YEAR 8
HOME LEARNING
BOOKLET
SUMMER 2014
YOUR HOME LEARNING: SUMMER
Student at the Aylesbury Vale Academy will be challenged at home as well as in school to
ensure that they reach their potential. Year 8 students nationally are required to complete
between 45 minute and 90 minutes of homework every night to ensure that they make
the necessary progress.
This booklet contains your home learning tasks for the Spring Term. It provides a clear
outline of the task set, guidance of when to start it, the hand in date and the week it
should be returned to you. The tasks are varied and have an emphasis on extended study
and independent research. Teachers may set other pieces of homework from time to
time.
CORE SUBJECTS (English, Maths, Science)
Homework for English and Maths will be set on a weekly basis and recorded in the
student planner. Homework for Science will be set every two weeks, be recorded in
student planners and will be available to download from the VLE.
DT, Religious Studies and History will provide homework on a fortnightly basis details of
which can be found on the VLE.
MANAGING YOUR TIME
Each subject has set an Extended Home Learning Task that should take between three to
four hours to complete over a three week period.
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14 July
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7 July
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30 June
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23 June
5
16 June
4
9 June
3
2 June
2
19 May
ART
GEOGRAPHY
DRAMA
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SPANISH
MUSIC
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SeptSep
5 May
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12 May
YEAR 8
SUMMER
21 April
We want you to become self-managers. A good self-manager can organise their time,
prioritise tasks and work to deadlines (all essential life skills). To help with this we’ve
staggered the tasks so you only have to hand in a maximum of two at any one time. The
timetable below shows exactly when each Home Learning task is to be undertaken.
M
M
H
M
H
KEY
Work on your Home Learning Project during these weeks.
H: Hand in your Home Learning Project to your teacher during the lesson you have
with them this week.
M: Your Home Learning Project will normally be marked and Returned during this
week.
ART
Observational Drawing- Architecture
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
By the end of this task you will have:
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Created an observational study of architecture
Illustrated an effective use of tone and form
Looked at shape and detail through accurate recordings and proportions
By the end of this task you will know:
-How to look at perspective and shape
-Use tone and form within an observational drawing
How to complete this task:
Choose a building or a detailed section of architecture such as, windows of a cathedral or
archways. On A4 paper scale your drawing. Create an accurate outline first then develop the
details, patterns, shapes. Using a range of pencil tone, illustrate the light and dark areas to create
a three-dimensional form.
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
Observation
Scale
Detail
Tone
Proportion
Enlarge
Range
Building
Architecture
Form
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
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Working from direct observation
Creating texture and tone effectively
Accurate scale and perspective of shape
Where to find help:
Search engines to research possible images
How parents/guardians can help:
helping to choose a suitable image to study
AYLESBURY VALE ACADEMY
YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
GEOGRAPHY
Tectonics
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
By the end of this task you will have:
Researched a tectonic hazard of your choice
Explained what processes are taking place
Examined the impact these have on a particular place
Predicted what might happen in the future
How to complete this task:
Choose a tectonic hazard (either earthquakes or volcanoes)
Explain clearly what the hazard is that you have chosen, making sure that
you cover the causes of it as well as the effects/impacts/problems it causes
You should also include specific case studies (examples of places where it
has happened
Research potential solutions to any problems you identify and describe
ways in which your chosen issue can be improved/made better
Make sure that the solutions you explain are sustainable and that you
explain how they are sustainable
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
Physical
Human
Earthquake
Impact
Volcano
Impact
Social
Economic
Environmental Sustainable
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
Work on more than one country (perhaps comparing an LEDC to an MEDC)
or more than one hazard
How parents/guardians can help:
Help your child research either earthquakes or volcanoes to gain initial
ideas about what to write about
Help your child with their time management so they don’t leave all their
work until the last minute
AYLESBURY VALE ACADEMY
YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
YEAR 8
Home learning in History
1 Interpretations of Charles the second
2 Anglo Irish relations, 1603-1689
3 The Act of Union, 1707
4 In what ways had Britain changed between 1603 and 1750? ASSESSMENT
5-7 First long term research topic:
Were Native Americans savages and uncivilised before 1776? ASSESSMENT
8 -10 Second long term research topic
Why were there so many `Indian Wars` after 1840? ASSESSMENT
Year 8 RS Homework – reading tasks
Each week H/W will be set in class from the
topics below:
1) How symbols convey ideas, beliefs and
feelings
2) How stories are used to express truth
3) Interpret visual symbols and express your
own ideas
4) Examine the ways in which religious art is
symbolic
5) Examine the ways in which symbolic
actions are used in religion
6) Analyse how different symbols combine to
express belief
7) Assessment
Year 8 drama
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
Physical theatre
By the end of this task you will have:
Identified ‘what is physical theatre?’
