How Music got Free – The Inventor, the music man and the Thief – by Stephen Witt.
The stinky cheesemonger & other fairy stupid tales. By Jon Scieska
Blueberries for Sal. By Robert McClosky.
Saturday cooking club. By Deborah Alevine.
History
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Once by Morris Gleitzman
Geography
Wild Weather by John Lynch
Travel guide books for countries covered in tourism section
Read a quality newspaper once a week
RS, PSHE and Citizenship
The life of Pi – Yann Marshall
The Alchemist – Paulo Coehlo
Sophies world – Jostein Gaarder
Go tell it on the mountain – James Baldwin
Crime and Punishment:
Junk – Melvin Burgess
Monster – Walter Dean Myers
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Does my head look big in this? – Randa Abdel-Fattah
Gangsta Rap – Benjamin Zephaniah
Anita and me – Meera Syal
The Arrival- Shaun Tan
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Breathing Underwater – Alex Finn
Anna of the Five Towns – Arnold Bennett
The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Matters of Life and Death:
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
The Fault in our Stars – John Green
Death Note – Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Where There’s Smoke – Jodi Picoult
- Environmental and Medical:
My Sisters Keeper – Jodi Picoult
Pig Heart Boy – Malorie Blackman
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Boy from Reactor 4 – Orest Stelmach
Blood Ties – Sophie McKenzie
The Handmaids Tale – Margeret Attwood
Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
- Rights and Responsibilities:
The Wind Singer – William Nicholson
Survivors – Terry Nation
The Other Side of Truth – Beverly Naidoo
The Garbage King – Elizabeth Laird
Talking in Whispers – James Watson
The Wave – Rhue Morton
V is for Vendetta – Alan Moore
Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephaniah
Men in the Sun – Ghassan Kanafani
The Book Theif – Markus Zusak
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
Maus – Art Spiegelman
Artist in a Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
French
Chocolat by Joanna Harris
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Spanish
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
ICT
The Most Complex Machine, David Eck.
Tools For Thought, Howard Rheingold.
Lauren Ipsum,Carlos Bueno, 2011.
The new Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science, by AK Dewdney
Computational fairy tales, by Jeremy Kubica,
Best Practices of Spell Design, by Jeremy Kubica.
Nine algorithms that changed the world
Logic, an introduction to elementary logic by Wilfred Hodges.
Hackers by Stephen Levy
Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman by William Cook.
Maths
Fermat’s last theorem – Simon Singh
The man who only loved numbers – Paul Hoffman
God created the integers – Stephen Hawking
Lewis Carrol in Numberland – Robin Wilson