Reading List Year 6
This is a list of more challenging reads for those in Year 6. The Year 3/4 and Year 5 suggested reading lists are also worth looking at.
- Fantasy
- WW2
- Past
- Horror
- Classics
- Modern Classics
- Well-loved Authors
- Thought Provoking Books
- Humour
- Barrington Stoke For Older Readers
Fantasy
Joan Aiken, Midnight is a Place
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl series, The Supernaturalist, Half Moon
Investigations
Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising sequence
Chris D’Lacey, Icefire, Shrinking Ralph Perfect, The Salt Pirates of Skegness
Helen Dunmore, Ingo
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, Inkspell, The Thief Lord
Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Elidor
Alan Gibbons, Warriors of the Raven
Elizabeth Goudge, Little White Horse
Anthony Horowitz, The Power of Five series
Erin Hunter, Warrior Cats series
Brian Jaques, Redwall
Diane Wynne Jones, Eight Days of Luke, The Chrestomanci Series
Elizabeth Kay The Divide, Back to the Divide etc
Stephen Moore, Tooth and Claw
William Nicholson, The Wind on Fire Trilogy, The Noble Warriors
Trilogy
Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone series
Ian Ogilvy, Measle and the Mallockee
Christopher Paolini, Eragon, Eldest
Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother, Spirit Walker, Soul Eater
Terry Pratchet, Johnny and the Bomb, Diggers, The Amazing
Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Series
Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines
Philip Ridley, Mighty Fizz Chilla
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
Louis Sachar, Holes, Small Steps
Angie Sage, Septamus Flyte series
Ali Sparkes, Shapeshifter series
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, The Edge Chronicles series
Jonathan Stroud, Golem’s Eye
Robert Swindells, In the Nick of Time
G. P. Taylor, Shadowmancer
Kate Thompson, The Swithchers Trilogy, The Missing Link
J. R. R.Tolkein, The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings
Dr Who story books
Adventure
Jon Blake, The Last Free Cat
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Framed, Cosmic
Melvin Burgess, An Angel for May
Joe Craig, Jimmy Coates series
Jamila Gavin, The Blood Stone, Surya Trilogy
Carl Hiaasen, Hoot
Charlie Higson, The Young Bond books
Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider series
Sophie Mckenzie, Girl Missing
Willard Price, Volcano Adventure etc
Chris Ryan, Alpha Force series
Ruth Thomas, The Runaways
Mark Walden, H.I.V.E series
Jeanette Winterson, Tanglewreck
WW2
Nina Bawden, Carrie’s War
John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Holm, I am David
Judith Kerr, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Robert Leeson, Tom’s War
Michele Magorian, Goodnight Mr Tom
Linda Newberry, Blitz Boys
Christne Nostlinger, Fly Away Home
Jill Paton Walsh, Dolphin Crossing
Robert Westall Blitzcat, The Machine Gunners
Past
Horror
Classics
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, The Little Princess,
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
W. E. Johns, Biggles
C. S. Lewis, Narnia
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
Mary Norton, The Borrowers
Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
R. L, Stevenson, Treasure Island
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
Modern Classics
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard
Gillian Cross, The Demon Headmaster series, The Great Elephant Chase
Penelope Farmer, Charlotte Sometimes
Norman Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Jack London, White Fang, Call of the Wild
Jenny Nimmo, The Snow Spider Trilogy
Phillipa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden
Sylivia Voight, The Homecoming
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie
Henry Williamson Tarka, The Otter
Well-loved Authors
Roald Dahl, Witches
Geraldine McCaughrean, Stop the Train, The Stones are Hatching, A
Little Lower than Angels, Peter Pan in Scarlet
Michael Morpurgo, books for older readers Out of the Ashes, Private
Peaceful, Alone on the Wide Sea, Adolphus Tips, Why the Whales
Came
Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum, Vicky Angel, My Sister Jodie
Thought Provoking Books
Humour
Barrington Stoke For Older Readers
Malorie Blackman, Hostage
Tony Bradman, The Dirty Dozen
Theresa Breslin, Starship Rescue
Annie Dalton, Friday Forever
Mary Hoffman, Virtual Friend
Mary Hooper, The Genie
Ann Jungman, Resistance
Michael Lawrence, Young Dracula
Lynne Markham, Cinderalf
Anthony Masters, Tod in Biker City
Alison Prince, Screw Loose
Rosie Rushton, Life Line
Jeremy Strong, Mad Iris
Hazel Townson, Lift Off, The Secret Room