Core Books for Years 5 and 6
Learning To Read
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The Ha Ha Bonk Book. AHLBERG
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. ANGELOU & BASQUIAT
Daft Jack and the Bean Stack. ANHOLT
Where the Forest Meets the Sea. BAKER
Clown. BLAKE
Fingus the Bogeyman. BRIGGS
Piggybook. BROWNE
Voices in the Park. BROWNE
Willy’s Pictures (and other Willy stories). BROWNE
Artemis Fowl. The Graphic Novel. COLFER & DONKIN
The Magic Finger. DAHL
Friday Forever. DALTON
Game Boy. DURANT
The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone. ERING
War and Peas. FOREMAN
Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone. FRENCH
Snow White in New York. FRENCH
The Wolves in the Walls. GAIMAN & McKEAN
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. GAIMAN
& McKEAN
ASTERIX THE Gaul. GOSCINNY & UDERZO
Where’s Wally? HANDFORD
Babymouse Queen of the World! HOLM & HOLM
I Know What You Did last Wednesday. HOROWITZ
Stormbreaker. The Graphic Novel. HOROWITZ &
JOHNSTON
Undone! JENNINGS
Emily’s Legs. KING-SMITH
The Comic Adventures of Boots. KITAMURA
King John and the Abbot. MARK
The Rabbits. MARSDEN
Big Bad Raps. MITTON
Conker. MORPURGO
Who’s Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?
MORRISON & LEMAITRE
Haunted House. PIENKOWSKI
Why? POPOV
Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman.
PULLMAN
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book. ROSEN & BLAKE
Wacky Wednesday. SEUSS
Living with Vampires. STRONG
The Lost Treasure of Captain Blood. STROUD & GALE
Lift Off. TOWNSON
Sweets. VAN OMMEN
Stanley Bagshaw and the short-sighted football trainer.
WILSON
Stanley Bagshaw and the Mafeking Cheese Robbery.
WILSON
Talking Turkeys. ZEPHANIAH
Literature
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My Brother’s Ghost. AHLBERG
The Fire-Eaters. ALMOND
Skellig. ALMOND
East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon. ABSBORNSEN &
MOE
Tuck Everlasting. BABBITT
Carrie’s War. BAWDEN
A Thief in the Village. BERRY
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The Transfer. BLACKER
Pig-heart Boy. BLACKMAN
Science Fiction Stories. BLISHEN
Framed. BOYCE
The Midnight Fox. BYARS
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. CARROLL
Under the Hawthorn Tree. CONLON-MCKENNA
Love That Dog. CREECH
Wolf. CROSS
King Arthur. CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
The Magic Lands. CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
Short! A Book of Very Short Stories. CROSSLEYHOLLAND
IQBAL. D’ADAMO
The Village By the Sea. DESAI
Street Child. DOHERTY
The Hat. DUFFY
Rumplestiltskin and other Grimm Tales. DUFFY
Goggle-Eyes. FINE
Flying With Icarus. FORBES
Shakespeare Stories. GARFIELD
The Stone Book Quartet. GARNER
Shadow of the Minotaur. GIBBONS
Two Weeks with the Queen. GLEITZMAN
The Runner. GRAY
The Girl Who Spun Gold. HAMILTON & DILLON
The Oxford Book of Story Poems. HARRISON &
STUART-CLARK
The Silver Donkey. HARTNETT
Way Home. HATHORN
Lugalbanda. The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War.
HENDERSON & RAY
Maphead. HOWARTH
The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales. HUGHES
Season Songs. HUGHES
The Last Resort. INNOCENTI & LEWIS
Rose Blanche. INNOCENTI
Seasons of Splendour; Tales, Myths & Legends of India.
JAFFREY
The Thing That Mattered Most. Scottish Poems ror
Chidlren. JOHNSTONE
Howl’s Moving Castle. JONES
Red Cherry Red. KAY
The Garbage King. LAIRD
Secret Friends. LAIRD
The Swap and Other Stories. LAYTON
The Adventures of Odysseus. LUPTON & MORDEN
Golden Myths and Legends of the World.
McCAUGHREAN
One
Thousand
and
One
Arabian
Nights.
McCAUGHREAN
The Daydreamer. McEWEN
All the Best. McGOUGH
Ring of Words. McGOUGH
Sensational Poems inspired by the five senses.
