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Sandringham Learning Resource Centre
Year 6 into 7 suggested reads
If you read any books that you’ve not read before over the summer, you will receive house points in September.
How can parents / carers help?
As with anything, performance improves with practice. Encourage your child to read at home. We recommend at least half
an hour of reading over the course of one week. Create a culture of reading at home by reading with your child and
discussing books that each of you have read. When reading with your child, stop and ask questions to be sure that your
child is understanding what they are reading.
Humour – Funny stories
Maz Evans: Who Let the Gods Out Cressida Cowell: The Wizards of Once
series series
Elliot Hooper has problems at This is the humorous adventure story of
home and at school. After finding a a young boy Wizard and a young girl
girl, who claims to be the Warrior who have been taught to hate
constellation Virgo, in his cowshed, each other like poison; and the thrilling
they must track down the other tale of what happens when their two
gods to help catch Thanatos, the worlds collide.
Daemon of Death. Book #1. Book # 1
Anthony Horowitz: The David Baddiel: Future Friend
Diamond Brothers series
The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is
The Diamond Brothers are the bored. She goes to virtual school using
world's worst detectives. When a G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and
stranger offers Tim money for his
parrot to hang out with, and can’t leave
overcoat, it seems like a stroke of
fortune. But the stranger gets shot her Living Space due to extreme heat
and that could soon be the fate of and floods . Then Pip explores a glowing
the Diamond Brothers. ring in a lab and finds herself in 2019.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce: Noah’s Gold Helen Rutter: The Boy who made
Everyone Laugh
11-year old Noah sneaks along on
his sister's geography trip but six Billy is an 11-year-old boy with
kids are marooned on an island. a big dream: to be a comedian,
They're hungry & their teacher delivering pinpoint punchlines to
vanishes. The phones and internet audiences hanging on his every word.
don't work. There's no way of This seems impossible, as he has a
contacting home. stammer. How will he find his
voice if his voice won't let him speak?
Charlie Higson: Worst Holiday David Solomons: My Cousin is a
Ever. Time Traveller
Stan is going on holiday to Italy Luke learns that his cousin is a time
with his (fifth) best friend Felix traveller and she tells him that the
and a load of strangers. Stan is machines are becoming intelligent and
absolutely terrified. Luckily, his trying to take over the world. But Zack
mum's given him an emergency has decided to give up his
list that includes how to survive a superpowers and live as a normal
shark attack, and what to do if he teenage nerd. Luke must rise to the
gets kidnapped. challenge yet again ...
Horror – Scary stories
Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book Chris Priestley: Seven Ghosts
Nobody Owens is a perfectly normal Jake is invited to a tour of a stately home
boy. Well, he would be if he didn't and hears the stories of the seven ghosts
live in a graveyard, being raised and who haunt the halls. But what are the
educated by ghosts, with a solitary strange shapes following Jake as he walks
guardian who belongs to neither the through the house?
world of the living nor the world of
All is not as it seems…
the dead.
Dyslexia-friendly
Jonathan Stroud: Lockwood & Co. Darren Shan: Zom-B series
series
Zom-B is a radical new series about a
Lucy Carlyle, a talented young zombie apocalypse, told in the first
agent, arrives in London hoping person by one of its victims. The series
for a notable career. Instead she combines classic Shan action with a
finds herself joining the smallest, fiendishly twisting plot and hard-
most ramshackle ghost-finding hitting and thought-provoking moral
agency in the city, run by the questions dealing with racism, abuse
charismatic Anthony Lockwood. of power and more.
