Upper School Reading list
Year 3
| The Witches | by Roald Dahl |
| The Iron Man | by Ted Hughes |
| Peter Rabbit and other stories | by Beatrix Potter |
| Grannies | by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins |
| The Goosebumps series | by R.L.Stine |
| Indoor Pirates | by Jeremy Strong |
| Horrid Henry | by Francesca Simon |
| The Sheep-Pig | by Dick King Smith |
| Captain Pugwash stories | by J. Ryan |
| The Giant Baby | by Allan Ahlberg |
Year 4
| The B.F.G. | by Roald Dahl |
| Esio Trot | by Roald Dahl |
| Betsey Biggalow, the detective | by Marjorie Blackman |
| Sir Gaddabout gets worse | by M. Beardsley |
| The Little Vampire | by A. Bodenberg |
| Busy Gets The Headlines | by M. Coleman |
| The Animals of Farthing Wood | by C. Dann |
| Nicobobinus | by Terry Jones |
| Flash Eddie and the Big Bad Wolf | by S. McBratney |
| The Worst Witch | by J. Murphy |
| The Happy Prince | by O. Wilde |
| Winnie the Pooh | by A.A. Milne |
| The Indian in the Cupboard | by K.M. Peyton |
Year 5
| Harry Potter books | by J.K. Rowling |
| Double Act (and other books) | by Jacqueline Wilson |
| Black Beauty | by Anna Sewell |
| The Borrowers | by Mary Norton |
| The Boy Who Wasn't There | by K.M. Peyton |
| The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | by Penelope Lively |
| Vampirates | by M. Oliver |
| The Silver Sword | by Ian Serrailler |
| The Willows in Winter | by William Horwood |
| Matilda | by Roald Dahl |
| Just William stories | by Richmal Crompton |
| The Otterbury Incident | by C. Day Lewis |
| Flour Babies | by Anne Fine |
| Elidor | by Alan Garner |
| Peter Pan | by J.M.Barrie |
| Famous Five stories | by Enid Blyton |
| Secret Seven stories | by Enid Blyton |
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | by Joan Aitken |
Year 6
| Andalite Chronicles | by K.A. Applegate |
| The Demon Headmaster | by Gillian Cross |
| Longer Letter Later | by Paula Danziger and Ann Martin |
| The Kin | by Peter Dickenson |
| My Family and Other Animals | by Gerald Durrell |
| Madame Doubtfire | by Anne Fine |
| Jack Holborn | by Leon Garfield |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | by C.S. Lewis |
| The Butterfly Lion | by Michael Morpurgo |
| Five Children and It | by J. Nimmo |
| The Subtle Knife | by Philip Pullman |
| Angela and Diabola | by Lynn Reid Banks |
| Abomination | by Robert Swindells |
| Harry and the Wrinklies | by Alan Temperley |
| Eloise | by Kay Thompson |
| The Hobbit | by J.R.R. Tolkein |
| The World of Chrestomanci | by Diana Wynne Jones |
| Discworld series | by Terry Pratchett |
| Tiger Adventure and other books | by Willard Price |
| Redwall and other books | by Brian Jacques |
| Shakespeare's Animated Tales | by Leon Garfield |
Year 7
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | by Douglas Adams |
| Watership Down | by Richard Adams |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles and other books | by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Trillions | by Nicholas Fisk |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | by Anne Frank |
| The Snow Goose | by Paul Gallico |
| Iron Heads | by S. Gates |
| Collision Course | by N. Hinton |
| The Outsiders | by S. Hinton |
| Point Blanc | by Anthony Horowitz |
| Duncton Wood | by William Horwood |
| Maphead | by Lesley Howarth |
| Tom Brown's Schooldays | by T. Hughes |
| No Gun for Asmir | by J. Lingard |
| Midsummer Night's Death | by K.M. Peyton |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream } | |
| Macbeth } | by William Shakespeare |
| The Merchant of Venice } | |
| Treasure Island | by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Eagle of the Ninth | by Rosemary Sutcliffe |
| Coventry | by Sue Townsend |
| Walkabout | by James Vance Marshall |
| The Kingdom by the Sea | by Robert Westall |
Year 8
| I Robot | by Isaac Asimov |
| Talking Heads | by Alan Bennett |
| Wuthering Heights | by Emily Bronte |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | by Lewis Carroll |
| Under Goliath | by P. Carter |
| Murder on the Orient Express | by Agatha Christie |
| When Tripods Came | by John Christopher |
| A Chistmas Carol | by Charles Dickens |
| Oliver Twist | by Charles Dickens |
| A Pack of Liars | by Anne Fine |
| Shadow of the Minotaur | by Alan Gibbons |
| Lord of the Flies | by William Golding |
| Just So Stories | by Rudyard Kipling |
| King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table | by Robert Lancelyn Green |
| Cider with Rosie | by Laurie Lee |
| Kine | by A.R. Lloyd |
| 1984 | by George Orwell |
| Fireweed | by J. Paton Walsh |
| Northern Lights | by Philip Pullman |
| The Wave | by M. Rhue |
| Twelfth Night } | |
| Romeo and Juliet } | by William Shakespeare |
| A Winter's Tale } | |
| Frankenstein | by Mary Shelley |
| Waterlanders | by I. Strachan |
| Gulliver's Travels | by Jonathan Swift |
| Dax 4 Zoe | by Robert Swindells |
| Brother in the Land | by Robert Swindells |
| The Lord of the Rings | by J.R.R. Tolkein |
| The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 | by Sue Townsend |
| The Queen and I | by Sue Townsend |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | by Mark Twain |
| The Mennyms | by Sylvia Waugh |
| The Time Machine | by H.G. Wells |
| Tarka the Otter | by Henry Williamson |
| The Day of the Triffids | by John Wyndham |
academics/curriculum/english
