KS2 BOOK Map

Books Set in the U.K. (a3)

Manic Street Teachers

/ ’

Thanks for downloading me!

We have changed our name! You may recognise our previous name ‘Mr A, Mr C and Mr D Present’ but we

have now become Manic Street Teachers. Over 6000 members have joined our site and a subscription now

gives you access to all our resources such as:

• The Jukebox Song Bank – songs, lyrics and karaoke versions

• Editable Knowledge Organisers - science, history, geography, books and musicians

• Quizzes - based on our knowledge organisers, including digital options

• Lyric Reading Comprehension Skills - Disney songs, rock songs and songs from musicals

• Marvellous Music Videos – writing prompts with inference activities, vocabulary and story starters

• Musician of the Month – resources and videos for a famous musician every month

• Fairy Tale Fluency – reading fluency resources focused on expression, accuracy and pace

• Lots More - Writing Toolkits, KS2 SATs-style Reading and Maths Papers, Idiom of the Day Posters,

Maths Vocabulary Reading Comprehensions, Home-School Diary Templates and more!

Famous Freebies!

www.manicstreetteachers.com

Reading Reconsidered Spine Approved by Doug Lemov, our

regularly updated reading spine

contains lists of books that cover

the ‘5 Plagues of Reading’.

U.K. Book Map Now updated with 2 maps for

different counties around the

U.K. It also contains an extensive

list of other books and counties.

World Book Map Our World Book Map resource

is a colourful A3 map with a list

of hundreds of other quality

books set around the world.

@ManicStTeachers www.facebook.com/ManicStTeachers www.instagram.com/manicstteachers

The Borrowers by Mary Norton Bedfordshire

Wind in the Willows by Richard Adams Berkshire Lightening Mary

by Anthea Simmons Dorset

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper Buckinghamshire

The Owl Service by Alan Garner Ceredigion

The London Eye Mystery By Siobhan Dowd London

All the Things T Could Go Wrong by Stewart Foster East Sussex

Armistice Runner by Tom Palmer Cumbria

Put Out the Light by Terry Deary South Yorkshire

The Fox and the Ghost King by Michael Morpurgo Leicester

Sky Dancer by Gill Lewis Derbyshire

The 1000-Year-Old Boy by Ross Welford Northumberland

A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter The Shetland Islands

The Buried Crown by Ally Sherrick Suffolk

Grimm by Mike Nicholson Stirlingshire

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Norfolk

Winterbringers by Gill Arbuthnott Fife

The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson Essex The Little Grey Men

by BB Warwickshire Stig of the Dump

by Clive King Kent

Who Let the Gods Out? by Maz Evans Wiltshire

Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo Scilly Isles

The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell-Boyce Liverpool

The Fatal Strand by Robin Jarvis Somerset

Dragonfire by Anne Forbes Midlothian

Dead Man’s Cove by Lauren St. John Cornwall

Sweet Pizza by G.R. Gemin Blaenau Gwent

Mystery at Witchend by Malcolm Saville Shropshire

Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson Devon

Magical Masquerade by Claire Savage Belfast

Malory Towers by Enid Blyton Cornwall

Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean St. Kilda Archipelago

Murder at Twilight by Fleur Hitchcock Hampshire

The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler Orkney

United Kingdom

Children’s

Book Settings

www.manicstreetteachers.com

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie Angus

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell Argyll

The Coming of the Unicorn by Duncan Williamson Inverness

To the Edge of the World by Julia Green St. Kilda and Outer Hebrides

Wolf Notes by Lari Don Skye

Smart by Kim Slater Nottingham

Watership Down by Richard Adams Ecchinswell, Hampshire Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman Oxford

Nothing to See Here Hotel by Steven Butler Brighton

Gaslight by Eloise Williams Cardiff

Matilda By Roald Dahl Aylesbury

Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne Ashdown Forest

The Magic Door by Dan Billany Hull

Skellig by David Almond Newcastle

Swallows & Amazons by Arthur Ransome Coniston Water

Room 13 by Robert Swindells Whitby

The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett North Yorkshire

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner Alderley Edge, Cheshire

The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall North Tyneside

A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter The Shetland Islands

The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston Huntingdon

The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie Glasgow

Moondial by Helen Cresswell Grantham

Island by David Almond Lindisfarne

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd London Alex Sparrow

by Jennifer Killick West London Boy in the Tower

by Polly Ho-Yen Camberwell

The Witches by Roald Dahl Bournemouth

The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo Westbury

Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo Scilly Isles

Elidor by Alan Garner Manchester

The Voyage of the Arctic Tern by Hugh Montgomery Devon

The Wind Eye by Robert Westall The Farne Islands

Letters From the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll South Devon

Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden Glamorgan

A Far Away Magic by Amy Wilson Bristol

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo Devon

Magical Masquerade by Claire Savage Belfast

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp Devon

Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean St. Kilda Archipelago

Five on Kirrin Island by Enid Blyton Corfe Castle

Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens by Alex McCall Aberdeen

United Kingdom

Children’s

Book Settings

www.manicstreetteachers.com

First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts by Lari Don Selkirkshire

Rocking Horse War by Lari Don Perthshire

Red Fever by Caroline Clough Aberdeenshire

To the Edge of the World by Julia Green St. Kilda and Outer Hebrides

Thorfinn & the Terrible Treasure by David MacPhail Argyll and Bute

Area Book Bedfordshire The Borrowers - Mary Norton Berkshire The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame, Young Bond books - Charlie Higson City of Bristol Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson, A Girl Called Owl – Amy Wilson Buckinghamshire The Secret Breakers series - HL Dennis, The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper, Find Outers series - Enid Blyton, Chiltern School – Mabel Esther Allan, Judy the Guide - Elinor M Brent-

Dyer Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely

Tom's Midnight Garden and Minnow on the Say - Philippa Pearce, Paradise Barn, The Deeping Secrets and Hidden Lies - Victor Watson, Fen Blow - Marian Saunders, Floodland - Marcus Sedgewick

Cheshire The Stone Book Quartet - Alan Garner Cornwall Why the Whales Came and White Horse of Zennor - Michael Morpurgo, Over Sea Under Stone - Susan Cooper, The House in Cornwall - Noel Streatfield, Mermaid House and The

Denehurst Secret Service - Gwendoline Courtney, Malory Towers - Enid Blyton, Green Smoke – Rosemary Manning, Dead Man’s Cove – Lauren St. John, White Dolphin – Gill Lewis Cumbria No Boats on Bannermere, The Lakeland Mystery and Silver Guard - Geoffrey Trease, The Shield Ring - Rosemary Sutcliff, The Year of the Worm - Ann Pilling, Coots in the North -

Arthur Ransome, The Exiles - Hilary McKay, The Sword Song - Rosemary Sutcliff, The Droving Lad and The Deans to the Rescue - Kathleen Fidler, Blue Tarn Mystery - James Shaw, B Flight - Bruce Carter, Sheep May Safely Graze - Phyllis Bentley, Swan Feather / Dress-Rehearsal / Back-stage - Lorna Hill, The Hollow Land - Jane Gardam, Hilary's Island - Elinor Lyon, Speckle the Stray / Spot the Prisoner / Sunny the Hero - Jenny Oldfield, Labrador on the Lawn - Lucy Daniels, A Dog Called Flow - Pippa Goodhart, Armistice Runner – Tom Palmer, The Mystery of the Whistling Caves – Helen Moss

Derbyshire A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley, Sky Dancer – Gill Lewis Devon Back Home - Michelle Magorian, Saucers over the Moor - Malcolm Saville, A Reckless Magick - Stephanie Burgis, Daniel and Esther - Patrick Raymond, The Little White Horse -

Elizabeth Goudge, The Girls of Friar’s Rise - Gwendoline Courtney , Young Bond books - Steve Cole (briefly - Dartington), Tarka The Otter - Henry Williamson, Katy series / A Stallion Called Midnight - Victoria Eveleigh, War Horse, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips and Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo, Knitbone Pepper – Claire Barker

Dorset A Stitch in Time - Penelope Lively, Various Famous Five books - Enid Blyton, Just Jack and Giant by Kate Scott, Kat Wolfe Investigates – Lauren St. John, East Sussex Wish for a Pony - Monica Edwards, All the Things That Could Go Wrong – Stewart Foster, The Children Who Stayed Behind – Bruce Carter, Rose Muddle and the Amber Pendant –

Imogen White, Secret Breakers – H.L. Dennis East Yorkshire Interchange and Last Try - Tom Palmer Essex Secret Water - Arthur Ransome, The Goldfish Boy – Lisa Thompson, The Thirteen Treasures – Michelle Harrison, The Boy Who Drew the Future – Rhian Ivory Hampshire The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat, Murder at Twilight – Fleur Hitchcock, Isle of Man Children of Green Knowe – Lucy M. Boston, Isle of Man Fairy Tales - Gran'ma Flannery Isle of Wight Unleashed : Mind over Matter - Ali Sparkes, Podkin One-Ear Series – Kieran Larwood Kent Five Children and It - E Nesbit, The Little Ships – Louise Borden and Michael Foreman, Stig of the Dump – Clive King, The Matilda Effect – Ellie Irving Lancashire The Spook's Apprentice - Joseph Delaney, A Likely Lad - Gillian Avery Leicestershire The Fox and the Ghost King – Michael Morpurgo Lincolnshire The Exiles at Home - Hilary McKay, The Case of the Exploding Loo - Rachel Hamilton London A Dog So Small - Philippa Pearce, A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Load of Unicorn / Ring Out Bow Bells - Cynthia Harnett, Peter Pan - JM Barrie, Ballet Shoes /

