Recommended Reading

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See the below book lists for KS1 recommended reading:

1. That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton.
2. Numenia and the Hurricane by Fiona Halliday.
3. Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman.
4. Goodnight Everyone by Chris Haughton.
5. We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.
6. The Bad-Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle.
7. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson.
8. A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond.
9. The Smile Shop by Satoshi Kitamura.
10. The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr. 
11. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd.
12. Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.

See the below book lists for KS2 recommended reading:

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl.
2. Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. 
3. How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell.
4. Danny, The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
5. Escape from Shangri-La by Michael Morpurgo.
6. The Secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 
7. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe series by C.S Lewis.
8. Wolf Brother series by Michelle Paver.
9. Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling.
10. The Spook's Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney.
11. Absolutely Everything by Christopher Lloyd.
12. Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.

See the below book lists for KS3 recommended reading:

1. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman.
2. Abomination by Robert Swindells.
3. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein.
4. Goosebumps series by R.L Stine.
5. Watership Down by Richard Adams.
6. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. 
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.
10. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.
11. Treasure Island by R.L Stevenson.
12. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

See the below book lists for KS4 recommended reading:

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell and Chris Mould.
2. The Hounds of the Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle.
3. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
5. The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer.
6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. 
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker.
8. Empire of the Sun by J.G Ballard.
9. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
10. Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness.
11. American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
12. Lord of The Rings series by J.R.R Tolkein.

See the below book lists for KS5 recommended reading:

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
4. War of the Worlds by H.G Wells
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
6. The Shining by Stephen King.
7. Dune series by Frank Herbert.
8. Game of Thrones series by George R.R Martin.
9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
10. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
11. The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
12. Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

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