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year 9 home learning booklet
YEAR 9
HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN 2013
YOUR HOME LEARNING: AUTUMN
Student at the Aylesbury Vale Academy will be challenged at home as well as in school to
ensure that they reach their potential. Year 9 students nationally are required to complete
between 45 minute and 90 minutes of homework every night to ensure that they make the
necessary progress.
This booklet contains your home learning tasks for the Autumn Term. It provides a clear
outline of the task set, guidance of when to start it, the hand in date and the week it should
be returned to you. The tasks are varied and have an emphasis on extended study and
independent research. Teachers may set other pieces of homework from time to time.
CORE SUBJECTS (English, Maths, Science)
Homework for English and Maths will be set on a weekly basis and recorded in the student
planner. Homework for Science will be set every two weeks, be recorded in student
planners and will be available to download from the VLE.
DT and History will provide homework on a fortnightly basis details of which can
be found on the VLE.
MANAGING YOUR TIME
Each subject has set an Extended Home Learning Task that should take between three to
four hours to complete over a three week period.
ART
GEOGRAPHY
PERFORMING ARTS
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
GERMAN
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
MUSIC
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
23 Sept
30 Sept
7 Oct
14 Oct
21 Oct
4 Nov
11 Nov
18 Nov
25 Nov
12
13
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M
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16 Dec
3
9 Dec
2
2 Dec
1
16 Sept
YEAR 9
AUTUMN
9 Sept
We want you to become self-managers. A good self-manager can organise their time,
prioritise tasks and work to deadlines (all essential life skills). To help with this we’ve
staggered the tasks so you only have to hand in a maximum of two at any one time. The
timetable below shows exactly when each Home Learning task is to be undertaken.
M
M
H
H
M
H
M
KEY
Work on your Home Learning Project during these weeks.
H: Hand in your Home Learning Project to your teacher during the lesson you have
with them this week.
M: Your Home Learning Project will normally be marked and Returned during this
week.
ART
Andy Warhol Research and Analysis
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
By the end of this task you will have:
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Found out about Andy Warhol and his artwork
Analysed 3 pieces of artwork that interest you
Thought creatively about your presentation skills
By the end of this task you will know:
-How to make judgements about artwork
-how to use research skills to find out information
How to complete this task:
Using you research skills, you are to create an imaginative presentation of artist research on Andy
Warhol. You will need to find out about the artist and his artwork in the Pop Art movement. You
will need to choose 3 pieces of his artwork related to popular culture and analyse these using the
question sheet to help you. Do not copy and paste. You will need to write information in your own
words.
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
Mood/emotion
Contemporary
Pop Art
Post
modern
Analyse
Mixed
media
scale
composition
colour
theme
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
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Use of key words in correct context
Analysing the work and expressing your own opinions
Demonstrating your use of visual language
Where to find help:
Search engines on the internet
the local library, your question sheet
How parents/guardians can help :
Help with spelling, proof reading written work
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN
GEOGRAPHY
THE APPRENTICE CHALLENGE – REBRANDING BLACKPOOL
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
By the end of this task you will have:
Researched information Blackpool that you need to help with your written work
Written a strategy to rebrand Blackpool as a tourist resort
By the end of this task you will know:
What the issues are facing UK seaside resort
Different solutions to the problem
How to complete this task:
Research Blackpool – find out where it is, what it is like and how it has developed as a tourist
resort over time. Write this up as a description.
Now describe the problems facing Blackpool in terms of its attractiveness as a tourist resort. What
problems does it have?
The final part of this homework is to design a way in which Blackpool could be rebranded to
increase the number of tourists who are visiting the town.
Your strategy should be well structured and include the following:
A description of your strategy
An explanation of how and why it will help
What type of tourists you hope to attract with your strategy
A catchy slogan
A poster advertising a rebranded Blackpool
An overall conclusion that summarises the key points and makes predictions about the
future – will your strategy be sustainable and why?
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
Tourism
Blackpool
Regeneration
Target
audience
Tourist
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
A discussion of Butler’s model of tourist resort development
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
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Where to find help:
www.visitblackpool.com
www.blackpool.gov.uk
How parents/guardians can help :
Encourage your child to write a draft of their work and help them to proof read it
Monitor your child’s time management so that the homelearning task is not left until the
last week
.
