Reading lists of fiction books for Years 7-9 and KS4 at Grainville and Haute Vallée School

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1 Reading lists of fiction books for Years 7-9 and KS4 at Grainville and Haute Vallée School The following lists are a recommendation of fiction that will broaden your understanding whilst also being enjoyable. We recommend that students from Years 7 and 8 do not access the Year 9 or Key Stage 4 texts without parental input due to the nature of some of the content and subject matter. Year 7 Madame Doubtfire Holes Small Steps Watership Down The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Peter Pan The Dark is Rising Wolf The Seeing Stone The Sign of One The Weirdstone of Brisingamen A Wrinkle in Time Across the Barricades War Horse Stone Cold Northern Lights The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass Black Beauty The Eagle of the Ninth The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn The Sword in the Stone Raptor Wonder The Book Thief The Call of the Wild Charlotte s Web The Wind in the Willows The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Hobbit Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Hound of the Baskervilles The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Island of Blue Dolphins Treasure Island Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Great Expectations Anne Fine Louis Sachar Louis Sachar Richard Adams John Aiken J.M. Barrie Susan Cooper Gillian Cross Kevin Crossley Holland Eugene Lambert Alan Garner Madeline L Engle Joan Lingard Michael Morpurgo Robert Swindels Anna Sewell Rosemary Sutcliffe Sue Townsend Mark Twain T.H. White Paul Zindel RJ Palacio Marcus Zusak Jack London EB White Kenneth Grahame CS Lewis JRR Tolkien Scott O Dell R.L Stevenson Mildred D Taylor 1

2 Lord of the Flies Animal Farm The Railway Children William Golding George Orwell Edith Nesbit Year 8 The Outsiders Chinese Cinderella Coram Boy The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night The Day of the Triffids The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Small Steps I am David A Kestrel for a Knave The Tulip Touch The Plague Dogs Bridge to Terabithia The Woman in Black The Woman in White The Secret Garden The Haunting Z for Zachariah Shadowmancer The Old Man and the Sea Face Jane Eyre Frankenstein I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Pride and Prejudice For Whom the Bell Tolls The Grapes of Wrath Oliver Twist Rebecca Jamaica Inn Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The Other Side of the Truth S.E. Hinton Adeline Yen Mah Jamila Gavin Mark Haddon John Wyndham Douglas Adams Louis Sacher Anne Holm Barry Hines Anne Fine Richard Adams Katherine Paterson Susan Hill Wilkie Collins Frances Hodgson Burnett Margaret Mahy Robert O Brien GP Taylor Ernest Hemingway Benjamin Zephaniah Charlotte Bronte Mary Shelley Maya Angelou Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck Daphne Du Maurier Daphne Du Maurier Beverley Naidoo Year 9 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1 and 2) Are You There God? It s Me, Margaret The Twilight Saga 2 Judy Blume Stephanie Meyer

3 Brighton Rock Graham Green The Catcher in the Rye J.D Salinger One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest Ken Kesey Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas Dracula Bram Stoker Sense and Sensibility A Tale of Two Cities Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1984 George Orwell Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Jekyll and Hyde R.L. Stevenson Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Junk Melvyn Burgess The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds The Time Machine Key stage 4 (Years 10 and 11) Room Emma Donoghue The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Power Naomi Alderman The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood Brighton Rock Graham Green One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest Ken Kesey To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Pride and Prejudice 1984 George Orwell Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Jekyll and Hyde R.L. Stevenson Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Junk Melvyn Burgess Night Elie Wiesel The Help Kathryn Stockett A Strike Novel Robert Galbraith (pseudonym for J.K. Rowling) A Monster Calls Patrick Ness Every Day David Levathan Atonement Ian McEwan Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 3

4 A Clockwork Orange Catch 22 Angela s Ashes Girl in Red Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha Macbeth Romeo and Juliet Othello A Christmas Carol Dune Jaws IT The Hollow Man She All Quiet on the Western Front Les Miserables Papillon Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Neuromancer Anthony Burgess Joseph Heller Frank McCourt Gaye Hiçyilmaz Douglas Adams Roddy Doyle Frank Herbert Peter Benchley Stephen King John Dickson Carr H Rider Haggard Eric Maria Remarque Victor Hugo Henri Charriere Phillip K Dick William Gibson Accessible Texts The following texts have an accessible reading age (RA) with a higher interest age (IA) meaning the content is suitable for a secondary reader. The publisher specialises in these texts as well as dyslexia friendly texts. Reading Interest Book Publisher Age Age Bomb City Boy Red Card Glee Club Take Two After School Club Snow Dogs Under Cover of Darkness Framed Harper Collins Contract Game Boy Hostage Ghost for Sale In at the Deep End All Sorts to Make a World Dragon Story Queen Fox Friend 4

5 Accessible Texts Reading Interest Book Publisher Age Age Con Men Assassin A Perfectly Ordinary School Bullet Catcher x 3 versions Diary of a Trainee Rock God Annie s Choice Bright Star Flesh and Blood The Wickford Doom Master Will and the Spanish Spy Young Werewolf The Evil Within Free Lance and the x3 books Anzac Boys Opal Plumstead Corgi Carrie s War Victor Gollancz Ltd 5