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Recommended Reading Year 4
Recommended reads; year 4.
This is a suggested list of titles and authors, which we feel to be appropriate for this age group.
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Author |
Title |
Genre/theme |
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Michael Hardcastle
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Eye for a Goal |
Sport, football |
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Jeremy Strong
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Otherworld |
Reluctant reader, fantasy adventure |
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Morris Gleitzman
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Toad Rage |
Humour, animals |
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Theresa Thomlinson
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Night of the Red Devil
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Time slip. history adventure |
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Michael Lawrence
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The Poltergoose
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Animal story, adventure |
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Robert Swindells
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Nightmare Stairs |
Thriller, nightmares |
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Michael Morpurgo
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The Butterfly Lion |
Animal tale |
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Chris d'Lacey
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Fly, Cherokee, Fly |
Animal story, birds bullying |
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Pete Johnson
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Mind Reader |
Science fiction friendship power |
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Berlie Doherty
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Bella's Den |
Animal story foxes environment |
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Clare Bevan
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Lucky Numbers |
Humour, greed |
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Roald Dahl
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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory |
Family Poverty |
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Jacqueline Wilson
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Buried Alive |
Friendship, bullying humour |
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Betsy Byars
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The Eighteenth Emergency |
Social issues, bullying |
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Philip Pullman |
The Firework-Maker’s Daughter |
Modern classic
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Lynn Reid Banks |
Harry the Poisonous Centipede |
Animal adventure |
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Eoin Colfer |
The Legend of Spud Murphy |
Boys/ The Power of reading.
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Lauren Child |
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean |
Family related follow up to the picture books. |
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Jamila Gavin |
Grandpa Chatterji |
Indian and British life comparison.
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Antoine de St-Exupery |
The Little Prince |
Inter-planetary dreamlike fantasy.
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Updated summer 2009
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