Spring term 2015
You have impressed your English teachers throughout last term with some of your reading choices. As Year 8 continues you will be reading even more challenging plays, novels and poems during curriculum time. The reading list below should help to continue to support you with the growing level of academic challenge in English. However, more importantly they are simply excellent reads which we hope you will enjoy.
Try to read as many of the titles listed below as you can. If you read a book and write a detailed review on it, you will be rewarded with 10 house points. Please hand all completed reviews to your English teacher. Below are some suggestions which this term have been organised by genre. These include titles for a range of reading abilities, so there is something for everyone.
Have fun and keep reading!
Miss Victor.
Head of English
Historical
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
Sweet Clarinet – James Riordan
Roman Mysteries – Caroline Lawrence
Tiger, Tiger – Lynne Reid Banks
Pompeii – Robert Harris
Petals in the Ashes – Mary Hooper
I Coriander – Sally Gardner
No Shame, No Fear – Ann Turnbull
Teen Girl
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen – Dyan Sheldon
Saffy’s Angel – Hilary Mckay
Mates, Dates… – Cathy Hopkins
Skinny Melon and Me – Jean Ure
Georgia Nicholson series – Louise Rennison
What a Week to Make A Stand etc – Rosie Rushton
Feeling Sorry for Celia; Finding Cassie Crazy – Jaclyn Moriarty
Bhangra Babes – Narinder Dhami
Freaky Friday – Mary Rogers
The Princess Diaries; Missing series; The Mediator series – Meg Cabot
Classics
Swiss Family Robinson – J.D. Weiss
The Borrowers – Mary Norton
Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
Little Women – Louisa M. Alcott
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Animals
Deptford Histories etc – Robin Jarvis
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Lion Boy – Zizou Corder
Redwall Series – Brian Jacques
My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
School
Skinny Melon and Me – Jean Ure
Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling
Biography-Personal Stories-Real Life- Other Cultures
A Small Person Far Away; When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr
Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
Boy – Roald Dahl
A Child Called ‘It’ – Dave Pelzer
Garbage King – Elizabeth Laird
Fire Eaters – David Almond
Martyn Pig – Kevin Brooks
I am David – Anne Holm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
Detective Stories
The Body in the Library etc – Agatha Christie
The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart series) – Philip Pullman
Montmorency – Eleanor Updale
Horror
Wicca – Cate Tiernan
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray – Chris Wooding
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
The Saga of Darren Shan – Darren Shan
Other Worlds- Fantasy
Moon Riders – Teresa Tomlinson
Cry of the Icemark – Stuart Hill
The Blade of Fire – Stuart Hill
Stravaganza Series – Mary Hoffman
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
The Edge Chronicles – Chris Stewart & Philip Riddell
The Goosegirl – Shannon Hale
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
Shadowmancer – G.P. Taylor
Mr Monday; Sabriel – Garth Nix
The Supernaturalist – Eoin Colfer
Funny
Georgia Nicholson Series – Louise Rennison
Millions – Frank Cottrell Boyce
Action
Gone series – Michael Grant
Raven’s Gate series – Anthony Horowitz
The Devil’s Breath – David Gilman