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Year 7 Recommended
Reading List
This booklet is full of great books
that you might enjoy. Use it to support your studies, not
just for English but for all subjects; to improve your
reading skills or simply for pleasure. The books have been
divided up by genre (the type of book) to help you select.
It is by no means an exhaustive list; you will find other
books you love.
Please recommend those to your friends and teachers!
‘There is no friend
as loyal as a
book’ Ernest Hemingway
MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE:Lauren Child – Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series)
Frank Cottrell Boyce – Millions, Framed, Cosmic
Siobhan Dowd – The London Eye Mystery
Charlie Higson – Silverfin (Young James Bond series)
Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)
Andrew Lane – Young Sherlock Holmes Series
Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing, The Medusa Project (series)
Michael Morpurgo – Kensuke’s Kingdom
Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke
Louis Sachar – Holes, Small Steps
Marcus Sedgwick – She Is Not Invisible, Blood Red, Snow White
Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike
Lauren St John – Dead Man’s Cove
Mark Walden - HIVE
Recommended by your peers:David Almond – Skellig, My Name is Mina
Lauren Child – Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series)
Sharon Creech – Ruby Holler
Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl Series
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (series)*
Morris Gleitzman – Once, Then, Now, After
Charlie Higson – Silverfin (Young James Bond series)
Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)
Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful
Robert Muchamore - Cherub (series)
R.J Palacio - Wonder
Christopher Paolini – Eragon, Eldest, Brisinar
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)
J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)
Louis Sachar – Holes, Small Steps
Darren Shan – Cirque du Freak Series
Lemony Snicket – A Series of Unfortunate Events
J.R.R Tolkien – The Hobbit
Lara Williamson – A Boy Called Hope
HAVE A GIGGLE…Roald Dahl – Any!
Morris Gleitzman – Extra Time
Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Mark Lowery – Socks Are Not Enough
Liz Pichon – Tom Gates Books
David Walliams – Demon Dentist, Billionaire Boy,
Mr Stink
POETRY101 Poems for Children – Chosen by
Carol Ann Duffy
Poems from the First World War – Gaby
Morgan
Malorie Blackman – Cloud Busting
FANTASYPseudonymous Bosh – The Name Of This Book Is Secret
Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl Series
Cornelia Funke – Inkheart
C.S Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
William Nicholson – The Wind Singer
Christopher Paolini - Eragon (series)
Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights (series)
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)
J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)
Tony Di Terlizzi – The Spiderwick Chronicles
JRR Tolkien -The Hobbit
Phillip Womack – The Broken King
CREEPY TALESCatherine Fisher – The Ghost Box
Neil Gaimon – Coraline, The Graveyard Book
Pete Johnson – The Vampire Fighters
Derek Landy – Skullduggery Pleasant (series)
Jon Mayhew – Mortlock
Tom Palmer – Ghost Stadium
Chris Priestly – Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror
Marcus Sedgwick – My Swordhand is Singing
Darren Shan – Cirque du Freak Series
Darren Shan – The Demonata Series
Ali Sparkes – Finding the Fox (Shapeshifter series)
RL Stein – Goosebumps (series)
Jonathan Stroud - Lockwood & Co. The Screaming Staircase
Robert Swindells – Room 13
NON-FICTIONTony Bradman (editor) – Stories of WW1
Roald Dahl – Boy
Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Glen Murphy – Why is Snot Green? Or How
Loud Can You Burp? (Science)
Minecraft: The Official Construction
Handbook
CLASSICSRichard Adams – Watership Down
Joan Aitken – The Wolves of Willoughby
Chase
J.M Barry – Peter Pan
Nina Bawden – Carrie’s War
Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret
Garden
Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories
C.S Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
Arthur Ransome – Swallows & Amazons
Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
HISTORICAL / OTHER CULTURES:Nina Bawden – Carrie’s War
Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Sally Gardner - I, Coriander
Jamilia Gavin – Coram Boy
Morris Gleitzman – Once, Then, Now, After
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Elizabeth Laird – The Garbage King, Kiss The Dust
Caroline Lawrence – Roman Mysteries
Michelle Margorian – Goodnight Mister Tom or Back Home
Michael Morpurgo – Only Remembered
Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful
Beverly Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth
Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke
Sandi Toksvig – Hitler’s Canary
GIRLS LOVE…Judy Blume - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Sita Brahmachari – Artichoke Heart
Lauren Child – Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort
series)
Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing
Louise Renninson - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal
Snogging
Holly Smale – Geek Girl
Jean Ure - Lemonade Sky
Collette Victor – Head Over Heart
Rebecca Westcott – Violet Ink
Jacqueline Wilson - Little Darlings and any others!
BOYS LOVE…Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl Series
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (series)*
Charlie Higson – Silverfin (Young James Bond series)
Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)
Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
Derek Landy – Skullduggery Pleasant (series)
Simon Mayo - Itch
Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful
Robert Muchamore - Cherub (series – books 1&2)
Christopher Paolini – Eragon, Eldest, Brisinar
Mal Peet – Keeper
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)
J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)
Louis Sachar – Holes, Small Steps
Darren Shan – Cirque du Freak Series
Mark Walden - HIVE
English Challenge 2016-17The challenge:
You have two English challenges to attempt (if you wish to) before the
beginning of May 2017. Both will help you to read more widely and both will
utilise a variety of your reading, writing and speaking and listening skills.
Details for each one are on the next page, but don’t forget to see your
English teacher if you get stuck!
The deadline: Early May 2017. Your work should be ready to present to me by this time at the latest.
However, you may complete your work in stages and submit it before this
date. Make sure you leave yourself enough time – this is a lengthy
challenge!
The Prize:If you complete a challenge you will be entered into a prize draw to win £25
iTunes vouchers.
English Challenge 2016-17Extended English Challenge 1: Story Openings.1. Read the opening paragraphs of five different novels – all must be books on this
reading list! Think about the following questions for each one:
• What do you find interesting about it?
• Has the writer made you want to continue reading? How? What ‘hook’ has been
used?
• Has the writer used any interesting techniques? Repetition? Contrast? Similes?
Why?
• Do you have any questions you would like answered?
• What is your favourite sentence? Why?
2. Choose your favourite opening, type up the first few paragraphs, or the first page,
then annotate your extract with answers to all of the questions you were asked to
consider for part 1. This will need to be printed and presented to your teacher as part of
this challenge.
3. Now you are an expert in story openings you are going to write your own! Can you
create your own first page using the features you’ve just explored? You must include: a
powerful first line, interesting word choices and descriptions and unanswered questions.
How will you ‘hook’ your reader?
4. Once done, type it up and annotate it in the same way as you did before. What
features have you used in your opening? How do they engage your reader?
English Challenge 2016-17Extended English Challenge 2: The News. 1. Find a newspaper article you have enjoyed reading from a broadsheet newspaper.
Cut it out and stick it into the middle of an A3 piece of paper. Your job is to annotate
the features the writer has used. Can you find and label the following:
• The 5 Ws of the story? (Who, What, When, Where, Why)
• The headline? Include a note about which techniques the writer has used in the
headline and how it grabs the reader’s attention.
• A byline?
• An image and caption?
2. Now choose one of the following five headlines:
• Boy drowns in toilet
• Dog caught stealing
• Is it all over?
• Man survives deadly attack
• Deathly blaze at school
Your task is to write a newspaper article about one of these stories.
3. You must then type it up and present it as a newspaper front page. It should include
the following presentational features:
• Name of the paper
• Columns
• Images and captions
• A striking headline
• A byline
• An emboldened first paragraph