Year 6 Reading Curriculum by

Read Aloud Book: Who let the Gods Out?

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Fiction

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Non Fiction

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Film

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Poetry

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Heritage Text

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Song

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Shadow of the Minotaur

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Shared Reading Mythological Text: The Minotaur

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Shared Reading Playscript: Theseus and the Minotaur

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Shared Reading Poetry: Daydreaming

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Shared Reading Non Fiction: Newspaper Article

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Shared Reading Non-Fiction Text: Eyewitness Ancient Greece

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Shared Reading Mythological Text: Pandora's Box

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Read Aloud Book: The London Eye Mystery

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: Real Life Mysteries: Can you explain the unexplained?

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Shared Reading Poetry: The Ballad of Flannan Isle

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Chronicles of Harris Burdick - Under the Rug

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Sign of Four (abridged)

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Read Aloud Book: Darwin's Dragons

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Shared Reading Non Fiction Text: A Story of the Galapagos

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Shared Reading Non Fiction Text: Diary from the Beagle

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Shared Reading Non Fiction: Darwin and Hooker

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: Jemmy Button

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: Moth

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Shared Reading Non Fiction: Newspaper Article

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Read Aloud Book: Roof Toppers

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Shared Reading Non Fiction Text: Lonely Planet Paris

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Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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Janine Beacham: Rose Raventhorpe Investigates Series

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When Rose Raventhorpe's beloved butler is found (gasp!) murdered in the hallway of her own house, she's determined to uncover the culprit. Especially since he's the third butler to die in a week!

Alex Bell: The Polar Bear Explorers' Club

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It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn't want that to happen, just the same.

Black and Clare: Magisterium Series

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Most people would do anything to get into the Magisterium and pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. Call has been told his whole life that he should never trust a magician. And so he tries his best to do his worst – but fails at failing.

Peter Bunzl: Cogheart Adventure Series

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Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world.

Grace Cavendish: Lady Grace Mysteries

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Since the death of her beloved mother, Lady Grace has become the Queen’s favourite Maid of Honour. But even favourites have to obey the Queen’s wishes – and the Queen wants her to be married. Choosing between her suitors – kindly old Sir Charlie, flashy Sir Gerald and sweet, anxious Lord Robert – is easy for Grace who dies not want to marry any of them.

Christopher Columbus: House of Secrets

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HOUSE OF SECRETS follows three siblings and their family as they are forced to move to a mysterious new house in San Francisco and end up embarking on a journey to retrieve a dark book of untold power. The first story in an epic fantasy adventure trilogy!

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl Series

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Rumour has it Artemis Fowl is responsible for every major crime of the new century.

Just twelve years old and already he's a criminal genius, plotting to restore his family's fortune with a spot of corruption and kidnapping.

Kidnapping a fairy for ransom, to be precise.

Sarah Driver: The Huntress Trilogy

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In the sky, the fire spirits dance and ripple. Grandma says they showed our Tribe that I’d be a captain, before I was even born. Ever since Ma died, Mouse has looked after her little brother, Sparrow, dreaming of her destiny as captain of the Huntress. But now Da’s missing, Sparrow is in danger, and a deathly cold is creeping across Trianukka . .

Helena Duggan: A Place Called Perfect Series

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Violet hates living in Perfect. Why does everyone have to wear special glasses to stop them going blind? What are the strange noises in the night and why is Mum acting so weird? Then Dad disappears and Violet is determined to uncover the truth with the help of the mysterious Boy. But returning normality to Perfect is a battle they never imagined...

Abi Elphinstone: Dreamsnatcher Series

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Twelve-year-old Moll Pecksniff wakes one night in the middle of the forest, lured there by a recurring nightmare - the one with the drums and the rattles and the masks. The Dreamsnatcher is waiting. He has already taken her dreams and now he wants her life.

Julia Golding: Cat Royal Series

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'I am Cat Royal – Orphan, Adventurer, Actress . . .

'Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies and four hundred and thirty-eight rioters. I was brought up in Drury Lane, so I have become accustomed to a life less than ordinary. But this turn of events, I have to say, surprised even me. Follow me, and I will show you in The Diamond of Drury Lane.'

Bear Grylls: Mission Survival

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Lost in the jungle! Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo, a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost City of Gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer - until now...

Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider

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Fourteen-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger.

Anthony Horowitz: Power of Five Series

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Matt has always known he has unusual powers. Raised in foster care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a rehabilitation programme, only to find himself in the midst of sinister goings-on. Matt investigates and uncovers a terrible secret – eight guardians are protecting the world from the Old Ones, beings banished long ago by five children.

Erin Hunter: Warrior Cats Series

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Take your first steps into the wilderness with Rusty the house cat as he leaves his home to go and live in the wild. A thrilling new feline fantasy series that draws you into a vivid animal world.

When ‘kittypet’ Rusty strays into the forest beyond his owner’s garden and is ambushed by a wild cat, life as he knows it is over.

Derek Landy: Skulduggery Pleasant

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Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yeah. And dead. Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.

