Book recommendations for Stag 2 at Oakhill Drive

It is very important that all of us start reading for pleasure. There are lots of
benefits to reading. These are just few reasons why we at Oakhill Drive Public
are promoting that all children read for pleasure at home.

 Reading helps you to relax:

It works even better than listening to music or drinking hot tea! Reading
is a great escape from the problems of everyday life and helps to calm
you down.

 Reading gives lots of information:

Reading is the best source of information, and every news
article/book/magazine fills you up with new information.

 Reading helps to stimulate your brain:

Keeping the brain stimulated via reading can keep your brain healthy and
active. This, in turn, keeps diseases like Dementia and Alzheimer’s at
bay.

 Improve your vocabulary:

Having a reading habit introduces you to newer words and phrases,
improving your vocabulary. The more you read, the more new words you
will have to create great writing.

 Improve thinking:
Reading helps you to ask better questions, view different perspectives,
expose yourself to newer forms of thinking, make connections- all of
which helps in improving your analytical thinking skills.

The list is endless. There are too many benefits to reading which makes it one of
the best sources of knowledge and entertainment.

Therefore, Mrs. Ranaweera our Teacher Librarian has put together a list of book
recommendations to ensure that you get into the habit of reading for pleasure.
Author Book Title/ Information

Abela, Deborah

2. The Stupendously Spectacular

1. Grimsdon Trilogy Spelling Bee
3. The Most Marvellous Spelling Bee
Mystery

Blyton, Enid

4. The Magic 5. The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair

Faraway Tree: The Mollie and Peter discover the most extraordinary
Enchanted Wood thing: a magical wishing-chair that takes them on
some wonderful adventures. Your young readers
will love the first book in Enid Blyton's classic
fantasy series about a chair that can fly and grant
wishes!

Chrimes, Penny Tiger Heart is the magical tale of a bold young chimney
sweep and a remarkable tiger, a dangerously hypnotic
ruby and a mystical land that's found across an ocean and
through a storm. This novel will sweep the whole family
up into one magical friendship… and one roaring
adventure

6. Tiger Heart
Colfer, Chris Twins Alex and Conner's world changes when their
grandmother gives them a treasured fairy-tale book. The
Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell is book 1 in a series
that combines our modern-day world with the enchanting
realm of classic fairy tales. Filled with magic spells,
laugh-out-loud humour and page-turning adventure, kids
7. Land of Stories
series won’t be able to put this down.
Cowell, Cressida From the author of How to Train Your Dragon this
new series is about Xar, a young boy Wizard, and
Wish, a young girl Warrior, who have been taught
since birth to hate each, and the thrilling tale of what
happens when their two worlds collide.

7. Wizards of
Once
DiCamillo, Kate

9. Flora and Ulysses

8. Because of Win-Dixie

Farnabby, Simon Merdyn has been banished to the 21st century for
bad behaviour, and he's about to create a whole load
of trouble. Meet Merdyn the Wild (the world's most
badly-behaved wizard), Rose (the world's most
ordinary girl) and Bubbles (the world's best guinea
pig) on a hilarious adventure that might just end in
an epic wizard battle in the garden - if you're lucky.
10. Wizard in My
Shed
Fienberg, Anna

12.Tashi series
13. Wicked’s Way

Funke, Cornelia

14. Inkheart
One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a
book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes
the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living
room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the
kind of adventure she has only read about in books.
Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has 15. Dragon rider
conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the 16. Thief Lord
course of the story that has changed her life forever.
Harvey Jacqueline

17. Clementine Rose series 18. Alice Miranda series

Hirsh, Odo

19. Amelia Dee and the Peacock

Lamp 20. Hazel Green

Lapinsky, L. D Pack your suitcase for a magical adventure!

When 12-year-old Flick Hudson accidentally
ends up in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency,
she uncovers a fantastic secret: there are
hundreds of other worlds just steps away from
ours. All you have to do to visit them is jump
into the right suitcase
21. The Strangeworlds
Travel

Astrid Lindgren, Tommy and his sister Annika have a new

neighbour, and her name is Pippi Longstocking.
She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her
what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a
flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one
adventure after another!

22. Pippi Longstocking

Montgomery, L. M This heart-warming story has beckoned generations

of readers into the special world of Green Gables, an
old-fashioned farm outside a town called Avonlea.
Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan, has arrived
in this verdant corner of Prince Edward Island only
to discover that the Cuthberts—elderly Matthew and
his stern sister, Marilla—want to adopt a boy, not a
feisty redheaded girl. But before they can send her
back, Anne—who simply must have more scope for
23. Anne of Green her imagination and a real home—wins them over
Gables completely.
Moriarty, Jaclyn

24. Stolen Prince of

CloudBurst 25. Slightly Alarming Tale of the
Whispering Wars
26. The Extremely Inconvenient
Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone

Ryder, Jack, 27. Jack’s Secret Jack has been dreading the summer holidays, but
McKinley, Alic Summer when his boisterous neighbours, Bruno and
Rocco, make it their mission to pull him into an
adventure, his life will never be the same again.
Join the Secret Summer gang on an unforgettable
magical adventure, full of humour and heart.
Young readers will be spellbound by this
adventure.

Rowlings, J. K The Ickabog is coming... A mythical monster, a

kingdom in peril, an adventure that will test two
children's bravery to the limit. Discover a brilliantly
original fairy tale about the power of hope and
friendship to triumph against all odds, from one of
the world's best storytellers.
28. The Ickabog:

Snicket, Lemony It tells an unhappy tale about three very

29. The Bad Beginning
A Series of Unfortunate
Events #1)
unlucky children. Even though they are
charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings
lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the
very first page of this book when the children
are at the beach and receive terrible news,
continuing on through the entire story, disaster
lurks at their heels. One might say they are
magnets for misfortune.

Spratt, R.A

30. Friday Barnes series

31. Nancy Piggins series

Townsend,Jessica A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian
author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes
death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then
tested beyond her wildest imagination. Guaranteed to
cultivate reading habits

32. Nevermoor

Travers, P. L It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east

wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She
becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and
the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up
banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty
carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like
delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins
33. Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!
(Mary Poppins
#1)
Willis, Inky A hilarious double-act like no other! Accidentally
naughty nine-year-old Molly and Notes, the secret
scribble witch who lives in her pen pot, face
friendship troubles, spelling championships and, a
few magical muddles along the way. Book 1 in
this magical series is guaranteed to make 7-9s
laugh out loud.

34. Scribble Witch:

Notes in Class
Walliams, David

35. Beast of Buckingham Palace

And a number of other titles