The School Reading List
Year 1
Book’s name | Author | |
1 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle |
2 | We’re Going on a Bear Hunt | by Michael Rosen |
3 | Peace At Last | Jill Murphy |
4 | The Bad-tempered Ladybird | Eric Carle |
5 | Funnybones | Alllan Ahlberg |
6 | The Gruffalo | Julia Donaldson |
7 | A Bear Called Paddington | Michael Bond |
8 | A Lion In The Meadow | Margaret Mahy |
9 | Cops and Robbers | Allan Ahlberg |
10 | Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy | Lynley Dodd |
11 | Owl Babies | Martin Waddell |
12 | The Emperor of Absurdia | Chris Riddell |
13 | There Are Cats in This Book | Viviane Schwarz |
14 | Mister Magnolia | Quentin Blake |
15 | Katie Morag’s Island Stories | Mairi Hedderwick |
16 | My Friend Bear | Jez Alborough |
17 | Avocado Baby | John Burningham |
18 | The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Judith Kerr |
19 | Meg and Mog | Helen Nichol |
20 | Not Now, Bernard | David McKee |
21 | A Dark, Dark Tale | Ruth Brown |
22 | Dogger | Shirley Hughes |
23 | I Want My Hat Back | Jon Klassen |
24 | The Dark | Lemony Snicket |
25 | You Can’t Take An Elephant On the Bus | Patricia Cleveland-Peck |
26 | Penguin | Polly Dunbar |
27 | You Choose! | Pippa Goodhart |
28 | Stanley’s Stick | Neale Layton |
29 | What to do if an Elephant Stands on your Foot | Michelle Robinson |
30 | How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth | Michelle Robinson |
31 | Dinosaurs in the Supermarket! | Timothy Knapman |
Year 2
Book’s name | Author | |
1 | The Legend of Spud Murphy | Eoin Colfer |
2 | Mr Majeika | Humphrey Carpenter |
3 | Jinnie Ghost | Berlie Doherty |
4 | I Was a Rat!: Or, the Scarlet Slipper | Philip Pullman |
5 | The Day The Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt |
6 | Beaver Towers | Nigel Hinton |
7 | Fungus the Bogeyman | Raymond Briggs |
8 | Mrs Wobble the Waitress | Allan Ahlberg |
9 | The Adventures of Captain Underpants | Dav Pilkey |
10 | The Dunderheads | Paul Fleischman |
11 | The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate | Margaret Mahy |
12 | Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind | Jeremy Strong |
13 | The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me | Roald Dahl |
14 | Mog Time Treasury: Six Stories About Mog the Forgetful Cat | Judith Kerr |
15 | Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed | Michael Rosen |
16 | Mr Wolf’s Pancakes | Jan Fearnley |
17 | Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat | Ursula Williams |
18 | The Enchanted Wood | Enid Blyton |
19 | Clarice Bean, That’s Me | Lauren Child |
20 | The Story of Babar | Jean De Brunhoff |
21 | Nim’s Island | Wendy Orr |
22 | Fluff the Farting Fish | Michael Rosen |
23 | The Tear Thief | Carol Ann Duffy |
24 | How To Live Forever | Colin Thompson |
25 | Press Here | Herve Tullet |
26 | The Penderwicks | Jeanne Birdsall |
27 | The Dragonsitter | Josh Lacey |
Year 3
Book’s name | Author | |
1 | The World According to Humphrey | Betty G. Birney |
2 | Harry the poisonous centipede | Lynne Reid Banks |
3 | Dilly the Dinosaur | Tony Bradman |
4 | The Invisible Boy | Trudy Ludwig |
5 | Flat Stanley | Jeff Brown |
6 | The Secret World of Polly Flint | Helen Cresswell |
7 | Fantastic Mr Fox | Roald Dahl |
8 | Wilf the Mighty Worrier Saves the World | Georgia Pritchett |
9 | The Magic Finger | Roald Dahl |
10 | Dog in the Dungeon | Lucy Daniels |
11 | Willa and Old Miss Annie | Berlie Doherty |
12 | My Naughty Little Sister | Dorothy Edwards |
13 | The Diary of a Killer Cat | Anne Fine |
14 | Picasso Perkins | Adele Geras |
15 | The Reluctant Dragon | Kenneth Grahame |
16 | The Charlie Moon Collection | Shirley Hughes |
17 | Lullabyhullaballoo | Mick Inkpen |
18 | All Because of Jackson | Dick King-Smith |
19 | The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths | Saviour Pirotta |
20 | Winnie-the-Pooh Collection | A.A.Milne |
21 | Mrs Cockle’s Cat | Philippa Pearce |
22 | Mrs Pepperpot Stories | Alf Proysen |
23 | Unusual Day | Sandi Toksvig |
24 | The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark | Jill Tomlinson |