By the end of this task you will know:
Some of the skills used to create a physical theatre performance
How to complete this task
Produce a side of A4 extended writing, researching physical theatre. Include:Historical influences
Examples of groups/ company’s
What is a stimulus?
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
Examples of performance possibility’s in class, Stimulus ideas.
Where to find help:
http://www.dramaworks.co.uk/exploringphysicaltheatre.html
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YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Playing by the Rules
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
By the end of this task you will have:
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Researched the rules of your favourite sport
Created an explanation of the pitch/court markings of your favourite sport
By the end of this task you will know:
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The rules and pitch sizes of your favourite sport
How to complete this task:
You are to create a booklet with a front cover saying what the sport is (with a picture). Inside the
booklet you will need to list the rules (think of duration of play, fouls, restarts, extra-time, number
of players) and then include a diagram of the pitch/court and identify the markings. Think of this
as a guide for someone who does not know the sport.
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
Duration
Foul Play
Player
Numbers
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
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A definition of each of the keywords
Examples of the rules being applied
Where to find help:
www.wikipedia.com www.thefa.com www.lta.com www.badmintonengland.com
www.englandhockey.co.uk www.rfu.com www.uka.co.uk
How parents/guardians can help:
Is the information clear and easy to read?
Is the diagram marked out appropriately
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YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
SPANISH Year 8
La comida
National Curriculum Level: 3-6
By the end of this task you will have:
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Consolidated your work on your food and drink and use all three tenses together (past/
present/ future)
By the end of this task you will know:
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How to recognise the past, present and future tense and talk confidently about food and
drink
How to complete this task:
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Complete each of the worksheets which follow. You do not need to complete them all at
once. Try to complete them weekly as we cover each section in lessons.
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
¿Qué desayunas/
meriendas/ cenas?
(What do you eat for
breakfast/ lunch/
dinner)
De primer plato/ De
Segundo plato/ De
postra (As a starter/
main/ dessert…)
Desayuno/
Meriendo/ Ceno…
(For breakfast I eat/
For luch I eat/ For
dinner I eat…)
El fin de semana
pasado… (Last
weekend…)
generalmente/
normalmente
(generally/
normally)
¿Que quieres?
(What would you
like?)
Comí/ Bebí… (I
ate/ drank…)
Me gusta comer/
beber… (I like to
eat/ drink)
un kilo de/ dos
kilos de/ medio
kilo de… (a kilo
of/ 2 kilos of/
half a kilo of…)
Nunca como/
bebo… (I never
eat/ drink…)
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
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Designing your own menu for a restaurant
Using all three tenses successfully
Where to find help:
 www.wordreference.com
www.atantot.co.uk (username: aylesburyvale password: 6222)
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How parents/guardians can help :
Help your child to use an online or paper dictionary.
Encourage them to use dictionaries to look up individual words and avoid online
translators.
AYLESBURY VALE ACADEMY
YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
La comida
Complete the following worksheets to consolidate your work on holidays.
1. ¿Qué desayunas?
What do you eat for breakfast?
2. En el mercado
In the market
3. En el restaurante
In the restaurant
4. Una cena especial
A special dinner
5. ¿Qué te gusta comer?
What do you like to eat?
6. ¡Extra! 1
A healthy diet
7. ¡Extra! 2
Spanish specialities
You will find all the vocabulary you need is at the back of this section.
Remember to use it if you get stuck.
Online dictionary: www.wordreference.com
Word of warning! Do not be tempted to use an online translator such as
Google Translate. It will produce poor quality and often entirely incorrect
work. You can do better yourself!
