Reading List
Year 6 Suggested Reading list
The Railway Children by E.Nesbit
Abomination by Robert Swindells
The Crowstarver by Dick King-Smith
Awful End by Philip Ardagh
From Hereabout Hill by Michael Morpurgo
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Granny by Anthony Horowitz
Time Travelling With a Hamster by Ross Welford
Lion Boy by Zizou Corder
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
Skellig by David Almond
Superfudge by Judy Bloom
The Weathermonger by Peter Dickinson
Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
The Indian in the Cupboard Trilogy by Lynne Reid Banks
Absolutely Everything by Christopher Lloyd
A Boy Called Hope by Lara Williamson
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Jaguar Trials by Ruth Eastham
Far From Home by Berlie Doherty
Cogheart by Peter Bunzl
The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Eren by Simon P Clark
Raspberries on the Yangtze by Karen Wallace
The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie
Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
Oranges in No Man’s Land by Elizabeth Laird
Framed by Frank Cottrell-Bryce
The Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
Year 6 Deeper Texts
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (series)
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland (story of a young King Arthur)
Eren by Simon P Clark
The Weirdstone of Brisingasmen by Alan Garner
Minders by Diana Hendry
A Winkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
SeaBEAN by Sarah Holding
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliffe
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
Raptor by Paul Zindel
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
Daughters of Time: an anthology from the History Girls by Mary Hoffman
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
Nightfall in New York by Katherine Woodfine
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
Pig-Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Boy At the Back of the Class by Onjali Rauf