Book #1 Book #1
Joseph Delaney: The Wardstone Anthony Horowitz: Power of Five series
Chronicles
Matt has unusual powers. Raised in foster
For years, the local Spook has been care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a
keeping the County safe from evil. rehabilitation programme, only to find
Now his time is ending, but who will sinister goings-on. He uncovers a terrible
take over? Many apprentices have secret – eight guardians are protecting the
tried. Just one boy is left: Thomas world from the Old Ones, beings banished
Ward - the last hope. But does he long ago by five children. But devil
stand a chance against Mother worshippers want to let the Old Ones back
Malkin, the most dangerous witch in in...
the County? Book #1 Book #1
Alex Bell: The Haunting Neil Gaiman: Coraline
Waterwitch’s history is chilling. Built There is something strange about
from the salvaged timber of a cursed Coraline's new home. It's the other house
ship, the guest house’s dark secrets - the one behind the old door in the
go far back. Emma is confined to a drawing room. Another mother and father
wheelchair after an accident when with black-button eyes and papery skin
she was ten. Seven years later, she are waiting for Coraline to join them
returns there. But the ancient inn there. And they want her to stay for ever.
still has its ghosts. If she ventures through that door, she
Part of the Red Eye series may never come back.
Charlie Higson: The Enemy series Ghost Stories: by various authors
Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the A collection of spooky spine chillers,
first in a jaw-dropping zombie including "The Signal-man' by Charles
horror series. Everyone over the Dickens; ''Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to
age of fourteen has succumbed to You, My Lad'" by MR James; 'The Body
a deadly zombie virus and now the Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson;
kids must somehow keep 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar
themselves alive. Allen Poe; 'The Canterville Ghost' by
Oscar Wilde; "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow" by Washington Irving.
Dystopian and Science Fiction
Sita Brahmachari: Where the River Pittacus Lore: Lorien Legacies series
Runs Gold
John Smith seems like an ordinary
Shifa and her brother Themba live teenager, living a normal life with his
with their dad in Kairos City, on a guardian Henri in Paradise, Ohio. But for
future Earth decimated by climate John, keeping a low profile is essential
change. Families sign their rights because he is not an ordinary teenager.
away to the Freedom Fields He’s an alien from the planet Lorien,
organisation that claims to look and monsters are out to kill him.
after them if they opt in. Book #1
Polly Ho-Yen: Boy in the Tower Ross Welford: The Dog who Saved the
World
Seen through the eyes of Ade, a
young boy who lives at the top of a Georgie befriends an eccentric scientist
tower block with his mother, this and becomes the test subject for a
story of a strange, menacing virtual-reality 3D version of the future.
disaster which threatens the city of But then a deadly disease threatens the
London and its residents into life of every dog and Georgie must
extinction is a gripping tale. battle to save all canine- and even
human- kind.
Suzanne Collins: The Ballad of Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to
Songbirds and Snakes the Galaxy.
This is the prequel to The Hunger Arthur Dent’s house gets demolished. The
Games. It can be read before or Earth follows shortly afterwards to make
after The Hunger Games trilogy. way for a new hyperspace express route,
and his best friend has just announced
It is a dystopian novel about a that he's an alien. They are hurtling
planet run by a tyrannical leader through space with a book inscribed with
who keeps the population under the words: DON'T PANIC.
control using sinister Games.
Kirsty Applebaum: The Middler Michael Grant: Gone series
Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in In the blink of an eye all the adults
Fennis Wick, beyond which the disappear in a small town in southern
Quiet War rages and dangerous California and no one knows why. Cut
off from the outside world, Sam and his
wanderers roam. Her brother Jed is
friends must do all they can to survive.
an eldest, revered, and special. Her Chaos rules the streets and gangs
younger brother Trig is loved by form. Sides are chosen –weak or
everyone. Maggie's just a middler; strong, cruel or humane. And then
invisible. But one day, she meets there are those who begin to develop
Una, a wanderer girl… powers . . .Book #1
James Dashner: Maze Runner Lauren James: The Starlight
series Watchmaker
When the doors of the lift crank Hugo is an android who works at a
open, the only thing Thomas prestigious school where aliens from
remembers is his first name. But he's across the galaxy come to study. He
surrounded by boys who welcome strikes up an unlikely friendship with
him to the Glade – a walled pompous student Dorian, and together
encampment at the centre of a they unearth a sinister scheme.