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YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
MUSIC
Indian Music
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
By the end of this task you will have:
Produced a presentation on the 3 main parts that make up Indian Music
and Identified with the main instruments used in Indian Music
By the end of this task you will know:
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 The difference between a Raga, Tala, and drone
What the main instruments are in Indian Music and their roles and
characteristics
How to complete this task:
Using a method of your choice- Powerpoint/word/publisher/Handwritten you are
to provide information/definitions of the 3 main parts of Indian Music.
Raga/Tala/Drone. You are then to find pictures of and describe the following
instruments. Sitar, Tabla, Tambura and Sarod
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
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An extended piece of writing about Indian music using the key
terminology above as part of the research.
A piece of extension work about Bhangra music
Where to find help:
Your Teacher
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/.
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YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
SCIENCE
Science home work will be set once every two weeks and is available on The Aylesbury Vale
Academy VLE. Copies are also included in this home learning booklet. Students will use their
personalized login and password to access the homework from the VLE.
How to complete homework:
Students can answer the questions in a word document and print it or answer the questions on
lined paper. Students working from the homework booklet can write in the booklet. All homework
will be marked according to the AVA marking policy.
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30 Jun
23 Jun
16 Jun
09 Jun
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14 Jul
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8H explaining the earth (8a+b2)
9G Cleaning up (8a+b2)
02 Jun
19 May
H
(8a+b3)
07 Jul
9J gravity and space (8a+b1) &
12 May
05 May
Homework exercises are differentiated according to ability/ learning outcomes.
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M
9F Sculpture park (8a+b1) &
(8a+b3)
9G Cleaning up (8a+b1 & 8a+b3)
H
9F Sculpture park (8a+b2)
9H Flying materials(8a+b2)
H
H
M
(8a+b1 & 8a+b3)
9D Crime scene investigation
(8a+b2) (8a +b1) & (8a +b3)
KEY
Work on your Home Learning Project during these weeks.
H: Hand in your Home Learning Project to your teacher during the lesson you have
with them this week.
M: Your Home Learning Project will normally be
H
Where to find help:
https://www.samlearning.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/
How parents/guardians can help:
Practise spelling the keywords with your child.
Help your child research definitions for the keywords.
9C: Marking Grid plants
Task
objective
1 Picture dictionary
Know what the key words for this topic
mean
2. List of objects made
from plants – where do
they come from?
Know what we use plants for
3. Leaflet to say why
organic farming is good
Ideas about organic farming and arguments
for buying organic food
4/5/6
Summarising your knowledge of plants and
poster/cartoon/newspaper how/why they photosynthesise to gain
about plants
energy for growth and repair.
Target :
Met?
Topic Homework –
9C: PLANTS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS (ON THE FARM)
You MUST do the first 3 tasks, and then CHOOSE one from task 4,5 and 6.
Task 1:
Make a ‘Picture Dictionary’ of the key words for the topic (given below). You should have simple, easy to
understand definitions for each word.
Photosynthesis
Starch
Iodine
Chloroplast
Palisade cell
Light
Water
Sun
Chlorophyll
Glucose
Oxygen
Biomass
Root hair cell
Respiration
Nitrogen
Potassium
Phosphorus
pesticide
Fertiliser
Minerals
Fertiliser
Task 2:
Make a list of everything in your house you can find that comes from PLANTS! (look at food, medicine,
furniture, etc.). You could include pictures if you were very good! Can you find out WHERE the plants
come from?
Task 3: Design a leaflet for a supermarket chain showing why ORGANIC farming is good. What problems
can artificial fertilisers and pesticides cause?
Task 4
Draw a poster to show what
photosynthesis is and where it
happens in a plant
Or Task 5
Make a Cartoon strip to show
the life of a plant…
…include the jobs of the leaf,
root, stem and flower
Or Task 6
Write a newspaper or magazine
article Called ‘The Science of
Plants’. Include pictures and
diagrams and try to explain the
main things you have learnt in this
unit.
9J topic homework – gravity and space
Task 1:
9Gb(1)
9G:
Acid rain
?
The cards show the different stages in the formation of acid rain and some of its effects.
