Book Lists

Core Reading List for F Forms

Bentley

Magic Kitten series; Magic Puppy series; Magic Pony series

Butterworth

Jake in Danger

Cameron

The Julian Stories

Carpenter

The Majeika series

Clover

The Sheltie series

Dahl

George’s Marvellous Medicine

Daniels

Little Animal Ark series

Edwards

My Naughty Little Sister

Fine

Loudmouth Louis; The Killer Cat series

King-Smith

The Guard Dog

King-Smith

The Sophie series

McCall Smith

Akimbo and the Crocodile

Meadows

The Fairy series

Morpurgo

The Sandman and the Turtles

Murphy

The Worst Witch series

Offen

Rita the Rescuer series

Peyton

The Pony That Went to Sea

Rodgers

The Robodog series

Simon

Horrid Henry series

Strong

There’s A Viking in My Bed; and others

Swindells

The Ice Palace

Tomlinson

The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home

Whybrow

The Little Wolf series

Wilde

The Selfish Giant

Core Reading List for E Forms

Aesop

Fables

Anholt

Cinderboy and others in the series

Banks

The Indian in the Cupboard

Bawden

Keeping Henry

Child

The Clarice Bean series

Cole

Astrosaurs series; Cows in Action series

Cowell

How To Train Your Dragon

Dahl

James and the Giant Peach

Fine

The Angel of Nitshill Road

Hinton

Beaver Towers

Ibbotson

The Secret of Platform 13

Johnson

The Ghost Dog

Kessler

The Emily Windsnap series

King

Stig of the Dump

King-Smith

The Fox-Busters; The Hodgeheg

Leeson

Smart Girls; Tom’s Private War

Longfellow

Hiawatha’s Childhood

McKay

Charlie and the Great Escape series

Melling

The Goblins series

Mongredien

The Oliver Moon series

Morpurgo

The Butterfly Lion

Morpurgo

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

Pullman

The Firework Maker’s Daughter

Riddell

The Ottoline series

Smith

The One Hundred and One Dalmations

Stanton

The Mr Gum series

Strong

The Hundred- Mile-An-Hour Dog series

Wilson

Buried Alive

Core Reading List for D Forms

Aiken

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Alexander

The Book of Three

Blackman

Thief

Blade

The Beast Quest series

Burnford

The Incredible Journey

Chapman

The Stardust series

Crompton

William books

Cross

The Demon Headmaster

Dahl

Matilda

Di Terlizzi

The Spiderwick Chronicles

D’Lacey

The Fire Series

Donaldson

The Princess Mirror-Belle series

Fine

Bill's New Frock

Funke

Igraine the Brave

Gavin

Grandpa Chatterjee

Higson

The Young Bond series

Hunt

Jack Stalwart Secret Agent series

Hunter

The Warrior Cat series

King-Smith

Martin’s Mice

Lawrence

The Roman Mystery series

Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Lively

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

Morpurgo

The Story of Adolphus Tips; Kaspar, Prince of Cats

Mould

Something Wickedly Weird series

Nolan

Animal Rescue Stories

Pearce

Tom’s Midnight Garden

Price

Amazon Adventure and others in the series

Sage

The Magyk series

Said

Varjak Paw and others

Seraillier

The Silver Sword

Stewart and Riddell

Hugo Pepper

Wilder

Little House on the Prairie

Wilson

Hetty Feather

Poetry Oxford

A Third Book of Poetry

Poetry Oxford

Book of Animal Poems

Poetry Oxford

The Oxford Book of Story Poems

Poetry Oxford

The New Dragon Book of Verse

Poetry Puffin

I Like This Poem

Core Reading List for C Forms

Blackman

Hacker

Boyce

Millions; Framed

Cavendish

The Lady Grace series

Colfer

The Artemis Fowl series

Cooper

Over Sea, Under Stone

Dahl

Boy

Deary

The Fire Thief series

Doherty

Children of Winter

Foreman

War Game

Gardner

I, Coriander

Garner

Elidor

Gavin

The Singing Bowls series

Hoffman

Stravaganza series

Horowitz

The Alex Rider series

Ibbotson

Journey to the River Sea; The Star of Kazan

Kemp

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler

Landy

The Skulduggery Pleasant series

L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

Lee

Anne Frank’s Story

Mark

Nothing To Be Afraid Of

Maxwell

Ring of Bright Water