terrible stone maze. The Gladers Dyslexia-friendly
don't know why or how they came
to be there – or what's happened to
the world outside. Book #1
Adventure and Mystery
Katherine Rundell: The Explorer Zillah Bethell: The Shark Caller
Fred, Con, Lila and little Max’s Blue Wing is desperate to become a
plane is on the way to Manaus shark caller, but instead she must
when it falls out of the sky. Now, befriend infuriating Maple, who arrives
lost in the Amazon rainforest, they unexpectedly on Blue Wing's island. The
must figure out the basics of girls are too angry to become friends.
survival. Will the strange man in But when the tide breathes the promise
the ruined jungle city help them to of treasure, they must journey together
get home? A thrilling adventure! to the bottom of the ocean to brave the
deadliest shark of them all...
Jasbinder Bilan: Tamarind & the Bear Grylls: Mission Survival series
Star of Ishta
When Beck’s anthropologist uncle is
Tamarind never knew her Indian kidnapped during a mission to find the
mum, who died soon after she Lost City of Gold, he sets off with his
was born. So, when she arrives at friends to rescue him. Beck must
her ancestral home in the
survive Colombian jungles, river rapids
Himalayas, she's full of questions
for her extended family. But she and wild animals to get to his uncle.
finds an ominous silence – and This story is also full of real survival
intriguing clues, such as a details and tips.
glowing star ring, and a girl, Ishta. Book #1
Mitch Johnson: Pop
Catherine Johnson: Race to the
Queenie dreams of a world beyond her
Frozen North small-town. When the priceless recipe to
The true story of Matthew Henson the world's most popular drink washes up
who became navigator, translator, at her feet, her life instantly changes.
and right-hand man on a Everyone wants it, and with a $10 million
treacherous journey to the North bounty on her head, she's soon pursued
Pole. He defied all the odds and by bounty hunters, black-ops helicopters
racial prejudice to become a true and angry mobs, Queenie's journey
involves a trip to Area 51, a man-eating
pioneer.
alligator and an unlikely new friend, Todd.
Dyslexia-friendly
Tom Palmer: Arctic Star Dan Smith: The Invasion of Crooked Oak
Winter 1943. Teens Frank, Nancy's parents are acting weird. Their
Joseph and Stephen are Royal eyes are blank, they won't eat - it's like
Navy recruits on their first mission they're no longer themselves. Pete and
at sea during the War. Their ship
Krish offer to help Nancy investigate,
is part of an Arctic Convoy sailing
to Russia. They must navigate but the deeper they dig, the darker the
treacherous waters, between the mystery gets ... Crooked Oak is under
Arctic ice pack and German attack from a dangerous foe, and
bases in Norway, facing enemy they're the only ones who can stop it.
attacks, cold and storms, will they
make it home again?
Dyslexia friendly
Chris Vick: Girl. Boy. Sea. Hana Tooke: The Unadoptables
A British boy narrowly survives the In 1880, five babies are discovered at
sinking of his yacht in a huge storm the Little Tulip Orphanage in unusual
off Morocco. After days alone at circumstances. The vile matron calls
sea in a rowing boat, Bill rescues a them” unadoptables” but they know
girl clinging to a barrel. Aya, from they are special. When a sinister man
the nomadic Berber tribe, is a tries to catch them, they escape across
migrant whose ship sank in the the frozen canals of Amsterdam,
storm. They drift –specks on the embarking on an adventure packed with
ocean – weakened by fear, hunger, pirate ships and puppets.
and burned by the unforgiving sun.
Fantasy
Annet Schaap: Lampie and the Catherine Doyle: The Storm Keeper
Children of the Sea Trilogy
Every evening Lampie the When Fionn Boyle sets foot on
lighthouse keeper's daughter must Arranmore Island, it begins to stir
light a lantern to warn ships away beneath his feet ... Once in a generation,
from the rocks. But one stormy the Island chooses a new Storm Keeper
night disaster strikes. The lantern to keep its magic safe. The time has
goes out, a ship is wrecked, and an come for Fionn's grandfather to step
adventure begins… down. Soon, a new Keeper will rise.
