reading list - Ermysted`s Grammar School

READING LIST
Years 7 and 8
“The more you read, the more things you will
know. The more that you learn the more places
you will go.” Dr Seuss
Ermysted’s Grammar School Library
Books not to miss!
These are books which many of you will have met at
your primary schools or at home when you were
younger. Some of them have become such an important part of English Literature that you might find
that you don’t understand basic references unless you
know them. Others, more recent, are just easier to
read than the books you are reading now. Either way,
they are fun to read and it would be pity to miss them.
The BFG
The Diary of Anne Frank
Stig of the Dump
The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe
Goodnight Mister Tom
The Railway Children
The Silver Sword
The Time and Space of
Uncle Albert
Roald Dahl
Anne Frank
Clive King
Clive S Lewis
Michelle Magorian
Edith Nesbit
Ian Serraillier
Russell Stannard
Recent Releases
New Series to the library
Chris D’Lacey
Michael Grant
Chris Mould
James Patterson
Sam Sutton
Fire Within
Gone
Something Wickedly Weird
Maximum Ride
Special Agent
New Books in the library
Humour
Roald Dahl
Morris Gleitzman
James Herriott
Carl Hiaasen
Tom Holt
Revolting Rhymes, The Twits
Misery Guts, Worry Warts
It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet
Hoot
You Don’t Have to be evil to work
here, but it helps.
Paul Jennings
Quirky Tales
Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Michael Lawrence Killer Underpants, Toilet of Doom
Spike Milligan
The Bible, the Old Testament
according to Spike Milligan
Terry Pratchett
A Hat Full of Sky
Sue Townsend
Diaries of Adrian Mole
Poetry
Wendy Cope The Funny Side:101 humorous poems
Michael Roberts
The Faber Book of Comic Verse
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Douglas Adams
David Almond
Isaac Asimov
Jean Auel
Edward Blishen
Ray Bradbury
Melvin Burgess
Susan Cooper
Robert Cormier
A.M Crawford
Chris D’Lacey
Terrance Dicks
David Eddings
Charlie Fletcher
Neil Gaiman
Lucy &
Stephen Hawking
George R R Martin
China Mieville
Garth Nix
Christopher Paolini
Terry Pratchett
Philip Pullman
Philip Reeve
Marcus Sedgewick
Paul Stewart
Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy
The Fire-eaters
Foundation, I robot
The Valley of the Horses
Science fiction stories
Fahrenheit 451
Bloodsong
Over Sea, Under Stone
I am the Cheese
Titan Prophecy
Fire within series
The Wollagong Incident
The Hidden City
Iron hand
Neverwhere
George’s Secret Key to the
Universe
Song of Ice and Fire series
Kraken
Sabriel, Shade’s children
Eragon
The Carpet People
Northern Lights
A Darkling Plain
The Dark Horse
Freeglader
HORROR
Melvin Burgess
Joseph Delaney
Alan Gibbons
Susan Hill
Anthony Masters
Chris Ryan
Marcus Sedgwick
Darren Shan
Robert L Stine
Robert Westall
Bloodtide
The Spook’s Apprentice
The Demon Assassin
Scared to Death
The Woman in Black
Wicked
Ultimate Weapon, Hit List
My Swordhand is Singing
Dark Calling, Hell’s Heroes
Goosebumps
Shades of Darkness
Graphic Novels
Raymond Briggs
Sid Jacobson
Art Spiegelman
H.G Wells
When the Wind Blows
The Illustrated 9/11
Commission Report
The Complete Maus
War of the worlds
Multicultural
Laurie Halse Anderson
Lynne Reid Banks
Farrukh Dhondy
Alan Gibbons
Linzi Glass
Elizabeth Laird
Tanya Landman
Ali Lewis
Andy Mulligan
Beverley Naidoo
Mildred Taylor
Fiona Waters (ed)
Chains
One More River
Come to Mecca
East End at your Feet
Caught in the Crossfire
Ruby Red
The Garbage King
Apache
Crusade
Everybody Jam
Trash
The Other Side of Truth
Web of Lies
Roll of Thunder, hear my Cry
Poems from many Cultures
People
Kevin Brooks
Sharon Creech
Mark Haddon
Annabel Pitcher
Louis Sachar
Lemony Snickert
Rosemary Sutcliff
Jenny Valentine
Lucas
Ruby Holler
The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the NightTime
My Sister Lives on the
Mantelpiece
Holes
