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Recommended reading for fifth class

If you like DANCING and ACTING, try these … 
Bright Lights  
Centre Stage 
Gorgeous    
Fame School (Series)   
 
If you like books about FRIENDS or SCHOOL, try these … 
Eva’s Journey     
How to Survive Summer Camp   
The Lottie Project      
The Suitcase Kid     
Malory Towers (Series)   
St. Clare’s (Series)    
The Naughtiest Girl (Series)    
Indigo Blue (and other titles)    
Stargirl  (and other titles)    
Pish Posh      
Olivia Kidney (Series)    
The Underneath     
The Penderwicks (Series)    
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane  
 
If you like ANIMALS and HORSES, try these …
Because of Winn Dixie (and other titles)  
The Tale of Despereaux    
Run to the Wild Wood (Series)   
Pony Club Secrets (Series)    
The Underneath     
The Quest Begins (Seekers)    
Heartland (Series)     
Watership Down     
Sandy Lane Stables (Series)    
Summer with Horses (White Cloud Station Series) 
Black Beauty     
A Boy and his Bear    
Phantom Stallion     
 
If you like A GOOD LAUGH, try these …
Judy Moody (Series)     
My Naughty Little Sister (Series)   
Horrible Histories (Series)   
Granny      
Which Witch? (and other titles)   
The Beasts of Clawstone Castle   
Little Darlings (Series)    
Superfudge (Series)     
Katie Milk Solves Crimes (Series)   
Toonhead      
Switched (My Sister the Vampire Series)  
Clarice Bean (Series)    
Holes (and other titles)       
When Mum Threw Out the Telly   
The Robe of Skulls (Series)    
Skulduggery Pleasant (Series)   
Howl’s Moving Castle (Series)   
 
If you like A GOOD SCARE, try these …
Goosebumps  (Series)    
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)  
Darren Shan (Series)    
Demonata (Series)     
Scream Street (Series)    
Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror (Series)  
The Graveyard Book     
Coraline     
Barnaby Grimes (Series)   
Skulduggery Pleasant (Series)    
London (Vampire Dusk Series)  
The Children of Green Knowe (Series)  
 
If you like MAGIC, try these …
Harry Potter (Series)     
Inkheart (Series)     
The Witches      
Cauldron Spells     
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  
Matilda       
The Magic Faraway Tree (Series)   
The Wishing Chair (Series)   
The Worst Witch (Series)    
Rose (Series)      
Savvy       
Whispering to Witches    
Knife (Series)     
Damsel      
The 13 Treasures (Series)    
The Frog Princess (Series)   
The Two Princesses of Bamarre    
Tom’s Midnight Garden    
I, Coriander      
Hugo Pepper (and other titles)   
Howl’s Moving Castle     
Pure Dead Magic (Series)    
The Fire Thief (Series)    
My Sister the Vampire (Series)   
The Spook’s Apprentice (Series)   
The Thief Lord      
Skellig       
Stravaganza (Series)     
 
If you like ADVENTURE, try these …
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Series)    
Conspiracy 365 (Series)   
A Series of Unfortunate Events   
Harry Potter (Series)     
The Lion, The Witch and The  Wardrobe (Series)     
Molly Moon (Series)     
The Goose Girl (Series)    
Pink Chameleon (Silk Sisters Series)   
Barnaby Grimes (Series)    
H.I.V.E. (Series)     
Atherton The House of Power (Series) 
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane  
Underwater Adventure (Series)   
The Diamond of Drury Lane (Cat Royal Series)
Toby Alone (Series)     
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Series) 
The Spook’s Apprentice (Series)   
The Children of Green Knowe (Series)  
Tunnels (Series)     
HERO.COM 1 – Rise of the Heroes (Series)  
VILLAIN.NET 1 – Council of Evil (Series)  
The City of Ember (Series)    
The Gypsy Crown (and other titles)   
  
If you like MYSTERY/DETECTIVE stories, try these …
The Mysterious Benedict Society   
Alex Rider (Series)      
Famous Five (Series)    
The Mystery of… (Series)    
Conspiracy 365 (Series)    
Lady Grace Mysteries     
Nancy Drew      
The Invisible Detective (Series)   
Chasing Vermeer / The Wright 3   
Dawn Undercover     
Jane Blonde (Series)     
H.I.V.E. (Series)     
Invisible City (Series)     
The One That Got Away (Misfitz Mysteries Series) 
The Sisters Grimm (Series)   
Gilda Joyce Investigator (Series)   
The Thieves of Ostia (The Roman Mysteries Series) 
The 39 Clues (Series)    
Katie Milk (Series)    
The Diamond of Drury Lane (Series)   
Walk Two Moons      
The London Eye Mystery   

