Fourth Fifth (3)

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Reading SuggestionsREEDS SCHOOL

Fourth & Fih FormYoung Adult/Adult

ChainsLaurieAnderson

The compelling story of a young slave caught up in the beginning of the American War of

Indepenence. Carnegie short list

The Knife That Killed Me Anthony McGowan

Knife violence. A gripping story that races towards its terrible climax. Easy. Crusade Elizabeth Laird

Short listed for the Carnegie Award 2008 and a popular choice with the library club

Apache Tanya Landman

A young Apache warrior dedicates herself to a life of vengeance Short listed for the Carnegie

Award 2008 and also a popular choice with the library club

Looking for JJ Anne Cassidy

Highly recommended, Carnegie short listed

Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

Powerful and shocking (strong language) friendship in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. Adult

themes

Curious incident of the dog M Haddon

prize-winning novel where life is seen through the eyes of an autistic boy.

Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger

Clever, funny, moving. USA. Holden talks directly to the reader telling us about his messed up time

at school, the weird people he meets and the disastrous few days that take place aer he gets expelled.

On the Road J Kerouac

Hitching a ride across the US in the late ies the classic of the beat generation. Only the very dull

or the insane do not like this book

Two Good Thieves Daniel Finn (Will Gai)Published this summer. On the long list for the Carnegie. Fast moving tale about pickpockets in a

South American slum. Described as Oliver Twist meets City of God.

Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman

A Prize winning novel about segregation and oppression where black

and white are turned upside-down. Also Knife Edge and Checkmate

The ChocolateWar Rober Cormier

A tough tale of bullying in an American school. You might also consider Aer

the rst death equally tough but particularly relevant aer 9/11

Great Expectations C DickensBrilliant opening chapter, powerful and eccentric characters and an honest and likeable narrator.

*Experienced readers**Occasionally chosen as an English class text


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Fourth & Fih Form

Empire of the Sun JG BallardA strange and powerful story of survival- and its true. The author grows up in a Japanese prison ofwar camp. WW2.

Lord of the ies W GoldingA plane load of young boys crash on a tropical island and have to survive without the help or

guidance of adults. A grim but highly believable picture of what can happen when social rules breakdown.

To Kill A Mockingbird H LeeA sleepy town in Alabama, USA, is rocked out of its peaceful way of life when an innocent man isaccused of rape. The events are seen through the eyes of Scout, a young girl, the daughter of the townlawyer. Long but straightforward and compelling. Dont let the fact that it is studied at GCSE put

you o its a great read.

Pompeii Robert Harris

A gripping and realistic imagining of the devastating eruption and the struggle of one waterengineer to avert the crisis

The Seventh Scroll Wilbur SmithAn ever popular and highly readable author.

St Agnes Stand T EidsonAtmospheric, exciting and violent nuns escorting orphan children are aacked by a group of

Apache. A lone gunman comes to their aid. First class. (It was on audio tape/cd too)

The Beach Alex Garner

If you liked the lm, well the book is much, much beer

Skinny Dip Carl HiassenAdult. Crime and mystery down in Florida. Well wrien, entertaining but no holds barred so

perhaps check with your parents

Farewell My Lovely R ChandlerClassic detective story- Marlowe is a hard-boiled private eye with a ne line in brilliant throwawaylines. He tangles with weird characters and strange situations. If you like detective stories, at somestage you have to read this.



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Fourth & Fih FormWar

Tamar Mal PeetA war story set in Holland. Carnegie Award winner

How many miles to Babylon J JohnstonFriends join up to ght on the Western Front. Hes from the grand house. His friend works in the stable.

It begins with the narrator waiting to face the ring squad.

Heroes R CormierAuthor of The Chocolate War writes about a young and disgured vet coming back home aiming to doone thing before he kills himself murder his childhood hero. (used as a GCSE text)

A Midnight Clear W WhartonA platoon of superbright young GIs are sent on a recon. mission in WW2. Short, pacy, well wrien andthought provoking.

Birdsong S Faulk

An adult novel. It follows the life of Stephen Wraysford from just before the First World War through hislife in the trenches. It is both a passionate love story and a horrifying depiction of life at the front. It isalso one of the only novels to give an account of the war underground- the tunnellers.



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Firth Form & Fourth Form

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

The Magicians Guild (series) Trudy CanavanVery popular

The colour of magic T Pratche

Thoroughly strange and very funny. Also The Truth

Tiger Tiger A BesterImagine surviving in an airpocket on a deserted and ruined spaceship and you see, in the vastemptiness of space, another spaceship cruising by and not stopping. Powerful and poetic andwhere does the title come from?

Across the Nightingale Floor Lian HearnSimply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense since Philip Pulman AmandaCraig, The Independent. And it is the rst of a trilogy

Northern Lights Trilogy P PulmanAward winning. Million seller. Probably the best fantasy novel around. Vast in scale and ambitionbut still immensely readable.

Sabriel Garth NixA fast-pace, vivid and exciting fantasy

Wind Singer William NicholsonExam hell! A popular and powerful fantasy and probably every school students nightmare.

1984 G OrwellA nightmare vision of a dystopian world where countries are ruled by totalitarian regimes and wherethe thought police pry into every aspect of a citizens life.

Animal Farm G OrwellA brilliant fable, sometimes mistaken as merely a book for young children; it is not. It is a grippingand tragic account of what happens when a revolution goes wrong. It is just that the charactershappen to be animals

Wasp Factory Ian Banks . Very strange. Modern Gothic with an odd slab of humour. I didnt

want to read it but those who have have really liked it and they have all been under nineteen.

Pet Sematary S KingKing is the master of the genre


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