A Series of Unfortunate
Events
Eagle of the Ninth
Finding Violet Park
Books on Sport
Lance Armstrong
David Beckham
Bob Cattell
Jeremy Clarkson
Andrew Flintoff
Dan Freedman
Alan Gibbons
John Griffiths
Lewis Hamilton
Richard Hammond
Michael Hardcastle
Heinrich Harrer
Tom Palmer
Mal Peet
James Riordan
Gary Rimmer
Andrew Strauss
Graham Watson
Jonny Wilkinson
Every Second Counts
My Side
Bound for Glory
Glory in the Cup
Driven to Distraction
Ashes to Ashes
The Kick Off
Divided We Fall
Injury Time
Rugby’s Strangest Matches
My Story
Or is that just Me?
They All Count, Penalty
The White Spider: the
story of the North face of
the Eiger
Foul Play
Keeper
Young Oxford book of
Sports stories
Football Freaking
Testing Times: in pursuit
of the Ashes
The Tour de France
and its heroes
My World
Biography/Autobiography
See also Books on Sport
Don’t forget—Biography—the account of the life of a
person written by someone else.
Autobiography—the account of the life of a person
written by that person.
Patrick Barclay
Christie Brown
James Caan
Gerald Durrell
Anne Frank
Mark Hughes
Ilse Koehn
Kevin Pietersen
Rio Ferdinand
Sean Smith
hind
Mourinho: anatomy of a winner
My Left Foot
From Brick Lane to Dragons’
Den
My Family and other Animals
Diary
Lewis Hamilton
Mischling, second degree: my
Childhood in Nazi Germany
Crossing the Boundary
Rio: my story
J K Rowling: the genius beHarry Potter
War
Rachel Anderson
John Boyne
Aidan Chambers
Anne Holm
Judith Kerr
The War Orphan
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Postcards from No-Man’s
Land
I am David
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Michelle Magorian
Michael Morpurgo
James Riordan
Marcus Sedgwick
Ian Serraillier
Robert Swindells
Sandi Toksvig
Robert Westall
Goodnight Mister Tom
Private Peaceful
Friend or Foe, War Horse
When the Guns Fall Silent
The Foreshadowing
The Silver Sword
Blitzed
Hitler’s Canary
The Machine Gunners
Award Winners
David Almond
Tim Bowler
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Theresa Breslin
Aidan Chambers
Sharon Creech
Gillian Cross
Berlie Doherty
Siobhan Dowd
Anne Fine
Neil Gaiman
Margaret Mahy
Beverley Naidoo
Patrick Ness
Michelle Paver
Mal Peet
Philip Pullman
Philip Reeve
Meg Rosoff
Jessica Wallace
Robert Westall
Skellig
River Boy
Millions
Whispers in the Graveyard
Postcards from No Man’s Land
Ruby Holler
Wolf
Dear Nobody
Bog Child
Goggle-eyes
The Graveyard Book
The Haunting
The Other Side of Truth
Ask and the answer
A Monster Calls
Ghost Hunter
Tamar
Northern Lights
Here Lies Arthur
Just In Case
Out of shadows
The Machine Gunners
Old Favourites
Stan Barstow
Joby
F Hodgson Burnett
Enid Blyton
Betsy Byars
Gillian Cross
Roald Dahl
The Secret Garden
Famous Five
The Midnight Fox
The Demon Headmaster
Fantastic Mr Fox
George’s Marvellous Medicine
Moonfleet
I am David
Biggles collection
Goodnight Mr Tom
The Amazing Maurice and his
Educated Rodents
Swallows and Amazons
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone
Holes
The Silver Sword
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Eagle of the Ninth
The Secret Diary
of Adrian Mole
J Meade Falkner
Ann Holm
W.E Johns
Michelle Magorian
Terry Pratchett
Arthur Ransome
J K Rowling
Louis Sachar
Ian Serraillier
Lemony Snickert
Rosemary Sutcliff
Sue Townsend
Classics
Lewis Carroll
William Caxton (tr)
Richmal Crompton
Charles Dickens
Alice in Wonderland
Aesop’s Fables
Just William
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes collections
The Lost World
Leon Garfield
Smith
Charles Kingsley
The Water Babies
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
Just So stories
C S Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
Jack London
The Call of the Wild, White fang
E Nesbit
The Railway Children
Robert Louis
Treasure Island
Stevenson
J R R Tolkein
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
What makes a book a "classic," in your opinion?
