BOOKS The following books will be referred to during the academic year. Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J K Rowling City of Beasts – Isabel Allende List of Recommended Books for Year 6 to Read The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken Johnnie's Blitz - Bernard Ashley Carrie's War - Nina Bawden This Poem Doesn't Rhyme - Gerard Benson Classic Poems to Read Aloud - James Berry The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett The Midnight Fox - Betsy Byars The Coming of the Surfman - Peter Collington (Picture Book) Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper The Great Elephant Chase - Gillian Cross Truth, Lies and Homework - Josephine Feeney The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame See Ya - David Hill Granny - Anthony Horowitz A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin In Deep Water - Michelle Magorian The Haunting - Margaret Mahy Thunder and Lightnings - Jan Mark Forever X - Geraldine McCaughrean Someone Came Knocking - Anne Merrick Anne of Green Gables - L. Montgomery Double Image - Pat Moon Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh - Robert O'Brien Verse - Kingfisher Publication Clockwork - Philip Pullman A World of Poetry - Michael Rosen Bug Muldoon and the Garden of Fear - Paul Shipton Beowulf: Dragon Slayer - Rosemary Sutcliffe Becky Bananas - Jean Ure I Like This Poem - Kaye Webb Sword in the Stone - T.H. White Talking Turkeys - Benjamin Zephaniah His Dark Materials Trilogy – Phillip Pullman Oranges in No Man’s Land – Elizabeth Laird Michael Morpurgo books Mallory Blackman books Children’s Poetry Anthologies Well-written, accurate and up to date information books Other non fiction texts such as newspapers, magazines