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Recommended reading for sixth class

​If you like books about FRIENDS or SCHOOL, try these …

Book Title

Holes (Series)

Frozen Out

Caught on a Train

A Monster Calls

Coram Boy

Bridge to Terabithia

Maggot Moon

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Series)

If you like ANIMALS and HORSES, try these … 

Book Title

Run to the Wild Wood (Series)

Wolf Brother (Series)

Black Beauty

The Quest Begins (Seekers)

Watership Down

Varjak Paw

If you like A GOOD LAUGH, try these … 

Book Title

Horrible Histories (Series)

Horrible Histories

​Granny (and other titles)

Which Witch? (and other titles)

The Beasts of Clawstone Castle

Holes (and other titles)

The Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom (and other titles)

The Robe of Skulls (Series)

Howl’s Moving Castle (Series)

Cosmic / Millions

If you like A GOOD SCARE, try these …

Book Title

Goosebumps (Series)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)

Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror (Series)

Darren Shan (Series)

Demonata (Series)

Coraline

The Graveyard Book

London (Vampire Dusk Series)

Raven’s Gate (Series)

Barnaby Grimes (Series)

ZOM-B (Series)

If you like MAGIC / FANTASY, try these …

Book Title

Harry Potter (Series)

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Series)

Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus (Series)

Skulduggery Pleasant (Series)

The Thief Lord

Dragon Rider

Inkheart

Artemis Fowl (Series)

Knife (Series)

The 13 Treasures (Series)

Eragon (Series)

Tom’s Midnight Garden

I, Coriander

The Edge Chronicles (Series)

The Book of Three (Series)

The Wind Singer (The Wind on Fire Series)

The Spook’s Apprentice (Series)

The Owl Service (Series)

Howl’s Moving Castle (Series)

The Fire Thief (Series)

Pure Dead Magic (Series)

Skellig

Stravaganza (Series)

Sabriel (Series) and other titles

The Alchemyst (Series)

The Gift (Series)

The Magician’s Guild (Series)

Northern Lights (His Dark Materials Series)

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

If you like ADVENTURE, try these … 

Book Title

Alex Rider (Series)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)

Narnia (Series)

Conspiracy 365 (Series)

Harry Potter (Series)

The Edge Chronicles (Various Titles)

HERO.COM 1 – Rise of the Heroes (Series)

VILLAIN.NET 1 – Council of Evil (Series)

H.I.V.E. (Series)

Maggot Moon

The City of Ember (Series)

Conspiracy 365 (Series)

Hatchet (and other titles)

Invisible City (Series)

Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus (Series)

Barnaby Grimes (Series)

Atherton: The House of Power (Series)

Maximum Ride (Series)

Underwater Adventure (Series)

The Hunger Games (Series)

Arthur: The Seeing Stone (Series)

Gatty’s Tale

Tunnels (Series)

Raven’s Gate (Series)

If you like MYSTERY / DETECTIVE stories, try these … 

Book Title

Alex Rider (Series)

Famous Five (Series)

The Mystery of… (Series)

The Invisible Detective (Series)

Walk Two Moons

The One That Got Away (Misfitz Mysteries Series)

The London-Eye Mystery

Chasing Vermeer/The Wright Three

The Shakespeare Stealer

Lion Boy

Invisible City (Series)

The Agency – A Spy in the House

Dawn Undercover

H.I.V.E. (Series)

The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mysteries Series)

Sherlock Holmes

If you like HISTORY and WARTIME stories, try these … 

Book Title

My Story - Voyage on the Great Titanic (and other titles)

My Side of the Story (Various titles)

Children of the Famine (Series)

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Series)

Hitler’s Canary

Survivors

The Hiring Fair (Series)

Three Cups of Tea

Pirate Queen

Safe Harbour

Carrie’s War

Faraway Home

Milkweed

Private Peaceful (and other titles)

War Horse

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea

Shylock’s Daughter

A Girl Called Blue

The Twelfth Day of July (Series)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Red Sky in the Morning (and other titles)

Oranges in No-Man’s Land

Chains Laurie

The Silver Sword

The Thieves of Ostia (The Roman Mysteries Series)

17 Martin Street

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry (Series)

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Series)

The Diary of Anne Frank

I Am David

Goodnight Mr. Tom

Back Home

August ’44

The Book Thief

Crusade

The Breadwinner (and other titles)

Number the Stars (and other titles)

Arthur: The Seeing Stone (Series)

If you like SPORT, try these … 

Book Title

Goal!

Kick Off (Series)

The Big Football Frenzy

The Big Cup Collection Omnibus

The Big Football Treble

Foul Play

Own Goal

World Rugby Records

Rugby Zombies (series)

Rugby Spirit

Scrum!