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN
PERFORMING ARTS
Bouncers
BTEC LEVEL 1
By the end of this task you will have:
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Created & drawn a costume design for a Character from Bouncers
Learn dance and drama keywords and their meanings for this topic
By the end of this task you will know:
Stereotype various groups of characters using costume and confidently use terminology in lessons.
How to complete this task:
Research the play Bouncers and the stereotyped groups of characters included in the play. Select
one or more characters and design an appropriate costume for them to wear. Draw and clearly
label the design including why choices have been made.
Research the meanings of ALL the keywords and revise in preparation for testing.
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
Physical
Motif
Theatre
Facial
Stereotyping
expression
Body language
Gestures
Rhythm
Comedy
Flexibility
Posture
Slow
motion
Plot
Mime
Characterisation
Dynamics
Focus
Musicality
Stimulus
Pace
Props
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
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A definition of each of the keyword and an example of how it may be used.
More than one costume design clearly labelled
Where to find help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqZFXfaknA
How parents/guardians can help :
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Testing the students on their keywords
Discussing stereotypical clothing worn by parents at a celebration
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
HOW CAN I GET FIT FOR A SPECIFIC SPORT?
National Curriculum Level: 5-7
By the end of this task you will have:
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Designed a circuit training session to improve fitness for an individual in a specific sport
Recorded and analyse their progress over a 3 week period
By the end of this task you will know:
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How to adapt a circuit training session to make it more specific for a specific sport and
individual
How to complete this task:
Design a 6 station circuit training session to improve fitness for a chosen sport and individual using
the facilities/equipment in their garden/house. (use the template provided if you wish)
Complete the circuit training session every week for 3 weeks making sure you answer the
questions and adapt the session to ensure their fitness increases.
Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:
Cardiovascular
Endurance
Muscular
Endurance
Muscular
Strength
Power
Flexibility
Rest Time
Agility
Activity
Time
Flexibility
Balance
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
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A justification of the specificity of your programme
Apply the FITT principles to adapt your circuit training session appropriately to ensure they
are getting more fit.
Where to find help:
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/circuit.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/pe
How parents/guardians can help :
Complete the training session with your child.
Practise spelling the keywords with your child.
Help your child research definitions for the keywords.
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN
MY CIRCUIT TRAINING SESSION
Score:
Week Number:
Score:
How long will I be active for:
How long my rest period is:
Number of circuits:
Score:
What components of fitness have I improved by completing this
circuit?
Can you think of any athletes who would benefit from completing
this circuit? Why?
What changes will you make to improve on your circuit for next
week?
Score:
Score:
Score:
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
SUMMER
GERMAN
Meeting People – Unit 1
National Curriculum Level: 4-6
By the end of this task you will have:
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Prepared and learnt your FCSE speaking and listening units
By the end of this task you will know:
 How to talk about yourself using the past, present and future tenses.
How to complete this task:
Use the help sheet to write out your answers to each of the questions in the speaking and writing
units. You do not have to copy the answers on the worksheet. Use your knowledge of grammar to
substitute words to make your answers personal to you!
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
Include appropriate linking words and temporal phrases in order to structure your work
appropriately.
Where to find help:
http://www.leo.org/index_de.html
How parents/guardians can help :
Encourage your child to use appropriate reference materials, eg. online dictionary or paper based
dictionary.
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN
FCSE Helpsheet: Unit 1 Meeting People
FCSE Speaking PASS (Level 4)
model sentences:
 your name
Ich heiße _____. (My name is _____)
 your age
Ich bin _____ Jahre alt. (I am _____ years old)
 your personality
Ich bin _____ und _____, aber nicht _____. ( I am _____ and _____, but not _____)
 what you do for a living
Ich bin _____. (I am a _____)
 what talent(s) you have
Ich spiele Fußball/ Ich singe/ Ich tanze. (I play football/ I sing/ I dance)
 your opinion of the show
Ich mag (nicht) die Sendung. Das finde ich gut/ langweilig/ lustig/ schrecklich/ spannend . (I (don’t) like the
talent show. I find it good/ boring/ funny/ terrible/ exciting)
FCSE Speaking MERIT (Level 5)
 what you were like when you were younger
Als ich jung war, war ich ziemlich/sehr nervig/egoistisch/schüchtern. Das war nicht gut! When I was young I
was quite/very annoying/selfish/shy. That wasn’t good!
