Nan Hua Primary School English Language Recommended Reading List: Primary 1 and 2 No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Title A Chair for My Mother A Child's Garden of Verses Aesop's Fables Author Vera Williams Robert Louis Stevenson Michael Hague (Illus.) Theme Family Poetry Folktale Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Art Dog Baba Yaga: A Russian Folktale Babar and His Children Judith Viorst Thacher Hurd Katya Arnold Jean de Brunhoff Babar The King Babushka: An Old Russian Folktale Blackberries in the Dark City Dog Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball Complete Nonsense Book Crow Boy Curious George Doctor De Soto Eloise Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like Fables Feelings Frederick Friends Frog and Toad Are Friends Gorilla I'll Fix Anthony Jean de Brunhoff Charles Mikolaycak Mavis Jukes Karla Kuskin Judi Barrett Edward Lear Taro Yashima H.A. Rey William Steig Kay Thompson Jay Williams Arnold Lobel Aliki Leo Lionni Helen Heine Arnold Lobel Anthony Browne Judith Viorst Bad Days, Adventure Adventure, Art Folktale Family, Adventure Adventure, SelfDiscovery Folktale Traditions, Grief Poetry Adventure Poetry School Life Independence Animal, Relationships Childhood, Family Folktale Fables Feelings Animals, Adventure Friendship Friendship, Differences Adventure Sibling Rivalry *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Title It's Not Fair Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China Lyle, Lyle Crocodile Madeline Martha Speaks Mice Twice Millions of Cats Mouse Tales National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry Nobody Listens to Andrew Officer Buckle and Gloria Once a Mouse… Once There Was a Tree Rapunzel Rotten Ralph Strega Nona Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia The Bat-Poet The Cat in the Hat The Five Chinese Brothers The Gardener The Giving Tree The Jolly Postman The Patchwork Quilt 50 The Polar Express 51 The Relatives Came 52 The Seven Chinese Brothers Author Amy Rosenthal Ed Young Bernard Waber Ludwig Bemelmans Susan Meddaugh Joseph Low Wanda Gag Arnold Lobel Patrick Lewis (Ed.) Elizabeth Guilfoile Peggy Rathmann Marcia Brown Natalia Romanova Paul Zelinsky Jack Gantos Tomie de Paola Peggy Parrish Randall Jarrell Dr Seuss Claire Bishop Sarah Stewart Shel Silverstein Janet and Allen Ahlberg Valery Flourny Theme Friendship, Jealousy Family, Adventure Family, Neighbours School Life Family, Humour Animal, Adventure Animal, Relationships Humour Poetry, Animals Childhood, Family School Life, Humour Folktale Nature Folktale Friendship, Change Magic School Life Poetry, Adventure Humour Family, Adventure Hardship, Family Relationships Relationships Family Chris Van Allsburg Cynthia Rylant Margaret Mahy Imagination, Independence Family, Family Trips Family, Adventure *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No 53 54 55 56 Title The Snowman The Stories Julian Tells The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant The Tale of Peter Rabbit Author Raymond Briggs Ann Cameron Jean de Brunhoff Beatrix Potter Theme Adventure Family Childhood, Family Animal, Adventure 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks The Tenth Good Thing about Barney The Three Wishes The Travels of Babar The Very Hungry Caterpillar Tikki, Tikki, Tembo Ty's One-man Band What do People Do All Day? When We Were Very Young Katherine Paterson Judith Viorst Elizabeth Rogers Jean de Brunhoff Eric Carle Arlene Mosel Mildred Pitts Walter Richard Scarry A.A. Milne Relationships, Japanese Civilization Pets, Grief Folktale Travel, Adventure Animal Adventure Music, Stranger Occupations Poetry, Childhood Maurice Sendak Dr Seuss Imagination, Independence Animal, Adventure 66 Where the Wild Things Are 67 Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) Nan Hua Primary School English Language Recommended Reading List: Primary 3 and 4 No 1 2 3 4 Author Michael Bond Shel Silverstein James Herriot Mitsumasa Anno Theme Adventure Poetry, Childhood Animal, Compassion Travel, Wordless Books 5 Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions 6 Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days 7 Ben and Me Margaret Musgrove Stephen Manes Robert Lawson African Civilizations, Non-Fiction Family, Self-discovery Friendship, History 8 Beyond the Ridge 9 Black Beauty Paul Goble Anna Sewell Family, Native American Beliefs Animal, Adventure 10 Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic 11 Bud, Not Buddy Robert Burleigh Christopher Curtis Exploration, Science Family, Friends 12 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 13 Charlotte's Web 14 Collected Stories for Children Roald Dahl E.B. White Walter De La Mare Characters, Relationships Friendship Anthology, Short Stories Taro Yashima William Steig Harve Zemach Donald Sobol Terry Jones Andrew Clements E.L. Konigsburg Ann Tompert Louise Fitzhugh Being different, Friendship Adventure, Friendship Justice, Characters Mystery, Crime-fighting Adventure School