If you like POETRY, try these … 

Book Title

Something Beginning with P

Friendly Matches – Football Poems (and other titles)

The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry

The Kingfisher Book of Scary Poems

Centrally Heated Knickers (and other titles)

Read Me and Laugh

The Truth about Parents

The Secret Lives of Teachers

If you like the CLASSICS, try these … 

Book Title

The Secret Garden

The Railway Children

Black Beauty

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Just So Stories

Stig of the Dump

Lassie Come Home

Kidnapped

Treasure Island

Mary Poppins

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations
​ 

​
Author

Louis Sachar

Carlo Gebler

Carlo Gebler

Patrick Ness

Jamila Gavin

Katherine Paterson

Sally Gardner

Gennifer Choldenko

 

Author

Tom McCaughren

Michelle Paver

Anna Sewell

Erin Hunter

Richard Adams

S. F. Said

 ​

Author

Various

Various

Anthony Horowitz

Eva Ibbotson

Eva Ibbotson

Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar

Vivian French

Diana Wynne Jones

Frank Cottrell Boyce

 ​

Author

R. L. Stine

Lemony Snicket

Chris Priestley

Darren Shan

Darren Shan

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Sebastian Rook

Anthony Horowitz

Paul Stewart / Chris Riddell

Darren Shan

 

Author

J. K. Rowling

Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan

Derek Landy

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke

Eoin Colfer

R. J. Anderson

Michelle Harrison

Christopher Paolini

Philippa Pearce

Sally Gardner 

Paul Stewart 

Lloyd Alexander 

William Nicholson 

Joseph Delaney 

Alan Garner

Diana Wynne Jones

Terry Deary

Debi Gliori

David Almond 

Mary Hoffman

Garth Nix

Michael Scott

Alison Croggan

Trudi Canavan 

Philip Pullman 

J. R. R. Tolkien

 

Author 

Anthony Horowitz 

Lemony Snicket 

C. S. Lewis 

Gabrielle Lord 

J. K. Rowling 

Paul Stewart / Chris Riddell 

Andy Briggs 

Andy Briggs 

Mark Walden

Sally Gardner 

Jeanne Duprau 

Gabrielle Lord 

Gary Paulsen

M.G. Harris 

Rick Riordan 

Paul Stewart / Chris Riddell 

Patrick Carman 

James Patterson 

Willard Price 

Suzanne Collins 

Kevin Crossley-Holland 

Kevin Crossley-Holland 

Roderick Gordon 

Anthony Horowitz  
 


Author 

Anthony Horowitz 

Enid Blyton 

Enid Blyton 

Justin Richards 

Sharon Creech 

Josh Lacey 

Siobhan Dowd 

Blue Balliett 

Gary Blackwood 

Zizou Corder 

M. G. Harris 

Y. S. Lee 

Anna Dale 

Mark Walden 

Caroline Lawrence 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 
​
Author

Various 

Various 

Marita Conlon-McKenna 

Gennifer Choldenko 

Sandi Toksvig 

Elisabeth Navratil 

Elizabeth O’Hara 

Greg Mortenson

Morgan Llewelyn 

Marita Conlon-McKenna 

Nina Bawden

Marilyn Taylor 

Jerry Spinelli

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo 

Mirjam Pressler 

Marita Conlon-McKenna

Joan Lingard

John Boyne 

Elizabeth Laird 

Elizabeth Laird

Halse Anderson 

Ian Seraillier 

Caroline Lawrence

Marilyn Taylor 

Mildred D. Taylor 

Judith Kerr 

Anne Frank

Anne Holm

Michelle Magorian

Michelle Magorian 

Carlo Gebler 

Markus Zusak

Elizabeth Laird

Deborah Ellis 

Lois Lowry 

Kevin Crossley Holland  

 
​
Author 

Alan Durant

Dan Freedman 

Rob Childs

Rob Childs 

Rob Childs 

Tom Palmer 

Tom Palmer 

Chris Hawkes 

Dan Anthony 

Gerald Siggins 

Tom Palmer  
​
 

Author 

O’Brien Press (Publisher) 

Allan Ahlberg 

Brian Patten (editor) 

Gillian Clarke 

Michael Rosen 

Gaby Morgan (Editor) 

MacMillan Children’s Books 

Chosen by Brian Moses
​​
 
​
Author 

Frances Hodgson Burnett 

E.Nesbit 

Anna Sewell

Lewis Carroll 

Rudyard Kipling 

Clive King 

Eric Knight 

Robert Louis Stevenson 

Robert Louis Stevenson 

P. L. Travers 

Mark Twain 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

Charles Dickens 

Charles Dickens

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Address

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