Take our quick quiz to find out, then dive in to our reading list. Circle your answer to each question. 1.
Your friend is telling you a story, would you rather hear about . . . a) How her parents fell in love? b) An argument she had with her mum? c) Her new puppy? d) Her near escape from a roaring house fire? e) The UFO she saw last night? f) Her visit to Africa? g) The letter that mysteriously appeared in her purse? h) The trunkful of jewellery she found in the attic that belonged to her great - grandmother?
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Your mum has agreed to take you on a trip somewhere as a treat, would you rather go . . . a) To see a soppy movie? b) To visit your rather eccentric aunt and uncle and all your cousins? c) To the zoo? d) To an adventure centre where you can climb the high ropes course and kayak over rapids? e) To the science museum? f) To the Holi Festival of Colours? g) On a murder mystery weekend? h) And look around a historical house?
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Your favourite memory is of . . . a) Your mum showing you photographs from her wedding? b) The time all your friends came over for a massive sleepover? c) The day you got your first pet? d) The time you went white water rafting? e) Seeing a shooting star? f) The time you went to the bazaar in Marrakech? g) The time you managed to solve all the clues and find out what your mum had bought you for Christmas? h) The ghost walk that you took part in around historical parts of London?
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Your favourite place is . . . . a) A sandy, moonlit beach? b) Your grandma’s house, surrounded by friends and family? c) The stables? d) Up a tree? e) The world you have made up in your imagination? f) The Customs gate as you arrive in a new country? g) Sitting in a big armchair in front of a fire, puzzling out a problem? h) A choice between the Tower of London and the London Dungeons?
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Your favourite book is . . . . a) Drama by Raina Telgemeier? b) My Sister Jodie by Jaqueline Wilson? c) Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo? d) Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan? e) Inkheart by Cornelia Funke? f) Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah? g) Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens? h) When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr?
If you got… Mostly As - Turn to page 3, you might like books from the Romance genre. Mostly Bs – Why not try the Real Life, Friendship & Family genre on page 3?
Mostly Cs – You may enjoy the Animals genre on page 4. Mostly Ds – Turn to page 4 to satisfy your adventurous spirit with a book from the Action and Adventure genre. Mostly Es – Who wants to read about their own world when they could dive into a completely new one? Turn to page 5 for the Fantasy and Science Fiction genre. Mostly Fs – Turn to page 5 to continue your quest to find out all about the world you live in through the Global genre. Mostly Gs – Turn to page 6 to find your next clue! Mostly Hs – The past can continue to fascinate you on page 6, with the Historical Fiction genre.
Key to symbols Carnegie Award shortlisted book
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Carnegie Award winner
Series (First in series usually listed)
Award winner (other than Carnegie)
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NF Non–Fiction
□ Emma; Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
□ Noughts + Crosses saga
Malorie Blackman
□ Romiette and Julio
Sharon Draper
□ Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
□ I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend; Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend
Cora Harrison
□ Chocolate SOS (Jess Jordan stories)
Sue Limb
□ Across the Barricades
Joan Lindgard
□ A Little Love Song
Michelle Magorian
□ The Butterfly Tattoo
Philip Pullman
□ Withering Tights (Tallulah Casey stories)
Louise Rennison
□ The Bride’s Farewell
Meg Rossoff
□ Echoes of Love (or any)
Rosie Rushton
□ Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick
□ Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
; Love, Stargirl
□ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Sue Townsend
□ Flipped
Wendelin Van Draanen
□ Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
□ Boy Underwater
Adam Baron
□ No Ballet Shoes in Syria
Catherine Bruton
□ The Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
□ Absolutely Normal Chaos; Ruby Holler
□ One
; Apple and Rain
; Walk Two Moons
; Toffee
Sharon Creech
Sarah Crossan
□ A Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
□ Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
□ All the Things That Could go Wrong; The Bubble Boy
Stewart Foster
□ A Spoonful of Jam
Michelle Magorian
□ Wonder
R J Pallacio
□ My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher
□ The Boy at the Back of the Class
; The Star Outside my Window
Onjali Raúf
□ Rooftoppers
Katherine Rundell
□ Holes
Louis Sachar
; Small Steps
□ Daddy Long Legs □ Being Miss Nobody;
Jean Webster Jemima Small vs. the Universe 3
Tamsin Winter
□ Born Free
Joy Adamson
NF
□ The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
□ National Velvet
Enid Bagnold
□ Because of Winn Dixie
; Flora and Ulysses; The Tale of Despereaux
□ My Family and other Animals □ Marley and Me
Kate DiCamillo Gerald Durrell
NF
John Grogan
NF
□ All Creatures Great and Small; If Only They Could Talk
NF
James Herriot
□ Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
□ The Mouse and His Child
Russell Hoban
□ White Fang; The Call of the Wild
Jack London
□ Out of the Ashes (and others)
Michael Morpurgo
□ Flambards
K M Peyton
□ The Wolf Wilder
Katherine Rundell
□ The Glory; The One Dollar Horse
Lauren St. John
□ The Murderer’s Ape
Jakob Wegelius
□ Blitzcat
Robert Westall
□ Tarka the Otter
Henry Williamson
□ Hacker
Malorie Blackman
□ Framed
Frank Cottrell Boyce
□ The Hunger Games trilogy
Suzanne Collins
□ The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
□ The Thief Lord
Cornelia Funke
□ The Princess Bride
William Goldman
□ Robin Hood
Roger Green
□ The Girl of Ink and Stars
Karen Millwood Hargrave
□ Stormbreaker (Alex Rider)
Anthony Horowitz
□ The Strangeworlds Travel Agency
L.D. Lapinski
□ Split Second & Every Second Counts; Blood Ties
& Blood Ransom
Sophie McKenzie
□ The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
□ The Hidden Oracle (Trials of Apollo)
Rick Riordan
□ The Good Thieves; The Explorer
Katherine Rundell
□ She is Not Invisible
Marcus Sedgwick
; White Crow
□ Treasure Island; Kidnapped!
Robert Louis Stevenson
□ Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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□ I, Robot
Isaac Assimov
□ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
□ The Children of Blood and Bone (trilogy)
Tomi Adeyemi
□ In Darkling Wood; Strange Star
Emma Carroll
□ The Maze Runner
James Dashner
□ Who Let the Gods Out
Maz Evans
□ Coraline
Neil Gaiman
; The Graveyard Book
□ The Lie Tree
; Cuckoo Song
; and others
Frances Hardinge
□ Tilly and the Bookwanderers
Anna James
□ The Giver
Lois Lowry
□ The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking trilogy)
Patrick Ness
□ Eragon ( Inheritance Cycle)
Christopher Paolini
□ The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld)
Terry Pratchett
□ The Divergent trilogy
Veronica Roth
□ The Lord of the Rings trilogy
; The Hobbit
J R R Tolkein
□ The Time Machine
H G Wells
□ The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndam
□ The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey
□ The Child’s Elephant (Central Africa)
Rachel Campbell-Johnston
□ The Breadwinner series (Afghanistan)
Deborah Ellis
□ The Diary of Anne Frank (The Netherlands)
Anne Frank
NF
□ In the Sea there are Crocodiles (Afghanistan / Italy)
NF
□ Thursday’s Child (Australia) □ The Endless Steppe (Russia)
Fabio Geda
Sonya Hartnett Esther Hautzig
NF
□ Inside Out and Back Again (Vietnam / United States)
Thanhha Lai
□ Oranges in No Man’s Land (Lebanon); Dindy & the Elephant (India)
Elizabeth Laird
□ To Kill a Mockingbird (United States)
Harper Lee
□ Falling Leaves (China)
Adeline Yen Mah
NF
□ Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver (Afghanistan / Europe)
Michael Morpurgo
□ The Other Side of Truth
Beverly Naidoo
; A Web of Lies (South Africa)
□ Between Shades of Grey (Lithuania / Russia)
Ruta Sepetys
□ The Wall (The West Bank: Palestine / Israel)
William Sutcliffe
□ Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (United States)
Mildred Taylor
□ Refugee Boy (Ethiopia / Eritrea / England)
Benjamin Zephaniah 5
□ Dead Time (The Murder Notebooks)
; Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy
□ Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot mysteries (any)
Agatha Christie
□ The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd / Robin Stevens
; The Guggenheim Mystery
□ A Study in Scarlett (Sherlock Holmes)
Arthur Conan Doyle
□ Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
John Grisham
□ The Montgomery Murder (The London Murder Mysteries)
Cora Harrison
□ Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
□ Girl, Missing
Sophie McKenzie
□ Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
□ Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Mysteries)
Philip Pullman
□ When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
; Liar and Spy
□ The Secret of Nightingale Wood
Lucy Strange
□ The Goldfish Boy
Lisa Thompson
□ Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk
□ The Mysterious Howling
Maryrose Wood
□ The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
Katherine Woodfine
□ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Second World War)
John Boyne
□ The Red Necklace; The Silver Blade (French Revolution)
Sally Gardner
□ Coram Boy (18th Century England)
Jamila Gavin
□ Troy
Adèle Geras
; Ithaka (Ancient Greece)
□ Once (Second World War)
Morris Gleitzman
□ The Diamond of Drury Lane (Georgian London)
Julia Golding
□ The Changeling (end of Middle Ages)
Philippa Gregory
□ Debutantes (early 1900s London)
Cora Harrison
□ Velvet (Victorian England)
Mary Hooper
□ The Thieves of Ostia (The Roman Mysteries) (Ancient Rome)
Caroline Lawrence
□ Where the World Ends (18th Century, St Kilda)
Geraldine McCaughrean
□ Private Peaceful (First World War)
;
Waiting for Anya (Second World War)
Michael Morpurgo
□ Witch Child (17th Century United States)
Celia Rees
□ Our Castle by the Sea (England, Second World War)
Lucy Strange
□ The Eagle of the Ninth (Roman Britain)
Rosemary Sutcliffe
□ The Book Thief (Second World War)
Markus Zusak 6
□ The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
□ Pig Heart Boy; Tell Me No Lies
Malorie Blackman
□ Millions
Frank Cottrell Boyce
; Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth
□ Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
□ Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
□ Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
□ The Weight of Water
Sarah Crossan
□ Out of My Mind
Sharon Draper
□ Sophie’s World
Jostein Gaarder
□ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
□ Rowan the Strange
Julie Hearn
□ The Dragonfly Pool; The Secret Countess
Eva Ibbotson
□ Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society: A Chinese Cinderella novel
Adeline Yen Mah
□ Brock, Pike, Rook,
Anthony McGowan
Lark
□ A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
□ There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom
Louis Sachar
□ Five Children on the Western Front
Kate Saunders
□ My Swordhand is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick
; The Ghosts of Heaven
□ I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
□ Poems to Perform
Selected by Julia Donaldson
□ One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
Michael Harrion (ed.)
□ Rhythm & Poetry
Carl Nova
□ Michael Rosen’s A-Z: The Best Children’s Poetry from Agard to Zepheniah □ Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry
□ The Great Automatic Grammatizator and other Stories
Roald Dahl
□ Like Mother, Like Daughter?: 14 Stories about girls and their mums
Selected by Bel Mooney
□ The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde
□ Mystery & Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries
‘The Crime Club’ (various)
□ Chicken Soup for the Pre-teen Soul: Stories of change, choices and growing-up for kids ages 9-13
Jack Canfield
□ The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers
Steven Covey
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http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/
http://www.ukchildrensbooks.co.uk/
http://www.literature-map.com/
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