SOME RECOMMENDED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.
This booklist offers mostly recently written novels and some poetry and short stories. I’ve also included some powerful texts from “yesteryear”. All are demanding in different ways, and well worth reading.
Allan Ahlberg My Brother’s Ghost
David Almond Skellig
Kits Wilderness
Heaven’s Eyes
Sacred Heart
Bernard Ashley Johnnie’s Blitz
Malorie Blackman Thief
Henrietta Branford Fire Bed and Bone
White Wolf
Julia Bretagna Exodus
Sharon Creech The Wanderer
Love that Dog (p)
Ruby Holler
Helen Cresswell Moondial
Gillian Cross The Great Elephant Chase
Tales from the Old World (st)
Kevin Crossley Holland The Seeing Stone
The Crossing Places
King of the Middle Marsh
Annie Dalton The After Dark princess
Dreamsnatcher
The Midnight Museum
Kate Di Camillo Because of Winn Dixie
Berlie Doherty The Snakestone
Daughter of the Sea
Walking on Air (p)
Deep Secret
Helen Dunmore Aliens don’t eat Bacon sandwiches (st)
Anne Fine The Tulip Touch
Patricia Finney I Jack
I Jack the Police Dog
Susan Fletcher Shawdowspinner
Conelia Funke The Thief Lord
Jamila Gavin Coram Boy
Debi Gliori Pure Dead Magic
Pure Dead Wicked
Pure Dead Brilliant
Eoin Golfer Artemis-Fowl
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Eva Ibbotson Journey to the River Sea
Jan Mark Eyes Wide Open
Ian McEwan Daydreamer
Geraldine McGaughrean The Eggs are Hatching
Six Storey House
Stop that Train
Hilary McKay Saffy’s Angel
Michael Morpurgo Arthur, High King of Britain
From Hereabout Hill (st)
Out of the Ashes
Private Peaceful
The White Horse of Zennor (st)
Beverley Naidoo Out of Bounds
No Turning Back
The Other Side of Truth
William Nicholson Windsinger
Slaves of the Mastery
Garth Nix Firesong
Sabriel
Philippa Pearce The Rope (st)
Philip Pullman Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Lyra’s Oxford
I was a Rat
The Firework Makers Daughter
Terry Pratchett Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Sally Prue Cold Tom
Rylands Footsteps
Philip Reeve Mortal Engines
Predators Gold
Michael Rosen Carrying the Elephant (p)
The Kite
Lois Sachar Holes
Marcus Sedgwick The Dark Horse
The Book of Dead Days
Nancy Springer I am Mordred
Paul Stewart The Curse of the Gloamglozer
and Chris Riddell Beyond the Deep Woods
Stormchaser
Midnight over Sanctaphrax
G.P. Taylor Shadowmancer
Theresa Thomlinson The Flither Pickers
Ann Turnbull A Long Way Home
Jacqueline Wilson The Worry Website
Midnight
Robert Westall King by the Sea
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