KS2 Recommended Reading
Year 3 Reading list
Fiction
The World According to Humphrey | Betty G Birney |
Flat Stanley | Jeff Brown |
The Bee is Not Afraid of Me | Edited by Isabel Galleymore and Fran Long |
The Accidental Prime Minister | Tom McLaughlin |
Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest | Vashti Hardy |
The Abominables | Eva Ibbotson |
Planet Omar Accidental Trouble Magnet | Zanib Mian |
Anisha Accidental Detective | Serena Patel and Emma McCann |
Kindlekrax | Philip Ridley |
I bet I can make you laugh | Joshua Seigal |
You’re a bad man Mr Gum | A Stanton |
The owl who was afraid of the dark | J Tomlinson |
The boy in the dress | David Walliams |
Charlotte’s Webb | E B White |
Girl Wonder and the Terrific twins | Malorie Blackman |
Too Small Tola | Atinuke |
The lost homework | Richard O’Neil |
Akissi: Tales of Mischief | Mathieu Sapin |
Fangs | Malorie Blackman |
Non-fiction
The street beneath my feet | Charlotte Guillian |
Choice of a magazine | National Geographic Kids |
A Trapezoid is not a Dinosaur | Suzanne Morris |
Over and Under the Rainforest | Kate Messner |
Fantastically Great Women Series | Kate Pankhurst |
Year 4 Reading List
Fiction
Asha and the spirit bird | Jasbinder Bilan |
The Famous Five (any book in the series) | Enid Blyton |
The great chocoplot | Chris Callaghan |
How to train your dragon | Cressida Cowell |
Demon Headmaster | Gillian Cross |
A book of your choice | Roald Dahl |
The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo |
Little bits of sky | SE Durrant |
Brightstorm | Vashti Hardy |
Eddie and the box of Flits | Kate Wilkinson |
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe | CS Lewis |
The land of roar | Jenny McClachlan |
Varjak paw | SF Said |
Wilf the mighty worrier saves the world | Georgia Pritchett |
Nonni’s Birthday bash: Confetti and Catastrphe | Leah Osakwe |
When Stars are Shattered | Victoria Jamieson |
Operation Gadgetman | Malorie Blackman |
Ella on the outside | Cath Howe |
Non-fiction
Women in Sport: 50 Fearless Athletes who Played to Win | Rachel Ignotofsky |
Music Legends | Herve Guilleminot and Jerome Masi |
Pirates: Dead Men’s Tales | Anne Rooney |
Earth shattering events | Robin Jacobs |
Children who changed the world | Marcia Williams |
Recommended Reads – Year 5
Fiction
The Night Bus Hero – Onjali Q Rauf
The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Q Rauf
The Last Bear – Hannah Gold
The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan
Secrets of a Sun King – Emma Carroll
Room 13- Robert Swindell
Wonder – R.J. Palacio
The Goldfish Boy – Lisa Thompson
Malamander - Thomas Taylor
Who Let the Gods Out - Maz Evans
The Violet Veil Mysteries - Sophie Cleverly
Boy in the Tower - Polly Ho-Yen
Wild is the Wind - Grahame Baker-Smith
Hacker - Malorie Blackman
Bill's New Frock - Anne Fine
Moondial - Helen Cresswell
Non-Fiction
The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice –A.F. Harrold
Rise UP – Amanda Li and Amy Blackwell
Young, Gifted and Black – Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins
Fantastic Female Adventurers – Lily Dyu
Great Adventurers – Alistair Humphreys
Survivors – David Long and Kerry Hyndman
The Lost Book of Adventure
Curiosity : the story of a Mars Moon Rover– Markus Motum
Shackleton’s Journey – William Grill
The Colours of History - Clive Gifford and Marc Etienne-Peintre
Counting on Katherine – Helene Becker
Hidden Figures- Margo Lee-Shetterly
Amazing Evolution – Anna Claybourne and Wesley Robbins
A Galaxy of her Own – Libby Jackson
Black and British – David Olusoga
Just like Me – Louie Gooding
Year 6 Reading List
The Middler | Kirsty Applebaum |
Desirable | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
Wonder | RJ Palacio |
Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
Goodnight Mr Tom | Michelle McGorian |
The Many Worlds of Albie Bright | Christopher Edge |
The house with Chicken Legs | Sophie Anderson |
Skellig | David Almond |
Booked | Kwame Alexander |
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
Crater Lake | Jennifer Killick |
The Silver Sword | Ian Serraillier |
Holes | Louis Sacher |
Charmed Life | Diana Wynne Jones |
The Nowhere Emporium | Ross McKenzie |
The Garbage King | Elizbeth Laird |
The Infinite | Patience Agbabi |
After the war | Tom Palmer |
Kick | Mitch Johnson |
River Boy | Tim Bowler |
The Wickford Doom | Chris Preistly |
The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Boy Underwater | Adam Baron |
The lion above the door | Onjali Q Rauf |
Pax | Sara Pennypacker |
October October | Katya Balen |
Room13 | Robert Swindells |
Letters from the Lighthouse | Emma Carroll |
No Ballet Shoes in Syria | Catherine Bruton |
Check Mates | Stewart Foster |
The kid who came from space | Ross Welford |
Armistice Runner | Tom Palmer |
Can you see me | Libby Scott and Rebecca Westrott |
On the move | Michael Rosen |
Freedom | Catherine Johnson |
Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Hobbit | J R R Tolkien |
A boy called hope | Lara Williamson |
Cogheart | Peter Bunzl |
Tell me no lies | Malorie Blackman |
The wheel of Surya | Jamila Gavin |
Silverfin | Charlie Higson |
Oranges in Noman’s Land | Elizabeth Laird |
The Borrower’s | Mary Norton |
Mortal Engines | Philip Reeve |
A dangerous game | Malorie Blackman |
Pavee and the Buffer Girl | Siobhan Dowd |
A boy called hope | Lara Williamson |
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Non Fiction books | |
Alistair Humphreys’ Great Adventurers | Alistair Humphreys |
Shackleton’s Journey | William Grill |
Silence is not an option | Stuart Lawrence |
The Humans: Ancient civilisations and astonishing things they taught us | Jonny Marx |
Amazing evolution | Anna Claybourne |
Charles Darwin’s on the origin of Species | Sabina Radeva |
Suffragette the battle for equality | David Roberts |