Year 7 reading list

English
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo Boy by Roald Dahl
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Science

Brains, Bodies, Guts and Stuff by Glenn Murphy
Space, Black Holes and Stuff by Glenn Murphy
Why are Orangutans Orange? by New Scientist

Art

Andy Warhol’s Colors by Susan Goldman Rubin

Music

The Story of the Orchestra : Listen while you learn about the instruments  – Meredith Hamilton.

PE

Making it Real: My Soccer Skills Book by David Beckham

Technology

Green eggs and ham.    By Dr Seuss.
How did they get in my lunch box.  By Chris Butterworth.
Each, peach,pear, plum.   By Janet Albert.
Mr. Wolf’s pancakes.     By Jan Farnley.

History

The Witches, Roald Dahl  

The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks 

The Sword in the Stone, T.H.Wright

Mark of the Plague  by Kevin Sands

Geography

Wild Weather by John Lynch
Our Living Earth by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Read a quality newspaper once a week

RS, PSHE and Citizenship

The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

– The Horse and his boy

– Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe 

– The voyage of the Dawn Treader

– Prince Caspian

– The silver chair

– The magicians nephew

– the Last Battle

Thief – Malorie Blackman

French

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Spanish
Toro Toro! By Michael Morpurgo

ICT

Asimov – All the troubles of the world

Computational Fairy Tales Paperback – by Jeremy Kubica 

Bill Gates – the road ahead

Steve Jobs – The biography

Hackers: Hero’s of the Computer Revolution

The Facebook Effect – David Kirkpatrick

Maths

The number devil – Hans Enzensberger

Maths girls – Hiroshi Yuki

Murderous Maths – Kjartan Poskitt