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Four Elms Primary School

Recommended book list - Years 5 & 6

Year 5

Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver

Who Let the Gods out – Max Evans

Beatle Boy – MG Leonard

Boy in the Tower – Polly Ho-Yen

The Wolf Wilder – Katherine Rundell

Heidi – Johanna Spyri

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

The Wonder Garden – Jenny Bloom and Kristjana Willimas

The Breadwinner – Deborah Ellis

The Butterfly Lion – Michael Morpurgo

Charlotte’s Web – E.B White

Clockwork – Phillip Pullman

Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl

The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Big History – Christopher Lloyd

Dial a Ghost – Eva Ibbotson

Dragon Rider – Cornelia Funke

Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kastner

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm – Norman Hunter

I Know what you did last Wednesday – Anthony Horowitz

Peter in Peril – Helen Bate

The Ghost of Thomas Kemp – Penelope Lively

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K Rowling

Heard it in the Playground – Allan Ahlberg

The Ultimate Alphabet – Mike Wilks

The Hundred and One Dalmations – Dodie Smith

The Iron Man – Ted Hughes

Krindlekrax – Philip Ridley

Scribbleboy – Philip Ridley

Stig of the Dump – Clive King

Hacker – Malorie Blackman

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr

Moondial – Helen Cresswell

The Deamon Headmaster – Gilliam Cross

The Witches – Roald Dahl

Bill’s New Frock – Anne Fine

The Mouse and his Child – Russell Hoban

The Clocktower Ghost – Gene Kemp

The Sheep-Pig – Dick King-Smith

King of the Cloud Forests – Michael Morpurgo

The Phoenix and the Carpet – E. Nesbit

The Scarecrow and his Servant – Philip Pullman

A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket

Woof – Allan Ahlberg

Laughter is and Egg – John Agard

The Factory Made Boy – Christine Nostlinger

Aquila – Andrew Norriss

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 0 Kate DiCamillo

 

Year 6

The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff – Andy Seed

A Boy Called Hope – Lara Williamson

Illegal – Eoin Colder

The Nowhere Emporium – Ross Mackenzie

Time Travelling with a Hamster – Ross Welford

Cogheart – Peter Bunzl

The Girl of Ink and Stars – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Eren – Simon P Clark

The Railway Children – E.Nesbit

Abomination – Robert Swindells

Carries War – Nina Bawden

The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Nature – Christopher Lloyd

Raspberries on the Yangtze – Karen Wallace

The Crowstarver – Dick King-Smith

Awful End – Philip Ardagh

From Hereabout Hill – Michael Morpurgo

Fruit and Nutcase – Jean Ure

Granny – Anthony Horowitz

The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkin

Kenzuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo

Lion Boy – Zizou Corder

The Machiene Gunners – Robert Westall

The Viewer – Gary Crew

My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus Sedgwick

Once – Morris Gleitzman

The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo

The SIlver Sword – Ian Serrailler

Skellig – David Almond

Superfudge – Judy Blume

Tell me no Lies – Malorie Blackman

The Weathermonger – Peter Dickinson

What Katy Did – Susan Coolidge

The Wheel of Surya – Jamila Gavin

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis

Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian

Why the Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo

The Borrowers – Mary Norton

Silverfin – Charlie Higson

Oranges in No Man’s Land – Elizabeth Laird

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