Summer reading
Posted on 19th August 2020 at 10:36
Summer is a great time for students to pick up and get lost in a fabulous book!
Here we have listed some books that promise an exciting read for students around year 5 and year 6. These books will also help boost students' vocabulary!
Happy reading!
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume
C.S. Lewis- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
E.B. White- Charlotte’s Web
Roald Dahl- Matilda
Madeleine L’Engle I-a Wrinkle in Time
Lois Lowry- Number the Stars
Norton Juster- The Phantom Tollbooth
Joan Aiken – Wolves of Willoughby Chase series
Charles Ashton – Dragon’s Fire
Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses Trilogy
Enid Blyton – The Secret Island
Gail Carson Levine – Fairest
Cathy Cassidy – Scarlett
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Lost World
Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl
Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did Next
Roald Dahl – The Witches
Lucy Daniels – Animal Ark series
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Alan Gibbons – Caught in the Crossfire
William Golding – Lord of the Flies
Frances Hardinge – Fly by Night
Anne Holm – I Am David
Anne Fine – A Pack of Liars
Julie Lee – The Mysterious Adventures of Clemency Wrigglesworth
Anthony Horowitz – Alex Rider
Hans Christian Andersen – Fairy Tales
Nina Bawden – Carrie’s War
Holly Black – The Spiderwick Chronicles
Holly Black – Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles: A Giant Problem
Elise Broach – Shakespeare’s Secret
Cathy Cassidy – Scarlett
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Lost World
Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl
Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did series
Richmal Crompton – Just William
William The Conquerer
Silvana De Mari – The Last Elf
Chris d’Lacey – Fire series
Cornelia Funke – Inkheart Trilogy and Thief Lord
Alan Gibbons – Caught in the Crossfire
Debbi Gilori – Pure Dead Magic
Julia Golding – The Glass Swallow
Norman Hunter – The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
Eva Ibbotson – The Dragonfly Pool
Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie series
Brian Jacques – Redwall series
Elizabeth Kay – The Divide series
Lynne Reid Banks - Tyger Tyger
Carolyn Keene – Nancy Drew mysteries
E.L. Konigsburg – From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant series: Book 1
Caroline Lawrence – Roman Mysteries series (12 books)
Barbara Leonie Picard (translator) – The Odyssey
C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
Graham Marks – Snatched
Geraldine McCaughrean – The Death Defying Pepper Roux
Karen McCombie – Marshmallow Magic and the Wild Rose Rouge
Cliff McNish - Doomspell Trilogy
Lucy Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables
E. Nesbit – The Phoenix and the Carpet & others
William Nicholson – Wind on Fire Trilogy
Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone series
Garth Nix The Seventh Tower Series
Christopher Paolini – Eldest series
Michelle Paver – Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series
Terry Pratchett Series
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights Trilogy
Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons series
Philip Reeve – Infernal Devices
Lynne Reid Banks – The Indian in the Cupboard trilogy
Philip Ridley – Scribbleboy
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson series
Louis Sachar – Holes
Angie Sage – Septimus Heap series
Darren Shan – Demonata series
Alex Shearer – The Invisible Man’s socks
Barbara Sleigh – Carbonel series 1 and 2
Lemony Snicket – A Series of Unfortunate Events
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell – The Edge Chronicles series
Jonathan Stroud – The Bartimaeus Trilogy
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings series
Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
T.H. White – The Once and Future King
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