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Year 5 Reading Challenge

How many of these books can you read this year?

Way Home By Libby Hathorn
Once by Morris Gleitzman
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
Stig of the Dump  By Clive King
Wind in the Willows  by Kenneth Graham
The Wizard Of Earthsea  Ursula K Le Guin
Cosmic   by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Fire, Bed And Bone by   Henrietta Branford
Gideon The Cutpurse   by Linda Buckley-Archer
Fire, Bed And Bone by   Henrietta Branford
The Red Necklace by  Sally Gardner
Little Soldier  by Bernard Ashley
Tulip Touch by Anne Fine
The Street Child by  Berlie Doherty
The Gradual Elephant by  HS Toshack
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
Journey to Jo’burg  by Beverley  Naidoo,
Why the fish laughed and other tales ; edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Folk tales from Africa : the girl who married a lion  by  Alexander McCall Smith,
Dancing with Danger and Other Plays  by Gould,Mike
The Twits  by Roald Dahl
The Queen’s Nose  by Dick King Smith
Wolves in the Walls  by Neil Gaimen
Abela  by Berlie Doherty
Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars Across The Barricades   by Joan Lingard
Daft Jack and the Bean Stack by Laurence Anholt,
Iqbal, by Francesco d’Adamo
The Runner by Keith Gray, illustrated by Jessica Meserve
The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett WWI  Graphic
Sweets by Sylvia Van Ommen
Children of Winter Berlie Doherty
Friend or Foe Michael Morpurgo
Out of India  Jamila Guain
War Horse Michael Morpurgo
Coming to England  Floela Benjamin
The Shakespeare Stories  Orchard Books
Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

 

 

Year 4 Reading Challenge

How many of these books can you read this year?

Wolves by Emily Gravett
The Hodgeheg by Dick-King Smith
The Little Prince  by  Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Tom’s Sausage Lion by Michael Morpurgo
Seth and the Strangers  by Jenny Nimmo
Ghost on the Landing  by Eleanor Allen
The Iron Man  by Ted Hughes
James & the Giant Peach  by Roald Dahl
The Worst Witch by  Jill Murphy
Beowolf by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Emil and the Detectives by   Erich Kastner
Fatty Puffs and the Thinifers by Andre Maurois
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by  Salman Rushdie
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo
The Savage by  David Almond
Angus Rides the Goods Train by Alan Durant and Chris Riddell
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean
Once Upon an Ordinary School Day by Colin McNaughton and Satoshi Kitamura

Year 3 Reading Challenge

How many of these books can you read this year?

Into the Forest by Anthony Browne
The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells
Charlotte’s Web by EB White
Window by Jeannie Baker
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
The Jolly Postman by Alan Ahlberg
The Last Polar Bears  by Harry Horse
The Garden by Dyan Sheldon
Enchantment in the Garden by  Shirley Hughes
The very best of Aesop’s Fables  by  Margaret Clark
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse  by Ursula Moray Williams
Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh
Finn Family Moomintroll  by Tove Jansson
Flat Stanley  by Jeff Brown
GRK and the Pelotti Gang by Joshua Doder
Ivan the Terrible by Anne Fine
Noah Barleywater Runs Away  byJohn Boyne
Ottoline at Sea by  Chris Riddell
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Outside Over There   by Maurice Sendak
It’s Too Frightening for Me  by Shirley Hughes
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Pippi Longstocking  by Astrid Lindgren
Fortunately, Unfortunately by  Michael Foreman
Angry Arthur by Hiawyn Oram and Satoshi Kitamura  Guided reading set
A Bag of Moonshine by Alan Garner, illustrated by P J Lynch
Belonging by Jeannie Baker
The Boy The Bear The Baron The Bard by Gregory Rogers
Christophe’s Story by Nicki Cornwell, illustrated by Karin Littlewood
The Global Garden by Kate Petty and Jennie Maizels
Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner? by John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell
Three Cheers for Inventors! by Marcia Williams

Year 2 Reading Challenge

How many of these books can you read this year?

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine
The Jolly Postman by Janet and Alan Ahlberg
A Lion in the Meadow  by Margaret Mahy
Funny Bones by  Alan Ahlberg
Three by the Sea by Mini Grey
A Quiet Night In  by Jill Murphy
On the Way Home by Jill Murphy
Whatever Next by Jill Murphy
The Gruffalo  by Julia Donaldson
Tadpole’s Promise   by  Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
Rama and the Demon King  by   Jessica Souhami
Cops and Robbers by  Alan Ahlberg
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Beasts by Emily Gravett
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett

Year 1 Reading Challenge

How many of these books can you read this year?

Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram
The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson
Farmer Duck  by Martin Waddell
The Pig in the Pond  by  Martin Waddell
Where’s my Teddy  by Jez Alborough
Not now Bernard by  David McKee
Avocado Baby   by John Birningham
Funny Bones  by Alan Ahlberg
Hairy MClary from Donaldsons Dairy  by Lynley Dodd
This is the Bear   by Sarah Hayes
Jim  by Mini Grey
Mister Magnolia  by Quentin Blake
My Cat Like to Hid in Boxes by  Eve Sutton & Lynley Dodd
The Berenstain Bears  and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan & Jan Berenstain
Cat in the Hat by  Dr Zeus
The Owl who was afraid of the dark by  Jill Tomlinson
Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers   by Mairi Hedderwick
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Willy & Hugh  by Anthony Brown
Peace at Last  by Jill Murphy
Five Minutes Peace  by Jill Murphy
Augustus and his Smile  by Catherine Rayner
Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke, illustrated by Lauren Tobia
A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
I will not ever NEVER eat a tomato by Lauren Child
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch by Ronda and David
Lima’s Red Hot Chilli by David Mills and Derek Brazell
Monster Bed by Jeanne Willis and Susan Varley .

Reception Reading Challenge

How many of these books can you read this year?

We’re going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
So Much by Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury
Handa’s Surprise  by   Eileen Browne
Elmer by David McKee
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!  – by Emma Chichester Clark
The Very hungry Caterpillar by   Eric Carle
Don’t Forget the Bacon by   Pat Hutchins
The Shopping Basket  by  John Birningham
On the Way home  by  Jill Murphy
Dear Zoo   by Rod Campbell
Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey
Rosie’s Walk   by Pat Hutchins
You Choose by Pippa Goodhart
My Brother  by  Anthony Browne
The little Red Hen
The Gingerbread Man
The Enormous Turnip
Billy Goats Gruff

Year 6 Reading Challenge

How many of these books can you read this year?

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by By Louis Sachar
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Skellig by David Almond
Treasure Island by  RL Stephenson
The garbage king   by   Laird, Elizabeth
The Eagle Of The Ninth   by  Rosemary Sutcliff
London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The diary of Anne Frank
Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mau
Kensuke’s Kingdom Michael Morpurgo
Goodnight Mister Tom  by Michelle Magorian
I Know What You Did Last Wednesday by Anthony Horowitz
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Storm Breaker  by Anthony Horowitz
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase  by Joan Aiken
Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
If the World Were a Village, by David J. Smith,
Krindlekrax  by  Philip Ridley
Matilda  by Roald Dahl,
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
The ghost of Thomas Kempe by  Lively, Penelope
The Turbulent Term Of Tyke Tiler  Gene Kemp
The Other Side of the Truth by Beverley Naidoo
What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Shakleton’s Journey William Grill
The Viewer Shaun Tann and Gary Crew