LeaValleyReads-Suggested Reading
Not certain what to pick? Here is a selection of books that are popular with secondary school readers, by year group but challenge yourselves or indeed choose something you've previously enjoyed.
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School Stories
- The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan - armed with a suitcase and a old laundry bag full of clothes, Kasienka and her mother head for England. Life is difficult then someone special enters her life.
- Wonder by R. J. Palacio - born with a facial abnormality, shy, bright 10 year old Auggie Pullman is being sent to a school for the first time ever and he's dreading it.
- There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar - there are so many ways that a boy like Bradley Chalkers can humiliate himself at school. No-one wants to sit next to him until a new pupil arrives.
Animal Stories
- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell - a family move to the Greek island of Corfu to escape the dreary wet weather of 1930's England.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell - A group of animals grow tired of their cruel, drunken employer and take over the farm.
- War Horse by Michael Morpurgo - Albert wonders if he will ever find his beautiful, red-bay horse again after his father sold it to the army.
Crime and Mystery Stories
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - a murder mystery with a narrator who understands lots about maths but very little about human beings.
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - is a criminal mastermind but even he doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy
- The Ruby in the Smoke by Phillip Pulman - Sally Lockhart searches for a priceless ruby in Victorian England and uncovers even greater mysteries.
…….more to follow soon
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KS4 & KS5
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Real Life The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Chinglish by Sue Cheung Moonrise by Sarah Crossan We Come Apart. Sarah Crossan & B. Conaghan The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield After the Fire by Will Hill The Smell of Other People’s Houses by BS Hitchcock The Girl in the Broken Mirror by Savita Khan I Am Thunder by Muhammad Khan Kick the Moon by Muhammad Khan The Names they Gave us by Emery Lord The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard Beck by Mal Peet My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece. A. Pitcher Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Encounters by Jason Wallace The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Real Life: History Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani Things A Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls Salt to the Sea by Ruta Septys The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Real Life: Mental Health Beautiful Broken Things. Sara Barnard Are We All Lemmings & Snowflakes? H. Bourne A Change is Gonna Come. Alisha Busby The Perks of Being a Wallflower. S. Chbosky Toffee. Sarah Crossan Darius the Great is Not Okay. Adib Khorram Dumplin’. Julie Murphy I’ll Give You the Sun. Jandy Nelson Holding Up the Universe. Jennifer Niven The Million Pieces of Neena Gill . Smith-Barton All the Things We Never Said. Y. Rahman Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Real Life: Romance What If It’s Us? Adam Silvera To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. J. Han History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera Happy Girl Lucky by Holly Smale Only Love Can Break Your Heart. K. Webber The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
Dystopia Internment by Samira Ahmed The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline The Giver by Lois Lowry More Than This by Patrick Ness Delirium by Lauren Oliver Divergent by Veronica Roth Scythe by Neal Shusterman The Extinction Trials by S.M. Wilson Red Blood Road by Moira Young Mystery City of Saints & Thieves. N. C. Anderson The Diviners by Libba Bray Follow Me Back by Nicci Cloke Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. H. Jackson One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins This Lie Wil Kill You by Chelsea Pitcher Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard Lying About Last Summer by S. Wallman Fantasy / Sci Fi Children of Blood and Bone by T. Adeyemi The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo The Cruel Prince by Holly Black Witch Hunter by Victoria Boecker Ink by Alice Broadway Last Bus to Everland by S. Cameron Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Boneless Mercies by April G. Tucholke We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge The Next Together by Lauren James Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan The Call by Peadar O’Guilin Carry On by Rainbow Rowell Skyward Brandon Sanderson Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson Enchantee by Gita Trelease Uglies by Scott Westerfeld The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Action / Adventure Not if I Save You First by Ally Carter Gone by Michael Grant Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Kileen WarCross by Marie Lu Books by Geraldine McCaughrean The General by Robert Muchamore White Rabbit / Red Wolf by Tom Pollock Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Classics Hitchhiker’s Guide Galaxy by Douglas Adams Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton A Wizard of Earthsea by U. K Le Guin A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee White Fang by Jack London 1984 by George Orwell Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Treasure Island by Robert L. Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham |
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