Must it stand the test of time? Be highly popular? Say something important? Change lives? Deal
with life and death issues? Have many books
written about it? What do you think?
For our purposes here, perhaps the simplest
definition is the most useful: a book which has been
found by multiple generations of readers to be of
considerable value, merit, and enjoyment.
Suzanne Collins
Ian Fleming
Jack Higgins
Charles Higson
Anthony Horowitz
Sam Hutton
Sophie McKenzie
Andy McNabb
Robert Muchamore
Kenneth Oppel
James Patterson
Rick Riordan
Chris Ryan
Robert Swindells
Robert Westall
Hunger Games Trilogy
Goldfinger
Sure Fire
BloodFever, Hurricane Gold
Necropolis
Point Blanc, Alex Rider series
Special Agent Series
The Medusa Project Series
Boy Soldier, Payback
Bravo Two Zero, Avenger
The Recruit & Cherub Series
Skybreaker
Maximum Ride Series
Percy Jackson
Zero Option
Room 13
Stormsearch
Historical
K. Crossley-Holland Arthur and the Seeing Stone
Jamila Gavin
Coram Boy
G. McCaughrean
The Kite Rider
Michael Morpurgo
Arthur High King of Britain
Gerald Morris
Sir Gawain his squire and his lady
Michelle Paver
Wolf Brother
Spirit Walker
Philip Pullman
Ruby in the Smoke
Rosemary Sutcliff
Eagle of the Ninth
Non-fiction books
Any books from the following series:
Horrible History: eg
Terry Deary
The Terrible Tudors
The Vicious Vikings
The Rotten Romans
The Awesome Eqyptians
Horrible Geography: eg
Anita Ganeri
Desperate Deserts
Freaky Peak
Violent Volcanoes
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Bloomin’ Rainforests
Horrible Science: eg
Nick Arnold
Murderous Maths: eg
Kjartan Poskitt
Blood, Bones and
Body Bits
Sounds Dreadful
Angry Animals
The Mean and Vulgar Bits
The Essential Arithmeticks
The Perfect Sausage
More Murderous Maths
The Murderous Maths of
Everything
Others
Roger Lancelyn Green
L and S Hawking
Russell Stannard
Tales of Ancient Greece
Tales of Troy
George’s Secret Key to
the Universe
George’s Cosmic
Treasure Hunt
Uncle Albert and the
Quantum Quest
Black Holes and Uncle
Albert
Some web sites about children’s books and reading
Which you may like to visit:
www.cool-reads.co.uk
www.mrsmad.com
www.booktrust.org.uk
www.bookheads.org.uk
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
Have a look at the following French and German magazines in the Library:
Allons-y, Bonjour, Das Rad
Books I have read
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Library Opening Hours:
Monday-Friday 8.15am-3.50pm
“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to
whatever has already been discovered by others.”
Abraham Lincoln.
“No matter how busy you think you are, you must find
time for reading, or surrender yourself to self chosen
ignorance.” Confucius
Librarian: Miss Y Lang
Assistant Librarian: Mrs E Ibbotson
July 2012