1 Cut out the cards and arrange them on a piece of paper to form a flow chart. The shape of your flow
chart should be something like this:
2 Show your flow chart to your teacher and then stick the cards down.
3 Draw lines to join the cards.
• recall some of the causes and effects of acid rain.
A
B
Fish die in acidic lakes.
C
Acidic gases dissolve in moisture in the air.
D
Acid rain reacts with chemicals in the soil
to produce poisonous compounds.
Nitrogen oxides are produced by car engines.
9Gb(6)
Pollution and food webs 1
E
F
The dissolved gases make rain more acidic.
G
Acid rain falls onto the land and runs into lakes and
rivers.
H
Acid rain speeds up the weathering of
rocks and corrosion of metals.
Plants become unhealthy.
I
J
Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide and
sulphur dioxide.
Acid rain washes some mineral salts out of the soil.
The diagram shows a food web for a lake. The only organisms that do not live completely in the
water are the herons, the frogs and the ducks.
The lake becomes more acidic because of acid rain. This harms most of the organisms that live in the
water, including the microbes that make dead organisms decay. It does not directly harm the herons,
frogs and ducks.
1 a Which gases in the air cause acid rain?
___________________________________________________________________________
b Describe two ways in which the amounts of these gases in the air can be reduced.
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2 a Why doesn’t the acid lake affect the ducks directly?
___________________________________________________________________________
b After a year the population of ducks living on the lake has gone down. Explain why this has
happened.
___________________________________________________________________________
3 The lake is not acidic enough to harm the perch directly. Why will the numbers of perch go down?
____________________________________________________________________________
4 Give two reasons why the population of snails in the lake would get smaller.
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
5 After a year there are more dead organisms on the lake bed that have not decayed. Give two reasons
for this.
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
• recall the causes of acid rain and how acid rain can be reduced
• describe some of the effects of acid rain on food webs.
9Fa(6)
Which metal is best? 1
Name
The table
_________________________________________
gives information about three metals
Class
that_______________
can be used for
Date
sculptures
_________________
or construction.
Look at the data and then answer the questions.
Metal
Property
aluminium
copper
iron
cost
medium
most expensive
cheapest
conduction of electricity
good
good
good
density (how heavy it is for its
volume?)
low
high
high
melting point
medium high
high
high
colour
pale grey
orange/brown
grey
reaction in the atmosphere
very little because a
protective coating forms
on the surface
slowly gets a black or
green coating when it
reacts
rusts in damp air unless it
is painted or protected in
some other way
1 Which metal:
a is the most expensive? _______________________
b would be easiest to melt? _______________________
c is the most lightweight? _______________________
2 Imagine you were choosing a metal for a sculpture.
a Suggest which two properties might be most useful in helping you decide
which was the best metal to use. ______________________________,
______________________________
b Choose one of these properties and explain why it is useful. _______________________
c Suggest which property would be no use at all for helping you decide. __________________
d Explain your answer. ________________________________________________________
3 For each question, put a tick in the correct column to say whether the question can be answered by
doing scientific experiments.
Question
a Which metal is strongest?
b Which metal is most expensive?
c Which metal is most attractive?
This is a scientific
question
This is not a scientific
question
d Which metal is best to use for a sculpture?
e Which metal corrodes quickest in the atmosphere?
• obtain relevant information from a table • use information to make comparisons
• identify questions that science cannot answer.
9Hb(1)
Fantastic fibres
Name _________________________________________ Class _______________ Date _________________
1 Bakelite™ was the first widely used synthetic polymer. It was used for many different things.
Match up the uses of Bakelite ™ with the property that is important for that use.
electrical switches
heat insulator
cups
stiff and strong
propeller
electrical insulator
picnic plates
tough, not brittle
saucepan handles
waterproof and stiff
2 Kevlar® is a polymer that is used in bullet-proof vests. Match up the properties of Kevlar® fibres with the
reasons why that property is useful.
very strong
can be woven into cloth
flexible
the bullet-proof vest is light enough to wear
light
does not break if hit by a bullet
3 Match up these sentence halves to show how composite materials work.
The fibres …
… keeps the material the right
shape and resists squashing forces.
The matrix …
… are very strong and resist pulling
forces on the material.
