Year 4 Reading List
Advanced ReadersTitle / Author / Title / Author
The Neverending Story / Michael Ende / The Wizard of Oz / Frank Baum
Bow Down Shadrach / Joy Cowley / Dragon Keeper / Carole Wilkinson
The Chronicles of Narnia / C.S. Lewis / Heidi / Johanna Spyri
My Story series (History) / Various authors / Hacker ; Pig Heart Boy / Malorie Blackman
Harry and the Wrinklies / Alan Temperley / Walter and Me / Michael Morpurgo
Aquila / Andrew Norris / Dragon Rider / Cornelia Funke
Double Act / Jacqueline Wilson / Boy, Going Solo / Roald Dahl
The Owl Service / Alan Garner / Ballet Shoes and others / Noel Streatfield
The Wind Singer / William Nicholson / Boy Overboard / Morris Gleitzman
Artemis Fowl / Eoin Colfer / Black Beauty / Anna Sewell
Goldfish Boy / Lisa Thompson / The Diamond Brothers series / Anthony Horowitz
Boy in the Tower / Polly Ho-Yen / Beetle Boy / M.G. Leonard
Journey To Jo’burg / Beverly Naidoo / Five Children and It / E. Nesbit
A Series of Unfortunate Events / Lemony Snicket / Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone / J.K. Rowling
Time Travelling with a Hamster / Ross Welford / Dream Snatcher trilogy / Abi Elphinstone
Comfortable Readers
Title / Author / Title / Author
Water Wings; Belly Flop / Morris Gleitzman / Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
The Dragon's Child / Jenny Nimmo / Pax / Sarah Pennypacker
Moondial; The Sea Piper / Helen Cresswell / Number the Stars / Lois Lowry
Charlotte’s Web; The Trumpet of the Swan; Stuart Little / E. B. White / The Firework-Maker's Daughter; The Scarecrow and his Servant / Philip Pullman
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane / Kate DiCamillo / Danny Champion of the World; Matilda / Roald Dahl
Who Let the Gods Out / Maz Evans / Swallows and Amazons / Arthur Ransome
Professor Branestawm stories / Norman Hunter / The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tipps / Michael Morpurgo
The Jungle Book / Rudyard Kipling / Operation Gadgetman! / Malorie Blackman
Mister Monday / Garth Nix / The Mouse and his Child / Russell Hoban
The Iron Man / Ted Hughes / Horrible Histories (series) / Terry Deary
Charmed Life / Diana Wynne Jones / The Wolf Wilder / Katherine Rundell
Little House on the Prairie series / Laura Ingalls Wilder / The One Hundred and One Dalmatians / Dodie Smith
The Famous Five series; Mallory Towers series / Enid Blyton / The Children of Green Knowe / Lucy M. Boston
Core readers
Title / Author / Title / Author
The Faraway Tree / Enid Blyton / Beaver Towers series / Nigel Hinton
Emil and the Detectives / Erich Kastner / Gregory Cool / Caroline Binch
Dial a Ghost / Eva Ibbotson / Fairy Tales / Trevor Jones
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The BFG; The Witches / Roald Dahl
Tales from Weird Street / Anne Fine / The Phantom Tollbooth / Norton Juster
The Clocktower Ghost / Gene Kemp / The Peppermint Pig / Nina Bawden
The Tale of Despereaux / Kate DiCamillo / The Chocolate Touch / Patrick Skene Catling
How to Train Your Dragon / Cressida Cowell / Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh / Robert C O’Brien
Beano comic series / Pub. D.C. Thompson / The Reluctant Dragon / Kenneth Grahame
The Dancing Bear / Michael Morpurgo / A Pot of Gold (poems) / Jill Bennett
The Demon Headmaster; The Crazy Shoe Shuffle / Gillian Cross / A Dog So Small; The Way to Sattin Shore / Phillipa Pearce
The Worst Witch / Jill Murphy / Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters / John Steptoe
Robi Dobi / Madhur Jaffrey / Stig of the Dump / Clive King
Flow / Pippa Goodhart / The Enchanted Horse / Magdalen Nabb
The Ogre Downstairs / Diana Wynne Jones / My Brother is a Superhero / David Solomons
Reluctant readers
Title / Author / Title / Author
The Clothes Horse / Alan Ahlberg / Give Peas a Chance / Morris Gleitzman
Scribbleboy; Krindlekrax / Philip Ridley / Billionaire Boy; Blob / David Walliams
Earwig and the Witch / Diana Wynne Jones / Spacebaby / Henrietta Branford
Desirable / Frank Cottrell Joyce / The Butterfly Lion / Michael Morpurgo
There's a Werewolf in my Tent / Pamela Butchart / Bill's New Frock / Anne Fine
The Thirteen Storey Treehouse / Andy Griffiths / The World According to Humphrey / Betty G. Birney
The House that Sailed Away / Pat Hutchins / Fantastic Mr Fox; The Twits / Roald Dahl
The Hodgeheg; The Sheep-Pig / Dick King-Smith / Fungus the Bogeyman / Raymond Briggs
My Naughty Little Sister / Dorothy Edwards / The Railway Cat / Phyllis Arkle
Dilly the Dinosaur series / Tony Bradman / The Invisible Boy / Trudy Ludwig
Horrid Henry series / Francesca Simon / Polly and the Wolf / Catherine Storr