Book #1
Michelle Harrison: A Pinch of Vashti Hardy: The Sky-Ship Adventure
Magic series series
This a fantasy adventure series. It Twins, Arthur and Maudie hear that
is a very exciting story about three their explorer father has died trying to
sisters who discover they can use 3 reach the southernmost point in the
magical objects, but they are under world. They join a new attempt to reach
a curse and cannot move far away South Polaris to discover the truth and
from their home. restore their family’s reputation.
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Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials Piers Torday: The Lost Magician
trilogy
1945. They have survived the Blitz, but
Lyra and her animal daemon live when Simon, Patricia, Evelyn and Larry
half-wild among the scholars of step through a mysterious library door,
Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny it is the start of their most dangerous
that awaits her will take her to the adventure yet. They have entered Folio -
frozen lands of the Arctic, where a kingdom of fairy knights, bears and
witch-clans reign and ice-bears tree gods, that’s under threat from a
fight. sinister robot army.
Book #1
JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Kiran Millwood Hargrave: The Girl of
Cursed Child Ink and Stars
The script of the original West End Isabella lives on the island of Joya where
production… It was always difficult people are forbidden to travel beyond
being Harry Potter and it isn't the forest. When a string of events
much easier now that he is an makes her travel beyond the forest in
overworked employee of the search of answers, she joins some
Ministry of Magic, a husband, and explorers on an adventure that will test
father of school-age children… her map-making skills and her courage.
Roshani Chokshi: Pandava Series Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl series
The first in an accessible, funny, Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius—
and fast-paced fantasy adventure and a criminal mastermind. But even
series based on Hindu mythology, Artemis doesn't know what he's taken
about a twelve-year-old girl who on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain
sets a cosmic showdown in Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These
motion when she lights an aren't the fairies of bedtime stories—
ancient lamp on a dare. they're dangerous! Full of unexpected
twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a
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Real Life stories
Adam Baron: Boy Underwater Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls
Cymbeline Igloo has never been At seven minutes past midnight,
swimming. Never. Until he ends thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to
up in the pool with his class at find a monster outside his bedroom
school and suffers the ultimate window. But not the monster he's
humiliation - followed by his been expecting - the one from the
mother’s breakdown and nightmare he's had nearly every
hospitalisation. What is it about night since his mother started her
swimming that has made her keep cancer treatments. The monster in
Cymbeline from the pool? his backyard is different.
Onjali Rauf: The Boy at the Back Penny Joelson: Things the Eye Can’t
of the Class See
There used to be an empty chair Libby is visually impaired but loves
at the back of my class, but now a walking with her guide dog, Samson,
new boy called Ahmet is sitting in and taking photos, but her family
it. He's eight years old, but he's worry about her - and Libby want to
strange. He never talks or smiles be more independent. One day a boy
and doesn't like sweets. But the gives her a secret note but then he
truth is, Ahmet really isn't very goes missing. Only Libby and her
strange at all. He's a refugee who's friend Kyle - think there is anything
run away from a War. to worry about.
Kereen Getten: When Life gives you Kacen Callender: King and the
Mangoes Dragonflies
Nothing much happens in In a small town, King lost his older
Sycamore, the village where Clara brother. He is convinced his brother
lives. She loves eating ripe mangoes isn’t dead, that he has instead turned
fallen from trees, running outside in into a dragonfly, and he searches for
the rainy season and going to her Khalid down by the bayou. Khalid visits
secret hideout with her best friend, him in turn, in dreams. King must keep
Gaynah. But… she can't remember these secrets to himself as he
anything about the last summer. watches grief transform his family.
Nora Raleigh Baskin: Anything Stewart Foster: Bubble Boy
But Typical
Joe can't remember a life outside of
Jason Blake is an autistic 12-year- his hospital room, with its beeping
old living in a neurotypical world. machines. His condition means he's
It’s just a matter of time before not allowed outside, not even for a
something goes wrong. He finds a moment, and his few visitors risk
glimmer of understanding when bringing life-threatening germs
he comes across Phoenix Bird, inside his 'bubble'. But then
who posts stories to the same someone new enters his world and
online site as he does. changes it for ever.