Curtain Up - Noel Streatfield, Paddington - Michael Bond, Mary Poppins P.L. Travers, Fireweed - Jill Paton Walsh, The Eleventh Orphan / The Chancery Lane Conspiracy - Joan

More English

Book Settings

Key Stage 2

Lingard, Drina books - Jean Estoril, The Last of the Spirits - Chris Priestley, Cogheart and Moonlocket by Peter Bunzl, The Peculiars – Kieran Larwood, How to Fly With Broken Wings – Jane Elson, Jimmy Coates – Joe Craig, Murder in Midwinter – Fleur Hitchcock, Stone Heart Boy – Charlie Fletcher, Lottery Boy – Michael Byrne, Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman, The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow, The Bolds – Julian Clary, Gangsta Granny – David Walliams, Brotherhood of Shades – Dawn Finch, The Deptford Mice Trilogy and The Wyrd Museum - Robin Jarvis, Swan Boy – Nikki Sheehan, Scarlet Ibis and Run Wild – Gill Lewis, Running on Empty – SE Durant, The City of Secret Rivers – Jacob Sager Weinstein

Merseyside The Forgotten Coat and Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce, Norfolk When Marnie was there - Joan G Robinson, The Little Blue Boat and the Secrets of the Broads - Phil Johnson, The Coot Club / The Big Six - Arthur Ransome, Black Beauty - Anna

Sewell Northamptonshire Mistress Masham's Repose - TH White, Northumberland The Colour of the Sun and Harry Miller’s Run - David Almond, Time Travelling with a Hamster and 1000 Year Old Boy – Ross Welford, Across the Divide – Anne Booth, The Beasts

of Clawstone Castle – Eva Ibbotson, North Yorkshire The Whitby Witches/ Warlock / Child - Robin Jarvis, A Few Fair Days - Jane Gardam, The Secret Garden - France Hodgson Burnett, The Railway Children – Edith Nesbit Nottinghamshire The Secret World of Polly Flint – Helen Cresswell, The Boy Who Lied – Kim Slater Oxfordshire The Wardens Niece - Gillian Avery, Towers in the Mist - Elizabeth Goudge, The Wool-Pack - Cynthia Hartnett, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman, The House

in Norham Gardens - Penelope Lively, Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Shropshire The Mystery at Witchend - Malcolm Saville, Lone Pine series Somerset A Tangle of Magicks - Stephanie Burgis, The Fatal Strand - Robin Jarvis, Henrietta's House - Elizabeth Goudge, The Wild Lorings at School/The Wild Lorings Detectives - Gwendoline

Courtney. A Dog Called Homeless - Sarah Lean South Yorkshire Put out the Light - Terry Deary Staffordshire Stanley Bagshaw series - Bob Wilson Suffolk Frankie Feinstein and the Fenworld Thief-Takers - A.M. Edge, We Didn't Mean to Go To Sea and Secret Water - Arthur Ransome, The Buried Crown – Ally Sherrick Surrey Punchbowl Series - Monica Edwards, Nancy series - Dorita Fairlie Bruce Warwickshire The Little Grey Men - BB, West Midlands The Hobbit (Moseley Bog) – JRR Tolkien, The Weight of Water – Sarah Crossan West Sussex The Cuckoo Tree - Joan Aiken. Flame Coloured Taffeta - Rosemary Sutcliff, The Wizards of Once – Cressida Cresswell (Bronze Age Trundle Hill Fort and Kingley Vale Yew Forest) West Yorkshire A Most Improper Magick - Stephanie Burgis, The Fib / The Swap - George Layton, Foul Play Series, Defenders, Over the Line and Scrum – Tom Palmer Wiltshire Who Let the Gods Out – Maz Evans

Area Books Aberdeenshire Black Tide - Caroline Clough, A BFffeginners Guide to Curses – Lari Don Angus The Brechin Tales - Terry Isaac, Peter Pan - JM Barrie, Argyll and Bute Wide Blue Road - Marion Campbell, The Awkward Autumn of Lily Mclean – Lindsay Littleson, How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell Borders The Enchanted Whistle (also titled The Ferlie) - Mollie Hunter Clackmannanshire Light on Dumyat - Rennie McOwan Dundee City The Spy Who Loved School Dinners - Pamela Butchart East Dunbartonshire Herself and Janet Reachfar - Jane Duncan / Mairi Hedderwick (plus more Jane Duncan titles) East Lothian Breaker - Annemarie Allan, Fife The Bailies Daughter / The Wonder on the Forth - Donald Lightwood, The Day The World Went Loki - Robert J. Harris, Winterbringers - Gill Arbuthnott Highlands Quest for a Kelpie and Quest for a Babe - Frances Mary Hendry, Jinny series - Patricia Leitch, The Ghosts of Glencoe and The Kelpie’s Pearls - Mollie Hunter, The Droving Lad

