Recommended Reading List

Recommended Reading List

The 11 plus academia reading list is a mixture of books from classic to modern designed to create a love of reading as well as well as meeting the expectation of books that will be set in selective school exam testing.


An indication of the reading level of the books are set by year group.


Year 4 - 5

A Boy A Bear and A Boat
Dave Shelton

The Wind In The Willows
Kenneth Grahame

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Around the World in 80 Days
Jules Verne

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J. K. Rowling

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr

The Borrowers
Mary Norton

Matilda
Roald Dahl

What Katy Did
Susan Coolidge

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery

Black Beauty
Anna Sewell

Charlottes' Web
E. B. White

The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children
Edith Nesbit

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens

Holes
Louis Sachar

The Secret Garden
F. Hodgson Burnett

The Butterfly Lion
Michael Morpurgo

Five Children and It
Edith Nesbit

Toro! Toro!
Michael Morpurgo

Heidi
Johanna Spyri

The Ickabog
J. K. Rowling

Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Year 5 - 7

Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier

Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte

Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman

Just William
Richmal Crompton

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Tom's Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson

Carrie's War
Nina Bawden

The Call of the Wild
Jack London

Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austin

The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain

The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Anne of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery

A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett

 

 

 

 

 

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