25 | Pippi Longstocking Gift Edition | Astrid Lindgren |
26 | The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss |
27 | Who’s in the Loo? | Jeanne Willis |
28 | The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka |
29 | It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | Janet Ahlberg |
30 | The Railway Cat | Phyllis Arkle |
31 | The Giving Tree | Shel Siverstein |
32 | Where The Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
Year 4
Book’s name | Author | |
1 | Desirable | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
2 | The 13 Storey Treehouse | Andy Griffiths |
3 | Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor | Jon Scieszka |
4 | The Peppermint Pig | Nina Bawden |
5 | Operation Gadgetman! | Malorie Blackman |
6 | The Children of Green Knowe | Lucy M. Boston |
7 | How to Train Your Dragon | Cressida Cowell |
8 | Lizzie Dripping | Helen Cresswell |
9 | The Great Elephant Chase | Gillian Cross |
10 | The Twits | Roald Dahl |
11 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
12 | War Game | Michael Foreman |
13 | Toad Rage | Morris Gleitzman |
14 | The Last Castaways | Harry Horse |
15 | The Falcon’s Malteser | Anthony Horowitz |
16 | The House That Sailed Away | Pat Hutchins |
17 | Fairy Tales | Terry Jones |
18 | The Hodgeheg | Dick King-Smith |
19 | The Worst Witch | Jill Murphy |
20 | The Way to Sattin Shore | Philippa Pearce |
21 | The Firework Maker’s Daughter | Philip Pullman |
22 | The Suitcase Kid | Jacqueline Wilson |
23 | George’s Marvellous Medicine | Roald Dahl |
24 | Billionaire Boy | David Walliams |
25 | Cliffhanger | Jacqueline Wilson |
26 | The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth | Eoin Colfer |
27 | The Invisible Dog | Dick King-Smith |
28 | The Battle of Bubble and Squeak | Philippa Pearce |
29 | Give Peas A Chance | Morris Gleitzman |
30 | The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips | Michael Morpurgo |
31 | The Yearling | Marjorie Rawlings |
Year 5
Book’s name | Author | |
1 | Who Let the Gods Out | Maz Evans |
2 | Boy in the Tower | Polly Ho-Yen |
3 | The Wolf Wilder | Katherine Rundell |
4 | Heidi | Johanna Spyri |
5 | Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
6 | The Wonder Garden | Jenny Bloom and Kristjana Williams |
7 | The Breadwinner | Deborah Ellis |
8 | The Butterfly Lion | Michael Morpurgo |
9 | Charlotte’s Web | E.B.White |
10 | Clockwork | Philip Pullman |
11 | Danny the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl |
12 | The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Big History | Christopher Lloyd |
13 | Dial a Ghost | Eva Ibbotson |
14 | Dragon Rider | Cornelia Funke |
15 | Emil and the Detectives | Erich Kastner |
16 | The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm | Norman Hunter |
17 | I Know What You Did Last Wednesday | Anthony Horowitz |
18 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | Penelope Lively |
19 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling |
20 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling |
21 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | J. K. Rowling |
22 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling |
23 | Heard it in the Playground | Allan Ahlberg |
24 | The Ultimate Alphabet | Mike Wilkes |
25 | The Hundred and One Dalmatians | Dodie Smith |
26 | The Iron Man | Ted Hughes |
27 | Krindlekrax | Philip Ridley |
28 | Scribbleboy | Philip Ridley |
29 | Stig of the Dump | Clive King |
30 | Hacker | Malorie Blackman |
31 | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Judith Kerr |
32 | Moondial | Helen Cresswell |
33 | The Demon Headmaster | Gillian Cross |
34 | The Witches | Roald Dahl |
35 | Bill’s New Frock | Anne Fine |
36 | The Mouse and his Child | Russell Hoban |
37 | The Clocktower Ghost | Gene Kemp |
38 | The Sheep-pig | Dick King-Smith |
39 | King of the Forest Clouds | Michael Morpurgo |
40 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | E. Nesbit |
41 | The Scarecrow and his Servant | Philip Pullman |
42 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | Lemony Snicket |
43 | Woof! | Allan Ahlberg |
