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Easy Reads

Alcock, Vivien “The face at the window”
Bawden, Nina “Carrie’s War”
Blackman, Malorie “Pig-heart boy”
Breslin, Theresa “Death or glory boys”
Breslin, Theresa “Divided City”
Burnford, Sheila “The Incredible Journey”
Cottrell, Frank “Millions”, “Framed”
Fine, Anne “Flour babies”
Fine, Anne “The Tulip Touch”
Fine, Anne “Up on cloud nine”
Gavin, Jamila “Coram Boy”
Gleitzman, Morris “Adults Only”
Gleitzman, Morris “Once”
Hoffman, Mary “City of Masks”
Horowitz, Anthony ‘Alex Rider’ series
Horowitz, Anthony “Raven’s Gate”
Ibbotson, Eva “Journey to the River Sea”
Ibbotson, Eva “The star of Kazan”
Laird, Elizabeth “Jake’s Tower”, “Red Sky in the Morning”
Laird, Elizabeth “A little piece of ground”
Lowry, Lois “The Giver”
Magorian, Michelle “Goodnight Mr Tom”
Magorian, Michelle “A spoonful of jam”
Morpurgo, Michael “The last wolf”
Morpurgo, Michael “Out of the ashes”
Morpurgo, Michael “Toro! Toro!”
Pearson, K “The Sky is Falling”
Pratchett, Terry “The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents”

More Challenging ~ on account of style, setting, theme or form

Aiken, Joan “The wolves of Willoughby Chase”
Alcock, Vivien, “The Cuckoo Sister”
Anderson, Rachel “The doll’s house”
Banks, Lynne Reid “Broken Bridge”
Banks, Lynne Reid “Tiger, tiger”
Blackman, Malorie “Cloud busting”
Blackman, Malorie “Dead Gorgeous”
Blackman, Malorie “Tell me no lies”
Bowler, Tim “Starseeker”
Bowler, Tim “Storm Catchers”
Breslin, Theresa “Remembrance”
Burgess, Melvin “Tiger, Tiger”
Burgess, Melvin “Burning Issy”
Cooper, Susan “Victory”
Creech, Sharon “Heartbeat”
Creech, Sharon “The Wanderer”
Darke, Marjorie “A question of courage”
Dickinson, Peter “The Ropemaker”
Farmer, Nancy “The sea of trolls”
Fisher, Catherine “Darkhenge”
Fisher, Catherine ‘Oracle’ trilogy
Fox, Paula “The Moonlight Man”
Gavin, Jamila “The Wheel of Surya”
Greene, Bette “The Summer of my German Soldier”
Jones, Diana Wynne “Conrad’s Fate”
Jones, Diana Wynne “Fire and Hemlock”
Jones, Tim Wynne “The boy in the burning house”
Lively, Penelope “The House in Norham Gardens”
McCaughrean, Geraldine “Cyrano”
McCaughrean, Geraldine “The kite rider”
McCaughrean, Geraldine “Stop the train”
Naidoo, Beverley “The other side of truth”
Naidoo, Beverley “Web of Lies”
Nimmo, Jenny “Milo’s Wolves”
Pullman, Philip “Count Karlstein”
Pullman, Philip “Northern Lights”
Pullman, Philip “The Subtle Knife”
Pullman, Philip “The Amber Spy Glass”
Serraillier, Ian “The Clashing Rocks”
Steinbeck, John “The Red Pony”
Swindells, Robert “Stone Cold”
Swindells, Robert “Brother in the Land”
Warren, Andrea “Surviving Hitler”
Westall, Robert “Blitz”
Westall, Robert “Gulf”
Westall, Robert “The kingdom by the sea”
Westall, Robert “The Machine Gunners”