FCSE Speaking DISTINCTION (Level 6)
 what your future ambitions are
In der Zukunft möchte ich Prominente werden/berühmt sein/andere Leute helfen/viel Geld verdienen. Das wird
Spaß machen/cool sein. In the future I would like to become a celebrity/be famous/help other people/earn lots
of money. That will be fun/cool.
FCSE Writing PASS (Level 4)
This is a letter and should begin: ‘Liebe(r) and end ‘Dein(e)’’
Model sentences:
 your name
Ich heiße _____. (My name is _____)
 your age and birthday
Ich bin _____ Jahre alt. Ich habe am ____ _____ Geburtstag. (I am _____ years old. My birthday is on
_____)
 your nationality
Ich komme aus _____ . (I come from _____)
 information about your family
Ich habe einen Bruder/ eine Schwester/ zwei Brüder/ zwei Schwestern/ Ich bin Einzelkind. Mein Bruder/
Schwester heißt _____. Er/ sie ist _____ Jahre alt. Er/ sie hat _____ Haare und _____ Augen.
(I have a brother/ sister/ two brothers/ two sisters/ I am an only child. My brother/ sister is called _____.
He/ she is _____ years old. He/ she has _____ hair and _____ eyes.)
 whether you have any pets or not
Ich habe ein Haustier/ Ich habe keine Haustiere. Ich habe einen/ eine/ ein _____. (I have a pet/I don’t have
pets. I have a _____)
 what you like doing in your free time
In meiner Freizeit, spiele Ich gern Fußball/ Basketball/ Volleyball/ Federball/ Rugby und Ich gehe gern reiten/
schwimmen/ wandern/ Snowboard fahren. (In my free time, I like to play football/ basketball/ volleyball/
badminton/ rugby and I like to go riding/ swimming/ hiking/ snowboarding
FCSE Writing MERIT (Level 5)
 what you did recently
Gestern/Letzte Woche/Letztes Wochenende bin ich in die Stadt/nach London/schwimmen/ins Kino gegangen.
Das hat Spaß gemacht./Das war stink langweilig/super/fantastisch. Yesterday/last week/last weekend I went
into town/to London/swimming/to the cinema. It was fun. It was really boring/super/fantastic.
FCSE Writing DISTINCTION (Level 6)
 what you are going to do tomorrow
Morgen werde ich Fußball spielen/einkaufen gehen/meine Freunden treffen. Ich freue mich darauf! Tomorrow I
will play football/go shopping/meet my friends. I’m looking forward to it!
Religious Studies
The Religious Studies for the Autumn Term is based on the following
themes:
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Where did the universe come from?
What responsibilities do we have to care for the environment and why?
How can we make sense of life and death?
All lead to discussing and answering questions on how do we deal with
Moral Dilemmas.
Each part of the Home Learning activities aims to develop knowledge and
some of the following skills:
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Applying analytical skills across different religious and periods of time
Ability to analyse change /continuity and cause/consequence of authority in
the various faiths studied
The importance of the environment and morality in influencing the
followers of a religion
Home learning activities vary in length and there will also be a range of different
tasks set to encourage Literacy and critical thinking skills.
However, there will fewer tasks set than in year 9 because the tasks set are longer
and require a greater degree of independence/depth of information in research
activities.
There are FIVE tasks identified on the VLE.
These include two key assessment topics and students will need to spend at least
two hours on each of these Assessments.
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET R.S.
AUTUMN
MUSIC
Recording and Selling a song
National Curriculum Level: 3-7
By the end of this task you will have:
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Created a pamphlet for song writers about the important facts when recording and selling
a song
Drawn a publicity proposal for your band/song
By the end of this task you will know:
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 About the recording process in a recording studio
Understand the different factors when producing and selling a song
How to complete this task:
Read through the worksheet answering the questions and completing the 2 tasks at the
bottom of the sheet
Exceptional Home Learning may include:
An effective publicity proposal with clearly presented information about their band.
Demonstrating a clear understanding of key terminology
Where to find help:
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Different websites and by asking your teacher
How parents/guardians can help :
Parents assist by helping with the design of any publicity and reading through the worksheet.
