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
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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