Life Mystery Mathematics, Adventure Mystery, Adventure 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Title A Bear Called Paddington A Light in the Attic All Things Bright and Beautiful Anno's Journey Crow Boy Dominic Duffy and the Devil Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day Erik The Viking Frindle From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler Grandfather Tang's Story Harriet the Spy *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) Title No Johanna Spyri Thomas Rockwell Dianna Wynne Jones Fred Marcellino Margot Zemach Chris Van Allsburg Rudyard Kipling Eric Knight Laura Ingalls Wilder P.L. Travers Roald Dahl Emily Arnold McCully Cynthia Rylant Jack Prelutsky T S Eliot Steven Kellogg Sergei Prokofiev Theme Loneliness, SelfDiscovery Humour, Friendship Fantasy, Adventure Animal Folktales, Adventure Adventure, Mystery Animal, Adventure Animal, Adventure Family, Adventure Characters, Family School Life Adventure, Circus Family, Relationships Poetry Poetry, Humour Legend Folktales, Adventure 41 Peter Pan J M Barrie Childhood, SelfDiscovery 42 Pippi Longstocking 43 Poem Stew 44 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Astrid Lindgren William Cole (ed.) Beverly Cleary Independence, Friendship Poetry School Life 45 Schooled Gordon Korman Homeschooling, Culture Shock 46 Stig of the Dump 47 Stories for Children Clive King Isaac Bashevis Singer Friendship, Environment Short Stories, Anthology 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Author Heidi How to Eat Fried Worms Howl's Moving Castle I, Crocodile It Could Always Be Worse Jumanji Just So Stories Lassie Come Home Little House on the Prairie Mary Poppins Matilda Mirette on the High Wire Missing May Nightmares Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Paul Bunyan Peter and the Wolf *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No Title 48 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing 49 The Bad Beginning 50 51 52 53 54 55 The BFG The Bicycle Man The Black Cauldron The Black Stallion The Borrowers The Call of the Wild The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and Tale 56 of Troy 57 The Dragons are Singing Tonight Author Judy Blume Lemony Snicket Theme Family, School Life Humour, Emotions Roald Dahl Allen Say Lloyd Alexander Walter Farley Mary Norton Jack London Adventure, Relationships Friendship, History Fantasy, Adventure Animal, Adventure Mystery, Characters Animal, Adventure Trenton Lee Stewart Arthur Ransome Chris Van Allsburg A.A. Milne Dodie Smith Greek Myths, Adventures Poetry Adventure, Being different Characters, Friends Mystery Animal, Friendship Animals, Adventure Eleanor Estes Brian Selznick Ted Hughes Enid Blyton Trenton Lee Stewart Being different, Friendship Adventure, Science Fantasy, Characters Fantasy, Adventure Adventure, Friendship 68 The New Kid on the Block 69 The Reluctant Dragon Jack Prelutsky Kenneth Grahame Poetry, Humour Friendship, Fantasy 70 The Selfish Giant Oscar Wilde Childhood, SelfDiscovery 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 The Education of Nicholas Benedict The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship The Garden of Abdul Gasazi The House at Pooh Corner The Hundred and One Dalmatians The Hundred Dresses The Invention of Hugo Cabret The Iron Giant The Magic Faraway Tree The Mysterious Benedict Society Padraic Colum Jack Prelutsky *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No Title The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 The Story of King Arthur and His Knights The Tale of Despereaux The Tale of Samuel Whiskers The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs The Twits The Whipping Boy The Wonderful Wizard of Oz They Saw the Future This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from around the 80 World 81 82 83 84 85 86 Totto Chan: The Little Girl in the Window Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens Wheel on the School Where the Sidewalk Ends White Fang Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories Author Theme Jon Scieszka Fractured Fairy Tales, Humour Howard Pyle Kate DiCamillo Beatrix Potter Jon Scieszka Roald Dahl Sid Fleishmann L. Frank Baum Kathleen Krull Adventure, Medieval Life Adventure, Characters Adventure, Family Fractured Fairy Tales Humour, Characters Friendship, Adventure Friendship, Adventure Non-Fiction, Biography Naomi Nye (Ed.) Poetry, World Culture Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Patricia Lauber Meindert de Jong Shel Silverstein Jack London Isaac Bashevis Singer Childhood, Japanese Culture Non-Fiction, Nature Adventure Poetry, Humour Animal, Adventure Folktales, Adventure *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) Abridged Classics No 1 2 3 Title 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea A Journey to the Center of the Earth Around the World in 80 Days Author Jules Verne Jules Verne Jules Verne Theme Adventure, Science Fiction Adventure, Science Fiction Travel, Adventure 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Gulliver’s Travels Iliad Jane Eyre Kidnapped King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table King Solomon’s Mines Moby Dick Odyssey Jonathan Swift Homer Charlotte Bronte Robert Louis Stevenson Howard Pyle H. Rider Haggard Herman Melville Homer Travel, Relationship, Adventure War, Greek Civilization Family, Self-discovery Adventure Relationships, Adventure Adventure Obsession, Relationships War, Greek Civilization 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Pride and Prejudice Robinson Crusoe The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Count of Monte Cristo The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Invisible Man The Last of the Mohicans The Man in the Iron Mask The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The Phantom of the Opera The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Three Musketeers The Time Machine The War of the Worlds Treasure Island Jane Austen Daniel Defoe Arthur Conan Doyle Alexandre Dumas Victor Hugo H.G. Wells James Fenimore Cooper Alexandre Dumas Howard Pyle Victor Hugo Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre Dumas H.G. Wells H.G. Wells Robert Louis Stevenson Relationships, Self-Discovery Loneliness, Adventure Crime, Character, Motive Character, Justice Injustice, Relationships Mystery, Science Fiction War, Conflict, Culture Character, Justice Injustice, Adventure Mystery, Relationships Mystery, Schizophrenia Character, Relationships Mystery, Science Fiction Mystery, Science Fiction Adventure, Piracy *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) Nan Hua Primary School English Language Recommended Reading List: Primary 5 and 6 No Title 1 1984 2 A Bundle of Sticks Author George Orwell Paul Rhoads Mauser Theme Utopia, Justice, Freedom Bullying, Self-discovery 3 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Characters, Relationships 4 5 6 7 A Girl Named Disaster A Light in the Attic A Northern Light A Ring of Endless Light Nancy Farmer Shel Silverstein Jennifer Donnelly Madeleine L'Engle A Single Shard A Tale of Two Cities A Visit to William Blake's Inn A Wizard of Earthsea A Wrinkle in Time Linda Sue Park Charles Dickens Nancy Willard Ursula LeGuin Madeleine L'Engle Courage, Injustice, Cultures Poetry Crime, Mystery Friendship, Imagination Perseverance, Korean Culture Injustice, Adventure Poetry Self-discovery, Fantasy Fantasy, Adventure 13 Abel's Island William Steig Independence, Adventure 14 15 16 17 18 19 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Animal Farm Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne of Green Gables Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Around the World in Eighty Days Lewis Carrol George Orwell Anne Frank L.M. Montgomery Judy Blume Jules Verne Imagination, Adventure Utopia, Justice, Freedom War, Self-Discovery Family, Self-Discovery Growing Up Adventure, Travel 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Arthur, for the Very First Time Bambert's Book of Missing Stories Beowulf Book of Greek Myths Bridge to Terabithia Call It Courage Carrie's War Patricia MacLachlan Reinhardt Jung Michael Morpurgo Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire Katherine Paterson Armstrong Sperry Nina Bawden Humour, Human Behaviour Social Issues, Relationships Myth, Adventure Myths, Greek Civilization Friendship, Imagination Feelings, Adventure War, Mystery 8 9 10 11 12 *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No Title Author Theme 27 Charlotte's Web E.B. White 28 29 30 31 Rhoda Blumberg Andrew Davies Neil Gaiman Jean Webster Friendship, Independence Adventure, Japanese Civilization Family, Adventure Mystery, Relationships Relationships, School Life 32 Dogsong Gary Paulsen Adventure, Self-Discovery 33 Dragon's Blood 34 Five Children and It 35 Frankenstein Jane Yolen E. Nesbit Mary Shelley Fantasy Fantasy, Adventure Horror, Characters 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Mary Rodgers Charles Dickens Mary O'Neill Salman Rushdie Mark Twain Scott O'Dell Katherine Paterson Jean George James Lincoln Collier Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling Family, Fantasy Characters, Relationships Poetry Adventure, Fantasy Childhood, Adventure Adventure, Loneliness Family, Self-Discovery Animals, Adventure Slavery Adventure, Characters Adventure, Self-Discovery Travel, Civilizations Friendship, Family Poetry Special Needs, Relationships Justice, Adventure Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun Conrad's War Coraline Daddy-Long-Legs Freaky Friday Great Expectations Hailstones and Halibut Bones Haroun and the Sea of Stories Huckleberry Finn Island of the Blue Dolphins Jacob Have I Loved Julie of the Wolves Jump Ship to Freedom Kidnapped Kim Kon-Tiki Little Women Miracles 50 Mockingbird 51 Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Thor Heyerdahl Louisa May Alcott Richard Lewis (Ed.) Kathryn Erskine Robert O'Brien *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 Title