Anthony McGowan: The Truth of The Space We’re In: Katya Balen
Things series
Five-year-old Max eats only Quavers
WINNER OF THE 2020 CARNEGIE and some colours are too bright for
MEDAL him and if he must wear a new
T-shirt he melts down. Frank wishes
The last in a series about Nicky &
Mum could still do paintings of stars
Kenny, but it makes sense if read
like she used to, but now she doesn't
on its own. A trip to the moors
have time. Can Frank piece together
was meant to be a laugh, but all
a universe in which he and Max
goes horribly wrong… Book#4
aren't light years apart?
Dyslexia-friendly
Real Life stories continued
Lynda Mullaly Hunt: Fish in a Elle McNicoll: A Kind of Spark
Tree
A Kind of Spark tells the story of 11-
Ally is smart enough to fool a lot year-old Addie as she campaigns for a
of people at school. But a new memorial in memory of the witch trials
teacher spots her intelligence and that took place in her Scottish
helps her to see that dyslexia is hometown. Addie knows there's more
nothing to be ashamed of. An to the story of these 'witches', just like
uplifting novel that will speak to there is more to hers. Can Addie
anyone who feels second-best challenge how the people in her town
see her, and her autism, and make her
because they don’t fit in.
voice heard?
Dyslexia-friendly
Sports stories
Kwame Alexander: Rebound Dan Freedman: The Jamie Johnson
series
When Charlie gets into trouble
one too many times, he’s packed Jamie doesn’t like schoolwork but
off to stay with his grandparents loves football and he’s desperate
for the summer. There his cousin to become Highwood School's star
introduces him to a whole new football player (and in his dreams,
world: basketball. A legend on Hawkstone United's, too). But after
the courts is born, but can he he wrecks his chances at the trials,
resist trouble when it comes the pressure's on to prove himself.
knocking once again? A story told
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in verse.
Matt Oldfield: The Ultimate Mitch Johnson: Kick
Football Hero series
Budi works in a sweatshop in
Romelu Lukaku is the boy from Jakarta making football boots. He
Belgium who went from having dreams of playing for the greatest
big dreams to playing for team on earth, instead of sweating
Manchester United. After a over each stitch he sews. But one
GBP90 million transfer, he unlucky kick brings Budi's world
spearheads their attack, but crashing down. Now he owes the
Romelu had to leave a trail of Dragon, the most dangerous man
goals in the Premier League to in Jakarta. Soon it isn't only Budi's
earn a move to the world's dreams at stake, but his life.
biggest club.
Jason Reynolds: The Run series Tom Palmer: Rugby Academy
series
Running. That’s all Ghost has ever
known. But he’s been running for New pupil Woody is a footballer by
the wrong reasons -until he nature and must decide if he's
meets Coach, an ex-Olympic prepared to give rugby his all. Rory
Medallist who sees something in feels like he's losing his focus, due
Ghost: If Ghost can stay on track, to his parents being in danger.
he could be the best sprinter in Owen finds himself at the centre
the city. Can Ghost harness his when conflict breaks out within the
raw talent for speed, or will his team. How far will they get in the
past finally catch up to him? rigorous schools' tournament?
Book #1
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Historical and War
Michelle Magorian: Goodnight Morris Gleitzman: The Once series
Mister Tom
Set in occupied Poland during
Evacuated to the country during World War II, this is the story of a
the Second World War, Willie is a Jewish boy who escapes an
sad child, who begins to flourish orphanage because he’s convinced
under the care of grumpy old Tom that his parents are still alive. He
Oakley. When his mother recalls embarks on a dangerous journey
him to London, Tom begins to with his friend, Zelda and a kindly
worry, so he goes to London and dentist.
makes a terrible discovery.
