
Totally Lucy
Saffy's Angel / McKay, Hilary
Thirteen / McLay, John
The doomspell trilogy / McNish, Cliff
The silver child
The drowning / Mendes, Valerie
Girl in the attic
A writer's cauldron / Menon, Esther
The flowing queen / Meyer, Kai
The whispering roads / Michael, Livi
Peter Raven under fire / Molloy, Michael
The book of lies / Moloney, James
Anne of Green Gables (series) / Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Cloud sailors / Montgomery, Hugh
Feeling sorry for Celia / Moriarty, Jaclyn
Mondays are red / Morgan, Nicola
Fleshmarket
The last wolf / Morpurgo, Michael
Private Peaceful
War Horse
Out of the ashes
Toro! Toro!
The riddles of Epsilon / Morton-Shaw, C.
The Worst Witch Series / Murphy, Jill
The Cherub series / Muchamore, Robert
The other side of truth / Naidoo, Beverley
Web of lies
Daughter of Venice / Napoli, Donna Jo
Myths, murder and mysteries / Naylor, Louise
The railway children / Nesbit, Elizabeth
At the firefly gate / Newbery, Linda
The Wind Singer / Nicholson, William
Seeker / Nicholson, William
Milo's wolves / Nimmo, Jenny
Sabriel, Lireal and Abhorsen / Nix, Garth
Mister Monday etc
No fire, no candle / Oldham, Mary
Airborn / Oppel, Kenneth
Animal farm / Orwell, George
Eragon, Eldest / Paolini, Christopher
Four kids, three cats, two cows etc / Parkinson, Siobhan
Sisters… No way
Bridge to Terabithia / Paterson, Katherine
Harris and me / Paulsen, Gary
Hatchet
Wolf Brother / Paver, Michelle
Owl light / Pearson, Gudrun
Brief candle / Pennington, Kate
Charley Feather
Tales of beauty and cruelty / Petty, K & Castle, C.
Fire pony / Philbrick, Rodman
Freak the mighty
No way am I living with her! / Plaisted, Caroline
The ship thief / Potts, Stephen
Johnny Maxwell (trilogy) / Pratchett, Terry
Count Karlstein / Pullman, Philip
The Firework Maker’s Daughter
Northern Lights
The subtle knife
The amber spy glass
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents / Pratchett, Terry
Goldkeeper / Prue, Sally
Missing persons series / Rabb, M.E.
Sorceress / Rees, Celia
Witch Child
The making of May / Rees, Gwyneth
Mortal engine series / Reeve, Philip
The ring of the slave prince / Reuter, Bjarne
The devil's footsteps / Richardson, E.E.
Zip's Apollo / Ridley, Philip
War song / Riordan, James
Invisible detective / Richards, Justin
When the guns fall silent / Riordan, Jamie
Johnny Casanova
Ann Yankee girl / Rodman, Marry
Clone / Rose Malcolim
Bloodline
Luke Harding series
Plague
Harry Potter series / Rowling J.K.
Last seen wearing trainers / Rushton, Rosie
Tell me I'm OK really
The race for the last keystone / Rutt, Val
Alpha force series / Ryan, Chris
Dogs don't tell Jokes / Sachar Louis
Holes
The boy who lost his face
There's a boy in the girl's bathroom
Magyk / Sage, Angie
The Outlaw Varjak Paw / Said, S.F.
Hite / Saksena, Kate
The dark horse / Sedgwick, Marcus
The Foreshadowing
The Vampire prince / Shan, Darren
Vampire Mountain
The Fugitives / Shearer, Alex
The Lost
The Speed of the dark
The Stolen
The Pig Scrolls / Shipton, Paul
Father boy / Singer, Nicky
Star / Singleton, John
Century / Singleton, Sarah
Endymion Spring / Skelton, Matthew
A series of unfortunate events (series) / Snicketts, Lemony
Wringer / Spinelli,Jerry
The journal of Danny Chaucer (poet) / Stevens, Roger
All the King's horses / Stevenson, Laura C.
Treasure Island / Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kidnapped
Chris The edge chronicles / Stewart, Paul & Riddell
Illmoor Chronicles / Stone, David Lee
The yowler foul-up / Stone, David Lee
The if game / Storr, Catherine
The underground conspiracy
Journey of 1000 miles / Strachan, Ian
The Thowaways
Which way is home?
Red Pony / Steinbeck, John
Ballet shoes / Streatfield Noel
The amulet of Samarkand etc / Stroud, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels / Swift, Jonathon
Blitzed / Swindells, Robert
Abomination
Brother in the Land
Stone cold
Timesnatch
Invisible
Room 13
World Eater
Shadowmancer trilogy / Taylor, G.P.
Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry / Taylor, Mildred D.
The great Harlequin Grim / Thompson, Gareth
Switchers (Trilogy) / Thompson, Kate
The missing link
The new policeman
Hitler's canary / Toksvig, Sandi
The Moon Riders / Tomlinson, Theresa
The Hobbit / Tolkien, JRR