Year 5 | Farnborough Road Junior School

Year 5

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Runaway Robot by Frank Cottrell Boyce
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)by Philip Pullman
First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #3)by Robin Stevens
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
Arsenic for Tea (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #2)by Robin Stevens
Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells & Wong Mystery (Murder Most Unladylike Mystery #1)by Robin Stevens
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
Brightstorm - Vashti Hardy
Who Let the Gods Out? - Maz Evans
The Witches - Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake
Sky Song - Abi Elphinstone
The Bacteria Book - Steve Mould
The Variety of Life - Nicola Davies & Lorna Scobie
One Plastic Bag - Miranda Paul
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Louis Sachar
Roller Girl - Victoria Jamieson
The Nowhere Emporium - Ross MacKenzie
The White Giraffe - Lauren St John
Beetle Boy - M. G. Leonard
The Iliad and the Odyssey - Marcia Williams
Everest - Sangma Francis & Lisk Feng
Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World - Konnie Huq
Werewolf Club Rules - Joseph Coelho
A Galaxy of Her Own - Libby Jackson
The Explorer - Katherine Rundell
Varmints - Helen Ward
King Kong - Anthony Browne
The Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thompson
The Boy At the Back of the Class - Onjali Rauf
Happy Poems - Roger McGough
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Storm Keeper’s Island - Catherine Doyle
The Polar Bear Explorer’s Club - Alex Bell
Room 13 - Robert Swindells
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day - Christopher Edge
The Lost Thing - Shaun Tan
Black Powder - Ally Sherrick
The Secret of Platform 13 - Eva Ibbotson
How Does a Lighthouse Work? - Roman Belyaev
Secrets of a Sun King - Emma Carroll
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J. K. Rowling
Moth - Isabel Thomas & Daniel Egnéus
Kid Normal - Greg James, Chris Smith & Erica Salcedo
Ella on the Outside - Cath Howe
The Rainmaker Danced - John Agard & Satoshi Kitamura
Silly Verse for Kids - Spike Milligan
Clockwork - Philip Pullman
Bloom - Nicola Skinner
Iguana Boy Saves the World with a Triple Cheese Pizza - James Bishop & Rikin Parekh
Blackberry Blue - Jamila Gavin
The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier
What a Waste - Jess French
The Fastest Boy in the World - Elizabeth Laird
Gaslight - Eloise Williams
Mold and the Poison Plot - Lorraine Gregory
Armistice Runner - Tom Palmer

Year 5 Suggested Reading List

Y5 Recommended reading list.pdf