Peter Lerangis: Seven Wonders

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The day after twelve-year-old Jack McKinley is told he has six months to live, he awakens on a mysterious island, where a secret organization promises to save his life – but with one condition. With his three friends, Jack must lead a mission to retrieve seven lost magical orbs, which, only when combined together, can save their lives.

Robert Muchmore: Cherub

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A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB. CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

Michelle Harrison: Robin Hood

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You can't go far without a quick brain and some rule-bending in a place like Locksley. After its vast car plants shut down, the prosperous town has become a wasteland of empty homes, toxic land and families on the brink. And it doesn't help that the authorities are in the clutches of profit-obsessed Sheriff of Nottingham, in cahoots with underworld boss Guy Gisborne.

Michelle Harrison: A Pinch of Magic Adventure

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Three sisters trapped by an ancient curse. Three magical objects with the power to change their fate. Will they be enough to break the curse? Or will they lead the sisters even deeper into danger?

Tom Palmer: Foul Play Series

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Danny is obsessed with two things: football - especially City Football Club - and investigating crimes. So when England and City footballing hero Sam Roberts is reported missing the day after Danny saw him being taken, blindfolded, into the bowels of the City FC stadium late at night, he's determined to get to the bottom of it.

Philip Pullman: A Sally Lockhart Mystery

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Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London.

Jason Reynolds: Track Book Series

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Running. That's all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known.

But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons -until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medallist who sees something in Ghost: crazy natural talent. If Ghost can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. Can Ghost harness his raw talent for speed, or will his past finally catch up to him?

Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson Series

jbrown1442 — 2024-01-12 15:23:38 UTC

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now I spend my time battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive.

Alex Scarrow: Time Riders Series

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Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.

Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.

Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029.

Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand . . .'

Robin Stevens: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Series

jbrown1442 — 2024-01-12 15:27:34 UTC

At Deapdean School for Girls, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have set up their own detective agency. But they are struggling to find any real crimes to investigate... (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie.

Lauren St John: The White Giraffe Series/Animal Healer Series

jbrown1442 — 2024-01-12 15:29:46 UTC

When she is eleven years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her grandmother seems strangely unwelcoming and Martine has a difficult time settling in at her new school, where she is conspicuously an outsider.

Classics

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Barrie, J. M Peter Pan

Burnett, F Hodgson The Secret Garden

Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Dann, Colin Animals of Farthing Wood

Gallico, Paul The Snow Goose

Hoban, Russell The Mouse & his Child

Kipling, Rudyard Jungle Stories

Lewis, C. S. Chronicles of Narnia (series)

Lofting, Hugh Doctor Dolittle Stories

London, Jack The Call of the Wild; White Fang

Masefield, John Box of Delights

E. Nesbit Five Children & It

Pearce, Philippa Tom’s Midnight Garden

Sewell, Anna Black Beauty

Streatfield, Noel Ballet Shoes

Great Stories

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Aiken, Joan Wolves of Willoughby Chase (series)

Almond, David Skellig; The Fire Eaters Banks,

Jynne Reid Indian in the Cupboard (series)

Beacham, Janine Rose Raventhorpe Investigates (series) Blackman, Malorie Dangerous Reality; Forbidden Game Black & Clare Magisterium (series)

Blyton, Enid Malory Towers (series)

Bunzi, Piter Cogheart (series)

Cavendish, Grace Lady Grace Mysteries (series)

Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl (series)

Corder, Zizou Lionboy (series)

Dennis, H L Secret Breakers (series)

Doherty, Berlie Daughter of the Sea; The Sailing Ship Tree Duggan, Helena A Place Called Perfect (series)

Fine, Anne Charm School; Madame Doubtfire

Funke, Cornelia Inkheart (series)

Gaiman, Neil Coraline, The Graveyard Book

Garner, Alan The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Gibbons, Alan The Shadow of the Minotaur

Golding, Julia Cat Royal (series)

Grylls, Bear Mission Survival (series)

Higson, Charlie Young Bond (series)

Horowitz, Anthony Alex Rider (series), The Power of 5 Hunter, Erin Platform 13; Monster Mission

Jones, Terry The Saga of Eric the Viking

Kemp, Gene The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler

Lively, Penelope The Ghost of Thomas Kempe McCaughrean, Geraldine Peter Pan in Scarlett

Millwood Hargrave, K. The Girl of Ink and Stars

Morpurgo, Michael Shadow

Naughton, Bill The Goalkeeper’s Revenge & Other Stories

O’ Brien, Robert Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh

Historical

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Bawden, Nina Carrie’s War

Breslin, Theresa Across the Roman Wall; Whispers in the Graveyard

Buckley-Archer, Linda Gideon the Cutpurse

Cavendish, Grace Lady Grace Mysteries: A is for Assassin Cooper, Susan King of Shadows (about Shakespeare); The Dark is Rising (series)

Doherty, Berlie Street Child

Farmer, Penelope Charlotte Sometimes

Magorian, Michelle Goodnight Mr. Tom

Newberry, Linda Blitz Boys

Paton Walsh, Jill The Dolphin Crossing

Serraillier, Ian The Silver Sword

Toksvig, Sandy Hitler’s Canary Various My Story (series) Westall, Robert The Kingdom by the Sea

