Year 7
Recommended Reading List
ACTION AND ADVENTURE
Bradford, Chris
Colfer, Eoin
Easton, Tom
Gordon-Smith, Alex
Grant, Michael
Young Samurai Series
Airman
Haven
The Fury
Bzrk
Harris, MG
The Joshua Files
Higson, Charlie
Horowitz, Anthony
Klavan, Andrew
Silverfin Series
Alex Rider Series
The Last Thing I
Remember Series
The Medusa Project
Series
Special Operations
Series
Montmorency Series
HIVE Series
McKenzie, Sophie
Simpson, Craig
Updale, Eleanor
Walden, Mark
An English boy marooned in Japan in 1611 learns the ways of the Samurai
In future Ireland, a rebel boy has to escape from prison to clear his name
The story of the only community remaining after a killer virus strikes
The Fury is an unexplained urge to kill that takes over people
Thriller from the author of the Gone series in which futuristic nano
technology is used as a weapon
An ancient civilisation is awakening. An ancient Maya prophecy is
unfolding. One boy – Joshua – holds the key.
The teenage years of James Bond at Eton College
Teenage spy Alex embarks on several missions for MI5
“Bourne Identity for Kids” – Charlie loses a year of his memory and
discovers that he has been convicted for murder
Teenagers with psychic powers form a crime-fighting force
WW2 thrillers following the adventures of the Wolf Squadron
Crime thriller series set in Victorian London
A story where bright kids are sent to the Higher Institute of Villainous
Education
GROWING UP, RELATIONSHIPS, LIFE & DEATH
Crossan, Sarah
The Weight of Water
Doyle, Roddy
A Greyhound of a Girl
Palacio, RJ
Wonder
Pitcher, Annabel
Ketchup Clouds
Plaised, Caroline
No Way Am I Living With
Her
There’s a Boy in the
Girls’ Bathroom
Sacher, Louis
Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka
and her mother head for England. A moving coming-of-age story
A perfectly-pitched, funny and tender tale about four generations of an Irish
family and the special bonds between mothers and daughters
Touching story of August, a boy born with a facial deformity who starts
High School.
A girl with a secret starts writing to man on death row. Her past comes
back to haunt her when her secret is discovered.
Well-written tale of two step-sisters forced to live together when their
parents marry.
An unpopular boy at school is invited to his first ever birthday party
GIRL TALK
Cassidy, Cathy
Day, Susie
Indigo Blue
My Invisible Boyfriend
Hopkins, Cathy
Harrison, Cora
Mates, Dates.. Series
Jane Austen Stole My
Boyfriend
LaFleur, Suzanne
Rushton, Rosie
Eight Keys
Secret Schemes, Daring
Dreams
A mum with a secret and a reason to leave her family
Heidi invents an online boyfriend to impress her friends, but lie upon lie
creates an embarrassing mess!
A series that follows Lucy and her friends through their teenage years
Jane has already helped her friend Jenny find love, now she has decided
it’s her turn to find the man of her dreams, unfortunately all does not go
according to plan.
A moving read about friendship and starting a new school
A series of books that brings Jane Austen up to date. Emma Woodhouse
tries to help her friends out, but when all goes wrong she finds that nothing
is as simple as it seems.
MODERN CLASSICS
Dickens, Charlies
Great Expectations
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Goldman, William
The Princess Bride
Lowry, Lois
The Giver
Pullman, Philip
The Northern Lights
Trilogy
Ransome, Arthur
Swallows and Amazons
Pip meets a convict as a child and it changes his life. A mysterious tale of
love and class.
Schools boys are ship wrecked on a desert island and make up their own
society in order to survive. A tough tale of bullying and natural selection.
Comedy adventure about a pirate who sets out to rescue the woman of his
dreams. An action adventure with lots of fighting and some giants.
Set in a future society where everyone is controlled. Jonas is given a task
to complete that will open his eyes to the ‘perfect’ world he lives in.
Lyra and her demon are caught up in an adventure that sees them travel
the world to rescue her friend and other children who are being
experimented on.
The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure
FANTASY
Clare, Cassandra
The Mortal Instruments
Colfer, Eoin
Flanagan, John
Artemis Fowl Series
Brotherband Series
Gordon, Roderick
Hill, Will
Tunnels Series
Dept 19 Series
Landy, Derek
Nicholson, William
Paolini, Christopher
Skullduggery Pleasant
Series
Wind on Fire Trilogy
Inheritance Trilogy
Patterson, James
Maximum Ride Series
Paver, Michelle
Riordan, Rick
Wolf Brother Series
Percy Jackson Series
Rowling, JK
Sage, Angie
Harry Potter Series
Todhunter Moon Series
Everything changes the night Clary witnesses a murder committed by a
group of teens armed with medieval weaponry.
