KS2 Recommended reading books
*Adam Blade
Beast Quest (Fantasy Series)
Enid Blyton
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Jeff brown
Roald Dahl
Anne Fine
Newly independent readers
Copies in school
Michael Morpurgo
Dick King - Smith
Jeff Kinney
Jill Murphy
Phillipa Pearce
*Alex T Smith
Andy Stanton
Jeremy Strong
Jill Tomlinson
The magic of the far away tree
The famous five (Mystery Series)
Secret seven (Mystery Series)
Flat Stanley (Comedy Series)
The twits
The giraffe, the Pelly and me
The enormous Crocodike
Fantastic Mr Fox
Georges marvellous medicine
Esio trot
Matilda
The Minpins
- Not so hot so
- The chicken gave it to me
- Stranger danger?
- Jennifer’s diary
- The stone Menagerie
- Cool
- Billy the kid
- Mossop’s Last Chance
- Mr Skip
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Sheep pig
Lightning strikes twice
George speaks
Paddy’s pot of gold
The round hill
The Jenius
Daggy dog foot
The fox busters
E.S.P
Ace
The invisible dog
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (comedy Series)
- The worst witch (Fantasy Series)
- The line at school
- Mrs Cockles cat
- Bubble and Squeek
- Claude ( Comedy series)
- Mr Gum (Series)
- Wanted! The 100 mile an hour dog (
Comedy)
- The owl who was afraid of the dark
* If you have any recommendations for this booklist, please let us know!
KS2 Recommended reading books
Cressida Cowell
Roald Dahl
Richer , longer texts
Ted Hughes
*Eva Ibbotson
Astrid Lindgren
Michael Morpurgo
Mary Norton
Lauren St John
David Walliams
Horrible Histories
Horrible Science
Copies in school
- How to train your dragon (Fantasy Series)
- Charlie and the chocolate factory
- Danny Champion of the word
- The witches
- boyhood
- The BFG
-Revolting rhymes
- Dirty Beasts
- James and the giant peach
- The Iron Man (Fantasy)
- The dragonfly pool
- The journey to river sea
- Pippi Longstocking
- The butterfly lion
- The wreck of the Zanzibar
- Toro! Toro!
- Tom’s Sausage Lion
- Farm boy
- Mr Skip
- The borrowers (Fantasy adventure)
- The white Giraffe (Animal mystery)
- Laura Marlin Mysteries (Detective)
- Awful Auntie ( Comedy)
- Demon Dentist
- Gangsta Granny
- Rat Burger
- Mr Stink
- The boy in the dress
- Billionaire boy
A selection (Non - Fiction)
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KS2 Recommended reading books
*David Almond
Confident, older readers (Year 5/6)
Eoin Colfer
Susan Cooper
*Gillian Cross
*Cornelia Funke
*Julie Golding
Anthony Horowitz
Caroline Lawrence
Geraldine McCaughren
Michael Morpurgo
William Nicholson
*Michelle Paver
Philip Pullman
Philip Reeve
*Rick Riordan
JK Rowling
Louis Sachar
Lemony Snicket
Robert Swindles
Robert Westall
Copies in school
- Secret Heart (romance)
- Counting stars
- Artemis Fowl (Fantasy series)
- The dark is rising (Fantasy series)
- The Boggart
- The king of shadows
- The demon headmaster
- Inkheart (Fantasy)
- The Diamond of Drury Lane ( Historical Mystery)
- Storm Breaker (Spy series)
- The Diamond Brothers (Detective series)
- Gruesome grange (Dark comedy)
- The thieves of Ostia (Historical Series –
Rome)
- The Kite rider
- Running wild (Animal adventure)
- Friend or Foe (Historical WWII)
- Sleeping Sword (Historical)
- Arthur High king of England (Historical)
- Why the whales came (Mystery)
- The wind singer
- Wolf Brother series (Historical - Stone age)
- The New Cut gang (Detective)
- Mortal Engine Series ( Fantasy)
- Percy Jackson (Fantasy Series– Greek gods)
- Harry potter and the philosophers stone
(Fantasy)
- Holes
- A series of unfortunate events (Fantasy Series)
- Blitzed (Historical - WWII)
These stories contain a wide range of vocabulary, complex story lines and some
dark and/or difficult themes.
* If you have any recommendations for this booklist, please let us know!