Year 4 Recommended Book List

Fairs Fair by Leon Garfield

The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate by Margaret
Mahy

The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo

The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies

Henrietta the Great Gogetter by Martine Murray

Undone, Unbelievable by Paul Jennings

Invisible Vinnie by Jenny Nimmo

The Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieska

Princess Mirror-Belle series by Julia Donaldson

The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong

Pongwiffy series by Kay Umansky

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

Just So Stories by Shoo Rayner

The Last Wolf by Ann Turnbull

The Children Who Smelled a Rat by Allan Ahlberg

The Monster Crisp Guzzler by Malorie Blackman
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Grandpa Chatterji by Jamila Gavin

Blessu and Dumpling by Dick King-Smith

The Owl Tree by Jenny Nimmo
Ivan the Terrible by Anne Fine
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by
Mini Grey
Raven Boy by Pippa Goodheart
Team Trouble by Sophie Smiley
The Marble Crusher by Michael Morpurgo

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Year 5 Recommended Book List

The Emperors New Clothes by Naomi Lewis
Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley
Outsiders by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh by Robert OBrien

The Fib and Other Stories by George Layton

Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird

101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

Varjak Paw by SF Said

Charlottes Web by E B White

The 18th Emergency by Betsy Byars

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Selina
Hastings

Goggle Eyes by Anne Fine

War Boy by Michael Foreman

Iron Man by Ted Hughes

Stickybeak by Morris Gleitzman

Eye of the Wolf by Baniel Pennac

Blabbermouth by Morris Gleitzman

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The Snow Spider Trilogy by Jenny Nimmo

Theres a Boy in the Girls Bathroom by Louis

Sacher

A Dog so Small by Philippa Pearce

I Was a Rat by Phillp Pullman
The Firework-Makers Daughter by Phillip Pullman
The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett

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Year 6 Recommended Book List

Skellig by David Almond
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Street Child by Berlie Doherty

The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo

The Adventures Of Odysseus by Hugh

Lupton/Daniel Morden

Journey to Joburg by Beverley Naidoo

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Indian in the Cupboard Series by Lynne Reid

Banks

A Bag of Moonshine by Alan Garner

Clockwork by Phillip Pullman

How to Train Your Dragon Series by Cressida

Cowell

Box of Delights by John Masefield

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler by Gene Kemp

Five Children & It by E Nesbit

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively

The Railway Children by E Nesbit

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Toms Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riodan

The Silver Sword by Ian Seraillier
The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall
Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne-Jones

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Extra Ideas Book List

Year 3
The Wolfs Footprint by Susan Price
The Angel of Nitshill Road by Anne Fine

The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine

The Firework Makers Daughter by Philip Pullman

A Sudden Puff of Glittering Smoke by Anne Fine

Blabbermouth by Morris Gleitzman

Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine

Storr

The Owl Tree by Jenny Nimmo

Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke

Year 4

Stig of the Dump by Clive King

Flood and Fang by Marcus Sedgewick

Julian Stories by Ann Cameron

The Invisible Boy by Sally Gardner

The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

Harvey Angell by Diana Hendry

The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells

Dragons Child by Jenny Nimmo

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill

Tomlinson

Grandpa Chatterji by Jamila Gavin

I Was a Rat! By Philip Pullman

The Finger Eater by Dick King-Smith

Eye of the Wolf by Daniel Pennac

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Tom and the Sausage Lion by Michael Morpurgo

The Battle of Bubble and Squeak by Philippa

Pearce
Snow Dog by Malorie Blackman

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Year 5

Clockwork by Philip Pullman

Year 6

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman

The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan

Skellig by David Almond

Holes by Louis Sacher

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Kensukes Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS

Lewis

Varjak Paw by S F Said

The Fib and Other Stories by George Layton

Journey to Joburg by Beverley Naidoo

Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

The Phoenix and the Carpet by E Nesbit

Hacker by Malorie Blackman

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpugo

Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Goggle Eyes by Anne Fine

Trash by Andy Mulligan

The Railway Children by E Nesbit

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

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