Parents can help explain key terminology
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
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History
National Curriculum History is based on the following two study units:
Autumn and Spring Terms:
Britain, 1750 to 1900 AD
Summer Term:
World History 1900 onwards
The Home learning activities aims to develop knowledge and the following
skills:
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Interpretation of Chronological links and themes across different periods of time
Ability to evaluate change /continuity and cause/consequence in the Industrial
and Transport Revolutions
Evaluating the changing nature of evidence, for example its purpose and reliability
The Home learning activities vary in length and there will also be a range of different
tasks set to encourage Literacy and critical thinking skills
However, there will fewer tasks set than in previous years because the tasks set are
longer and will require a greater degree of independence and depth of information in
research activities.
There are EIGHT tasks identified on the VLE
These include three key assessment topics and students will need to spend at least two
hours on each of these Assessments.
The research on Transport in Aylesbury will also require the use of the Internet and
Buckinghamshire Local History Studies Centre.
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN
SCIENCE
Science home work will be set once every two weeks on The Aylesbury Vale Academy
VLE. Homework booklet will be available to students who do not have access to the VLE.
Students will use their personalized login and password to access the homework from the
VLE.
How to complete homework:
Students can answer the questions in a word document and print it or answer the
questions on lined paper. Students working from the homework booklet can write in the
booklet. This will be marked and graded with targets for improvement.
Homework exercises are differentiated according to ability/ learning outcomes.
The objectives for autumn term:
Physics 1a
Chemistry 1a
 Energy Transfer by Heat
 Energy and Efficiency
Materials
 Usefulness of Electrical Appliances
Fundamental Ideas in Chemistry
Limestone and Building
Where to find help:
https://www.samlearning.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/
How parents/guardians can help:
Exam Questions on VLE Infra-Red
Radiation
Year 9ab1-3
Exam Questions on VLE Kinetic Theory
Exam Questions on VLE Energy
Transfer and Efficency
Exam Questions on VLE Energy
Transfer by Design
Sam Learning for P1a Test
Exam Questions on VLE
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Practise spelling the keywords with your child.
Help your child research definitions for the keywords.
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H: Hand in your Home Learning Project to your teacher during the lesson you
have with them this week.
M: Your Home Learning Project will normally be marked and Returned during this
week.
MATHS
Maths home work will be set one week on mymaths.co.uk and the following week
from the homework book.
Each student will be given a personalized login and password with which to access
the homework from My Maths.
Each student will be issued with a copy of the “Level Up Maths Homework Book”,
which they will keep at home for the reminder of the academic year. At the end of
the year they are to return the book to their respective class teacher. They will also
be issued with a homework exercise book in which they have to complete the
homework. This will be marked and graded with targets for improvement.
Homework exercises will be differentiated according the working at levels.
Exceptional students will be given extended pieces of work in the form of
Mathematics Functional Type questions/activities.
The objectives for each term are as follows.
Spring term
Autumn
Integer’s powers and roots and
rounding
Place value and calculations
Number sequences
Ratio and proportion
Angles
Construction
Fractions, percentages and decimals
Measures and mensuration
Expressions and formulae
Summer Term
Probability
3d and 2d shapes
Problem solving
Equations and inequalities
Functions and graphs
Transformation
Averages
Representing and organizing data
Data handling project
Problem solving
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YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET
AUTUMN
KEY STAGE 3
SUGGESTED READING LIST
AUTUMN 2013
Key Stage 3
English Department
Suggested Reading List
Extensive reading is the key to improving all aspects of your English work, and it benefit you
in other curriculum areas too. More importantly, you may be inspired, able to relax and your
imagination will flourish…
Below is a list of book, organised into sections with very brief comments about them. This
list is just a starting point – there is a wealth of good books being published all the time. We
have tried to select a variety of books so that you will be able to find a book that you will
really enjoy. You will be able to find many of these in the library, but you may have to search
a little further afield for some.
Recommend books you your friends and swap books you have enjoyed with each other.
When you have read a book you have enjoyed, look for other titles by the same author.
