Recommended Reading Books -Year 5
Tom’s Midnight Garden
by Phillippa Pearce
Awful Auntie
by David Walliams
The Boy who Swam with Piranhas
by David Almond
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
by Joan Aiken
Cosmic
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The Kites are Flying
by Michael Morpurgo
Eye of the Wolf
by Daniel Pennac
Fastest Boy in the World
by Elizabeth Laird
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
by J k Rowling
Hitler’s Canary
by Sandi Toksvig
How to Train Your Dragon
by Cressida Cowell
Thieves of Ostia
by Caroline Lawrence
Tiger, Tiger
by Lynne Reid Banks
Millions
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Bomber Dog
by Megan Rix
Danny the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl
The Emily Windsnap series
by Liz Kessler
A Soldier’s Friend
by Megan Rix
The Great Escape
by Megan Rix
The Story of Matthew Buzzington
by Andy Stanton
Gangsta Granny
by David Walliams
I am David
by Anne Holm
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
by Judith Kerr
The Silver Sword
by Ian Serraillier
The Machine Gunners
by Robert Westall
The Treasure Seekers
by Edith Nesbit
The Time Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle
by Julia Jarman
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett
Tom Palmer Sports books
by Tom Palmer
Black, White and Gold
by Kelly Holmes
Martin Johnson The Autobiography
by Martin Johnson
Black Ships Before Troy
by Rosemary Sutcliffe
The Rattle Bag
by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney
A Zoo in my Luggage
by Gerald Durrell
Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
by Gerald Durrell
The River at Greene Knowe
by Lucy Boston
We Didn’t Mean to go to Sea
by Arthur Ransome
The Dolphin Crossing
by Jill Paton Walsh
The Midnight Fox
by Betsy Byars
