We (the Year 5 teachers) are creating a reading list for children, who are looking for new, challenging and exciting reading books… and we need your help (both parents and children)!
Here are a few suggestions:
| Water Wings | Morris Gleitzman |
| Blabbermouth | Morris Gleitzman |
| Belly Flop | Morris Gleitzman |
| The Diddakoi | Rumer Godden |
| Stormbreaker | Anthony Horowitz |
| Walter and Me | Michael Morpurgo |
| Friend or Foe | Michael Morpurgo |
| Mister Monday | Garth Nix |
| Aquila | Andrew Norris |
| Harry and the Wrinklies | Alan Temperley |
| The Story of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson |
| Double Act | Jacqueline Wilson |
| Northern Lights | Philip Pullman |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| Dragon Rider | Cornelia Funke |
| Journey To Jo’burg | Beverly Naidoo |
| Journey to the RiverSea | Eva Ibbotson |
| The Owl Service | Alan Garner |
| Pig Heart Boy | Malorie Blackman |
| Tom’s Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| The Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K Le Guin |
| Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Joan Aiken |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson-Burnett |
| Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| Anne of Green Gables | L M Montgomery |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Holes | Louis Sachar |
| There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom | Louis Sachar |
| Vicky Angel | Jacqueline Wilson |
| The Other Side of Truth | Beverley Naidoo |
| Harry Potter series | J K Rowling |
Parents and carers, are there books you remember fondly from your childhood?
Children, have you just read a book and can’t wait to discuss it with your friends?
Send us recommendations in the comments, please.
Selsdon - Year 5 