Dame Bradbury’s Year 6
Recommended Reads (2024)
Animal Stories
Piers Torday The Last Wild
Sara Pennypacker Pax
Michelle Paver Wolf Brother
Carla Sorosiak I, Cosmo
Hannah Gold The Last Bear
Nicola Davies The Song that Sings Us
Gill Lewis Sky Dancer
Philippa Pearce ADog So Small
Alice Roberts The Wolf Road
Anthony McGowan Dogs of the Deadlands
Fantasy
Struan Murray Orphans of theTide
Kiran
Millwood-Hargrave The Way Past Winter The Girl of Ink and Stars
Anna James Pages and Co. (series)
Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book
Elle McNicoll
Like a Charm
Like a Curse
Ross Montgomery The Midnight Guardians
Alex Evelyn The Secret Wild
Frances Hardinge The LieTree Fly-by-Night
SophieAnderson The Snow Girl
Natasha Hastings The Miraculous Sweetmakers
Funny
Jenny Pearson The Super Miraculous Journey of FreddieYates
Maz Evans Vi Spy
Maisie Chan Danny Chung Does Not do Maths
Frank Cottrell Boyce Millions
Paul Jennings ‘Un-’series (e.g. ‘Unreal’)
Jamie Smart FlemberAnd the Secret Book
Lissa Evans Wished
Jamar Nicolas Leon the Extraordinary
Sam Copeland Uma and theAnswer toAbsolutely Everything
David Solomons ABeginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy
Poetry
Joseph Coelho Overheard in aTower Block
Matt Goodfellow Bright Bursts of Colour
Rachel Rooney AKid in my Class
Nicola Davies / Dom Conlon / James Carter
Out there in the Wild
Kate Wakeling Moon Juice
Mandy Coe Belonging Street
CarolAnn Duffy Collected Poems for Children
Ted Hughes Collected Poems for Children
Benjamin Zephaniah TalkingTurkeys
Joshua Siegal I Don’t Like Poetry
Spooky
Sana Rasoul TheTwig Man
Chris Priestley Uncle Montague’sTales ofTerror Seven Ghosts
Ross Montgomery Christmas Dinner of Souls
Phil HIckes The Haunting ofAveline Jones
Jennifer Killick Dread Wood
KatherineArden Small Spaces
Dashe Roberts The Bigwoof Conspiracy
Neil Gaiman Coraline
ed. Jennifer Killick Read Scream Repeat (short horror stories)
Kenneth Oppel Ghost Light
Action/Thriller
Anthony Horowitz “Alex Rider” series
Charlie Higson “Young Bond” series
Mitch Johnson Pop!
Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant (series)
Thiago de Moraes Old Gods NewTricks
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl (series)
Jonathan Stroud Lockwood and Co. (series)
Simon Fox Running out ofTime
Sam Sedgman The Clockwork Conspiracy
B.B.Alston Amari and the Night Brothers
Historical novels
A.M. Howell The Garden of Lost Secrets
The House of One Hundred Clocks
Jakob Wegelius The Murderer’sApe
The False Rose
Barbara Henderson Rivet Boy
Henrietta Branford Fire Bed and Bone
Berlie Doherty Children of Winter
J.T. Williams The Lizzie and BelleAdventures (series)
Lindsay Galvin Call MeTitanic
Ally Sherrick The Buried Crown
Stuart Hill The First King of England
Kieran Larwood Carnival of the Lost (series)
World War One/Two history
Phil Earle
When the Sky Falls
Tom Palmer After the War
Lesley Parr The Valley of Lost Secrets When the War Came Home
Hilary McKay The Skylark’s War
Rhian Tracey I, Spy
Cathy Faulkner Digging for Victory
Lucy Strange Our Castle by the Sea
Emma Carroll Letters from the Lighthouse
Bali Ray Now or Never
Jonathan Tulloch Cuckoo Summer
Crime / Mystery
M.G. Leonard Twitch (series)
Kereen Getten The Case of theAbandoned Boat (series)
Sharna Jackson The GoodTurn
Robin Stevens The Ministry of UnladylikeActivity
Sam Sedgman The Clockwork Conspiracy
Beth Lincoln The Swifts
A.M. Howell Peril on the Atlantic
Fiona Longmuir Looking for Emily
Varsha Shah Ajay and the Mumbai Sun
Katherine Woodfine ‘Taylor and Rose’series
Science Fiction
Philip Reeve “Mortal Engines” series
Alistair Chisholm Orion Lost
KirstyApplebaum
Polly HoYen
Christopher Edge
Troofriend
Boy in theTower
Escape Room
S.F. Said Tyger
Ross Welford When we got lost in Dreamland
Tom Huddleston Flood World (trilogy)
Frank Cottrell
Boyce Cosmic
Jennifer Killick Crater Lake
Music
Kate Saunders ADrop of Golden Sun
Stewart Foster Can you feel the Noise?
Rob Harrell Wink
Katya Balen Birdsong
Jeffrey Boakye Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer
Helen Rutter The Piano at the Station
Zillah Bethell The Song Walker
Aimee Lucido In the Key of Code
Berlie Doherty The Haunted Hills
Nicholas Bowling Song of the Far Isles
Kazu Kibuishi Amulet
Jerry Craft New Kid
Victoria Jameson
Omar Mohammed When Stars are scattered
Joe Brady No Country
Abigail Balfe ADifferent Sort of Life
Tim Probert Lightfall
Victoria Jameson Roller Girl
Brian Selznick The Marvels
Cece Bell El Deafo
Aoife Dooley Frankie’s World
Graphic Novels
Sport
Jason Reynolds Ghost
Patina
Sunny Lu (Track/running)
Charli Splash (swimming)
KellyYang Key Player (soccer)
Mitch Johnson Kick (football)
Tom Palmer Armistice Runner (running)
Rebecca Stevens Lily and the Rockets (football)
Richard O’Neill Different Kinds of Freedom -ARomani Story (football)
Bali Ray Dream On (football)
Gerrard Siggins Rugby Flyer / Flyer / Rebel (series) (rugby)
A.M. Dassu Kicked Out (football)
Real Life
Libby Scott / Rebecca Westbrook
Can you See me?
Catherine Bruton No Ballet Shoes in Syria
Cath Howe Ella on the Outside
Matt Goodfellow The FinalYear
KellyYang Front Desk
Jo Cotterill Jelly
Elle McNicoll AKind of Spark
Katya Balen October, October
A.M. Dassu Boy, Everywhere
Natasha Farrant The Rescue of Ravenwood