The summer is a wonderful time to catch up on our reading.
The Core Booklist has been published by The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) since 1996.
Year 5 and 6 – Literature list
A greyhound of a girl by Roddy Doyle
Aesop’s Fables by Beverley Naidoo
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll
Arthur, High King of Britain by Morpurgo
Bill’s new frock by Anne Fine
Boy in the tower by Ho-yen
Charlotte’s web by E B White
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by Marcia Williams
Classic fairy tales by Berlie Doherty
Classic poetry by Michael Rosen
Clockwork or all wound up by Pullman
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Danny Champion of the world by Roald Dahl
Fairy tales by Terry Jones
Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick
Fortunately the milk by Neil Gaiman
Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar
Goblins by Reeve
Goodnight Mister Tom by Magorian
Goth girl and the ghost of a mouse by Riddell
Greek Myths by Williams (comic strip)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone by Rowling
Howl’s moving castle by Wynne Jones
I was a rat! Or the scarlet slippers by Pullman
Journey to the river sea by Ibbotson
Little mouse’s big book of fears by Gravett
Love that dog by Creech
Madame Pamplemousse and the time-travelling café by Kingfisher
Michael Rosen’s A to Z the best children’s poetry from Agard to Zephaniah
Mortal Engines by Reeve
Noah Barleywater runs away by Boyne
One dog and his boy by Ibbotson
One thousand and one Arabian nights by McCaughrean
Phoenix by S F Said
Pig Heart Boy by Blackman
Rooftoppers by Rundell
Secret Friends Laird
Skellig by Almond
Sky Hawk by Lewis
Stay where you are and then leave by Boyne
Storm by Crossley-Holland
Street Child by Doherty
Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The dancing Bear by Morpurgo
The eye of the Wolf Pennac
The fastest boy in the world by Laird
The fire-eaters by Almond
The garbage King by Laird
The graveyard book by Gaiman
The green ship by Blake
The hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson (narrative poem)
The last wild by Torday
London Eye Mystery by Dowd
The midnight fox by Byers
Mystery of the clockwork Sparrow by Woodfine
The no 1 car spotter by Atinuke
The Savage by Almond
The Unforgotten coat by Cottrell Boyce
The wolfwilder by Rundell
Wreck of the Zanzibar by Morpurgo
There’s a boy in the girls’ bathroom by Sachar
Tom’s midnight garden by Pearce
Two weeks with the Queen by Gleitzman
Varjak Paw by S F Said
Wolf Brother by Paver
Wonder by Palacio
Follow the link to see how many of the 100 books to read before you leave Year 6 you have read so far…
Don’t forget the summer reading challenge is taking place at all libraries across the country! 🙂 