• match up the properties of a material with its uses
• recall what composite materials are.
9Lb
9L – ‘Dam it’ topic homework
All the photographs in this worksheet are showing effects that can be explained using ideas about
particles and air pressure.
Write a short paragraph for each photo to explain what is happening. You can also add labels to
the photos if wish, or add your own diagrams.
1a) Why does a balloon get bigger if you blow into it?
What happens if you put too much air in?
b) You cannot ‘pull' water, so how can you drink through a straw?
c)
The backing of this hook is made of flexible plastic. It has been pressed against the wall, not
stuck on with glue.
How does it stay on the wall?
2. label these diagrams with the correct words
a)
This hammer is being used to pull out a nail.
effort
b)
force on nail
This woman is using a spade as a lever.
pivot
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effort
force on soil
pivot
c). The bottle opener is being used to take the lid of a bottle.
effort
force on top
pivot
d) This machine is being used to punch holes in paper.
effort
force on paper
pivot
9Ld
Dam opinions
3. copy this paragraph into your books and fill in the gaps: use the words in the box to help you:
The __________________ effect of a force is called a moment.
The __________________ is bigger if:
 the force is __________________
 the force is __________________ the pivot.
You can __________________ a moment using this formula:
moment = __________________ × distance from __________________
The __________________ for moments are newton metres (_________________).
An object is __________________ when the clockwise and anticlockwise moments are
_________________.
balanced
moment
bigger
Nm
calculate
N/m
pivot
closer to
smaller
different
the same
force
further from
turning
unit
4. Imagine he government wanted to build a dam in Chalfont St Peter! What opinion would you
have on this?
These people have different opinions about building dams.
What do you think about their opinions?
I know big cities need water supplies, but
why should people in the countryside
have to suffer all the inconvenience of a
dam being built just so city dwellers can
waste water in dishwashers and watering
their gardens?
It is really bad for those people who will
have to move away from their homes
Studies have shown that being in natural
surroundings, such as the countryside, is beneficial to
people's health and well-being. This reservoir will
cover a huge area that people currently use for
enjoying the countryside.
We've GOT to use renewable resources for
generating electricity, and a hydroelectric
scheme will help with this. The possible
environmental damage to the area that will
be flooded is not important compared to the
damage that will happen to ALL
environments if climate change is as bad as
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I've always wanted to run a sailing school
– the new reservoir will let me do this
locally! Great idea!
A lot of workers would come to the area
and stay for years. It could be really good
for my restaurant business – lots of extra
trade!
Can you imagine the amount of upheaval
caused by all those construction trucks
going through our countryside?
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KEY STAGE 3
SUGGESTED
READING LIST
SUMMER 2014
Key Stage 3
English Department
Suggested Reading List
Extensive reading is the key to improving all aspects of your English work, and it
benefit you in other curriculum areas too. More importantly, you may be inspired,
able to relax and your imagination will flourish…
Below is a list of book, organised into sections with very brief comments about
them. This list is just a starting point – there is a wealth of good books being
published all the time. We have tried to select a variety of books so that you will
be able to find a book that you will really enjoy. You will be able to find many of
these in the library, but you may have to search a little further afield for some.
Recommend books you your friends and swap books you have enjoyed with each
other. When you have read a book you have enjoyed, look for other titles by the
same author.
Adventure
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Exodus
Julie Bertanga
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Hacker
Storm Catchers
Millions
The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the
Night-time
Silverfin
Malorie Blackman
Tim Bowler
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Mark Haddon
Anthony Horowitz
Eva Ibbotson
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Scorpia
Journey to the River
Sea
Star of Kazan
Thunder and
Lightnings
Underworld
Trash
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Windsinger
William Nicholson
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Seeker
Bridge to Terabithia
Johnny and the Bomb
Brother in the Land
William Nicholson
Katherine Patterson
Terry Pratchett
Robert Swindells
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Charlie Higson
Eva Ibbotson
Jan Mark
Catherine Macphail
Andy Mulligan
A quest for survival and a search for a
new world
A computer hacking adventure
Kidnap and Mystery
Adventure and dealing with grief
A murder mystery like no other
James Bond is back, aged 13. The
original superspy
The M16 adventure spy series
An adventure along the Amazon
A family mystery
An adventure mystery – all about
planes.
