S1/2 READING LIST
CLASSIC RECOMMENDED READING LIST
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|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |[pic] |Black Beauty |[pic] |
|CS Lewis | |Anna Sewell | |
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|Four adventurous siblings―Peter, Susan,| |Black Beauty is a young black colt and | |
|Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie― step through| |loves roaming Farmer Gray's fields with| |
|a wardrobe door and into the land of | |his mother. As Black Beauty grows into | |
|Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter| |a handsome stallion, he is trained into| |
|and enslaved by the power of the White | |the use of a saddle and whip and sold | |
|Witch. | |to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall. | |
|Anne of Green Gables | |Call of the Wild | |
|L.M.Montgomery |[pic] |Jack London |[pic] |
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|It recounts the adventures of Anne | |Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck | |
|Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who| |is stolen away from his comfortable | |
|is mistakenly sent to Matthew and | |life as a pet in California and sold to| |
|Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother| |dog traders. | |
|and sister who had intended to adopt a | | | |
|boy to help them on their farm in | | | |
|Prince Edward Island. | | | |
|Treasure Island | |The Secret Garden | |
|Robert Louis Stevenson |[pic] |Francis Hodgson Burnett |[pic] |
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|Following the demise of bloodthirsty | |Mary Lennox has grown up in India, | |
|buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim | |surrounded by colour and life, and | |
|Hawkins finds himself with the key to a| |people who always do exactly what she | |
|fortune. For he has discovered a map | |wants. When her parents die, she is | |
|that will lead him to the fabled | |sent to her uncle's cold and lonely | |
|Treasure Island. | |manor on the Yorkshire moors. There she| |
| | |finds the house and the gardens full of| |
| | |secrets. | |
|Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | |The Wind in the Willlows |[pic] |
|Lewis Carroll |[pic] |Kenneth Grahame | |
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|Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, | |What are you looking for? Adventure! | |
|the formidable Queen of Hearts and the | |Excitement! Fun! Friendship! Join in | |
|Mad Hatter are among the best-loved, | |the delights and disasters on the | |
|most iconic literary creations of all | |riverbank with Mole and his new | |
|time. | |friends. | |
|The Railway Children |[pic] |The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
|E. Nesbit | |Mark Twain |[pic] |
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|Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis find their | |A novel about a young boy growing up | |
|life altered when their father is | |along the Mississippi River. | |
|falsely accused of spying and | | | |
|imprisoned. Moving to the “Three | | | |
|Chimneys” as a result, the children | | | |
|make the acquaintance of an Old | | | |
|Gentleman, a regular passenger on the | | | |
|9:15 train, and enlist his help in | | | |
|clearing their father’s name. | | | |
|The Wonderful Wizard of OZ | [pic] |The Jungle Book | |
|L. Frank Baum | |Rudyard Kipling |[pic] |
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|Join Dorothy Gale, Toto, and all of her| |Collection of animal tales that shows | |
|friends as they explore the incredible | |Rudyard Kipling's writing for children | |
|land of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |at its best. The short stories and | |
|is American's most enduring fairy tale.| |poems include the tale of Mowgli, a boy| |
| | |raised by a pack of wolves in the | |
| | |Indian jungle. | |
| | |The Hound of the Baskerviles | |
|Little Women |[pic] |Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |[pic] |
|Louisa May Alcott | | | |
| | |Set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in | |
|The timeless tale of four sisters - | |England's West Country and tells the | |
|Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - experiencing | |story of an attempted murder inspired | |
|both hardship and adventure in Civil | |by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical| |
|War New England. | |hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock | |
| | |Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson | |
| | |investigate the case. | |
|Moonfleet | | | |
|John Meade Falkner |[pic] |Wuthering Heights |[pic] |
| | |Emily Bronte | |
|A much-loved classic story about a | | | |
|boy's adventures among smugglers and | |A wild, passionate story of the intense| |
|thieves as he endeavours to discover | |and almost demonic love between | |
|the whereabouts of the treasure hidden | |Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a | |
