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Collège Recommended Readers

6ème

Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire by Ashton

The Alien by K.A.Applegate

An Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden

The Runaway Summer by Nina Bawden

The Trolley to Yesterday by John Bellairs

Anooka’s Answer by Marjorie Cowley

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross

The Witches by Roald Dahl

George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Twits by Roald Dahl

Double Trouble by Jenny Dale

A Pack of Liars by Anne fine

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Raider by Susan Gates

The Secret Garden by Frances Hogson Burnett

The Long Patrol by Brian Jacques

Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques

Tha Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Hex by Lassiter

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Railway Children by E.Nesbit

The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

The Shuttered Room by Christine Purkis

Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Bad Beginning series by Lemony Snickett

Goosebump series by Stine

5ème

Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond

Boy by Roald Dahl

Goggle Eyes by Anne Fine

Tha Falcon’s Maltesers by Anthony Horowitz

The Giver by L.Lowry

The Island of the Blue Dolphins by S.O.Dell

4ème

Skellig by David Almond

Flour Babies by Anne Fine

Umbrella Man by Roald Dahl

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Gowie Corby Plays Chicken by G.Kemp

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Edgar Allen Poe stories

3ème

Ghost Stories (retold) by Rosemary Border

Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The Third Man by Graham Greene

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Deadlock by Sara Peretsky

An Inspector Calls by J.B.Priestley

Northern Lights Trilogy by P.Pullman

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Recommended Books for Children aged 9-12

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Giver by Lois Lowry
James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder- Laura Ingalls Wilder Webquest
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Telegraph’s List of Recommended Reading

Students can also go to the following webpage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/19/bokidsbooks119.xml

This is an article found in The Telegraph newspaper which contains a list of recommended reading for children. It is divided up by age – see the links below.

100 books every child should read – Part 2: Middle Years

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/19/bokidsbooks319.xml

100 books every child should read – Part 3: Early Teens

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/19/bokidsbooks419.xml