Year 9 - Lutterworth High School · Recommended by your peers: Boys Don’t Cry –Malorie Blackman...
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Year 9Recommended
Reading List
This booklet is full of great books
that you might enjoy. Use it to support your studies, not
just for English but for all subjects; to improve your
reading skills or simply for pleasure. The books have been
divided up by genre (the type of book) to help you select.
It is by no means an exhaustive list; you will find other
books you love. Please recommend those to your friends
and teachers!
‘Read in order to live’ Gustave
Flaubert
‘There is no friend as loyal
as a book’ Ernest Hemingway
‘To learn to read is to light a
fire; every syllable that is
spelled out is a spark.’ Victor Hugo
Recommended by your peers:Boys Don’t Cry – Malorie Blackman
Cherub (series) – Robert Muchamore
Delirium (series) – Lauren Oliver
Divergent (series) – Veronica Roth
Forest of Hands and Teeth (series) – Carrie Ryan
Girl, Missing – Sophie McKenzie
Gone (series) – Michael Grant
Junk – Melvin Burgess
Looking for JJ – Anne Cassidy
Martyn Pig – Kevin Brooks
Mortal Instruments (series) – Cassandra Clare
Noughts and Crosses (series) – Malorie Blackman
Teacher’s Dead – Benjamin Zephaniah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
The Hunger Games (series) – Suzanne Collins
The Kane Chronicles (series) – Rick Riordan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 4/4 – Sue Townsend
Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Uglies (series) – Scott Westerfeld
Zom-B (series) – Darren Shan
HISTORICAL/OTHER CULTURESJohn Boyne – Boy In the Striped Pyjamas
Siobhan Dowd – Bog Child
Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Sally Gardner - I, Coriander
Jamilia Gavin – Coram Boy
Morris Gleitzman – Once, Then, Now, After
Anne Holm – I Am David
Mary Hooper – Petals in the Ashes
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Elizabeth Laird – The Garbage King, Kiss The Dust
Tanya Landman – I am Apache
Caroline Lawrence – Roman Mysteries
Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful
Beverly Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth
Anna Perera – Guantanamo Boy
Doris Pilkington - Rabbit Proof Fence
Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke
Bali Rai – Rani and Sukh, (Un)arranged Marriage
Celia Rees - Witch Child (series)
BOYS LOVE…Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
Blood Red, Snow White – Marcus Sedgwick
Boy Soldier (series) - Andy McNab
Boys Don’t Cry – Malorie Blackman
Cherub (series) – Robert Muchamore
Cirque du Freak Series - Darren Shan
Eragon, Eldest, Brisinar - Christopher Paolini
Face – Benjamin Zephaniah
Gone (series) – Michael Grant
Keeper - Mal Peet
Percy Jackson (series) - Rick Riordan
Revolver – Marcus Sedgwick
Silverfin (Young James Bond series)- Charlie Higson
Skullduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
Socks Are Not Enough – Mark Lowery
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series) - Anthony Horowitz
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
The Hunger Games (series) – Suzanne Collins
The Kane Chronicles (series) – Rick Riordan
The Outsiders – SE Hinton
The Private Blog of Joe Cowley – Ben Davis
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 4/4 – Sue Townsend
Zom-B (series) – Darren Shan
GIRLS LOVE…Divergent (series) – Veronica Roth
Forever – Judy Blume*
Girl, Missing – Sophie McKenzie
Gone (series) – Michael Grant
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff*
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Noughts and Crosses (series) – Malorie Blackman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
The Fault in our Stars – John Green*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky*
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 4/4 – Sue Townsend
Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Twilight (series) – Stephanie Meyer
Uglies (series) – Scott Westerfeld
*more mature themes, 14+
CRIME & MYSTERYAgatha Christie – The Body in the Library
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of
the Four
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Guy de Maupassant - Short Stories
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca, Jamaica Inn
Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde
FANTASYCassandra Clare – Mortal Instruments (series)
Sally Gardner – Maggot Moon
Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls (series)
Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
Christopher Paolini - Eragon (series)
Terry Pratchett – The Discworld Series
Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights (series)
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)
J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)
JRR Tolkien -The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
(series)
GOTHIC HORROR &
SUSPENSESusan Hill - The Woman in Black
Stephanie Meyer – Twilight (series)
Edgar Allen Poe – Selected Short Stories
Carrie Ryan - Forest of Hands and Teeth
(series)
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Bram Stoker – Dracula
John Wyndham – Day of the
Triffids
PLAYSCRIPTSAlan Bennett – The History Boys
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incidents of the Dog in the Night-time
Dennis Kelly – DNA
Arthur Miller – The Crucible
J.B Priestly – An Inspector Calls
Willy Russell - Blood Brothers
William Shakespeare – Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest
R.C Sherriff – Journey’s End
DYSTOPIANBrave New World – Aldous Huxley
Divergent (series) – Veronica Roth
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Gone (series) – Michael Grant
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner
Matched (series) – Ally Condie
Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
The Age of Miracles – Karen W Thompson
The Declaration (series) – Gemma Malley
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Hunger Games (series) – Suzanne
Collins
The Maze Runner (series) – James Dashner
Uglies (series) – Scott Westerfeld
Wool (series) – Hugh Howey
1984 – George Orwell
CLASSICS:Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland
Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the
Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, A Tale of
Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
Thomas Hardy – The Withered Arm and Other
Wessex Tales
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
Treasure Island
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
SCIENCE FICTIONIsaac Asimov- I, Robot
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy
HG Wells - The Time Machine,
The War of the Worlds
NON-FICTIONMaya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings
Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Dave Pelzer – A Child Called It
Joe Simpson - Touching the Void
Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese Cinderella
Challenging Modern Classics:Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
J.G Ballard - Empire of the Sun
Kevin Brooks – Martyn Pig
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Ian Fleming – Casino Royale
Barry Hines – Kes
Nick Hornby – About A Boy
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns,
The Kite Runner
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Susan Hill – The Woman in Black
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
Lloyd Jones – Mister Pip
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
George Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984
Alan Patton - Cry the Beloved Country
Bali Rai – Rani and Sukh
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western
Front
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
Kathyrn Stockett - The Help
Meera Syal - Anita and Me
Marcus Zusak - The Book Thief
POETRY
Try Googling the following poets and
read a selection of their poetry.