Adventure
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Exodus
Julie Bertanga
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Malorie Blackman
Tim Bowler
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Mark Haddon
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Hacker
Storm Catchers
Millions
The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-time
Silverfin
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Scorpia
Journey to the River Sea
Star of Kazan
Thunder and Lightnings
Underworld
Trash
Anthony Horowitz
Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson
Jan Mark
Catherine Macphail
Andy Mulligan
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Windsinger
William Nicholson
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Seeker
Bridge to Terabithia
Johnny and the Bomb
Brother in the Land
William Nicholson
Katherine Patterson
Terry Pratchett
Robert Swindells
Charlie Higson
A quest for survival and a search for a new
world
A computer hacking adventure
Kidnap and Mystery
Adventure and dealing with grief
A murder mystery like no other
James Bond is back, aged 13. The original
superspy
The M16 adventure spy series
An adventure along the Amazon
A family mystery
An adventure mystery – all about planes.
A school trip that goes wrong…
Three friends find something extraordinary in
the trash. From that moment on they are
hunted without mercy
Social hierarchy and family Love the first in the
Wind on Fire trilogy (Slaves of the Mastery and
Firesong)
First in another trilogy
An adventure mystery
A time travelling adventure
What will happen to the earth in the event of
a nuclear attack?
Classics
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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The Secret Garden
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Anne of Green Gables
Frances HodgsonBurnett
L.M. Montgomery
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Heidi
Johanna Spyri
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Treasure Island
Rebecca
R. L. Stevenson
Daphne Du Maurier
The story of a young girl’s passage to
adulthood in the early nineteenth century
An adventure into a secret garden showing
that people can change…
The first of a series of books about an orphan
girl and her new life
Set in Switzerland, a story of friendship and
family
A pirate adventure
A young woman tries to unravel the mysteries
of her husband’s first wife
Fantasy
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Skellig
David Almond
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Midget
Basilisk
The Dark is Rising series
Tim Bowler
N. M. Brown
Susan Cooper
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Ingo
Dark Ground
Helen Dunmore
Gillian Cross
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Shadow of the Minotaur
Alan Gibbons
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Across the Nightingale
Floor
Liam Hearn
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Doomspell
The Snow Spider
Cliff McNish
Jenny Nimmo
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Tom’s Midnight Garden
Northern Lights
Philippa Pearce
Philip Pullman
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Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
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Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
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Secret Songs
Lord of the Rings
Jane Stamp
J.R.R. Tolkein
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The Dreamwalker’s Child
Steve Voake
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Mirror Dreams
Catherine Webb
A strange man found in a garage is the start of
an angelic mystery
Unable to speak, but powerful; family conflict
A story of two worlds
A series of 5 books, beginning with Over Sea,
Under Stone – a story of a quest
Mermaids and coping with loss
A boy is forced to survive in a dangerous
world…with a twist
A gripping, fantasy thriller – Phoenix hates his
new home and the new school where he is
bullied
The first of a trilogy – a mystery in the Orient
(Grass for his Pillow and Brilliance of the
Moon)
A magical fantasy
The first of a trilogy (Emlyn’s Moon and The
Chestnut Soldier) about a boy magician
A time travelling adventure
A trilogy exploring authority and other worlds
(The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)
Set in a world where moving cities trawl the
globe. Tom and Hester have been thrown out
of theirs
A series of books about the life of a wizard as
he moves through Hogwarts school
A story of love, Silkies, the sea…
A trilogy about a quest to rid the world of the
power of a ring
Sam Palmer is knocked off a bike and wakes in
Aurobon, a parallel world where insects are
used as war machines.
A magical adventure with wizards
Historical
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Carrie’s War
PoW
Kezzie
Remembrance
King of Shadows
Nina Bowden
Martin Booth
Theresa Breslin
Theresa Breslin
Susan Cooper
Evacuation and adventure during WW2
A novel of conflict and adventure
Mining and transportation
The story of two families in WW1
A time travel adventure into the work of
Shakespeare
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
The first of a trilogy set in Medieval England
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Arthur and the Seeing
Stone
The Kin
Children of Winter
Peter Dickinson
Berlie Doherty
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Street Child
Berlie Doherty
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Coram Boy
Stars of Fortune
Anne Frank
Jamilla Gavin
Cynthia Harnett
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I Am David
When Hitler Stole Pink
Rabbit
The Silver Sword
Last Train from
Kummersdorf
Ann Holm
Judith Kerr
A historical family adventure
Set in Eyan – a village isolated by the plague in
the 1600s
The story behind the foundation of Dr
Barnado’s children’s homes
The diary of a Jewish girl in hiding during WW2
Orphans, the Coram hospital, slaves…
What happened when Elizabeth I was
imprisoned by Mary I?
