Recommended Reading Books – Year 6

A Place Called Perfect
by Helena Duggan

The Boy at the Back of the Class
by Onjali Q Rauf

Cirque Du Freak
by Darren Shan

The Alex Rider Series
by Anthony Horowitz

The Creakers
by Tom Fletcher

The Goldfish Boy
by Lisa Thompson

Goodnight Mr Tom
by Michelle Magorian

Running Wild
by Michael Morpurgo

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J K Rowling

The House With Chicken Legs
by Sophie Anderson

Savage Shapes
by Kjartan Poskitt

The Nowhere Emporium
by Ross Mackenzie

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
by Chris Riddell

Skellig
by David Almond

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom
by Louis Sachar

WarHorse
by Michael Morpurgo

Who Let the Gods Out
by Maz Evans

The Wild Robot
by Peter Brown

The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon
by David Almond

My Name is Mina
by David Almond

Heartbeat
by Sharon Creech

Sands of the Scorpion
by Bear Grylls

Strike of the Shark
by Bear Grylls

The Diary of a Young Girl
by Ann Frank

The Diamond Brothers series
by Anthony Horowitz

Journey to Jo’Burg
by Beverley Naidoo

The Illustrated Mum
by Jacqueline Wilson

Emma and I
by Sheila Hocken

Good Vibrations: My Biography
by Evelyn Glennie

My Left Foot
by Christy Brown

A Series of Unfortunate Events
by Lemony Snicket

Cliffhanger
by Jacqueline Wilson

Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome

Watership Down
by Richard Adams

How the Whale Became
by Ted Hughes

Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell

King of Shadows
by Susan Cooper

Shakespeare Stories
by Leon Garfield

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
by Terry Pratchett

Beowulf: The Dragonslayer
by Rosemary Sutcliff

Lion Country
by Colin Dann

The Village by the Sea
by Anita Desai

The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkein

Billy the Kid
by Michael Morpurgo

Clockwork
by Philip Pullman