Wynne Jones, Diana Howl’s Moving Castle

Funny

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Gleitzman, Morris Worry Warts

Landy, Derek Skulduggery Pleasant (series)

Pratchett, Terry The Amazing Maurice & his Educated Rodents

Temperley, Alan Harry and the Wrinklies; Harry and the Treasure of Eddie Carver

Walliams, David The Boy in the Dress and other titles

Sport

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Freedman, Dan Jamie Johnson (series)

Palmer, Tom Foul Play (series)

Non Fiction

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Deary, Terry Horrible Histories (series)

Farman, John The Very Bloody History of Britain

Grogan, John Marley & Me

Williams, Marcia Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays

Useful Websites

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Useful websites

www.lovereading4kids.co.uk

www.achuka.co.uk

www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk

Read Aloud: The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad

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History - The House of Wisdom

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Shared Reading: Letter from Lemur

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Shared Reading: Can We Save The Tiger?

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Shared Reading: Leonardo DiCaprio Speech 2014

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Shared Reading: One Home - Eighteen Stories of Hope From Young Activists

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The Amazing Travel of Ibn Battuta

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The Silk Roads

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Read Aloud : The Final Year

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PSHE: Go Big

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Art: Mythologica

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Literacy: Impossible Creatures

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Literacy: Hercules the Diary of a (Sort Of) Hero

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Literacy: Big Book of Mysteries

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Science: When the Whales Walked

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Science: The Story of Life - Evolution is Amazing

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Shared Reading: Becoming - Adapted for Young Readers

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Shared Reading - Earth Heroes

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Shared reading - The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair

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Shared Reading: The Worlds We Leave Behind

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Shared Reading: How Was That Built?

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Shared Reading: Goddess

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Shared Reading: A Year of Nature Poems

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Year 6 Reading Curriculum by

Read Aloud Book: Who let the Gods Out?

Fiction

Non Fiction

Film

Poetry

Heritage Text

Song

Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Shadow of the Minotaur

Shared Reading Mythological Text: The Minotaur

Shared Reading Playscript: Theseus and the Minotaur

Shared Reading Poetry: Daydreaming

Shared Reading Non Fiction: Newspaper Article

Shared Reading Non-Fiction Text: Eyewitness Ancient Greece

Shared Reading Mythological Text: Pandora's Box

Read Aloud Book: The London Eye Mystery

Shared Reading Fiction Text: Real Life Mysteries: Can you explain the unexplained?

Shared Reading Poetry: The Ballad of Flannan Isle

Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Chronicles of Harris Burdick - Under the Rug

Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Sign of Four (abridged)

Read Aloud Book: Darwin's Dragons

Shared Reading Non Fiction Text: A Story of the Galapagos

Shared Reading Non Fiction Text: Diary from the Beagle

Shared Reading Non Fiction: Darwin and Hooker

Shared Reading Fiction Text: Jemmy Button

Shared Reading Fiction Text: Moth

Shared Reading Non Fiction: Newspaper Article

Read Aloud Book: Roof Toppers

Shared Reading Non Fiction Text: Lonely Planet Paris

Shared Reading Fiction Text: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Janine Beacham: Rose Raventhorpe Investigates Series

Alex Bell: The Polar Bear Explorers' Club

Black and Clare: Magisterium Series

Peter Bunzl: Cogheart Adventure Series

Grace Cavendish: Lady Grace Mysteries

Christopher Columbus: House of Secrets

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl Series

Sarah Driver: The Huntress Trilogy

Helena Duggan: A Place Called Perfect Series

Abi Elphinstone: Dreamsnatcher Series

Julia Golding: Cat Royal Series

Bear Grylls: Mission Survival

Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider

Anthony Horowitz: Power of Five Series

Erin Hunter: Warrior Cats Series

Derek Landy: Skulduggery Pleasant

Peter Lerangis: Seven Wonders

Robert Muchmore: Cherub

Michelle Harrison: Robin Hood

Michelle Harrison: A Pinch of Magic Adventure

Tom Palmer: Foul Play Series

Philip Pullman: A Sally Lockhart Mystery

Jason Reynolds: Track Book Series

Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson Series

Alex Scarrow: Time Riders Series

Robin Stevens: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Series

Lauren St John: The White Giraffe Series/Animal Healer Series

Classics

Great Stories

More Great Stories

Historical

Funny

Sport

Non Fiction

Useful Websites

Read Aloud: The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad

History - The House of Wisdom

Shared Reading: Letter from Lemur

Shared Reading: Can We Save The Tiger?

Shared Reading: Leonardo DiCaprio Speech 2014

Shared Reading: One Home - Eighteen Stories of Hope From Young Activists

The Amazing Travel of Ibn Battuta

The Silk Roads

Read Aloud : The Final Year

PSHE: Go Big

Art: Mythologica

Literacy: Impossible Creatures

Literacy: Hercules the Diary of a (Sort Of) Hero

Literacy: Big Book of Mysteries