This is a reading list aimed mainly at our Year 5 children compiled by our lovely assistant, Amber.
It's important to add as a must-read, The Eternity Train by our very own tutor, Ahsan. Details are here.
These are our favourite children's fiction books for this age group - if you know of other amazing and much-loved books which you feel deserve a place here, please get in touch to let us know!
Skellig by David Almond
Harry Potter Series by J K Rowling
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings series by J R R Tolkien
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
War Horse / Farm Boy by Michael Morpurgo
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Holes by Louis Sachar
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Wonder by R J Palacio
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Ingo by Helen Dunmore
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Five Children and It by E Nesbit
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J R R Tolkien
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Railway Children by E Nesbit
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
Flambards by K M Peyton
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Watership Down by Richard Adams
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Peter Pan by J M Barrie
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley Holland
Boy by Roald Dahl
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipović
The Weirdstone of Brisangamen by Alan Garner
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L Engle
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Fire series by Chris D Lacey
Tale of Redwall series by Brian Jacques
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliffe
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum
The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsberg
Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Kasper, Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo
Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Varjak Paw by S F Said
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne
Once by Morris Gleitzman
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Wave Me Goodbye by Jacqueline Wilson
Young Sherlock Holmes series by Andrew Lane
Five Find-Outers Mystery Series by Enid Blyton