If you like HISTORY & WARTIME stories, try these:
My Story - Voyage on the Great Titanic (other titles) 
My Royal Story – Victoria (and other titles)  
Children of the Famine (Series)   
19 Railway Street    
Rosie’s Quest (Series)    
The Red Necklace (Book 1)   
The Silver Blade (Book 2)    
Amelia (Series)     
Chinese Cinderella     
Private Peaceful (and other titles)  
War Horse (and other titles)     
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips   
Hitler’s Canary     
Safe Harbour      
I Am David      
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  (Series)  
Chains       
Faraway Home     
My Side of the Story (Various titles)   
Once (Series)     
The Tudor Chronicles (Series)   
The Breadwinner (and other titles)   
Number the Stars    
The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mysteries Series)  
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break   
17 Martin Street     
Titanic Disaster At Sea    

If you like POETRY, try these …
Something Beginning with P    
Runny Babbit (and other titles)   
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry  
Revolting Rhymes     
Read Me and Laugh    
A Child’s Garden of Verses    
The Truth about Parents    
The Truth about Teachers    
 
Classics We Love…
Little Women      
The Secret Garden     
The Turf Cutter’s Donkey    
Wonder
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Linda Chapman
Linda Chapman
Cora Harrison
Cindy Jefferies 
 


Judy Curtin
Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Cathy Cassidy
Jerry Spinelli
Ellen Potter
Ellen Potter
Kathi Appelt
Jeanne Birdsall
Kate Di Camillo 
 

Kate Di Camillo
Kate Di Camillo
Tom McCaughren
Stacy Gregg
Kathi Appelt
Erin Hunter
Lauren Brooke
Richard Adams
Sandy Lane Stables
Trudy Nicholson
Anna Sewell
Harriet Graham
Terri Farley 
 

Megan MacDonald
Dorothy Edwards
Horrible Histories
Anthony Horowitz
Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson
Sam Llewellyn
Judy Blume
Annie Caulfield
Fiona Dunbar
Sienna Mercer
Lauren Child
Louis Sachar    
E.F.Smith 
Vivian French
Derek Landy 
Diana Wynne Jones
 

R.L.Stine
Lemony Snicket
Darren Shan
Darren Shan 
Tommy Donbavand
Chris Priestley
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Paul Stewart / Chris Riddell
Derek Landy
Sebastian Rook
Lucy M. Boston
 

J.K.Rowling
Cornelia Funke
Roald Dahl
C. J. Busby
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl   
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Jill Murphy
Holly Webb
Ingrid Law
Anna Dale
R.J.Anderson
S.E. Connolly
Michelle Harrison 
E.D. Baker
Gail Carson Levine 
Philippa Pearce
Sally Gardner
Paul Stewart / Chris Riddell
Diana Wynne Jones
Debi Gliori
Terry Deary
Sienna Mercer
Joseph Delaney
Cornelia Funke
David Almond
Mary Hoffman 
 

Anthony Horowitz
Gabrielle Lord
Lemony Snicket
J.K.Rowling
C.S.Lewis
Georgia Byng  
Shannon Hale 
Fiona Dunbar
Paul Stewart / Chris Riddell
Mark Walden
Patrick Carman 
Kate Di Camillo
Willard Price
Julia Golding
Timothee de Fombelle
Rick Riordan
Joseph Delaney 
Lucy M.Boston  
Roderick Gordon
Andy Briggs
Andy Briggs
Jeanne Duprau
Kate Forsyth  
  

Trenton Lee Stewart
Anthony Horowitz
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Gabrielle Lord
Grace Cavendish
Carolyn Keene
Justin Richards
Blue Balliett
Anna Dale
Jill Marshall
Mark Walden
M.G. Harris
Josh Lacey
Michael Buckley 
Jennifer Allison
Caroline Lawrence
Rick Riordan (and others)
Annie Caulfield
Julia Golding
Sharon Creech
Siobhan Dowd 


Various 
Various 
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Michael Scott / Morgan LLewelyn
Ann Carroll
Sally Gardner
Sally Gardner
Siobhan Parkinson
Adeline Yen Mah
Michael Morpurgo 
Michael Morpurgo 
Michael Morpurgo
Sandi Toksvig
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Anne Holm
Mildred D. Taylor
Laurie Halse Anderson
Marilyn Taylor
Various
Morris Gleitzman
Terry Deary
Deborah Ellis
Lois Lowry
Caroline Lawrence
Lensey Namioka
Marilyn Taylor
M. Jenkins 


O’Brien Press (Publisher)
Shel Silverstein
Brian Patten (editor) 
Roald Dahl
Gaby Morgan (Editor)
Robert Louis Stevenson
MacMillan Children’s Books 
MacMillan Children’s Books 
 

Louisa May Alcott
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Patricia Lynch
R. J. Palacio
John Boyne 

Location

Address

Shangan Road, Ballymun,
Dublin 9, 
​D09 T2X6.
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