Outstanding Fiction Books Years 7 to 9
As selected by the HK Battle of the Books Committee
A single shard
Linda Sue Park
Inkheart
Cornelia Funke
Al Capone does my shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
Inside out and back again
Thannha Lai
Among the Hidden
Margaret Peterson
Jacob have I loved
Katherine Patterson
Artichoke Hearts
Sita Brahmachari,
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of
Wendy Mass
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
Journey to the River Sea
Eva Ibbotson
Bloomability
Sharon Creech
Lions of Little Rock
Kristen Levine
Boy
Roald Dahl
Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner
Boy Overboard
Maurice Gleitzman
Molly Moon series
Georgia Byng
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Music on a Bamboo Radio
Martin Booth
City of Masks
Mary Hoffman
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Annabel Pitcher
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Navigating Early
Clare Vanderpool
Dancing in Cadillac Light
Kimberly Willis Holt
Northern Light (aka A Gathering
Jennifer Donnelly
Dodger
Terry Pratchett
Obernewtyn
Isabelle Carmody
Dovey Coe
Frances O’Roark
Once upon a Marigold
Jean Ferris
Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson
Out of the dust
Karen Hesse
Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
Pastworld
Ian Beck
Genesis
Bernard Beckett
Poison most vial
Benedict Carey
Gods and Warriors
Michelle Paver
Red Scarf Girl
Ji-Li Jiang
Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Redwall
Brian Jacques
Habibi
Naomi Shihab Nye
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Harriet the spy
Louise Fitzhugh
Room 13
Robert Swindells
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Shadow of the Minotaur
Alan Gibbons
Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes
Shakespeare's secret
Elise Broach
Hitler’s Daughter
Jackie French
Singing for Mrs Pettigrew
Michael Morpurgo
Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
Soldier Dog
Sam Angus
Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz
Outstanding Fiction Books Years 7 to 9
As selected by the HK Battle of the Books Committee
Summer of my German Soldier
Bette Green
The white mountains (Tripods Vol
John Christopher
Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
The Wind Singer
William Nicholson
The Black book of secrets
F. E. Higgins
The Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula Le guin
The boy in the striped pyjamas
John Boyne
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken
The breadwinner
Deborah Ellis
The Wreckers
Iain Lawrence
The Garbage King
Elizabeth Laird
Tiger Tiger
Lynne Reid Banks
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
The Great Wide Sea
M H Herlong
Trash
Andy Mulligan
The Grimm Legacy
Polly Shulman
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The History Keeper: The Storm
Damian Dibben
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
The Ink-Keeper’s Apprentice
Allan Say
WARP: The Reluctant Assassin
Eoin Colfer
The Kite rider
Geraldine
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
Witch Child
Celia Rees
The Last Book in the Universe
Rodman Philbrick
With a name like love
Tess Hilmo
The last Dragonslayer
Jasper Fforde
Witness
Karen Hesse
The Map of Marvels
David Calcutt
Wolf Brother
Michelle Paver
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
Wonder
R.J Palacio
The Midnight Zoo
Sonya Hartnett
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
The secret garden
Frances Hodgson
The Switch
Anthony Horowitz
The Thief Lord
Cornelia Funke
The Underneath
Kathi Appelt
The View from Saturday
E.L. Konigsburg
The Weight of Water
Sarah Crossan
Copies of all these books are available in the WIS Library