Year 9 Reading Suggestions

Anderson, Laurie H. “Speak”
Arksey, Neil “As good as dead in downtown”
Ashley, Bernard “Revenge House”
Ashley, Bernard “Tiger without teeth”
Ashworth, Sherry “Disconnected”
Ashworth, Sherry “Paralysed”
Banks, Lynne Reid “Broken Bridge”
Bechard, Margaret “Hanging on to Max”
Belbin, David “Dead Guilty”
Belbin, David “Festival”
Bell, Julia “Massive”
Bertagna, Julie “Exodus”
Blackman, Malorie “Dangerous Reality”
Blackman, Malorie “Dead Gorgeous”
Blackman, Malorie ‘Noughts and Crosses’ trilogy
Blezard, T. A. “Secrets”
Bowler, Tim “Shadows”
Bowler, Tim “Starseeker”
Boyne, John “The boy in the striped pyjamas”
Brashares, Ann “The sisterhood of the travelling pants”
Breslin, Theresa “Death or glory boys”
Breslin, Theresa “Remembrance”
Breslin, Theresa “Whispers in the graveyard”
Brooks, Kevin “Lucas”
Brooks. Kevin “Candy”
Brooks, Kevin “The road of the dead”
Browne, N. M. ‘Warriors of Alvana’ series
Brugman, Alyssa “Walking Naked”
Burgess, Melvin “Bloodtide, Bloodsong”
Burgess, Melvin “Loving April”
Butcher, A. J. ‘Spy High’ series
Cabot, Meg “All American girl”
Cann, Kate “Breaking up”
Cann, Kate “Footloose”
Cann, Kate “In the deep end”
Cassidy, Anne “Birthday Blues”
Cassidy, Anne “Looking for J J”
Cave, Patrick “Sharp North”
Chotjewitz, David “Daniel half human”
Clarke, Julia “The other Alice”
Clarke, Julia “The starling tree”
Clarke, Julia “Wolf on the fold”
Cohn, Rachel “Pop Princess”
Cole, Brock “The facts speak for themselves”
Coleman, Michael “Tag”
Colfer, Eoin “Artemis Fowl”
Colgan, Trevor J. T”he Stretford Enders”
Cormier, Robert “I am the cheese”
Cronin, Michael “Against the day”
Cross, Gillian “Chartbreak”
Crowley, Bridget “Step into the dark”
Doherty, Berlie “Dear Nobody”
Doherty, Berlie “Deep Secret”
Dowd, Siobhan “A swift pure cry”
Doyle, Malachy “Georgie”
Doyle, Malachy “Who is Jesse Flood?”
Drvenkar, Zoran “Tell me what you see”
Dumbleton, Mike “Watch out for Jamie Joel”
Dunmore, Helen “Going to Egypt”
Durrell “My Family and Other Animals”
Elliot, L. M. “Under a war-torn sky”
Ellis, Deborah “The breadwinner”
Fforde, Catherine “The drowning pond”
Fienberg, Anna “Borrowed Light”
Anne Fine “The Tulip Touch”, “Flour Babies”
Fisher, Catherine ‘The Oracle’ trilogy
Flake, Sharon G “The skin I’m in”
Forde, Catherine “The Drowning pond”
Gaarder, Jostein “Through a glass darkly”
Gantos, Jack “Hole in my Life”
Geras, Adèle “Pictures of the night”, “A Candle in the Dark”
Geras, Adèle “The tower room”
Geras, Adele “Watching the roses”
Gibbons, Alan “The Edge”, “Chicken”
Giles, Gail “Shattering Glass”
Glass, Linzi “The year the gypsies came”
Glover, Sandra “Breaking the rules”
Glover, Sandra “Face to face”
Glover, Sandra “It didn’t happen”
Glover, Sandra “Spiked”
Going, K. L. “Fat kid rules the world”
Grant, Pamela “When a girl is born”
Gray, Keith “The Fearful”
Green, Julia “Blue Moon”
Haddix, Margaret “Amongst the hidden”
Hall, Sylvia “No Fear”
Hartnett, Sonya “Thursday’s Child”
Hartnett, Sonya “Surrender”
Hines, Barry “A kestrel for a knave”
Hines, Sue “Out of the shadows”
Howarth, Lesley “Carwash”
Hooper, Mary “Amy”
Horowitz, Antony “Stormbreaker”
Kay, Elizabeth ‘The Divide’ trilogy
Kelley, Ann “The burying beetle”
Kitchen, David “Trouble in two centuries”
