Mrs Kewish’s selection of classics - try to read before you grow up
Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The borrowers by Mary Norton
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Secret Garden by F Hodgson Burnett
Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Famous Five and Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton
Inheritance series (Eragon etc) by Christopher Paolini
Magic Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Charlotte’s Web By E.B White
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings By J R R Tolkien
The boy in striped pajamas by John Boyne
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum
Narnia series by C S Lewis
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
Winnie the Pooh by A.A Milne
All books by Beatrix Potter
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Asterix and Tintin comics
The Railway children by E Nesbit
Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank 10+
Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
Stuart Little by E.B White
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Sword in the Stone by T.H White
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Poppins by P.L Travers
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Five Children and it by E Nesbit
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
A wrinkle in time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Giver by Lois Lawry 11+
All books by Roald Dahl ie: BFG, James and the Giant peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Books by H.G Wells ie: War of the worlds, The time machine,
Mrs Kewish’s selection of contemporary novels and series to read before you grow up
Wonder by RJ Palacio
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
Once series by Morris Gliezman
The girl who drank the moon by Kelly Barnhill
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Holes by Louis Sachar
Tomorrow when the war began by John Marsden 10+
Mortal Engines quartet by Philip Reeve 10+
Tilly and the bookwanders by Anna James
The Land of stories series by CHris Coffer
Nevermoor series by Jessican Townsend
Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger
Dragon Defender series by James Russell
Inkheart trilogy by Cornella Funke
Ranger’s apprentice series by John Flanagan
Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
Scarlet and Ivy series by Sophie Cleverly
Key to Rondo series by Emily Rodda
All books by Michael Morpurgo
Books by David Walliams
Dragonkeeper series by Carole Wilkinson
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Greek and norse mythology
Fairy and folk tales
Nursery rhymes
