Each year group has a selection of books which have been carefully chosen to provide you with a range of both ‘classic’ and modern texts, stories from other cultures, historical and traditional tales as well as a wide variety of genres.
Year 3
Shifty McGifty – The Spooky School | Tracey Corderoy |
Princess Smarty Pants and the Missing Princes | Nick Sharratt |
Mango and Bambang! | Polly Faber |
Dixie O’Day in the Fast Lane | Shirley Hughes |
Dragon Sitter 1 | Josh Lacey |
Flat Stanley | Jeff Brown |
The Woman who Won Things | Allan Ahlberg |
Glog | Pippa Goodhurst |
Gregory Cool | Caroline Binch |
Knitbone Pepper: Ghost Dog | Claire Barker |
The Guard Dog | Dick King-Smith |
Atticus Claw Breaks the Law | Jennifer Gray |
Rabbit and Bear | Julian Gough |
Fortunately the Milk | Neil Gaiman |
Oliver and the Seawigs | Philip Reeve |
Year 4
The Chicken Gave it to Me | Anne Fine |
The Invisible Boy | Sally Gardener |
Dave Pigeon | Swapna Haddow |
To Wee or not to Wee | Pamela Butchart |
The Diamond Brothers- Falcon’s Malteser | Anthony Horowitz |
Top Dog | Emma Rea |
Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
Big Book of Bugs | Yuval Zommer |
Ottoline | Chris Riddell |
Flo on the Somme | Hilary Robinson |
Wild Robot | Peter Brown |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
Hippo at the End of the Hall | Helen Cooper |
The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt |
A Beginners Guide to Bear Spotting | Michelle Robinson |
Year 5
Warren the 13th | Tania Del Rio |
The London Eye Mystery | Siobhan Dowd |
The Shiver Stone | Sharon Tregenza |
Darkmouth | Shane Hegarty |
Hitler’s Canary | Sandy Toksvig |
Hercufleas | Sam Gayton |
Demolition Dad | Phil Earle |
Unreal | Paul Jennings |
Thief! | Malorie Blackman |
Beetle Boy | M G Leonard |
Me and Mr P | Maria Farrer |
The Unforgotten Coat | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
The Imaginary | A F Harrold |
Tom’s Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce |
Boy in the Girls Bathroom | Louis Sachar |
The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo |
Confessions of an Imaginary Friend | Michelle Cuevas |
Great Women who changed the World | Kate Pankhurst |
A Rocketful of Space Poems | John Foster |
Year 6
Monday’s are Murder | Tanya Landman |
Pax | Sara Pennypacker |
Urban Outlaws | Peter Jay Black |
How to Capture an Invisible Cat | Paul Tobin |
Fuzzy Mud | Louis Sachar |
Small Change for Stuart | Lissa Evans |
Heartsong | Kevin Crossley Holland |
Rooftoppers | Katherine Rundell |
Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot | Horation Clare |
Journey to the River Sea | Eva Ibbotson |
Oranges in No Man’s Land | Elizabeth Laird |
Goldfish Boy | Lisa Thompson |
The Song from Somewhere Else | A F Harrold |
Once | Morris Gleitzman |
Corpse Talk | Adam Murphy |
Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Chinese Cinderella | Adeline Yen Mah |
Murder in Midwinter | Fleur Hitchcock |
S.C.R.E.A.M. | Andrew Beasley |
SPLAT The Most Exciting Artists of all Time | Mary Richards |
Please make sure your parents have signed the table in the back of your homework journal to show that you have finished reading a book from the Really Good Reads! list. Once you have read enough to achieve an award, then please show this table to your class teacher.