A 12 year old criminal mastermind kidnaps a fairy
Boys fight against other Brotherbands to become a Warrior and survive on
the deadly seas
Two boys discover a dark underworld beneath Chester
Jamie discovers that his father was involved in a secret government
department that hunts vampires. His friends in the department include
Frankenstein.
Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful
magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary – and dead
A society governed by exams – but what happens when you rebel?
When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest that brings a dragon
hatchling, he stumbles upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself
A group of teenagers are genetically engineered to be 1% bird as part of
an experiment
An exciting series about the adventures of early man
A teenage boy living in modern day America finds out that he is the son of
an ancient God
Perhaps the most famous stories of wizardry the world has seen
Connected to the Septimus Heap series, Tod sets out to rescue her friend
from the Malevolent Lady.
HORROR
Blackman, Malorie
Gaiman, Neil
Gatward, David
Higson, Charlie
MacPhail, Cathy
Richardson, EE
Stuff of Nightmares
Coraline
Doom Rider
The Enemy Series
Underworld
The Intruders
The small, irrational fears that affect our dreams
A warped alternative universe hidden behind a door
Seth has lived 1000 lives, and in each he has been killed before he is 13
A sickness turns all adults into flesh-eating zombies
A chilling novel set in a collapsed tunnel
A terrifying, traditional haunted house story
THRILLERS
Bedford, Martin
Flip
Cassidy, Anne
Innocent
Grant, Michael
Green, Caroline
Malley, Gemma
Gone Series
Cracks
The Declaration Trilogy
Tom wakes up one morning and discovers he is in the body of someone
called Philip
Charlie tries to prove the innocence of her older brother who she thinks
has been set up
Adults disappear into thin air and children battle to survive on their own
A boy wakes up from a coma and finds that his life isn’t quite what it seems
Drugs allow people to live for 100s of years and having children is banned
McKenzie, Sophie
Girl Missing Trilogy
Scarrow, Alex
Time Riders Series
Sutcliffe, William
The Wall
Westerfeld, Scott
Leviathan Trilogy
Excellent thrillers about a girl who thinks she might have been snatched as
a baby
Teens are recruited by a secret organisation to travel into the past to
change time
A boy loses his football in a plot of land that no one must enter, and no one
ever leaves. Crawling through a tunnel he emerges into an unfamiliar world
Alternative history novel set in 1914
COMEDY
Brindley, John
Rhino Boy
Bush, Penelope
Diary of a Lottery
Winner’s Daughter
Millions
Cottrell Boyce,
Frank
Limb, Sue
Sachar, Louis
Snicket, Lemony
Walliams, David
The school bully develops a spot on his forehead that grows into a rhino
horn
3.7M is won by the family of a Year 7 girl. How does it change them?
Zoe and Chloe Series
Holes
A Series of Unfortunate
Events
The Boy in the Dress
With Britain about to join the Euro, 2 boys find 250K and have 10 days to
spend it before it becomes obsolete
Funny books about the adventures of two teenage girls
Stanley is in a juvenile prison as a result of a miscarriage of justice and
ends up on a mission to dig holes for lost treasure
The story of the woeful Baudelaire siblings and the unfolding of their
luckless lives
A laugh out loud book that also deals with gender roles
WARS AND HISTORY
Bawden, Nina
Carrie’s War
Boyne, John
French, Jackie
Gleitzman, Morris
The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Hitler’s Daughter
Once Series
Hartnett, Sonja
Hooper, Mary
Lawrence, Caroline
The Midnight Zoo
By Royal Command
Roman Mysteries Series
Carrie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales and billeted at the
home of the bullying Mr Evans and his timid sister Lou
A World War II friendship between Bruno and Shmuel that takes the boys
from innocence to revelation
What if Hitler had had a daughter? A thought-provoking read
The story of two childhood friends growing up in Nazi occupied Poland and
trying to escape the war
Children discover an abandoned magical zoo in the middle of a war zone
Lucy is a teenage spy for Elizabeth I
Follows the adventures of four amateur child detectives in ancient Rome
SPORTS STORIES
Breslin, Theresa
Divided City
Freedman, Dan
Hayden, Peter
Rigby, Robert
Kick Off Trilogy
And Smith Must Score
Goal Trilogy
Scottish novel that tackles the religious divide in Glasgow through the
Celtic and Rangers football rivalry
A school football team in which Jamie is desperate to be the star
Funny modern take on the story of football
Santiago makes his name at Newcastle
BOOKS ABOUT ANIMALS
Adams, Richard
Campbell-Johnston,
Rachel
Morpurgo, Michael
Watership Down
The Child’s Elephant
Sewell, Anna
Black Beauty
White, EB
Charlotte’s Web
War Horse
The perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home
When a baby elephant is left orphaned, Bat takes her home and cares for
her. But Bat's grandmother knows that Meya cannot stay with them forever
This book is narrated by a horse who survives the Front during WW1 and
tries to reconnect with his beloved owner.
Tells the story of a horse's own long and varied life and deals with animalhuman relationships
The tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider,
saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs
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