Year 6 can find it tricky to choose books because they perceive some as too “babyish” for them but sometimes the themes and content covered in books aimed at teenagers is too mature for them.
Have a look at this list for inspiration!
Book Title |
Author |
| The Watertower | Gary Crew and Steven Woolman |
| The Viewer | Gary Crew and Shaun Tan |
| The Kingdom Revealed | Rob Ryan |
| The Highwayman | Alfred Noyes |
| Stig of the Dump | Clive King |
| Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
| White Giraffe | Laurence St. John |
| How to Live Forever | Colin Thompson |
| Skellig | David Almond |
| Street Child | Berlie Doherty |
| Daughter of the Sea | Berlie Doherty |
| Wonder | R.J. Palacio |
| Tribes | Catherine MacPhail |
| Kensuke’s Kingdom | Michael Morpurgo |
| War Horse | Michael Morpurgo |
| Private Peaceful | Michael Morpurgo |
| The Sleeping Sword | Michael Morpurgo |
| I Believe in Unicorns | Michael Morpurgo |
| Beowulf | Michael Morpurgo |
| Shackleton’s Journey | William Grill |
| The Person controller | David Baddiel |
| Wolf Brother | Michelle Paver |
| Goodnight Mr Tom | Michelle Magorian |
| There’s a boy in the girls’ bathroom | Louis Sachar |
| Coraline | Neil Gaiman |
| Journey to Jo’burg | Beverley Naidoo |
| Varjak Paw | S.F.Said |
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne |
| Floodland | Marcus Sedgewick |
| The Adventures of Odysseus | Lupton, Morden and Balit |
| Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf | David Almond and Dave McKean |
| The Savage | David Almond |
| Cloud Busting | Malorie Blackman |
| Pig Heart Boy | Malorie Blackman |
| Cosmic | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
| Percy Jackman and the Lightning Thief | Rich Riordan |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Step by Wicked Step | Anne Fine |
| Tuesday | David Weisner |
| Rose Blanche | Roberto Innocenti |
| The Wedding Ghost | Leon Garfield and Charles Keeping |
| The Emperor’s Egg | Martin Jenkins |
| One Tiny Turtle | Nichola Davies |
| Moonbird | Joyce Dunbar |
| The London Eye Mystery | Siobhan Dowd |
| One Dog and his Boy | Eva Ibbotson |
| Stormbreaker | Anthony Horowitz |
| The Lie Tree | Frances Hardinge |
| The Valley of Secrets | Charmian Hussey/ Christopher Crump |
| Clockwork | Philip Pullman |
| Rooftoppers | Katherine Rundell |
| The Viewer | Sean Tann and Gary Crew |
| The Mystery of the Whistling Caves | Helen Moss |
| Where’s Wally | Martin Handford |
| Gravity | Jason Chin |
| UFO Diary | Satoshi Kitamura |
| The Arrival | Shaun Tan |
| The Rabbits | Shaun Tan |
| Holes | Louis Sacher |
| The Hobbit (for most able readers) | Tolkein |
| Seabean (Trilogy) | S. Holding |
| Tom’s Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce |