Recommended Reading List for 2nd Class – 2014
Recommended Reading List for 2nd Class 2014
If you like ANIMALS and HORSES, try these …
Book Title
Author
The Owl Who Couldn’t Give a Hoot (and other titles)
The Penguin Who Wanted to Find Out (and other titles)
Mr Ape (and other titles)
A Mouse Called Wolf (and other titles)
The Last Wolf (and other titles)
This Morning I Met a Whale (and other titles)
Cool! (and other titles)
The World According to Humphrey (Series)
Sheltie the Shetland Pony (Series)
Puppy Patrol (Series)
Animal Ark (Series)
The Tale of Despereaux
Dinosaur Cove (Series)
Don Conroy
Jill Tomlinson
Dick King-Smith
Dick King-Smith
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo
Betty G. Birney
Peter Clover
Jenny Dale
Lucy Daniels
Kate Di Camillo
Rex Stone
If you like books about SCHOOL and FRIENDS, try these …
Book Title
Author
Cool! (and other titles)
Rotten School (Series)
Alfie Green (Series)
Stink (Series)
Wayside School (Series)
Marvin Redpost (Series)
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates (Series)
Hank Zipzer (Series)
Billy the Kid (and other titles)
Meet Just William (Series)
Shocking Shooting (and other titles)
Taking the Cat’s Way Home (and other titles)
Cup Final Kid (and other titles)
Sprinters (Reader Series)
Michael Morpurgo
R.L.Stine
Joe O’Brien
Megan McDonald
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar
Liz Pichon
Henry Winkler
Michael Morpurgo
Adapted by Martin Jarvis
Michael Coleman
Jan Mark
Martin Waddell
Various
If you like A GOOD LAUGH, try these …
Book Title
Author
Horrid Henry (Series)
Stink (Series)
Francesca Simon
Megan MacDonald
Recommended Reading List for 2nd Class – 2014
Flat Stanley (Series)
The Twits (and other titles)
Dirty Bertie (Series)
The Giggler Treatment (Series)
My Brother’s Famous Bottom (and other titles)
My Mum’s Going to Explode (and other titles)
Back-To-Front Benjy (and other titles)
Too Ghoul for School (Series)
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
Ricky Ricotta (Series)
Captain Underpants (Series)
Rotten School (Series)
The Evil Hairdo / The Poison Factory
The Diary of a Killer Cat (and other titles)
Walter Speazlebud (Series)
The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth
You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! (Series)
Spy Dog (Series)
Wayside School (Series)
The Killer Underpants (and other titles)
O’Brien Flyers (Reader Series)
Jeff Brown
Roald Dahl
David Roberts
Roddy Doyle
Jeremy Strong
Jeremy Strong
Dick King-Smith
B. Strange
David Almond
Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey
R.L. Stine
Oisin McGann
Anne Fine
David Donohue
Eoin Colfer
Andy Stanton
Andrew Cope
Louis Sachar
Michael Lawrence
Various
If you like MAGIC, try these …
Book Title
Author
Mr Majeika (Series)
George’s Marvellous Medicine
Matilda
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Enchanted Wood (Series)
The Wishing Chair (Series)
Hello? Is Anybody there?
The Boy in the Biscuit Tin (and other titles)
Harry Potter (Series)
The Spook’s Apprentice (Series)
Humphrey Carpenter
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Jostein Gaarder
Heather Dyer
J. K. Rowling
Joseph Delaney
If you like ADVENTURE, try these …
Book Title
Author
Flat Stanley (Series)
Magic Tree House (Series)
Gladiator Boy (Series)
Noah Barleywater Runs Away
Toby Alone (Series)
Tumtum and Nutmeg (Series)
Jeff Brown
Mary Pope Osborne
David Grimstone
John Boyne
Timothee de Fombelle
Emily Bearn
Recommended Reading List for 2nd Class – 2014
Dinosaur Cove (Series)
Beast Quest (Series)
Seaquest (Series)
How to Train Your Dragon (Series)
The Tale of Despereaux
The Monster Story-Teller (and other titles)
The Sandman and the Turtles (and other titles)
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (and other titles)
What’s Their Story? (True Life Series)
Harry Potter (Series)
Rex Stone
Adam Blade
Adam Blade
Cressida Cowell
Kate Di Camillo
Jacqueline Wilson
Michael Morpurgo
Janet & Allan Ahlberg
Oxford (Publishers)
J. K. Rowling
If you like MYSTERY / DETECTIVE, try these …
Book Title
Author
Geronimo Stilton (Series)
The Secret Seven (Series)
The Famous Five (Series)
The Mystery of… (Series)
Jack Stalwart Secret Agent (Series)
Jack Russell Dog Detective (Series)
Astrosaurs (Series)
Spy Dog (Series)
Zac Power (Series)
The Sisters Grimm (Series)
How to Train Your Dragon (Series)
The Diamond Brothers (Series)
The Mummy Snatcher of Memphis (Series)
The Pasta Detectives
G. Stilton
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Darrell & Sally Odgers
Steve Cole
Andrew Cope
H. I. Larry
Michael Buckley
Cressida Cowell
Anthony Horowitz
Natasha Narayan
Andreas Steinhöfel
If you like SCARY Stories, try these …
Book Title
Author
Goosebumps (Series)
Goosebumps Horrorland (Series)
Too Ghoul for School (Series)
The Worst Witch (Series)
Ghosthunters (Series)
The Ghost in Annie’s Room
Scream Street (Series)
Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)
R. L. Stine
R. L. Stine
B. Strange
Jill Murphy
Cornelia Funke
Philippa Pearse
Tommy Donbavand
Lemony Snicket
If you like HISTORY, try these …
Book Title
Author
Recommended Reading List for 2nd Class – 2014
My Story (Historical Children’s Diaries based on
Famine, World Wars,Titanic, etc.)
Magic Tree House (Series)
Candle in the Dark
Gladiator Boy (Series)
Horrible Histories (Series)
Various
Mary Pope Osborne
Adele Geras
David Grimstone
Terry Deary
If you like SPORT books, try these …
Book Title
Author
The Story of Football
50 Soccer Skills
Goal!
The Big Football Frenzy
The Big Cup Collection Omnibus
The Big Football Treble
Football Academy (Series)
Diary of a Rugby Champ
Usborne Young Reading
Usborne
Alan Durant
Rob Childs
Rob Childs
Rob Childs
Tom Palmer
Shamini Flint
If you like POETRY, try these …
Book Title
Author
Something Beginning with P
Runny Babbit (and other titles)
My First Oxford Book of Poems
The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems
Mr Magnolia
Revolting Rhymes
Please Mrs Butler
Read Me and Laugh
A Child’s Garden of Verses
O’Brien Press (Publisher)
Shel Silverstein
John Foster
June Crebbin (Editor)
Quentin Blake
Roald Dahl
Allan Ahlberg
Gaby Morgan (Editor)
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you like the CLASSICS, try these (perhaps in abridged form)…
Book Title
Author
The Secret Garden
Lassie Come Home
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
The Railway Children
Mary Poppins
Paddington Bear (Series)
Winnie the Pooh (Series)
The Family from One-End Street
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Eric Knight
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
E. Nesbit
P. L. Travers
Michael Bond
A. A. Milne
Eve Garnett
Recommended Reading List for 2nd Class – 2014
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Pippi Longstocking
Heidi
Lewis Carroll
Astrid Lindgrin
Johanna Spyri