Alsop High School
English Department
Reading List - KS3
Quick Reads
Roald Dahl – George’s Marvellous Medicine/The BFG/The Fantastic Mr Fox/The Twits
Ros ASQUITH – Fab Four – Drama Queen
Kate AGNEW – What’s Cool About School
Anne FINE - How to write really badly
Alison HAWES – Pest Control
Megan McDONALD – Judy Moody Series
Bel MOONEY – It’s Not Fair
Tony NORMAN – Sky Bikers
Helena PIELICHATY – Trackers Series
Jane WEST – Surfing Three-Sixty
Jenny OLDFIELD – The Wilde Family, Running Wilde
Sally GARDNER – The Boy with the Lightning Feet
Charles BUTLER – Kiss of Death – Hand of Blood
Horror/Thriller
Kate CANN – Leaving Poppy
Anne HALAM – Don’t open your eyes
Celia REES – Witch Child – Sorceress
Marcus SEDGWICK – My Swordhand is Singing
Allison ALLEN-GRAY – Unique
Tim BOWLER – Apocalypse
Anne CASSIDY – Missing Judy
Alex SHEARER – Tins
Jenny NIMMO – Midnight for Charlie Bone
Peter DICKINSON – The Rope Maker
Michelle PAVER – Wolf Brother
Darren SHAN – Vampire Blood Series
Action/Adventure
Siobahn DOWD – The London Eye Mysteries
Paul JENNINGS – Unbelievable!
Malorie BLACKMAN – Noughts and Crosses
Chris BRADFORD – The Way of the Warrior
Robert MUCHAMORE – Cherub Series (Books 1-3)
Andy MULLIGAN – Trash
Paul DOWSWELL – Powder Monkey
Simon SCARROW – Time Riders Series
Suzanne COLLINS – The Hunger Games Trilogy
Garth NIX – Sabriel
Rick RIORDAN – Percy Jackson series
Sophie McKENZIE – The Medusa Project
Other Titles
Louis SACHAR – There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, Holes
David WALLIAMS – The Boy in the Dress
Fiona DUNBAR – Toonhead
David ALMOND – Skellig – Clay – My Name is Mina
Mal PEET – The Penalty
Yen Mah ADELINE – The Chinese Cinderella
Lemony SNICKET – A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Sue Townsend – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Challenging Reads/Classics
Roald Dahl – Skin (A collection of Poetry)
Silas Hocking – Her Benny
Michelle Magorian – Goodnight Mr Tom
Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Louisa M. Alcott - Little Women
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine/War of the Worlds
J. Vance Marshall – Walkabout
Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials Trilogy
John Boyne – The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Andy McNab – Boy Soldier
Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ The Tempest/Macbeth/Twelfth Night
Texts to support school learning (Study Guides etc)
‘Make it Easy’ ENGLISH Letts Guides Age 10-11
Key Stage 3 English Revision Levels 5-7 Collins
Key Stage 3 English Study Guide CGP
Key Stage 3 English The Scary Bits CGP
Key Stage 3 English Essential Terms Levels 4-8
Key Stage 3 Literacy Strategy Books 1,2 & 3 CGP
Key Stage 3 Shakespeare Text Guide – Romeo and Juliet CGP
Romeo and Juliet (GCSE) York Notes
An Inspector Calls (GCSE) York Notes
Animal Farm (GCSE) York Notes
Of Mice and Men (GCSE) York Notes
Recommended authors
Roald Dahl
Robert Swindells
Michael Morpurgo
John Steinbeck
Louis Sachar
Malorie Blackman