Suggested Contemporary Reading list for Year 7

Agosin, Marjorie: I lived on Butterfly Hill

Aiken, Joan: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Almond, David: The Fire Eaters;
Skellig
Backshall, Steve: Tiger Wars
Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Chaimani, Soman: The School for Good and Evil
Christopher, Lucy: Stolen and A Letter to My Captor
Collins, S: The Hunger Games
Corder,Zizou: Halo
Dashner, James: The maze runner
Dowd, Siobhan: A swift pure cry; The London Eye Mystery
Doyle, Roddy: A Greyhound of a girl
Dunmore, Helen:
Ingo
Flamel, Nicholas: The Secrets of the Immortal
Funke, C: Inkheart
Gardner, Sally: The Red Necklace; The Silver Blade
Haig, Matt: Shadow Forest
Higson, Charlie: The Dead (Enemy #2)
Holden, Ming: The Survival Girls
Horowitz, Anthony: Alex Rider Series; Diamond Brothers; Power of Five Series
Hughes, Gregory: Unhooking the Moon
Ibbotson, Eva: Journey to the River Sea; One Dog and His Boy; The Dragon Pool; The Star of Kazan;
The Secret of Platform 13
Jobin, Matthew:
TheNethergrim
Lawrence,Caroline: The Roman Mysteries
Lord, Gabrielle: Conspiracy 365
McGowan, Anthony: Hellbent Henry Tumour
McNab, Andy: Boy Soldier
Moers, Walter: The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Morpurgo, Michael: Alone on the Wide Wide Sea; Private Peaceful; Shadow; A Medal for Leroy
Mullin, Mike: Ashfall (Trilogy)
Nicholson, William: The Wind Singer
Paolini, Christopher: Inheritance Cycle
Parker Rhodes, Jewell: Ninth Ward
Paver, Michelle: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series: Wolf Brother, Spirit Walker,
Soul Eater, Outcast, Oath Breaker; Ghost Hunter; Gods and Warriors
Pratchett, Terry:Nation; I Shall Wear Midnight; Snuff and Dodger
Priestley, Chris: Uncle Montagues’s Tales of Terror; Tales of Terror from the Black Ship; Mister Creecher
Prue, Sally: Wheels of War; Ice Maiden; Song Hunter
Pullman, Philip: His Dark Materials Trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass;
Ruby in the Smoke
Riordan, Rick: Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena;
The Percy Jackson Series; The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, The Serpent’s Shadow
Rosoff, Meg: How I live now
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter Series
Sachar, Louis: Holes, Small Steps; Pig City; The Cardturner
Schiltz, Laura Amy: Splendors and Glooms
Sedgwick, Marcus: The Dark Horse; Revolver: Blood Red, Snow White
Sheldrick, Dame Daphne: Love, life and Elephants: An African Story
St John, Lauren: Laura Marlin Mysteries; The
One Dollar Horse
Snicket, Lemony: A Series of unfortunate
Events Series
Stroud, Jonathan: The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye, Ptolemy’s Gate;
The Ring of Solomon
Sutcliffe, William: The Wall
Tolkein, J.R.R: The Hobbit
Westerfield,Scot: Uglies; Quartet, Book one
Yelchin, Eugiene: Breaking Stalin’s Nose
Rosoff, Meg: How I live now
Townsend, Sue: Adrian Mole series
Crossan, Sarah: One
Blackman, Malorie: Noughts and Crosses
Pitcher, Annabelle: Ketchup Clouds

Useful Websites:
www.lovereading4kids.co.uk
www.achuka.co.uk
www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk