Year Seven / Eight Recommended Reads
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Le Guin
Stone Heart Trilogy by Charlie Fletcher
The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkein
Muddle Earth by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Skellig by David Almond
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Up on Cloud Nine by Anne Fine
The Machine Gunnersby Robert Westall
Ruby in the Smoke by Phillip Pullman
Starseeker by Tim Bowler
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