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Tom Palmer: After the War Emma Carroll: Letters from the
Lighthouse
Yossi and friends arrive in the Lake
District, having survived the Nazi After Olive's big sister Sukie
concentration camps. Now they vanishes during an air raid, Olive
can begin to recover. But Yossi and her little brother Cliff are
thinks of his missing father and evacuated to the south coast. They
has terrible nightmares. As he stay in the lighthouse, but the little
waits for news from home, he’s village isn't as sleepy as it seems,
afraid Mordecai and Leo will move and somehow, what's going on is
on without him. The story of the linked to Sukie's disappearance.
Windermere Boys (televised)
Lisa Thompson: Owen and the Hilary MacKay: The Skylark’s War
Soldier
Clarry and her brother Peter live
Owen’s homelife is difficult and for summers with their cousin
there’s no-one he can talk to but Rupert and grandparents in
the crumbling stone soldier in the Cornwall. But in September it’s
park. Then his worries slip away. boarding school for the boys, and a
But the town council want to tear boredom for Clarry at home with
him down. Can Owen find the her father, as the shadow of war
courage to speak up before it's too looms ever closer. Sequel just out:
late? Dyslexia-friendly The Swallows’ Flight
Megan Rix: The Bomber Dog Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the
Ninth
A brave puppy joins the
paratroopers during the Second Set in Roman Britain this story
World War and becomes a is of a young Roman officer who
heroic war dog. Grey and sets out to discover the truth
Nathan, his trainer, soon behind the mysterious
become inseparable. Until the disappearance of the Ninth
day a parachute jump goes Legion, who marched into the
tragically wrong… mists of Northern Britain and
never returned.
Ann Turnbull: The Great Fire Philip Pullman: Ruby in the Smoke
In 1666, Orphan Sam has After Sally Lockhart's father
survived the Great Plague, but drowns at sea, she receives a
his chance at a new life goes strange letter containing a dire
up in smoke when a fire breaks warning which makes a man die
out on Pudding Lane. London is of fear at her feet. Sally is
burning! Can he get out alive? plunged into a terrifying mystery
in the dark heart of Victorian
Dyslexia Friendly
London, at the centre of which
lie a deadly blood-soaked jewel.
Crime, Spies and Detectives
Charlie Higson: Young Bond series Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider
series
James Bond will one day become
the world’s most famous spy, but After the death of his uncle, Alex is
now his challenge is to fit in at his forcibly recruited into MI6, armed
new school - making friends, with gadgets and sent to spy on
learning the rules, and facing up to Herod Sayle, a man who is offering
bullies. state-of-the-art Stormbreaker
computers to every school. Alex
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danger. Book #1
Derek Landy: Skulduggery Ella Risbridger: The Secret
Pleasant series Detectives
Stephanie's uncle is a writer of When Isobel is orphaned, she finds
horror fiction. When he leaves her herself sent from India to an uncle
his estate, Stephanie learns that it in England. On board the ship, she
wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil sees somebody thrown overboard
forces trying to find a mysterious in the night. But when the captain
key, Stephanie finds help from the insists no-one is missing, Isobel
wisecracking skeleton of a dead must solve the mysteries before
wizard. Book #1 the culprit escapes.
Robert Muchamore: Cherub Sophie Cleverly: Scarlet and Ivy
series series
An action-packed thriller based on Ivy must investigate her twin sister
a branch of the British Intelligence Scarlet's disappearance before it's
called CHERUB. James is trained to too late. When troublesome
be a child spy. CHERUB agents live Scarlet disappears from Rookwood
in the real world, slipping under School, terrifying Miss Fox invites
adult radar and getting her quiet twin sister Ivy to 'take her
information that sends criminals place'. Will Ivy be able to unlock
and terrorists to jail. Book #1 the truth?