44 | Laughter is an Egg | John Agard |
45 | The Factory Made Boy | Christine Nostlinger |
46 | Aquila | Andrew Norriss |
47 | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo |
Year 6
Book’s name | Author | |
1 | Eren | Simon P Clark |
2 | The Railway Children | E Nesbit |
3 | Abomination | Robert Swindells |
4 | Carrie’s War | Nina Bawden |
5 | The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Nature | Christopher Lloyd |
6 | Raspberries on the Yangtze | Karen Wallace |
7 | The Crowstarver | Dick King-Smith |
8 | Awful End | Philip Ardagh |
9 | From Hereabout Hill | Michael Morpurgo |
10 | Fruit and Nutcase | Jean Ure |
11 | Granny | Anthony Horowitz |
12 | The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien |
13 | Kensuke’s kingdom | Michael Morpurgo |
14 | Lion Boy | Zizou Corder |
15 | The Machine Gunners | Robert Westall |
16 | The Viewer | Simon Crew |
17 | My Swordhand is Singing | Marcus Sedgewick |
18 | Once | Morris Gleitzman |
19 | The Other Side of the Truth | Beverley Naidoo |
20 | The Silver Sword | Ian Serraillier |
21 | Skelling | David Almond |
22 | Superfudge | Judy Bloom |
23 | Tell Me No Lies | Malorie Blackman |
24 | The Weathermonger | Peter Dickinson |
25 | What Katy Did Next | Susan Coolidge |
26 | The Wheel of Surya | Jamila Gavin |
27 | The Lion the Witch and Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
28 | Goodnight Mister Tom | Michelle Magorian |
29 | Why the Whales Came | Michael Morpurgo |
30 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton |
31 | Siverfin | Charlie Higson |
32 | Oranges in No Man’s Land | Elizabeth Laird |
Advanced Reading List – Key Stage 3
Book’s Name | Author | |
1. | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
2. | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Joan Aiken |
3. | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie |
4. | The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper |
5. | Wolf | Gillian Cross |
6. | The Seeing Stone | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
7. | Boy and Going Solo | Roald Dahl |
8. | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
9. | The Weirdstone of Brisingasmen | Alan Garner |
10. | Minders | Diana Hendry |
11. | A Winkle in Time | Madeline L’Engle |
12. | Across the Barricades | Joan Lingard |
13. | Tug of War | Catherine Forde |
14. | War Horse | Michael Morpurgo |
15. | Stone Cold | Robert Swindells |
16. | Northern Lights | Philip Pullman |
17. | The Subtle Knife | Philip Pullman |
18. | The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman |
19. | The Indian in the Cupboard Triology | Lynne Reid Banks |
20. | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
21. | The Eagle of the Ninth | Rosemary Sutcliffe |
22. | The Car | Theodore Taylor |
23. | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 | Sue Townsend |
24. | Cue for Treason | Geoffrey Trease |
25. | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
26. | Blitzcat | Robert Westall |
27. | The Sword in the Stone | T. H. White |
28. | Raptor | Paul Zindel |
29. | The Hunger Games Series | Suzanne Collins |
30. | Pig Heart Boy | Malorie Blackman |
31. | Framed | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
32. | The Garbage King | Elizabeth Laird |
33. | Wonder | R. J. Palacio |
34. | The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak |
35. | Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief | Rick Riordan |
36. | The Box of Delights | John Masefield |
37. | The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
38. | Private Peaceful | Michael Morpurgo |
39. | Holes | Louis Sachar |
40. | Twelve Minutes to Midnight | Christopher Edge |
41. | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle |
42. | Joby | Stan Barstow |
43. | Journey to the River Sea | Eva Ibbotson |
44. | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
45. | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
46. | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
47. | Unbearable | Paul Jennings |
48. | Treasure Island | R. L. Stevenson |
49. | Z for Zachariah | Robert O’Brien |
50. | Shadowmancer | G. P. Taylor |