Good Reads

Key Stage 3

• The Crossover / Booked / Rebound – Kwame Alexander (graphic novel version of The Crossover is also available)
• The House with Chicken Legs / The Girl Who Speaks Bear – Sophie Anderson
• The Parent Agency / Head Kid – David Baddiel
• The Polar Bear Explorer’s Club – Alex Bell
• Cogheart / Moonlocket / Skycircus / Shadowsea – Peter Bunzl
• Apple and Rain / The Weight of Water – Sarah Crossan
• The Clockwork Crow / The Velvet Fox - Catherine Fisher
• Boy 87 / Lost – Ele Fountain
• Brightstorm / Wildspark / Dark Whispers - Vashti Hardy
• Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
• High Rise Mystery - Sharna Jackson
• Kid Normal series – Greg James
• Race to the Frozen North - Catherine Johnson
• Young Sherlock series – Andrew Lane
• Inkling – Kenneth Oppel
• Wonder – R J Palacio
• Armistice Runner / D-Day Dog – Tom Palmer
• The Boy at the Back of the Class / The Star Outside my Window – Onjali Q. Raúf
• Rooftoppers / The Wolf Wilder / The Explorer – Katherine Rundell
• Smart / 928 Miles from Home / The Boy Who Lied – Kim Slater
• Malamander - Thomas Taylor
• Gaslight / Seaglass - Eloise Williams

Great adventure reads for Year 7 which link with your work on The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

Key Stage 4

• The Crossover / Booked / Rebound – Kwame Alexander (a graphic novel version of The Crossover is also available)
• Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
• Am I Normal Yet?/ Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? – Holly Bourne
• One / Moonrise / Toffee - Sarah Crossan
• Rosie and Jack – Mel Darbon
• Becoming Dinah – Kit de Waal
• The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson
• Split / I Am Thunder / Kick the Moon – Muhammad Khan
• Orange Boy – Patrice Lawrence
• Two Can Keep a Secret - Karen M. McManus
• The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
• Things a Bright Girl Can Do – Sally Nicholls
• Heartstopper – Vols 1, 2 & 3 – Alice Oseman (graphic novels)
• The Million Pieces of Neena Gill – Emma Smith-Barton
• On the Come Up – Angie Thomas
• Girl, Boy, Sea – Chris Vick
• Paper Avalanche / The Art of Being Normal / All About Mia – Lisa Williamson

Children's Book Award 2020 Shortlist for Older Readers