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The Recommended Reading List for Year 6 is shown below or the list is available to download as a PDF document.
Try to read at least two of these books during the term holidays, plus others of your own choice.
Be selective – not all will appeal to you .Other titles by these authors are good, too, if you can’t find these particular books. Keep a record if you can - dates and a BRIEF comment or mark out of 10.
To download the Year 6 Recommended Reading List please click here
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Adams, Richard
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Watership Down
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Albright, Flossie
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My Secret War Diary* (WW2)
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Aiken, Joan
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
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Almond, David
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Skellig
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Bawden, Nina
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Carrie’s War*(WW2)
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Blackman, Malorie
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Noughts and Crosses
Dangerous Reality
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Boyne, John
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas*(WW2)
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Bronte, Charlotte
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Jane Eyre
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
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Carroll, Lewis
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Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
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Crompton, Richmal
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Just William series
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Cross, Gillian
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The Demon Headmaster
The Prime Minister’s Brain
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Fine, Anne
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Goggle-Eyes
The Tulip Touch
Frozen Billy
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Funke, Cornelia
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The Thief Lord
Inkheart trilogy
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Gardner, Sally
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I, Coriander*(Stuarts/Cromwell)
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Garner, Alan
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
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Gavin, Jamila
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Coram Boy
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Green, Roger Lancelyn
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Tales of Ancient Egypt*
Tales of the Greek Heroes*
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Halam, Anne
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Siberia
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Horowitz, Antony
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Stormbreaker series
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Ibbotson, Eva
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The Dragonfly Pool
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Le Guin, Ursula
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The Wizard of Earthsea trilogy
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Magorian, Michelle
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Goodnight Mr Tom*(WW2)
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McCaughrean, Geraldine
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Stop the Train
Casting the Gods Adrift* (Ancient Egypt)
Not The End of the World
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Montgomery, L.M.
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Anne of Green Gables
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Morpurgo, Michael
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Private Peaceful*(WW1)
Out of the Ashes
War Horse*(WW1)
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Paver, Michelle
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Wolf Brother series
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Pearce, Philippa
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Tom’s Midnight Garden
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Pullman, Philip
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Northern Lights trilogy
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Sewell, Anna
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Black Beauty
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Serraillier, Ian
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The Silver Sword*(WW2)
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Shipton, Paul
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The Pig Scrolls*(Ancient Greece)
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Snicket, Lemony (Daniel Handler)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Streatfield, Noel
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Ballet Shoes
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Stroud, Jonathan
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The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy)
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Sutcliffe, Rosemary
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The Eagle of the Ninth*(Ancient Rome)
Dragon Slayer
The Story of Beowulf
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
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The Hobbit
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White, E.B.
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The Sword in the Stone
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Wynne Jones, Diana
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The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
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* These books have a historical base to their storyline
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