Recommended Reading List for 3rd Form 2016
If you like books about FRIENDS or SCHOOL, try these …
Book Title
Billy the Kid (and other titles)
Rotten School (Series)
Alfie Green (Series)
Stink (Series)
Marvin Redpost (Series)
Frankie’s Magic Football (Series)
Hank Zipzer (Series)
Meet Just William (Series)
Shocking Shooting (and other titles)
Taking the Cat’s Way Home (and other titles)
Cup Final Kid (and other titles)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Series)
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates (Series)
Big Nate (Series)
Wayside School (Series)
Bill’s New Frock
Harry Potter (Series)
If you like ANIMALS and HORSES, try these …
Book Title
The Tiger Who Was a Roaring Success
(and other titles)
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
(and other titles)
One Dog and his Boy
Rascal (Series)
Babe the Sheep-Pig (and other titles)
The Butterfly Lion (and other titles)
The World According to Humphrey (Series)
Puppy Patrol (Series)
Animal Ark (Series)
The Tale of Despereaux
The Underneath
Dinosaur Cove (Series)
Kaspar Prince of Cats
Charlotte’s Web
Stuart Little
If you like A GOOD LAUGH, try these …
Book Title
Awful Auntie (and other titles)
The Jolley Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon (Series)
Hamish and the World-Stoppers
Stink (Series)
George’s Marvellous Medicine (and other titles)
The Giggler Treatment (Series)
The Diary of Denis the Menace (Series)
Recommended Reading List for 3rd Form 2015
Author
Michael Morpurgo
R.L.Stine
Joe O’Brien
Megan McDonald
Louis Sachar
Frank Lampard
Henry Winkler
Adapted by Martin Jarvis
Michael Coleman
Jan Mark
Martin Waddell
Jeff Kinney
Liz Pichon
Lincoln Peirce
Louis Sachar
Anne Fine
J.K.Rowling
Author
Don Conroy
Jill Tomlinson
Eva Ibbotson
Chris Cooper
Dick King-Smith
Michael Morpurgo
Betty G. Birney
Jenny Dale
Lucy Daniels
Kate Di Camillo
Kathi Appelt
Rex Stone
Michael Morpurgo
E. B. White
E. B. White
Author
David Walliams
Jonny Duddle
Danny Wallace
Megan MacDonald
Roald Dahl
Roddy Doyle
Steven Butler
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The Good Little Devil and Other Tales
I am not a Loser (Series)
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
The Jolley Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon (Series)
Hamish and the World-Stoppers
Captain Underpants (Series)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Series)
Middle School (Series)
Rotten School (Series)
The Evil Hairdo / The Poison Factory
Walter Speazlebud (Series)
The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth
Wayside School (Series)
Granny (and other titles)
The Toilet of Doom (and other titles)
Snakes Elbows (and other titles)
Pierre Gripari
Jim Smith
David Almond
Jonny Duddle
Danny Wallace
Dav Pilkey
Jeff Kinney
James Patterson
R.L. Stine
Oisin McGann
David Donohue
Eoin Colfer
Louis Sachar
Anthony Horowitz
Michael Lawrence
Deirdre Madden
If you like MAGIC, try these …
Book Title
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and other titles)
The Enchanted Wood (Series)
The Wishing Chair (Series)
Jinx The Magician’s Apprentice
Fortunately, The Milk
The Land of Stories (Series)
Hello? Is Anybody There?
