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SUMMER READING
CHALLENGE!
I’D RATHER BE
READING
If you‘re struggling to select appropriate books
to read this summer, you may take inspiration
from some of these terrific titles.

KG INTO RECEPTION
Oi Frog / Kes Gray
Tiger Who Came To Tea / Judith Kerr
How To Catch a Star / Oliver Jeffers
Zog / Julia Donaldson
On The Way Home / Jill Murphy
Ten Little Dinosaurs / Mike Brownlow
Meg and Mog / Helen Nicoll
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish / Dr Seuss
Elmer / David McKee
I Don’t Want To Wash My Hands / Tony Ross
 RECEPTION INTO Y1
Funnybones / Janet Ahlberg
Stick Man / Julia Donaldson
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark / Jill Tomlinson
Dolphin Boy / Michael Morpurgo
On Sudden Hill / Linda Sarah
Penguin / Polly Dunabr
Owl Babies / Martin Waddell
Man on the Moon / Simon Bartram
Gorilla / Anthony Browne
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch / Ronda Armitage
Y1 INTO Y2
George’s Marvellous Medicine / Roald Dahl
Flat Stanley / Jeff Brown
Martin’s Mice / Dick King-Smith
Mr Majeika / Humphrey Carpenter
The Rainbow Bear / Michael Morpurgo
Beegu / Alexis Deacon
The Dragonsitter / Josh Lacey
Somebody Swallowed Stanley / Sarah
Roberts
The Storm Whale / Benji Davies
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes / Jan Fearnley
Y2 INTO Y3
The Abominable / Eva Ibbotson
The Worst Witch / Jill Murphy
The Diary of a Killer Cat / Anne Fine
The Iron Man / Ted Hughes
All Because of Jackson / Dick King-Smith
Black Queen / Michael Morpurgo
Lizzie Zipmouth / Jacqueline Wilson
Seal Surfer / Michael Foreman
Five Fall Into Adventure / Enid Blyton
James and the Giant Peach / Roald Dahl
 Y3 INTO Y4
The Witches / Roald Dahl
The Iron Woman / Ted Hughes
Shrinking Violet / Lou Kuenzler
The Hedgehog / Dick King-Smith
The Great Elephant Chase / Gillian Cross
The Circus of Adventure / Enid Blyton
Charm School / Anne Fine
Time Train to the Blitz / Sophie McKenzie
Little Foxes / Michael Morpurgo
Farthing Wood: The Adventure Begins / Colin Dann
Y4 INTO Y5
Wolf Brother / Michelle Paver
The Bad Beginning / Lemony Snicket
Five Go Adventuring Again / Enid Blyton
Lunatics and Luck / Marcus Sedgwick
The Field Guide / Tony Diterlizzi
The Arrival / Shaun Tan
Carrie’s War / Nina Bawden
Ballet Shoes / Noel Streatfield
The House at Pooh Corner / A.A. Milne
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh / Robert O’Brien
 Y5 INTO Y6
The Shadow of the Minotaur / Alan Gibbons
The Garbage King / Peter Murray
Bonebreaker / Peter Murray
The Village by the Sea / Anita Desai
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
Heidi / Johanna Spyri
Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
Watership Down / Richard Adams
The Hobbit / JRR Tolkien
Going Solo / Roald Dahl
The Wizard of Oz / Frank Baum
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief / Rick Riordan
A Series of Unfortunate Events / Lemony Snicket
The Story of Tracey Beaker / Jacqueline Wilson
 Y6 INTO Y7
Sweet Clarinet / James Riordan
Roman Mysteries / Caroline Lawrence
Journey to the River Sea / Eva Ibbotson
Small Steps / Louis Sachar
The Tulip Touch / Anne Fine
Cloud Bursting / Malorie Blackman
Private Peaceful / Michael Morpurgo
Harry Potter / JK Rowling
The Borrowers / Mary Norton
Anne of Green Gables / LM Montgomery
Black Beauty / Anna Sewell
Fire Eaters / David Almond
The Box of Delights / John Masefield
 Y7 INTO Y8
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
Eagle of the Ninth / Rosemary Sutcliffe
White Fang / Jack London
Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels / Jonathan Swift
The Wind in the WIllows / Kenneth Graham
Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain
Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen
The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy
Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou
The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway
The Saga of Darren Shan series / Darren Shan
Haunters / Thomas Taylor
Code Name Verity / Elizabeth Wein
Y8 INTO Y9
The Supernaturalist / Eoin Coiffer
Earthfall / Mark Walden
The Giver / Lois Lowry
Burn My Heart / Beverley Naidoo
Liar and Spy / Rebecca Stead
Shakespeare: The World As Stage / Bill Bryson
Monsters of Men / Patrick Ness
Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
Catch-22 / Joseph Heller
Empire of the Sun / JG Ballard