BOOKS FOR YEAR GROUPS
YEAR SEVEN READING LIST BY GENRE
BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU LEAVE YEAR SEVEN
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Ally’s World series by Karen McCombie
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Attika by Garry Kilworth
Biggles Flies West by WW Johns
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Billy the Kid – Michael Murpurgo /
Michale Forman
Boy by Roald Dahl
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
Cherubs by Robert Muchamore
Double Act – Jacqueline Wilson
Dreamweaver – Louise Lawrence
Enter Tom by Jan Oldham
Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
Fire, Bed and Board – Henrietta Branford
Flash Flood by Chris Ryan
Forever X – Geraldine McCaughrean
Girls Trilogy by Jacqueline Wilson
Granny the Pag – Nina Bawden
Gulf – Robert Westall
Hacker by Malorie Blackman
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Holes by Louis Sachar
Innocent by Anne Cassidy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Johnny and the Dead – Terry Pratchet
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Kensuke’s Kingdom –Michael Mupurgo
Kevin Crossley Holland
King Solomon’s Mines by H Rider Haggard
Kiss the Dust – Elizabeth Laird
Little Soldier – Bernard Ashley
Little White Horse by Elizabeth Grudge
Little Women by Louisa L Alcott
Maphead and Maphead 2 – Lesley Howarth
Massive by Julia Bell
Mr Spaceman – Lesley Howarth
Nightjohn – Gary Paulsen
Not the End of the World by G McCaughrean
Pig Heart Boy – Malorie Blackman
Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori
Red, White and Blue – Robert Leeson
Scribbleboy – Philip Ridley
Shadow of the Minotaur – Alan Gibbons
Silverfin by Charlie Higson
Skellig – David Almond
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Space Race – Sylvia Waugh
Spring-Heeled Jack – Philip Pullman
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Storm Thief by Chris Wooding
Survival by Chris Ryan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conon Doyle
The Bone Dog by Susan Price
The Doomspell – Cliff McNish
The Echoing Green – Mary Rayner
The Ghost Drum by Susan Price
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson
The Kite Rider – Geraldine McCaugrean
The Mennyms – Syliva Waugh
The Midwife’s Apprentice – Karen Cushman
The Mighty Fizz Chilla by Phillip Ridley
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seeing Stone & The Crossing Place –
The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral by Robert Westall
The Tulip Touch – Anne Fine
The Wind Singer – William Nicholson
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom – Louis Sacher
Trucker (and Diggers and Wings) – Terry Pratchett
Two Weeks with the Queen – Morris Gleitzman
Warriors of Alavna by NM Browne
Weirdo’s War – Michael Coleman
Whispers in the Graveyard – Theresa Breslin
Why Weeps the Brogan? – Hugh Scott
Wind on the Fire Trilogy by William Nicholson
Worry Warts – Morris Gleitzman
