KS3 Reading Lists
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A Collection of Both Contemporary and Classic Reads for KS3* Secondary Students
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Tightrope – Gillian Cross*
Shadowmancer – GP Taylor*
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien*
The Amensia Clinic – James Scudamore*
Coram Boy – Jamila Gavin*
Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard*
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr*
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll*
Holes – Louis Sachar*
Small Steps – Louis Sachar*
The Giver – Lois Lowry*
I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai*
Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman*
Pig-Heart Boy – Maloria Blackman*
Floodland – Marcus Sedgwick*
The Ghost of Heaven – Marcus Sedgwick*
The Haunting – Margaret Mahy*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon *
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff*
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo*
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian*
There Will Be Lies – Nick Lake*
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness*
The Mosquito Coast – Paul Theroux*
Northern Lights – Phillip Pullman*
His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman*
Watership Down – Richard Adams*
The Coral Island – RM Ballantyne*
Boy – Roald Dahl*
Going Solo – Roald Dahl*
Z for Zachariah – Robert O’Brien*
Stone Cold – Robert Swindells*
One – Sarah Crossan*
Looking for JJ – Anne Cassidy*
Goggle Eyes – Anne Fine*
The Tulip Touch – Anne Fine*
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank*
I am David – Anne Holm*
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines*
Journey to the River Sea – Eva Ibbotson*
The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge*
Lord of the Flies – William Golding*