List of Recommended Books for Year 6 to Read
From Woodlands Junior School
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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
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
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
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
List of Recommended Books for Year 5 to Read
From Woodlands Junior Schoo
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The Giant Baby - Allan Ahlberg
The Peppermint Pig - Nina Bawden
A Thief in the Village - James Berry
Hacker - Majorie Blackman
The Eighteenth Emergency - Betsy Byars
Figgie Hobbin - Charles Causley
Moondial - Helen Cresswell
The Green Children - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Children in Winter - Berlie Doherty
Elidor - Alan Garner
The Iron Woman - Ted Hughes
The Secret Platform - Eva Ibbotson
An ogre, a fey, a hag, and a wizard travel from their magical world to
London, to rescue the kidnapped son of their King and Queen.
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
Maphead - Leslie Howarth
Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Susan Jeffers
The Daydreamer - Ian McEwan
The Exiles - Hilary McKay
Ishtar & Tammuz - Christopher Moore & Christina Balit
The Wreck of the Zanzibar - Michael Morpurgo
Earthways Earthwise - Judith Nicholls
Matt's Millions - Andrew Norris
The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
Krindlekrax - Philip Ridley
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. Rowling
How Dogs Really Work - Alan Snow
The Capricorn Bracelet - Rosemary Sutcliff
Pigeon Summer - Ann Turnbull
The Mennyms - Sylvia Waugh
Charlotte's Web - E. White
The Lottle Project - Jacqueline Wilson
List of Recommended Books for Year 4 to Read
From Woodlands Junior School
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A Caribbean Dozen - John Agard & Grace Nicholls
It Was A Dark and Stormy Night - Allan Ahlberg
The Clothes Horse - Allan Ahlberg
Fog Hounds Wind Cat Sea Mice - Joan Aiken
A Pot of Gold - Jill Bennett
Gregory Cool - Caroline Binch
Spacebaby - Henrietta Branford
The Chocolate Touch - Patrick Skene Catling
The Sea Piper - Helen Cresswell
The Crazy Shoe Shuffle - Gillian Cross
The Angel of Nitshill Road - Anne Fine
Dragon Poems - John Foster & Korky Paul
Flow - Pippa Goodhart
The Reluctant Dragon - Kenneth Grahame
Robi Dobi - Madhur Jaffrey
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky - Susan Jeffers & Chief Seattle
Smart Girls - Robert Leeson
Sara, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
The Ghost Blades - Anthony Masters
The Orchard Book of Creation Stories - Margaret Mayo & Louise
Brierley
Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo
The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy
The Dragon's Child - Jenny Nimmo
The Firework-Maker's Daughter - Philip Pullman
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs - John Scieszka
Mufarols Beautiful Daughters - John Steptoe
A Child's Garden of Verse - Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. Bear & The Bear - Francis Thomas & Ruth Brown
Greek Myths for Young Children - Marcia Williams
The Suitcase Kid - Jacqueline Wilson
List of Recommended Books for Year 3 to Read
From Woodlands Junior School
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We Animals Would Like a Word With You - John Agard
The Steadfast Tin Soldier - Hans Christian Andersen & P. Lynch
Skip Across the Ocean - Floella Benjamin
Mr. Majelka - Humphrey Carpenter
A Gift From Winklesea - Helen Cresswell
The Magic Finger - Roald Dahl
Willa and Old Miss Annie - Berlie Doherty
Diary of a Killer Cat - Anne Fine
Little Inkchkin - Fiona French
Aesop's Funky Fables - Vivian French
Picasso Perkins - Adele Geras
The Shrinking of Treehorn - Florence Parry Heide
Nothing - Mick Inkpen
All Because of Jackson - Dick King-Smith
Secret Friends - Elizabeth Laird
Daedalus and Icarus - Geraldine McCaughrean
The King With Dirty Feet & Other Stories - Mary Medlicott
Hue Boy - Rita Phillips Mitchell
The Owl Tree - Jenny Nimmo
Mrs. Cockle's Cat - Philippa Pearce
Moving - Michael Rosen
Rosals Singing Grandfather - Leon Rosselson
Rama and the Demon King - Jessica Souhami
Roxyls Italian Diary - Branwen Thomas
Unusual Day - Sandy Toksvig
The Dad Library - Dennis Whelehan
The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde & Jane Ray
Cliffhanger - Jacqueline Wilson