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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