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