- Kathleen Fidler, The Stone Men - Herbert Murray, Storm Singing and Wolf Notes - Lari Don, The Boggart - Susan Cooper, Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest - Janis Mackay, Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson, The Sound of Whales – Kerr Thompson, Sky Hawk – Gill Lewis,

Inverness Ian and Sovra series - Elinor Lyon, The Water Horse - Dick King-Smith, Black Tide – Caroline Clough, The Coming of the Unicorn – Duncan Williamson Lanarkshire/Glasgow Divided City and A Time to Reap - Theresa Breslin, The Desperate Journey - Kathleen Fidler, The Case of the Glasgow Ghoul - Joan Lennon, Top Secret Grandad and Me:

Death by Tumble Dryer – David MacPhail, Fox Girl and the White Gazelle – Victoria Williamson, Nicking Time – T Traynor Midlothian and City of Edinburgh

The Lothian Run and The Spanish Letters - Mollie Hunter, Chaos Clock, The Daemon Parallel - Roy Gill (+sequel - The Werewolf Parallel?), What Holly Did, What to do about Holly and The Sign of the Black Dagger - Joan Lingard, Ghost Soldier - Theresa Breslin, Out of the Blue – Sophie Cameron, Dragonfire – Anne Forbes, Soldier’s Game – Jim Killgore

Orkney The Boy With The Bronze Axe - Kathleen Fidler, Six Lives of Fankle the Cat – George Mackay Brown, Silver Storm – Caroline Clough Peeblesshire The Accidental Time Traveller – Janis Mackay Shetland A Stranger Came Ashore - Mollie Hunter, Haki the Shetland Pony - Kathleen Fidler Skye Wolf Notes - Lari Don, Jinny books - Patricia Leitch Stirlingshire Light on Dumyat (+sequels) - Rennie McOwan, Chill and Shiver - Alex Nye, Grimm – Mike Nicholson South Ayrshire The King's Swift Rider - Mollie Hunter, Tam O'Shanter - Lari Don, The Mixed Up Summer of Lily Mclean – Lindsay Littleson West Dunbartonshire Think Me Back and Blitz Next Door - Catherine Forde Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)

The Chess Piece Magician - Douglas Bruton, The Sula series - Lavinia Derwent, Really Weird Removals.com - Daniela Sacerdoti, Tintin and the Black Island - Herge

More Scottish

Book Settings

Key Stage 2

Area Books Anglesey The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander Blaenau Gwent The Candle Man - Catherine Fisher, Sweet Pizza – GR Gemin, Framed – Frank Cottrell-Boyce Cardiff Alien Rain – Ruth Morgan Ceredigion The Owl Service - Alan Garner, Silver on the Tree - Susan Cooper (Cantre'r Gwaelod = Cardigan Bay Conwy Jackie and the Pony Trekkers - Judith M Berrisford Dyfed The Dreamstealers Trilogy - Liz Whittaker Flintshire The Torc and the Ring - Margaret Joy Gwynedd The Grey King - Susan Cooper, Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce, Dragon Gold - Shoo Rayner (Snowdonia), Arthur and Me by Sarah Todd Taylor, The Flying Bedroom by Heather

Dyer Merthyr Tydfil Dic Penderyn - Meinir Wyn Edwards, Iron Town Boy - Anne Ahmad Monmouthshire Catherine Fisher - The Candle Man Newport Steve's Dreams: Steve and the Sabretooth Tiger by Dan Anthony, The Cube - Paul Manship Pembrokeshire The Shiver Stone - Sharon Tregenza, Elen's Island by Eloise Williams, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs ("welsh island") Powys Young Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders - William McCay, Pete and the Five-a-Side Vampires by Malachy Doyle, Top Dog - Emma Rea Rhondda Cowgirl - Giancarlo Gemin Swansea Mr Mahli's Shed and a Ghost Named Dylan - Laura Sheldon, Champions of Champions – David Brayley

Area Books Belfast The File on Fraulein Berg - Joan Lingard, Maura's Angel - Lynne Reid Banks, Reservoir Pups – Colin Bateman

More Welsh

Book Settings

Key Stage 2

Northern Ireland

Book Settings

Key Stage 2