As Year 8 students you will be reading even more challenging plays, novels and poems during curriculum time. The reading list below should help you prepare for effectively for the next level of academic challenge.
Try to read as many classic 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 new English teacher. Below are some suggestions. These include titles for a range of reading abilities, so there is something for everyone. Best of all, these books are all free to borrow on RM books. See below for details on how to access these. Have fun and keep reading!
Miss Victor, Head of English
Classic titles suggestions:
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Peter Pan J.M Barrie
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L Frank Baum
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds H.G Wells
Black Beauty Anna Sewell
Dracula Bram Stoker
Anne of Green Gables L.M Montgomery
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Railway Children E. Nesbitt
Poems Wilfred Owens
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library
A Child’s Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson
Poems W.B Yeats
A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales and other poems Geoffrey Chaucher
The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning
Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake
The Tempest William Shakespeare
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Accessing free books on RM books (on PC, tablet, smart phone etc)
1. Google ‘RM unify’
2. Type in student email and password
3. Click on RM books in top, left hand corner
4. Click on ‘school library’ tab