McGOUGH
Saffy’s Angel. McKAY
Goodnight Mister Tom. MAGORIAN
Eyes Wide Open. MARK
The Orchard Book of Poems. MITCHELL
Arthur, High King of Britain. MORPURGO
The Wreck of Zanzibar. MORPURGO
The Other Side of Truth. NAIDOO
The Core Book List (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education)
Core Books for Years 5 and 6
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The Wind Singer. NICHOLSON
The Snow Spider. Nimmo
THE Highwayman. NOYES & KEEPING
Juggling with Gerbils. PTTEN
Wolf Brother. PAVER
A Dog So Small. PEARCE
The Rope and other stories. PEARCE
Tom’s Midnight Garden. PEARCE
Eye of the Wolf. PENNAC
Sheep Don’t Go to School. PETERS
Snow White. POOLE
Johnny and the Dead. PRATCHETT
Cold Tom. PRUE
Clockwork or All Wound Up. PULLMAN
His Dark Materials Book 1: Northern Lights (and others
in the series). PULLMAN
Krindlekrax. RIDLEY
World of Poetry. ROSEN
Harry Potter and the Pilosopher’s Stone (and others in
the series). ROWLING
Haroun and the Sea of Stories. RUSHDIE
Holes. SACHAR
There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom. SACHAR
The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales.
SCIESZKA & SMITH
Floodland. SEDGWICK
The Orchard Book of Stories from Ancient Egypt.
SWINDELLS
Chasing the Sun. Stories from Africa. TADJO
The Lady of Shalott. TENNYSON & KEEPING
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. TOLKIEN
Unwitting Wisdom. An Anthology of Aesop’s Animal
Fables. WARD
Spinetinglers: Ghoulish Ghost Stories. WESTALL
The Selfish Giant. WILDE & ZWERGER
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. WILLIAMS
The Suitcase Kid. WILSON
The Story of Tracy Beaker. WILSON
Locomotion. WOODSON
Information Books
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World War II (Eyewitness) ADAMS
Stone Girl Bone Girl. The Story of Mary Anning of Lyme
Regis. ANHOLT & MOXLEY
Disgusting Digestion. ARNOLD
The Earth from the Air for Children. ARTHUSBERTRAND
The Future of the Earth. An Introduction to Sustainable
Development for Children
Think of a Number. BALL
Coming to England. BENJAMIN & FRITH
Linnea in Monet’s Garden. GJORK
The Fossil Girl. Mary Anning’s Dinosaur Discovery.
BRIGHTON
I is for India. DAS
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth.
DAVIES & LAYTON
The Vile Victorians (and other Horrible Histories)
DREARY
The Usborne Introduction to Art. DICKINS & GRIFFITH
The Egyptian Echo. DOWSWELL
Alligators & crocodiles (Wildworld). DUDLEY
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War Boy: A Country Childhood. FOREMAN
Let’s Talk About Where Babie’s Come From. HARRIS
Huy and Vinh’s Day: From Dawn to Dusk in a
Vietnamese Town. HOLMES & MORGAN
Gold Quest. HOOPER
Ice Trap! Shackleton’s incredible Expedition. HOOPER &
ROBERTSON
The Pebble in My Pocket. HOOPER & COADY
A Brush with the Past 1900-1950. HUGHES
Barbabas and Anabel: Children Just Like Me.
KINDERSLEY
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker.
LASKY & BENNETT
The Philosophy Files. LAW
Who Was… Ada Lovelace? The Computer Wizard of
Victorian England. LETHBRIDGE
A Life Like Mine. How children live around the world.
DK
Ask Dr K Fisher about Animals. LLEWELLYN
The New Way Things Work. MACAULAY
Until I Met Dudley. McGOUGH & RIDDELL
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Victorian Schoolchild!
MALAM
The Museum Book. MARK
The Usbourne Internet-Linked Book of Astronomy &
Space. MILES & SMITH
A Port through Time. MILLARD & NOON
Kingdom of the Sun. a Book of the Planets. MITTON &
BALIT
My Grandfather is a Magician. Work and Wisdom in a
African Village. ONYEFULU
The Global Garden. PETTY & MAIZELS
Pirate Diary. PLATT & RIDDELL
Tudor Children (and other titles in the Real Life series).
PURKIS
P is for Pakistan. RAZZAK
My Dream of Martin Luther King. RINGGOLD
What’s So Special about Shakespeare? ROSEN
If the World Were a Village. SMITH
Understanding Your Muscles and Bones. TREAYS
Erika’s Story. VAN DER ZEE
A Little Guide to Wild Flowers. VOAKE & PETTY
Children’s Quick and Easy Cook Book. WILKES
Benjamin Zephaniah. WILKINS
The History of the Steel Band. WILKINS & LA ROSE
Three Cheers for Inventors! WILLIAMS
What Makes Me Me? WINSTON
Frida. WINTER & JUAN
Look! Zoom in on Art. WOLFE
The Core Book List (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education)