McCaughrean

Peter Pan in Scarlet

McEwan

The Daydreamer

McKay

The Exiles

Morpurgo

Shadow; Robin Hood; The Elephant in the Garden

Nimmo

The Charlie Bone series

O'Brien

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Palmer

Football Academy series

Paver

Wolf Brother series

Pearce

Minnow on the Say

Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Price

Amazon Adventure and others in the series

Ransome

Swallows and Amazons

Reeve

Fevercrumb and the Mortal Engine series

Riordan

The Percy Jackson series

Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Ryan

Black Gold

Sachar

Holes

Scholastic

My Story series

St John

The Elephant’s Tale

Stewart

Beyond the Deep Woods – The Edge Chronicles

Tolkien

The Hobbit

Wilkinson

 The Dragon Keeper series

Poetry Benson

this poem doesn’t rhyme

Poetry Kingfisher

Book of Children's Poetry

Poetry Stuart-Clark

Young Dragon Book of Verse

Core Reading List for B Forms

Aiken

Midnight Is A Place

Almond

Skellig; My Name is Mina

Ashley

Johnnie's Blitz

Ballard

Empire of the Sun

Blackman

Pig-Heart Boy

Boyne

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Bradford

Young Samurai series

Breslin

Divided City

Caveney

Sebastian Darke series – Prince of Explorers

Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Cooper

Victory

Creech

Walk Two Moons

Cross

Where I Belong

Crossley-Holland

Arthur, the Seeing Stone

Cushman

Catherine Called Birdy

Delaney

The Spooks series

Dowswell

Powder Monkey

Durrell

My Family and Other Animals

Fine

Flour Babies

Forsyth

The Shepherd

Funke

Inkheart; Inkdeath; Inkspell; Reckless

Fynn

Mister God, This is Anna

Gallico

The Snow Goose

Golding

The Cat Royal series

Gordon

The Tunnel series

Grindley

Spilled Water

Holm

I Am David

Jacques

The Redwall series

Kerr

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Laird

Lost Riders

Magorian

Goodnight Mister Tom

Maxwell

Ring of Bright Water

Morpurgo

Escape from Shangri-la; Out of the Ashes; War Horse

Mulligan

Trash

Naidoo

Journey to Jo'burg

Nix

The Keys to the Kingdom series

Pullman

Ruby in the Smoke; The Tin Princess

Rodman

Yankee Girl

Sage

Septimus Heap series

Sedgwick

Revolver; My Swordhand is Singing

Singer

Feather Boy

Stevenson

Treasure Island

Sutcliff

The Eagle of the Ninth

Walden

H.I.V.E. series

Walsh

A Parcel of Patterns

Westall

Blitzcat

Wyndham

The Day of the Triffids

Core Reading List for A Forms

Adams

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Almond

Clay

Asimov

I, Robot

Banks

One More River

Bateman

SOS series Tusk

Blackman

Noughts and Crosses Saga

Bradbury

The Golden Apples of the Sun

Cross

Where I Belong

Crossley-Holland

Arthur Trilogy

Cunxin

Mao’s Last Dance

Cushman

Catherine Called Birdy

Doherty

The Snake-Stone

D'Lacey

Fly Cherokee, Fly

Elliott

Under A War-Torn Sky

Fine

The Tulip Touch

Fletcher

The Stone Heart Trilogy

Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank

Hearn

Tales of the Otori

Hill

The Woman in Black

Howker

The Nature of the Beast

Laird

Crusade

Magorian

A Spoonful of Jam

Mah

Chinese Cinderella

Morpurgo

Private Peaceful; The Kites Are Flying

Naidoo

The Other Side of Truth

Ness

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Nicholson

The Wind Singer Trilogy

Nix

Lirael, Sabriel, Abhorsen

O'Brien

Z for Zachariah

Orwell

Animal Farm

Paulsen

Hatchet

Pratchett

Discworld series

Prowse

The Revenge of the Praying Mantis

Pullman

His Dark Materials Trilogy

Rees

Witch Child

Reeve

Here Lies Arthur

Robson

Imperial Spy series

Stevenson

Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde

Swindells

Brother in the Land

Taylor

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Tomlinson

The Forest Wife Trilogy

Walsh

Fireweed

Wells

The Time Machine

Westall

The Promise

Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wyndham

Chocky