The Boy in the Biscuit Tin (and other titles)
Harry Potter (Series)
Narnia (Series)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (Series)
The Spook’s Apprentice (Series)
Author
Roald Dahl
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Sage Blackwood
Neil Gaiman
Chris Colfer
Jostein Gaarder
Heather Dyer
J.K.Rowling
C.S.Lewis
Holly Black
Joseph Delaney
If you like ADVENTURE, try these …
Book Title
Ireland’s Best Known Stories in a Nutshell (Various titles)
Flat Stanley (Series)
Gladiator Boy (Series)
Stan Stinky
Noah Barleywater Runs Away
The Adventures of Alfie Onion
The Saga of Erik the Viking
The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower
The Wreck of the Zanzibar (and other titles)
The Treasure Hunters (Series)
Dinosaur Cove (Series)
Beast Quest (Series)
Seaquest (Series)
How to Train Your Dragon (Series)
Phoenix (and other titles)
Fortunately, The Milk
The Tale of Despereaux
Author
Poolbeg Press
Jeff Brown
David Grimstone
Hannah Shaw
John Boyne
Vivian French
Terry Jones
P.J. Lynch
Michael Morpurgo
James Patterson
Rex Stone
Adam Blade
Adam Blade
Cressida Cowell
S.F.Said
Neil Gaiman
Kate Di Camillo
Recommended Reading List for 3rd Form 2015
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Jinx The Magician’s Apprentice
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (and other titles)
What’s Their Story? (True Life Series)
Narnia (Series)
Harry Potter (Series)
Sage Blackwood
Brian Selznick
Oxford (Publishers)
C.S.Lewis
J.K. Rowling
If you like MYSTERY / DETECTIVE, try these …
Book Title
The Secret Seven (Series)
The Famous Five (Series)
The Mystery of… (Series)
Spy Dog (Series)
How to Train Your Dragon (Series)
The Diamond Brothers (Series)
The Mummy Snatcher of Memphis (Series)
The Pasta Detectives
The Sisters Grimm (Series)
The Hardy Boys (Series)
Author
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Andrew Cope
Cressida Cowell
Anthony Horowitz
Natasha Narayan
Andreas Steinhöfel
Michael Buckley
Franklin W. Dixon
If you like SCARY Stories, try these …
Book Title
Scream Street (Series)
Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)
The Worst Witch (Series)
Goosebumps (Series)
Goosebumps Horrorland (Series)
Author
Tommy Donbavand
Lemony Snicket
Jill Murphy
R.L. Stine
R.L. Stine
If you like HISTORY, try these …
Book Title
My Story (Historical Children’s Diaries based on Famine,
World Wars, Titanic, etc.)
Children of the Famine (Series)
Candle in the Dark
One Small Suitcase
Wreck of the Zanzibar (and other titles)
Gladiator Boy (Series)
Horrible Histories (Series)
Author
Various
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Adele Geras
Barry Turner
Michael Morpurgo
David Grimstone
Terry Deary
If you like SPORT books, try these …
Book Title
The Story of Football
Goal!
The Big Cup Collection (and other titles)
Football Academy (Series)
Diary of a Rugby Champ
World Rugby Records
50 Soccer Skills
Author
Usborne Young Reading
Alan Durant
Rob Childs
Tom Palmer
Shamini Flint
Chris Hawkes
Usborne
If you like POETRY, try these …
Book Title
Something Beginning with P
Author
O’Brien Press (Publisher)
Recommended Reading List for 3rd Form 2015
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Runny Babbit (and other titles)
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry
Revolting Rhymes
Even My Ears Are Smiling
Please Mrs Butler
Heard It in the Playground
Mr Magnolia
Read Me and Laugh
A Child’s Garden of Verses
The Truth about Parents
The Truth about Teachers
If you like the CLASSICS, try these (perhaps in abridged form)…
Book Title
Paddington Bear (Series)
Winnie the Pooh (Series)
The Secret Garden
Lassie Come Home
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
The Railway Children
Mary Poppins
The Family from One-End Street
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Pippi Longstocking
Heidi
Recommended Reading List for 3rd Form 2015
Shel Silverstein
Brian Patten (Editor)
Roald Dahl
Michael Rosen
Allan Ahlberg
Allan Ahlberg
Quentin Blake
Gaby Morgan (Editor)
Robert Louis Stevenson
MacMillan Children’s Books
MacMillan Children’s Books
Author
Michael Bond
A.A. Milne
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Eric Knight
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
E.Nesbit
P.L.Travers
Eve Garnett
Lewis Carroll
Astrid Lindgrin
Johanna Spyri
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