Klass, David “You don’t know me”
Jarman, Julia “The peace weavers”
Jinks, Catherine “Pagan’s Crusade”
Johnson, Catherine “In black and white”
Jones, Dianna Wynne “Fire and Hemlock”
Lamb, Kathryn “The last word according to Alex”
Lawrence, Caroline ‘The Roman Mystery’ Series
Lawrence, Michael “A crack in the line”
Lewis, Richard “The flame tree”
Lieshout, Ted van “Brothers”
Limb, Sue “Girl (nearly 16) Absolute torture”
Mackler, Carolyn “Love and other four-letter words”
MacPhail, Catherine “Roxy’s baby”
MacLochlan, Kate “Love my enemy”
Mark, Jan “Turbulence”
Marks, Graham “Tokyo”
Marks, Graham “Zoo”
Martin, Nora “A perfect snow”
Matthews A. “Flip side”
Mayfield, Sue “Blue”
Mayfield, Sue “Voices”
Mayfield, Sue “A time to be born”
McCaughrean, Geraldine “The white darkness”
Mendes, Valerie “Girl in the attic”
Minchin, Adèle “The beat goes on”
Moon, Pat “Four days till Friday”
Morgan, Nicola “The passion flower massacre”
Morgenroth, Kate “Framed”
Murray, Millie “Sorelle”
Napoli, Donna Jo “Stones in water”
Newbery, Linda “”Sisterland”
Oates, Joyce Carol “Big mouth and ugly girl”
Oldham, June “Escape”
Page, Jan “Drummer”
Parkinson, Siobhan “Sisters . . . no way!”
Paul, Bette “Variations on a dream”
Paver, Michelle “Wolf brother”
Paver, Michelle “Spirit walker”
Peck, Richard “Don’t look and it won’t hurt”
Pope, James “Semi-perfect “
Pressler, Mirjam “Malka”
Provoost, Anne “Falling”
Pullman, Philip “The broken bridge”
Pullman, Philip “The butterfly tattoo”
Pullman, Philip “His dark materials trilogy”
Rai, Bali “The crew”
Rai, Bali “Rani and Sukh”
Raynan, Chloë “Terminal chic”
Rees, Celia “The wish house”, “Witch Child”, “Tell me no Lies”
Richardson, Nigel “The wrong hands”
Riordan, James “Match of death”
Riordan, James “The prisoner”
Riordan, James “Sweet clarinet”
Riordan, James “When the guns fall silent”
Rose, Malcolm “Bloodline”
Rose, Malcolm ‘Luke Harding’ series
Rose, Malcolm “Plague”
Rushton, Rosie “Last seen wearing trainers”
Rushton, Rosie P.S. “He’s mine”
Sachar, Louis “Holes”
Sachar, Louis “Small steps”
Sedgwick, Marcus “The foreshadowing”
Singleton, John “Skinny B, Skaz and me”
Singer, Nicky “The innocent’s story”
Smith, Dodie “I capture the castle”
Sones, Sonya “Stop pretending”
Sones, Sonya “What my mother doesn’t know”
Spinelli, Jerry “Stargirl”
Steinbeck, John “The Pearl”
Stratton, Alan “Chandra’s secrets”
Stroud, Jonathan ‘The amulet of Samarkand’ trilogy
Swindells, Robert “Daz 4 Zoe”
Taylor, G.P. ‘Shadowmancer’ trilogy
Thompson, Gareth “The great Harlequin Grim”
Thomson, Kate “The new policeman”
Ting-Xing, Ye “Throwaway daughter”
Turnbull, Ann “No shame, no fear”
Vrettos, A. M. “Skin”
Waterhouse, Lynda “Soul love”
Watson, James “Justice of the dagger”
Watson, James “Talking in whispers”
Watts, Irene “Finding Sophie”
Watts, Irene “Goodbye Marianne”
Watts, Irene “Remember me?”
Weatherly, Lee “Child X”
Werlin, Nancy “Black Mirror”
Westall, Robert “Harvest”
Williams, Lori Aurelia “When Kambia Elaine flew in from Neptune”
Willis, Jeanne “Hard man of the swings”
Wilson, Jacqueline “Girls in tears”
Wolff, Virginia Euwer “Making lemonade”
Wolff, Virginia Euwer “True believer”
Yah, Adeline men “Chinese Cinderella”, “Falling Leaves”
Zephaniah, Benjamin “Face”

