Summer reading ideas!

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…

http://trentceprimaryschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/100-Books-To-Try-And-Read-Before-You-Leave-Year-6.pdf

 

Don’t forget the summer reading challenge is taking place at all libraries across the country! 🙂