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Year 6

  • Michael Morpurgo "Why the Whales Came", "Warhorse"
  • Anne Fine "I am David"
  • Robert Westall "The Machine Gunners"
  • Roald Dahl "Danny, Champion of the World"
  • Morris Gleitzman "Blabbermouth"
  • The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken 
  • Johnnie's Blitz - Bernard Ashley 
  • Carrie's War - Nina Bawden 
  • This Poem Doesn't Rhyme - Gerard Benson 
  • Classic Poems to Read Aloud - James Berry 
  • The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
  • The Midnight Fox - Betsy Byars 
  • The Coming of the Surfman - Peter Collington (Picture Book) 
  • Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper 
  • The Great Elephant Chase - Gillian Cross 
  • Truth, Lies and Homework - Josephine Feeney 
  • The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 
  • See Ya - David Hill 
  • Granny - Anthony Horowitz 
  • When Hitler Stole Pink rabbit – Judith Kerr
  • A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin 
  • In Deep Water - Michelle Magorian 
  • The Haunting - Margaret Mahy 
  • Thunder and Lightnings - Jan Mark 
  • Forever X - Geraldine McCaughrean 
  • Someone Came Knocking - Anne Merrick 
  • Anne of Green Gables - L. Montgomery 
  • Double Image - Pat Moon 
  • Why The Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo
  • The Snow Spider – Mary Nimmo
  • Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh - Robert O'Brien 
  • Verse - Kingfisher Publication 
  • Clockwork - Philip Pullman 
  • A World of Poetry - Michael Rosen 
  • Bug Muldoon and the Garden of Fear - Paul Shipton 
  • Journey of 1000 Miles – Ian Strachan
  • Beowulf: Dragon Slayer - Rosemary Sutcliffe 
  • Becky Bananas - Jean Ure 
  • I Like This Poem - Kaye Webb 
  • Sword in the Stone - T.H. White 
  • Talking Turkeys - Benjamin Zephaniah 


Reluctant boy readers:

  • Anthony Horowitz "Alex Rider" series
  • Eoin Colfer "Artemis Fowl"
  • Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean "Wolves in the Walls"
  • Terry Pratchett "The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy"

Confident Readers

  • Malorie Blackman "Noughts and Crosses", "Hacker"
  • lain Serrailier "The Silver Sword"