A school trip that goes wrong…
Three friends find something
extraordinary in the trash. From that
moment on they are hunted without
mercy
Social hierarchy and family Love the
first in the Wind on Fire trilogy (Slaves
of the Mastery and Firesong)
First in another trilogy
An adventure mystery
A time travelling adventure
What will happen to the earth in the
event of a nuclear attack?
Classics
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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The Secret Garden
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Anne of Green Gables
Frances HodgsonBurnett
L.M. Montgomery
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Heidi
Johanna Spyri
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Treasure Island
Rebecca
R. L. Stevenson
Daphne Du Maurier
The story of a young girl’s passage to
adulthood in the early nineteenth
century
An adventure into a secret garden
showing that people can change…
The first of a series of books about an
orphan girl and her new life
Set in Switzerland, a story of friendship
and family
A pirate adventure
A young woman tries to unravel the
mysteries of her husband’s first wife
Fantasy
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Skellig
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Midget
Tim Bowler
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Basilisk
The Dark is Rising
series
N. M. Brown
Susan Cooper
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Ingo
Dark Ground
Helen Dunmore
Gillian Cross
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Shadow of the
Minotaur
Alan Gibbons
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Across the Nightingale
Floor
Liam Hearn
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Doomspell
The Snow Spider
Cliff McNish
Jenny Nimmo
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Philippa Pearce
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Tom’s Midnight
Garden
Northern Lights
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Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
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Harry Potter
David Almond
Philip Pullman
J. K. Rowling
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Secret Songs
Lord of the Rings
Jane Stamp
J.R.R. Tolkein
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The Dreamwalker’s
Child
Steve Voake
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Mirror Dreams
Catherine Webb
Historical
A strange man found in a garage is the
start of an angelic mystery
Unable to speak, but powerful; family
conflict
A story of two worlds
A series of 5 books, beginning with
Over Sea, Under Stone – a story of a
quest
Mermaids and coping with loss
A boy is forced to survive in a
dangerous world…with a twist
A gripping, fantasy thriller – Phoenix
hates his new home and the new school
where he is bullied
The first of a trilogy – a mystery in the
Orient (Grass for his Pillow and
Brilliance of the Moon)
A magical fantasy
The first of a trilogy (Emlyn’s Moon and
The Chestnut Soldier) about a boy
magician
A time travelling adventure
A trilogy exploring authority and other
worlds (The Subtle Knife and The Amber
Spyglass)
Set in a world where moving cities
trawl the globe. Tom and Hester have
been thrown out of theirs
A series of books about the life of a
wizard as he moves through Hogwarts
school
A story of love, Silkies, the sea…
A trilogy about a quest to rid the world
of the power of a ring
Sam Palmer is knocked off a bike and
wakes in Aurobon, a parallel world
where insects are used as war
machines.
A magical adventure with wizards
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Carrie’s War
PoW
Kezzie
Remembrance
King of Shadows
Nina Bowden
Martin Booth
Theresa Breslin
Theresa Breslin
Susan Cooper
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Arthur and the Seeing
Stone
The Kin
Children of Winter
Kevin CrossleyHolland
Peter Dickinson
Berlie Doherty
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Street Child
Berlie Doherty
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The Diary of Anne
Frank
Coram Boy
Stars of Fortune
Anne Frank
I Am David
When Hitler Stole Pink
Rabbit
The Silver Sword
Ann Holm
Judith Kerr
Last Train from
Kummersdorf
Lesley Wilson
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Jamilla Gavin
Cynthia Harnett
Ian Serraillier
Evacuation and adventure during WW2
A novel of conflict and adventure
Mining and transportation
The story of two families in WW1
A time travel adventure into the work of
Shakespeare
The first of a trilogy set in Medieval
England
A historical family adventure
Set in Eyan – a village isolated by the
plague in the 1600s
The story behind the foundation of Dr
Barnado’s children’s homes
The diary of a Jewish girl in hiding
during WW2
Orphans, the Coram hospital, slaves…
What happened when Elizabeth I was
imprisoned by Mary I?
