Recommended Reads

Year 7
  1. The ‘Wereworld’ series by Curtis Jobling
  2. The ‘Horrible Histories’ series by Terry Deary
  3. ‘The Wild Robot’ series by Peter Brown
  4. ‘War Horse’ by Michael Morpurgo
  5. ‘Wonder’ by RJ Palacio
  6. ‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak
  7. The ‘Percy Jackson’ series by Rick Riordan
  8. ‘Chaos Walking’ series by Patrick Ness
  9. ‘Boy’ by Roald Dahl
  10. ‘The Zombie Project’ by Alice Nuttall

*Non-fiction
*Easy read
*Additional Challenge

Year 8
    1. ‘The Binding Spell’ by Marisa Linton
    2. The ‘Robin Hood’ series by Robert Muchamore
    3. ‘The Hunger Games’ series by Suzanne Collins
    4. ‘The Boy in Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne
    5. ‘I am Malala’ by Mulala Yousafzai
    6. ‘Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank
    7. ‘Stone Cold’ by Robert Swindells
    8. ‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman
    9. ‘The Jungle Book’ by Rudyard Kipling
    10. ‘The Hobbit’ by JRR Tolkien

*Non-fiction
*Easy read
*Additional Challenge

Year 9
    1. ‘His Dark Materials’ series by Philip Pullman
    2. ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee
    3. ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by JD Salinger
    4. ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ by Holly Jackson
    5. ‘Thirst’ by Darren Simpson
    6. ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness
    7. ‘This Book Kills’ by Raven Guron
    8. The ‘Twilight’ series by Stephanie Meyer
    9. ‘Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha’ by Roddy Doyle
    10. ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green

*Easy read
*Additional Challenge

Key Stage 4
    1. The ‘Heartstopper’ graphic novel series by Alice Oseman
    2. ‘Klara and the Sun’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
    3. ‘HappyHead’ by Josh Silver
    4. ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell
    5. ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Goldman
    6. ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley
    7. ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker
    8. ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    9. ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte
    10. ‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan

*Easy read
*Additional Challenge