YEAR 7 READING LIST

Books underlined are class readers and will be studied in English lessons: they are required
reading. Other books can be read in any order, but have been divided into terms to draw links
between other books and topics on the curriculum.
Michaelmas Term
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
His Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle
David Balfour, Kidnapped and Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Complete Richard Hannay Stories, John Buchan
The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
The Boy in the Stripes Pyjamas, John Boyne
The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill
Colditz, Pat Reid
The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan
The Man Who Was Thursday, G K Chesterton
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
The Sword in the Stone, T H White
Hereward the Wake, Charles Kingsley
Knight Crusader, Ronald Welch
The Light Princess, George Macdonald
Lent Term
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The Road to Wigan Pier and Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
In Freedoms Cause: a story of Wallace and Bruce, G A Henty
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Light Princess, George Macdonald
At the Back of the North Wind, George Macdonald
Around the World in Eight Days and Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea, Jules
Verne
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Alex Rider (series), Anthony Horowitz
Trinity Term
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde
The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories, Philip Matyszak
The Time Machine, H G Wells
Travels, Marco Polo
Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
The Golden Key, George Macdonald