Book #1
Robert Swindells: Snapshot Robin Stevens: Murder Most
Unladylike series
When Victor heads out with his
new camera, before he knows it At Deepdean School for Girls, Daisy
he is witness to a crime - with the and Hazel have set up their own
photos to prove it …Now he is detective agency. But there are no
being chased by criminals and crimes to investigate. Then Hazel
they won't stop until they get his discovers a teacher lying dead in
photos. Can Victor escape their the Gym. Five minutes later, the
clutches? body has disappeared…. Can they
Dyslexia-friendly solve the mystery? Book #1
Chris Ryan: Special Forces Cadets Andy McNab: Boy Soldier series
Max will need all his skills just to Danny is determined to track down
stay alive as a Special Forces the man who ruined his life. But
Cadet. A top-secret government how can he find an expert in covert
programme needs a crack team of operations who is trained to avoid
undercover military operators. capture? Danny realises he’s being
They must have awesome levels of watched. Action-packed with SAS
determination, endurance, and procedures and surveillance and
fitness. Max is sent into an armed survival techniques.
siege in an inner-city school . . . Book #1
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Animal Stories
Megan Rix: The Great Escape Anna Fargher: The Umbrella Mouse
Robert and Lucy love their pets; Young mouse Pip’s safe and
but the Second World War forces quiet world is turned upside
them to flee to Devon - leaving down when her home, the
their animals who are sent to be umbrella shop, is destroyed by a
put down. Buster, Tiger and Rose bomb. Alone and Orphaned, she
make a daring escape but with must begin a perilous quest to
danger at every turn, can they find a new home by crossing
into France during wartime.
make it as the country prepares
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for battle?
Susanna Bailey: Snow Foal Sam Angus: Hero
In the Second World War London is a
When Addie goes to stay with a
target for German bombs, Dodo and
foster family on a remote Exmoor
her brother Wolfie are evacuated to
farm during a very cold winter, she
the country where they come across
is full of hurt, anger and a deep
an orphaned foal. They name him
mistrust of everyone around her.
Hero for surviving against the odds
Until one day, when she rescues a
and together they raise him, train
wild foal from the snow and
him, and learn to ride. But the war is
discovers that perhaps she's not
looming.
alone after all.
Cory Leonard: Call Me Alastair Lauren St. John: White Giraffe
When Aggie is purchased by 12- series
year-old Fritz, and Alastair is Martine is orphaned and sent to
adopted by Mrs Plopky, Alastair's South Africa. Tendai, one of the
vision for the future crash-lands. In- keepers, shows her survival
between anxiously plucking his techniques in the bush, and she
feathers, chewing a few books, and learns about a fabled white giraffe
finding his own poetic voice, Alastair - a trophy for hunters everywhere.
plots his way to Aggie and their Then, one day she spots one!
flight to freedom. Book#1
Patrice Lawrence: Rat Gill Lewis: Swan Song
When his mum is sent back to Excluded from school, Dylan is forced
prison, Al knows exactly who's to to move to Wales. Life is looking
blame - Mr Brayker, who lives bleak, until Grandad takes him out
downstairs. Al's determined to get on his boat to see the whooper
his revenge. Ignoring advice from swans. Free from all the pressure,
his gran and sister, Al has a plan Dylan begins to feel like himself
that involves his pet rats, Venom again. But the swans' habitat is
and Vulture. But things don't turn threatened, and tragedy strikes at
out exactly as he'd imagined. home, can Dylan keep going?
Dyslexia-Friendly
Jack London: Call of the Wild Nilanjana Roy: The Wildings series
Buck is kidnapped from his safe The Wildings cats have ruled over
home and thrown into a struggle on Nizamuddin for centuries. Now there
the Arctic wilderness. Half St. is a new addition to the clan - a
Bernard, half shepherd, he learns pampered housecat with strange
hard lessons as a sled dog. His last powers that could turn their world
owner, John Thornton teaches him on its head. And something dark and
loyalty. Yet even at the side of the cruel is stirring in the old Shuttered
human he loves, Buck feels the pull House. The Wildings will need all the
in his bones, an urge to answer his allies they can get, to fight the
wolf ancestors as they howl to him. Nizamuddin. Book#1
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