Years 7-8 Reading List

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Nicholas Adams Blood Brothers
Allan Ahlberg The Boyhood of Burglar Bill
Louisa M. Allcott Little Women
David Almond Skellig
Kit’s Wilderness
Jackdaw Summer
Kevin Anderson Darkest Knight
R. M. Ballantyne The Coral Island
Malorie Blackman Pig Heart Boy
Hacker
Noughts and Crosses trilogy
Frank Cottrell Boyce Cosmic
Framed
John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island
The Lost Continent
John Buchan The Thirty-nine Steps
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Child’s Elephant
Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Monogram Murders (by Sophie Hannah)
John Christopher The Guardians
The Lotus Eaters
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series
Airman
B. R. Collins Game Runner
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games trilogy
Wilkie Collins Moonstone
Susan Cooper Ghost Hawk
The Dark is Rising sequence

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 King of Shadows
Helen Cresswell Moondial
Gillian Cross The Demon Headmaster
Sarah Crossan The Weight of Water
Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone trilogy
Richmal Crompton Just William series
Roald Dahl Henry Sugar
Going Solo
Skin and other stories
Tales of the Unexpected
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Matt Dickinson Mortal Chaos
Berlie Doherty Street Child
Siobhan Dowd Bog Child
Eileen Dunlop The House on the Hill
Helen Dunmore Ingo
Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals
Lissa Evans Small Change for Stuart
Anne Fine The Tulip Touch
The Road of Bones
Ian Fleming Casino Royale
Charlie Fletcher Stoneheart
Catherine Forde Fat Boy Swim
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Jackie French Slave Girl
Cornelia Funke Ink Heart
The Thief Lord
Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book
Coraline
Paul Gallico The Snow Goose
Leon Garfield Shakespeare Stories 1 and 2
Smith
Alan Garner The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Jamila Gavin Coram Boy
The Wheel of Surya
The Robber Baron’s Daughter
Adele Geras Troy
Ithaka
Alan Gibbons An Act of Love
The Edge
Shadow of the Minotaur
Morris Gleitzman Once
Now
Then
After
Water Wings

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 Blabber Mouth
John Gordon Fen Runners
Helen Grant The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Ursula Le Guin The Wizard of Earthsea
Willis Hall The Long and the Short and the Tall
Jack Higgins The Eagle has Landed
S.E. Hinton The Outsiders
Mary Hoffman Stravaganza: City of Masks
Ann Holm I am David
Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider series
Power of Five series
Ted Hughes The Iron Man
Eva Ibbotson Journey to the River Sea
Geraldine Kaye Comfort Herself
Judith Kerr When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Dick King-Smith The Sheep Pig
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Charles Lamb Tales from Shakespeare
Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant series
Caroline Lawrence The Roman Mysteries
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie
Robert Leeson The Third Class Genie
C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series
Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom
Adeline Yen Mah Chinese Cinderella
Falling Leaves
When a Girl is Born
Margaret Mahy 24 Hours
Aliens in the Family
Simon Mayo Itch trilogy
Anne McCaffrey Dragonflight
Dragonquest
The White Dragon
Geraldine McCaughrean The White Darkness
Forever X
Stop the Train
Ian McEwan The Daydreamer
Allan Campbell McLean Master of Morgana
Ribbon of Fire
Michael Morpurgo War Horse
Kensuke’s Kingdom
A Medal for Leroy
Private Peaceful
Robert Muchamore Cherub series
Andy Mulligan Trash

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Bill Naughton The Goalkeeper’s Revenge
E. Nesbit The Railway Children
Patrick Ness A Monster Calls
Garth Nix Sabriel
Mary O’Hara My Friend Flicka
R.J. Palacio Wonder
Christopher Paolini Eragon
Michelle Paver Wolf Brother
Philippa Pearce Tom’s Midnight Garden
Mal Peet Exposure
Annabel Pitcher My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Terry Pratchett Mort
Johnny and the Bomb
Susan Price The Sterkarm Handshake
Nightcomers
Phillip Pullman Northern Lights trilogy
Bali Rai City of Ghosts
Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons
Phillip Reeve Mortal Engines series
Here Lies Arthur
Philip Ridley Krindlekrax
Kaspar in the Glitter
Rick Riordan Percy Jackson series
Veronica Roth Divergent
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter series
Katherine Rundell Rooftoppers
Chris Ryan Rat Catcher
Louis Sachar Holes
Marcus Sedgwick The Book of Dead Days
My Swordhand is Singing
Revolver
White Crow
Ruth Sepetys Between Shades of Grey
Ian Serraillier The Silver Sword
Darren Shan The Demonata trilogy
The City Book trilogy
Cirque du Freak
Vampire Prince
Tunnels in the Dark
Marla Fante Skyer Welcome Home Jellybean
Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events series
Ali Sparks Shapeshifter
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Edge Chronicles
Rosemary Sutcliff The Eagle of the Ninth
The Lantern Bearers
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels

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Robert Swindells Stone Cold
Brother in the Land
Mildred Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Theodore Taylor The Cay
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Arthurian Tales
Sandi Toksvig Hitler’s Canary
J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
The Island of Dr Moreau
T.H. White The Sword in the Stone
Chris Wooding The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Paul Zindel The Pigman
Marcus Zusack The Book Thief