Year 9 Reading List


English

Manga Shakespeare
Selection of poetry by:
Phillip Larkin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron and Ted Hughes

Science

Evolution, Nature and Stuff by Glenn Murphy
Do Sheep shrink in the Rain? by 82ASK
Why Can’t Elephants Jump? by New Scientist

Art

Tell Me a Picture by Quentin Blake

Music

A History of Music -A Graphic Novel by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins

PE

Sports Illustrated Kids Big Book of Who: Football by Various

Technology

In the night kitchen.   By Maurice Sedak.
Stone Soup.    By Ann McGovern.
Gregory the terrible eater.   By Mitchell Sharnat.

History

War Horse, Michael Morpurgo
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 
The Railway Children, Edith nesbitt
Anne Frank Diary 
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne

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 Diary of Anne Frank

Boys Don’t Cry – Malorie Blackman

Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

Knife Edge – Malorie Blackman

Check Mate -Malorie Blackman

Double Cross – Malorie Blackman

French

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Spanish

Soccer World: Spain by David Rosenberg

 

ICT

Genius: Great inventors and their creations- Jack Challoner

Where Wizards stay up late: The origins of the Internet – Katie Hafner

The Black Chamber – Simon Singh

I Robot – Isaac Asimov

Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick

Tubes: A journey to the centre of the internet by Andrew Blum

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today’s Computers by John MacCormick 

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnik

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