Upper Key Stage Two Reading List

Years Five and Six

Selected Tales of Hans Anderson

by Hans Christian Anderson

Brendon Chase; Down the Bright Stream by B.B.

The Secret Garden; Little Lord Fauntleroy

by F Hodgson Burnett

Danny; Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea

by Eric Linklater

The Treasure Seekers; The Railway Children

by Edith Nesbitt

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

by Robert C. O’Brien

101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Molly Moon’s Hypnotic Time Travel Machine

by Georgia Byng

How to be a Pirate by Creddisa Cowell

Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony Diterlizzi

Corydon and the Island of Monsters; Corydon

and the Fall of Atlantis by Tobias Druitt

Goggle Eyes; Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine

Grinny; Space Hostages; Trillions by Nicholas Fisk

Stone Heart; Iron Hand by Charlie Fletcher

War Game; War Boy by Michael Foreman

Grandpa Chatterji; I Want to be an Angel and

Other Stories by Jamilia Gavin

Cleopatra; A Candle in the Dark by Adele Geras

Stickybeak; Toad Heaven; The Gift of the Gab

by Morris Gleitzman

The Chimera’s Curse – Companions Quartet

by Julia Golding

The Finders; Beaver Towers by Nigel Hinton

Groosham Grange; Diamond Brothers

by Anthony Horowitz

The Alchemyst’s Cat; The Woven Path

by Robin Jarvis

The Phantom Tolbooth by Norton Juster

The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan

The Wreck of the Zanzibar, The Amazing Story

by Michael Morpurgo

The Snow Spider Trilogy by Jenny Nimmo

A Dog so Small; Minnow on the Say

by Phillippa Pearce

I was a Rat; Count Karlstein by Phillip Pullman

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Uncle Albert by Russell Stannard

Fergus Crane by Stewart and Riddell

Blitzcat by Robert Westall

Charmed Life by Diana Wynne-Jones

War Game; War Boy by Michael Foreman

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Bombs on

Aunty Dainty by Judith Kerr

The Thieves of Ostia; The Pirates of Pompeii

by Caroline Lawrence

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

by Geraldine McCaughrean

The Viking Saga; The Children’s Crusade

by Henry Treece

Historical House by Ann Turnball et al

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

The Secret Garden by F Hodgson Burnett

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban

Jungle Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Doctor Dolittle Stories by Hugh Lofting

The Call of the Wild; White Fang by Jack London

Box of Delights by John Masefield

Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phillippa Pearce

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Dangerous Reality; Forbidden Game

by Malorie Blackman

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Lionboy by Zizou Corder

Daughter of the Sea; The Sailing Ship Tree

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Coraline, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

Cat Royal by Julia Golding

Young Bond by Charlie Higson

Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz

The Secret Platform 13; Monster Mission

by Eva Ibbotson

The Saga of Eric the Viking by Terry Jones

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tylre by Gene Kemp

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively

Peter Pan in Scarlett; The Odyssey

by Geraldine McCaughrean

Shadow by Michael Morpurgo

The Goalkeeper’s Revenge and Other Stories

by Bill Naughton

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

by Robert O’Brien

Children of the Red King by Jenny Nimmo

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

by Michelle Paver

Dog; The Eye of the Wold by Daniel Pennac

The Tiger in the Well by Phillip Pullman

Percy Jackson by Rick Riodan

Varjac Paw by S.F Said

The White Giraffe by Lauren St John

Edge Chronicles by Riddle Stewart

The Lottie Project by Jacqueline Wilson

Carrie’s War; The Peppermint Pig

by Nina Bawden

Gideon the Cutpurse

by Linda Archer-Buckley

Lady Grace Mysteries: A is for Assassin

by Grace Cavendish

King of Shadows; The Dark is Rising

by Susan Cooper

Street Child by Berlie Doherty

Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer

Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian

Blitz Boys; Flightsendl; Ice Cat

by Linda Newberry

The Dolphin Crossing by Jill Paton Walsh

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

Hitler’s Canary by Sandy Toksvig

My Story by Various Authors

The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne-Jones

Worry Warts by Morriz Gleitzman

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated

Rodents by Terry Pratchett

Harry and the Wrinklies; Harry and

the Treasure of Eddie Carver by Alan Temperley

The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams

Jamie Johnson by Dan Freedman

Foul Play by Tom Palmer

Horrible Histories by Terry Deary

The Very Bloody History of Britain by John Farman

Marley and Me by John Grogan

Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays by Marcia Williams