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Recommended Reading Year 6

Recommended reads year 6.

This is a suggested list of titles and authors which we feel to be appropriate for this age group.

 

Author

Title

Genre/themes

David Almond

 

Skellig

Fantasy, angels

Malorie Blackman

 

Pig-Heart Boy

Social issues, illness

Anne Fine

 

The Tulip Touch

Social issues

Philip Pullman

 

His Dark Materials I: Northern Lights

Fantasy, trilogy adventure

Kevin Crossley-Holland

 

The Seeing Stone

Historical

Alan Gibbons

 

Shadow of the Minotaur

Myths, fantasy

William Nicholson

 

The Wind Singer

Fantasy

Tim Bowler

 

Storm Catchers

Thriller, family

Nina Bawden

 

Carrie's War

World War Two modern classic

Michelle Magorian

 

Goodnight Mister Tom

Social issues WWII, family moving home

Anne Fine

 

Flour Babies

Social issues, single parent

Richard Adams

 

Watership Down

Environmental, animal

Jenny Nimmo

 

The Snow Spider

 

Sylvia Waugh

 

The Mennyms

 

Brian Jacques

Mossflower

Modern classic fantasy

 

Robin Jarvis

 

The Deptford Mice

 

Rodent adventure

 

 

NLS themes: autumn term- Classic fiction, long-established authors

 

spring term-Stories/ novels from more than one genre e.g. mystery, humour, sci-fi, historical, fantasy.

 

summer term- Work by a significant children’s author.
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