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King’s House School Reading List Year 4
This list contains a variety of books that cover a wide range of reading
interests and abilities. All of these books are available in the school library. If
you would like further information or suggestions please see the librarian. A
comprehensive list including further information and extracts is available at
www.lovereading4schools.co.uk
A Boy and Bear in a Boat
Dave Shelton
Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door
Ross Montgomery
Aquila 2
Andrew Norriss
Charmed Life
Diana Wynne Jones
Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kästner
Erik the Viking
Terry Jones
Fattypuffs and Thinifers
Andre Maurois
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
Five Children on the Western Front
Kate Saunders
George and the Dragon and a World of Other Stories*
Geraldine McCaughrean
Ghost Knight
Cornelia Funke
Goblins
Philip Reeve
Harvey Angell
Diana Hendry
How the Whale Became and Other Stories
Ted Hughes
I Know What You Did Last Wednesday
Anthony Horowitz
Just William
Richmal Crompton
Karlsson Flies Again
Astrid Lindgren
Kensuke’s Kingdom*
Michael Morpurgo
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table*
Roger Lancelyn Green
Listen to the Moon
Michael Morpurgo
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Love That Dog
Sharon Creech
Malkin Moonlight
Emma Cox
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Jenny Nimmo
Millions
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien
Muddle Earth
Paul Stewart
One Dog and His Boy
Eva Ibbotson
Operation Gadgetman
Malorie Blackman
Osbert the Avenger
Christopher William-Hill
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Love That Dog
Sharon Creech
Shadow Cat
Gillian Cross
Shadow Forest
Matt Haig
Shrunk
Fleur Hitchcock
Stuart Little
E.B.White
The Adventures of the New Cut Gang
Philip Pullman
The Bell Family
Noel Streatfeild
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
David Almond
The Eddie Dickens Trilogy
Philip Ardagh
The Family From One End Street
Eve Garnett
The Fastest Boy in the World
Elizabeth Laird
The Fire Within
Chris D’Lacey
The Incredible Adventures
Norman Hunter
of Professor Branestawm
The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks
The Iron Woman
Ted Hughes
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The Last Wild*
Piers Torday
The Magician’s Nephew
C.S. Lewis
The Phantom Tolbooth
Norman Juster
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit
The River Singers*
Tom Moorhouse
The Spaghetti Tangle
Alexander McCall Smith
The Story of Doctor Doolittle
Hugh Lofting
The Thieves of Ostia
Caroline Lawrence
The Time and Space of Uncle Albert
Russell Stannard
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
Gene Kemp
The Willoughbys
Lois Lowry
Too Small to Fail
Morris Gleitzman
Whale Boy
Nicola Davies
Young Knights of the Round Table
Julia Golding
*a more challenging read that may contain more mature themes and/or
language
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