A journey from imprisonment
A humorous adventure story from
WW2
A journey to escape from attack during
WW2
Considers the events of the WW2 from
the perspective of two young
Real Life Issues
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Soundtrack
Pig-heart Boy
Julie Bertagna
Malorie Blackman
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Noughts and Crosses
Malorie Blackman
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume
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Blubber
Are you there God?
It’s me, Margaret
Walk Two Moons
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Refugee Boy
Benjamin
Zephaniah
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Anne Fine
Anne Fine
Fynn
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Goggle Eyes
Flour Babies
Mister God, This is
Anna
Love Aubrey
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Inventing Elliot
The Edge
Graham Garner
Alan Gibbons
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Elizabeth Laird
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Red Sky in the
Morning
Jake’s Tower
Girl Missing
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Double Image
Pat Moon
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Daughter
Isobel Moore
Sharon Creech
Suzanne LaFleur
Elizabeth Laird
Sophie Mackenzie
Dealing with grief and loss
Heart transplant, animal rights, life and
death
Racism and prejudice from a different
perspective (Knife Edge and Checkmate)
Bullying and family issues
Friendships and growing up; thoughts
about God and the world
Dealing with grief and family life, with a
mystery unfolding
Story of an Ethiopian boy, whose
parents abandon him in London to save
his life
Living with separated parents/divorce
Parenting and family values
A conversation about life and the
universe
A young girl recovering from the
tragedy of losing her father and sister in
an accident
Bulling
A boy and his mother escape from a life
of fear in an abusive relationship
The impact of having a disabled baby
brother
Step families/abuse
Lauren has always known she was
adopted but is it possible she was
snatch from her family at birth?
Coping with loss and mental health
issues
The life of a young girl caring for a
mother with Alzheimer’s Disease
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The War of Jenkins’
Ear
Why The Whales
Came
Sisterland
Michael Morpurgo
My Sister Live On The
Mantelpiece
Stop Pretending
Annabel Pitcher
Michael Morpurgo
Linda Newbery
Sonya Sones
Boarding school, acceptance and the
question of belief
Dealing with death, separation,
prejudice
A parallel sorry between WW2 and the
present
A young boy’s struggle to make sense
of the loss that tore his family apart
Poems exploring the feelings of a girl
whose sister suffers from mental illness
Stories from other cultures
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Little Soldier
The Alchemist
Bernard Ashley
Paulo Coelho
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Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis
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Daughter of the Wind
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Under the Persimmon
Tree
Lost for Words
The Other Side of
Truth
Chinese Cinderella
Zlata’s Diary
Thura’s Diary
AK
White Stranger
Suzanne FisherStaples
Suzanne FisherStaples
Elizabeth Lutzeier
Beverley Naidoo
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The Wheel of Surya
Jamilla Gavin
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The Garbage King
No Turning Back
Motherland
Elizabeth Laird
Beverley Naidoo
Vineeta
Vijayaraghavan
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Adeline Yen Mah
Zlata Filipovic
Thura Al-Windawi
Peter Dickinson
Susan Gates
Bullying, family, racism
A boy’s quest for the Elixir of life – lots
of thinking required
Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban –
first in a trilogy
Issues facing a Muslim desert girl
Afghanistan under the Taliban
Moving to England
Refugees and immigration – read the
sequel – Web of Lies
The life of an orphan child in China
A diary from war torn Eastern Europe
A diary from war torn Iraq
The story of a boy soldier
How do we view the values and morals
of people from different backgrounds
and cultures
First in trilogy about life between India
and UK
Street children in South Africa
Street children in South Africa
A girl sent to India to explore the
possibilities for an arranged marriage
Other authors you might like:
Mikey Brookes and Cas Pearce – The Dream Keeper Chronicles
Meg Cabot
Cassandra Clare
Suzanne Collins
Joseph Delaney
Sarah Dessen
Cornelia Funke
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl – Beautiful Creatures
John Green
Cathy Hopkins
Anthony Horowitz
Hilary Mckay
Stephanie Meyer
Louise Rennison
Rick Riordan
Veronica Roth
Darren Shan
Lemony Snicket
Pet Torres
Jacqueline Wilson