The notable works you might enjoy
appear in brackets.
Modern Poets:John Agard (Flag, Put the Kettle On)
Simon Armitage (Kid, Clown Punk)
Gillian Clarke (Catrin, Cold Knap Lake)
Imtiaz Dharker (Blessing)
Carol Ann Duffy (Valentine, Before You Were Mine, Stealing,
War Photographer)
Seamus Heaney (Follower)
Tony Harrison (Long Distance II)
Grace Nichols (Hurricane Hits England)
Literary Greats:William Blake (Tyger, Tyger, The Lamb)
Robert Browning (My Last Duchess, Porphyria’s Lover)
Walter De La Mare (The Listeners)
Emily Dickinson (Sonnet 43)
Thomas Hardy (The Ruined Maid)
Rudyard Kipling (If)
Christina Rossetti (Cousin Kate)
William Shakespeare (Sonnet 116, Sonnet 130)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Dylan Thomas (The Hunchback in the Park)
Alfred Tennyson (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
William Wordsworth (Daffodils, Upon Westminster Bridge)
War Poets:Rupert Brooke (The Soldier)
Wilfred Owen (Futility, Anthem for
Doomed Youth, Dulce et Decorum Est)
Jessie Pope (The Call, Who’s for the
Game?)
Isaac Rosenburg (In the Trenches)
Siegfried Sassoon (Suicide in the
Trenches)
English Challenge 2016-17The challenge:
You have two English challenges to attempt (if you wish to) before the
beginning of May 2017. Both will help you to read more widely and both will
utilise a variety of your reading, writing and speaking and listening skills.
Details for each one are on the next page, but don’t forget to see your
English teacher if you get stuck!
The deadline: Early May 2017. Your work should be ready to present to your English teacher by this time
at the latest. However, you may complete your work in stages and submit it
before this date. Make sure you leave yourself enough time – this is a
lengthy challenge!
The Prize:If you complete a challenge you will be entered into a prize draw to win £25
iTunes vouchers.
English Challenge 2016-17Extended English Challenge 1: Genre.1. Choose a genre from the following: dystopian, gothic horror, fantasy, adventure, science
fiction or crime and mystery.
2. Prepare an oral presentation to include information about:
• The history and development of the genre through time (when and why did it become
popular?)
• The typical plot and character conventions. What are the recognisable features of the
genre?
• Three significant works from the genre. Give a plot summary of each one, information
about the author and information about why the novel is important.
This must be at least 5 minutes long, with or without a PPT.
3. Film yourself delivering this presentation and share it on Google Drive.
4. Read a novel from your chosen genre (it has to be on the reading list here) and write a
lively and interesting blog style review (Amazon has good examples). It will be published in
the school newsletter.
5. Write a short story of no more than 500 words in the genre you have chosen.
EXTENSION: Create a response to your chosen genre or any individual text from the reading
list. It could be a story, a poem, a movie, a newspaper article, an artistic response – whatever
you like.
English Challenge 2016-17Extended English Challenge 2: Persuasive Speeches1. Research famous persuasive speeches, including but not limited to the
following:
• Martin Luther King – I have a dream
• Abraham Lincoln – The Gettysburg address
• Nelson Mandela – An ideal for which I am prepared to die
• Winston Churchill – We shall fight on the beaches
2. Choose two and annotate the persuasive features used. Include
commentary about the intended effects on the audience.
3. Write your own persuasive speech to persuade your fellow students to
support a charity of your choice.
4. Film yourself delivering this speech and share it with your English
teacher on Google Drive.