Year 7 Recommended Reading List

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1 Year 7 Recommended Reading List

2 This booklet is full of great books that you might enjoy. Use it to support your studies, not just for English but for all subjects; to improve your reading skills or simply for pleasure. The books have been divided up by genre (the type of book) to help you select. It is by no means an exhaustive list; you will find other books you love. Please recommend those to your friends and teachers! There is no friend as loyal as a book Ernest Hemingway

3 Recommended by your peers: David Almond Skellig, My Name is Mina Lauren Child Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series) Sharon Creech Ruby Holler Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl Series Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (series)* Morris Gleitzman Once, Then, Now, After Charlie Higson Silverfin (Young James Bond series) Anthony Horowitz Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series) Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful Robert Muchamore - Cherub (series) R.J Palacio - Wonder Christopher Paolini Eragon, Eldest, Brisinar Rick Riordan Percy Jackson (series) J.K Rowling Harry Potter (series) Louis Sachar Holes, Small Steps Darren Shan Cirque du Freak Series Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events J.R.R Tolkien The Hobbit Lara Williamson A Boy Called Hope HAVE A GIGGLE Roald Dahl Any! Morris Gleitzman Extra Time Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid Mark Lowery Socks Are Not Enough Liz Pichon Tom Gates Books David Walliams Demon Dentist, Billionaire Boy, Mr Stink POETRY 101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy Poems from the First World War Gaby Morgan Malorie Blackman Cloud Busting MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE: Lauren Child Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series) Frank Cottrell Boyce Millions, Framed, Cosmic Siobhan Dowd The London Eye Mystery Charlie Higson Silverfin (Young James Bond series) Anthony Horowitz Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series) Andrew Lane Young Sherlock Holmes Series Sophie McKenzie Girl, Missing, The Medusa Project (series) Michael Morpurgo Kensuke s Kingdom Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke Louis Sachar Holes, Small Steps Marcus Sedgwick She Is Not Invisible, Blood Red, Snow White Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike Lauren St John Dead Man s Cove Mark Walden - HIVE

4 FANTASY Pseudonymous Bosh The Name Of This Book Is Secret Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl Series Cornelia Funke Inkheart C.S Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia William Nicholson The Wind Singer Christopher Paolini - Eragon (series) Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights (series) Rick Riordan Percy Jackson (series) J.K Rowling Harry Potter (series) Tony Di Terlizzi The Spiderwick Chronicles JRR Tolkien -The Hobbit Phillip Womack The Broken King NON-FICTION Tony Bradman (editor) Stories of WW1 Roald Dahl Boy Ann Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Glen Murphy Why is Snot Green? Or How Loud Can You Burp? (Science) Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook CREEPY TALES Catherine Fisher The Ghost Box Neil Gaimon Coraline, The Graveyard Book Pete Johnson The Vampire Fighters Derek Landy Skullduggery Pleasant (series) Jon Mayhew Mortlock Tom Palmer Ghost Stadium Chris Priestly Uncle Montague s Tales of Terror Marcus Sedgwick My Swordhand is Singing Darren Shan Cirque du Freak Series Darren Shan The Demonata Series Ali Sparkes Finding the Fox (Shapeshifter series) RL Stein Goosebumps (series) Jonathan Stroud - Lockwood & Co. The Screaming Staircase Robert Swindells Room 13 CLASSICS Richard Adams Watership Down Joan Aitken The Wolves of Willoughby Chase J.M Barry Peter Pan Nina Bawden Carrie s War Lewis Carroll - Alice s Adventures in Wonderland Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories C.S Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia Arthur Ransome Swallows & Amazons Anna Sewell Black Beauty

5 GIRLS LOVE Judy Blume - Are You There God? It s Me, Margaret Sita Brahmachari Artichoke Heart Lauren Child Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series) Sophie McKenzie Girl, Missing Louise Renninson - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Holly Smale Geek Girl Jean Ure - Lemonade Sky Collette Victor Head Over Heart Rebecca Westcott Violet Ink Jacqueline Wilson - Little Darlings and any others! BOYS LOVE Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl Series Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (series)* Charlie Higson Silverfin (Young James Bond series) Anthony Horowitz Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series) Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) Derek Landy Skullduggery Pleasant (series) Simon Mayo - Itch Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful Robert Muchamore - Cherub (series books 1&2) Christopher Paolini Eragon, Eldest, Brisinar Mal Peet Keeper Rick Riordan Percy Jackson (series) J.K Rowling Harry Potter (series) Louis Sachar Holes, Small Steps Darren Shan Cirque du Freak Series Mark Walden - HIVE HISTORICAL / OTHER CULTURES: Nina Bawden Carrie s War Ann Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Sally Gardner - I, Coriander Jamilia Gavin Coram Boy Morris Gleitzman Once, Then, Now, After Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Elizabeth Laird The Garbage King, Kiss The Dust Caroline Lawrence Roman Mysteries Michelle Margorian Goodnight Mister Tom or Back Home Michael Morpurgo Only Remembered Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful Beverly Naidoo The Other Side of Truth Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke Sandi Toksvig Hitler s Canary

6 English Challenge The challenge: You have two English challenges to attempt (if you wish to) before the beginning of May Both will help you to read more widely and both will utilise a variety of your reading, writing and speaking and listening skills. Details for each one are on the next page, but don t forget to see your English teacher if you get stuck! The deadline: Early May Your work should be ready to present to me by this time at the latest. However, you may complete your work in stages and submit it before this date. Make sure you leave yourself enough time this is a lengthy challenge! The Prize: If you complete a challenge you will be entered into a prize draw to win 25 itunes vouchers.

7 English Challenge Extended English Challenge 1: Story Openings. 1. Read the opening paragraphs of five different novels all must be books on this reading list! Think about the following questions for each one: What do you find interesting about it? Has the writer made you want to continue reading? How? What hook has been used? Has the writer used any interesting techniques? Repetition? Contrast? Similes? Why? Do you have any questions you would like answered? What is your favourite sentence? Why? 2. Choose your favourite opening, type up the first few paragraphs, or the first page, then annotate your extract with answers to all of the questions you were asked to consider for part 1. This will need to be printed and presented to your teacher as part of this challenge. 3. Now you are an expert in story openings you are going to write your own! Can you create your own first page using the features you ve just explored? You must include: a powerful first line, interesting word choices and descriptions and unanswered questions. How will you hook your reader? 4. Once done, type it up and annotate it in the same way as you did before. What features have you used in your opening? How do they engage your reader?

8 English Challenge Extended English Challenge 2: The News. 1. Find a newspaper article you have enjoyed reading from a broadsheet newspaper. Cut it out and stick it into the middle of an A3 piece of paper. Your job is to annotate the features the writer has used. Can you find and label the following: The 5 Ws of the story? (Who, What, When, Where, Why) The headline? Include a note about which techniques the writer has used in the headline and how it grabs the reader s attention. A byline? An image and caption? 2. Now choose one of the following five headlines: Boy drowns in toilet Dog caught stealing Is it all over? Man survives deadly attack Deathly blaze at school Your task is to write a newspaper article about one of these stories. 3. You must then type it up and present it as a newspaper front page. It should include the following presentational features: Name of the paper Columns Images and captions A striking headline A byline An emboldened first paragraph