A journey from imprisonment
A humorous adventure story from WW2
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Ian Serraillier
Lesley Wilson
A journey to escape from attack during WW2
Considers the events of the WW2 from the
perspective of two young
Dealing with grief and loss
Heart transplant, animal rights, life and death
Racism and prejudice from a different
perspective (Knife Edge and Checkmate)
Bullying and family issues
Friendships and growing up; thoughts about
God and the world
Dealing with grief and family life, with a
mystery unfolding
Story of an Ethiopian boy, whose parents
abandon him in London to save his life
Living with separated parents/divorce
Parenting and family values
A conversation about life and the universe
A young girl recovering from the tragedy of
losing her father and sister in an accident
Bulling
A boy and his mother escape from a life of fear
in an abusive relationship
The impact of having a disabled baby brother
Step families/abuse
Lauren has always known she was adopted but
is it possible she was snatch from her family at
birth?
Coping with loss and mental health issues
The life of a young girl caring for a mother
with Alzheimer’s Disease
Boarding school, acceptance and the question
of belief
Dealing with death, separation, prejudice
A parallel sorry between WW2 and the
present
A young boy’s struggle to make sense of the
loss that tore his family apart
Poems exploring the feelings of a girl whose
sister suffers from mental illness
Real Life Issues
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Soundtrack
Pig-heart Boy
Noughts and Crosses
Julie Bertagna
Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume
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Blubber
Are you there God? It’s
me, Margaret
Walk Two Moons
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Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah
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Goggle Eyes
Flour Babies
Mister God, This is Anna
Love Aubrey
Anne Fine
Anne Fine
Fynn
Suzanne LaFleur
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Inventing Elliot
The Edge
Graham Garner
Alan Gibbons
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Red Sky in the Morning
Jake’s Tower
Girl Missing
Elizabeth Laird
Elizabeth Laird
Sophie Mackenzie
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Double Image
Daughter
Pat Moon
Isobel Moore
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The War of Jenkins’ Ear
Michael Morpurgo
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Why The Whales Came
Sisterland
Michael Morpurgo
Linda Newbery
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My Sister Live On The
Mantelpiece
Stop Pretending
Annabel Pitcher
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Sharon Creech
Sonya Sones
Stories from other cultures
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Little Soldier
The Alchemist
Bernard Ashley
Paulo Coelho
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Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis
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Suzanne Fisher-Staples
Suzanne Fisher-Staples
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Daughter of the Wind
Under the Persimmon
Tree
Lost for Words
The Other Side of Truth
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Chinese Cinderella
Zlata’s Diary
Thura’s Diary
AK
White Stranger
Adeline Yen Mah
Zlata Filipovic
Thura Al-Windawi
Peter Dickinson
Susan Gates
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The Wheel of Surya
The Garbage King
No Turning Back
Motherland
Jamilla Gavin
Elizabeth Laird
Beverley Naidoo
Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Elizabeth Lutzeier
Beverley Naidoo
Bullying, family, racism
A boy’s quest for the Elixir of life – lots of
thinking required
Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban – first in
a trilogy
Issues facing a Muslim desert girl
Afghanistan under the Taliban
Moving to England
Refugees and immigration – read the sequel –
Web of Lies
The life of an orphan child in China
A diary from war torn Eastern Europe
A diary from war torn Iraq
The story of a boy soldier
How do we view the values and morals of
people from different backgrounds and
cultures
First in trilogy about life between India and UK
Street children in South Africa
Street children in South Africa
A girl sent to India to explore the possibilities
for an arranged marriage
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Meg Cabot
Cassandra Clare
Suzanne Collins
Joseph Delaney
Sarah Dessen
Cornelia Funke
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl – Beautiful Creatures
John Green
Cathy Hopkins
Anthony Horowitz
Hilary Mckay
Stephanie Meyer
Louise Rennison
Rick Riordan
Veronica Roth
Darren Shan
Lemony Snicket
Pet Torres
Jacqueline Wilson