Year 10 and 11 Reading Suggestions

Contemporary: Some authors have several titles
Italics indicate that the text or author may be more challenging on account of style, setting, theme or form.

Adiche, Chimanda Ngozi “Purple hibiscus”
Aherne, Cecilia “Where rainbows end”
Ali, Monica “Brick Lane”
Allende, Isobel “The house of spirits”
Atkinson, Kate “Behind the scenes at the museum”
Ballard, J. G. “Empire of the sun”
Bathurst, Bella “Special”
Burgess, Melvyn “Bloodtide”, “Junk”
Cassidy, Anne ”Looking for J J”
Chambers, Aidan “Postcards from no man’s land”
Chang, Jeung “Wild Swans”
Chevalier, Tracey !Girl with a pearl earring”
Clarke, Susanna “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell”
Cooper, Patrick “I is someone else”
Dahl, Roald Short Story collections
Donnelly, Jennifer “A gathering light”
Dowd, Siobhan “A swift pure cry”
Drabble, Margaret “The millstone”
Dunmore, Helen “The siege”
Elliot, L.M. “Under a war torn sky”
Evans, Nicholas “The horse whisperer”
Faulks, Sebastian “Birdsong”
Finder, Joseph “Paranoia”
Forrester, Helen “Two pence to cross the Mersey”
Frank, E. R. “America is me”
Frayn, Michael “Spies”
Geras, Adèle “Troy”, “Ithaka”
Glass, Linzi “The year the gypsies came”
Gregory, Philippa “The other Boleyn girl”
Grossman, David “Someone to run with”
Guène, Faiza “Just like tomorrow”
Guterson, David “Snow falling on cedars”
Haddon, Mark “The Curious incident of the dog in the night time”
Harris, Joanne “Chocolat”
Hartnett, Sonya “Surrender”
Hearn, Lian ‘Tales of the Otori’ trilogy
Huth, Angela “Land girls”
Irving, John “The Cider House rules”
Joyce, Graham “TWOC”
Kelly, Ann “The burying beetle”
Kidd, Sue Monk “The secret life of bees”
Kinsella, Sophie ‘Shopaholic ‘series
Le Carré, John “A small town in Germany”
Lins, Paulo “City of God”
Lively, Penelope “Moon tiger”
Mantel, Hilary “A place of greater safety”
Mark, Jan “Turbulence”
Marks, Graham “Tokyo”
McCall Smith, Alexander “The No 1 Ladies’ detective agency”
McCourt, Frank “Angela’s ashes”
Meloy, Maile “Liars and saints”
Moggach, Deborah “Tulip fever”
Morrison, Toni “The bluest eye”
Orringer, Julie “How to breathe underwater”
Oyeyemi, Helen “The Icarus girl”
Palahniuk, Chuck “Invisible monsters”
Peet, Mal “Tamar”
Rai, Bali “Rani and Sukh”
Rosoff, Meg “How I live now”
Sherwood, Ben “The death and life of Charlie St Cloud”
Shriver, Lionel “We need to talk about Kevin”
Sittenfield, Curtis “Prep”
Tan, Amy “The Joy Luck Club”
Toews, Miriam “A complicated kindness”
Townsend, Sue “Adrian Mole & the weapons of mass destruction”
Trapido, Barbara “Brother of the more famous Jack”
Trigiani, Adriana “Lucia, Lucia”
Wolstencroft, David “Good news, bad news”
Wynne-Jones, Tim “The survival game”
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz “Shadow of the wind”
Zephaniah, Benjamin “Gangsta Rap“

Authors of thrillers/murder mysteries/crime:

Clark, Mary Higgins
Mankell, Henning
Forsyth, Frederick
McDermid, Val
Hammett, Dashiel
Mosley, Walter
Harris, Robert
Tracy, P J
James, P D
Rankin, Ian
Non-fiction

Abagnale, Frank W. “Catch me if you can”
Bryson, Bill “A short history of nearly everything”
Buckley, Martin “Absolute altitude”
Dardenne, Sabine “I choose to live”
Dirie, Waris “Desert Flower”
Funder, Anna “Stasiland”
Girling, Richard “Rubbish: dirt on our hands and crisis
Ahead”
Highfield, Roger “The science of Harry Potter”
Holmes, Kelly “Black, white and gold”
Keenan, Brian “An evil cradling”
Kirby, Tracy “The model prisoner”
Lapierre, Dominic “Five past midnight in Bhopal”
Levi, Primo “If this is a man”
Levitt, S. D. & Dubner S. J. “Freakonomics”
McGregor, E. & Boorman, C. “Long way round”
Meyer, Christopher “DC Confidential”
Morgan, Piers “The Insider”
Moore, Tim French “Revolutions” (Cycling)
Nazer, Mende “Slave”
Perkins, John “Confessions of an economic hit man”
Picciotto, Richard “Last man down”
Roach, Mary Stiff: “The curious lives of human cadavers”
Rusesabagina, Paul “An ordinary man”
Satrapi, Marjane “Persopolis: The story of a childhood”
Shakib, Siba “Samira & Samir”
Sobel, Dava “Longitude”
Souad “Burned alive”
Williams, Kayla “Love my rifle more than you”
Xinran “The good women of China”
Zailckas, Koren “Smashed: growing up a drunk girl”
Zenatti, Valerie “When I was a soldier”

Modern classics ~ authors

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fowles, John
Forster, E. M.
Golding, William
Greene, Graham
Hartley, L. P.
Hemingway, Ernest
Huxley, Aldous
Lawrence, D. H.
Maurier, Daphne du
Mitchell, Margaret
Orwell, George
Pasternak, Boris
Salinger, J. D.
Sillitoe, Alan
Sinclair, Upton
Steinbeck, John
Tolstoy, Leo
Waugh, Evelyn
Wharton, Edith
Woolf, Virginia

Classics ~ authors

Austen, Jane
Brontë, Charlotte
Blackmore, R. D.
Buchan, John
Collins, Wilkie
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Eliot, George
Fielding, Henry
Hardy, Thomas
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
James, Henry
Melville, Herman
Shelley, Mary
Thackeray, William
Trollope, Anthony

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