My Family and Other Animals Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War Number the Stars Pigeon Post Pollyanna Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Scorpions Shizuko's Daughter Sing to the Dawn Skellig Songs of Innocence and Experience Author Gerald Durrell Jack Preleutsky Anita Label Lois Lowry Arthur Ransome Jean Porter Ji Li Jang Mildred D. Taylor Walter Myers Kyoko Mori Minfong Ho David Almond William Blake 65 66 67 68 69 Spartacus Stuart Little Superfudge The Amazing Maurice and His Amazing Rodents The Black Pearl Howard Fast E.B. White Judy Blume Terry Pratchett Scott O'Dell 70 71 72 73 74 75 The Borrowers The Chronicles of Narnia The Clay Marble The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Dark is Rising The Ear, The Eye and the Arm Mary Norton C.S. Lewis Minfong Ho Mark Hammond Susan Cooper Nancy Farmer 76 The Examination 77 The Family from One End Street 78 The Fledgling Malcolm Bosse Eve Garnett Jane Langton *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Theme Family, Animals Poetry War, Childhood War, Childhood Mystery, Adventure Childhood, Self-Discovery Biography, China Racism, Social Problems Social Issues, Gangs Family, Self-Discovery Sibling Rivalry Friendship, Adventure Poetry, Emotions Adventure, Roman Civilization Friendship, Family Family Animals, Adventure Adventure. Rivalry Adventure Family, Fantasy War, Hope Mystery, Disability Mystery, Adventure Science Fiction Adventure, Family, Ancient China Family, City Life, Poverty Adventure, Fantasy Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No Title Author Theme The Ghost of Thomas Kempe The Giver The Golden Compass The Golem The Graveyard Book The Haunting The Hobbit The House of Dies Drear The Incredible Journey The Jungle Book The Life of Pi 90 The Little Prince 91 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Penelope Lively Lois Lowry Philip Pullman Barbara Rogasky Neil Gaiman Margaret Mahy J.R.R. Tolkien Virginia Hamilton Sheila Burnford Rudyard Kipling Yann Martel Antoine de SaintExupery J.R.R. Tolkien 92 The Master Puppeteer Katherine Paterson Mystery, Adventure Adventure, Mystery Fantasy, Adventure Myths, Jewish Culture Mystery, Relationships Horror, Characters Fantasy, Adventure Mystery, History Animals, Adventure Adventure Adventure, Survival Travel, Friendship, SelfDiscovery Fantasy, Relationships Childhood, Japanese Culture 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 The Moorchild The Mysterious Benedict Society The Night Journey The Other Side of Truth The Outsiders The Pearl The Phantom Tollbooth The Prince and the Pauper 101 The Railway Children 102 The Rattle Bag 103 The Red Pony 104 The Road of Bones Eloise McGraw Trenton Lee Stewart Kathryn Lasky Beverly Naidoo S.E. Hinton John Steinbeck Norton Juster Mark Twain Edith Nesbit Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes John Steinbeck Anne Fine *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme Prejudice, Fear Adventure, Friendship Racism, Social Problems War, Family, Injustice Self-discovery, Conflict Greed, Family, Injustice Adventure, Fantasy Injustice, Adventure Adventure, Injustice, Friendship Poetry Animals, Adventure Justice, Adventure Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars) No Title Author Theme 105 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Adventure, SelfDiscovery 106 107 108 109 The Silver Sword The Slave Dancer The Story of Doctor Dolittle The Story of Tracy Beaker Ian Serrailier Paula Fox Hugh Lofting Jacqueline Wilson War, Family Social Issues, Slavery Animals, Adventure Childhood, Relationships 110 111 112 113 The Tale of Despereaux The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle The Twenty-one Balloons The View from Saturday Kate DiCamillo Avi William Pene Du Bois E.L. Konigsburg Fantasy, Adventure Crime, Mystery Adventure, Travel School Life India, Poverty, Urbanization 114 The Village by the Sea Anita Desai 115 The Wave 116 The Witch of Blackbird Pond 117 The Wizard of Oz Morton Rhue Elizabeth Speare L. Frank Baum 118 Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges 119 Through the Looking-Glass 120 Tom Sawyer Lewis Carroll Mark Twain 121 Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce Adventure, Imagination Childhood, Adventure Family, Adventure, Selfdiscovery 122 Treasure Island 123 Tuck Everlasting 124 Watership Down Robert Louis Stevenson Natalie Babbitt Richard Adams Adventure, Characters Self-discovery, Family Adventure, Injustice 125 What Jamie Saw Carolyn Coman Family, Relationships 126 Wind in the Willows 127 Wonderstruck Kenneth Grahame Brian Selznick 128 Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle Ruth Ashby Friendship, Adventure Special Needs, Family Travel, Science, Biography *Bold Titles indicate books featured in the Reading Programme School Life, Social Issues Social Issues, Justice Friendship, Adventure History, Racism, Biography Date Read Personal Rating (1 to 5 stars)
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