|by the legendary pirate Blackbeard. | |foundling adopted by Catherine's | |
| | |father. | |
|Frankenstein | |The Swiss Family Robinson | |
|Mary Shelley |[pic] |Johann David Wyss |[pic] |
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|A timeless classic about the brilliant | |A classic adventure story about a | |
|scientist, Dr Frankenstein, and his | |family marooned on a tropical island. | |
|monster creation. | | | |
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|David Copperfield |[pic] |The War of the Words |[pic] |
|Charles Dickens | |HG Wells | |
| | |Beginning with a series of strange | |
|The epic story of a young man's journey| |flashes in the distant night sky, the | |
|of self-discovery - from an unhappy and| |Martian attack initially causes little | |
|impoverished childhood to his vocation | |concern on Earth. Then the destruction | |
|as a successful novelist. | |erupts ten massive aliens roam England | |
| | |and destroy with heat rays everything | |
| | |in their path. Very soon mankind finds | |
| | |itself on the brink of extinction. | |
|Oliver Twist | |Robinson Crusoe | |
|Charles Dickens |[pic] |Daniel Defoe |[pic] |
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|The story of orphaned Oliver, who runs | |An English sailor marooned on a desert | |
|away from the workhouse only to be | |island for nearly three decades. An | |
|taken in by a den of thieves. Plunged | |ordinary man struggling to survive in | |
|into a dark criminal underworld of | |extraordinary circumstances. | |
|vivid and memorable characters - the | | | |
|arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, | | | |
|the menacing Bill Sikes and | | | |
|kind-hearted Nancy - Oliver struggles | | | |
|to survive and find his real family. | | | |
|Around the World in Eighty Days |[pic] |The Giver |[pic] |
|Jules Verne | |Lois Lowry | |
| | |This tale of self-discovery in a | |
|Taking up a challenge from his whist | |dystopian society has a memorable | |
|partners, a mysterious English | |central character, Jonas, and an | |
|gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers | |indelible message— that pain and trauma| |
|half his fortune and abandons his quiet| |have an important place in individual | |
|domestic routine to undertake a daring | |lives and in society, and to forget | |
|feat: to circle the globe in a mere 80 | |them is to lose what makes us human. | |
|days, an achievement unheard of in the | | | |
|Victorian world. | | | |
|Lord of the Flies | |The Raven | |
|William Golding | |Edgar Allen Poe | |
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|When a plane crashes on a remote | |Undoubtedly the most famous verse |[pic] |
|island, a small group of schoolboys are| |written by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven | |
|the sole survivors. From the prophetic | |is also one of the most famous poems in| |
|Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable| |the world. Full of brooding guilt, | |
|Piggy and brutish Jack, each of the | |moody atmosphere and love lost, The | |
|boys attempts to establish control as | |Raven depicts Poe’s overwrought | |
|the reality- and brutal savagery-of | |narrator and that most infamous of all | |
|their situation sets in. | |fowls, the titular croaking Raven. | |
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|The Hobbit |[pic] |Fahrenheit 451 | |
|J.R.R. Tolkein | |Ray Bradbury |[pic] |
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|Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and | |The hauntingly prophetic classic novel | |
|contented life, with no desire to | |set in a not-too-distant future where | |
|travel far from the comforts of home. | |books are burned by a special task | |
|Then one day the wizard Gandalf and a | |force of firemen. | |
|band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and| | | |
|enlist his services—as a burglar—on a | | | |
|dangerous expedition to raid the | | | |
|treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. | | | |
|Bilbo's life is never to be the same | | | |
|again. | | | |
|Jane Eyre | |Ivanhoe | |
|Charlotte Bronte |[pic] |Sir Walter Scott | |
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|Although the poor but plucky heroine is| |Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de| |
|outwardly of plain appearance, she | |Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable | |
|possesses an indomitable spirit, a | |incidents - sieges, ambushes and | |
|sharp wit and great courage. | |combats - and equally memorable | |
| | |characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the | |
| | |die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the | |
| | |fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de | |
| | |Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, | |
| | |and his beautiful, spirited daughter | |
| | |Rebecca | |
|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |[pic] |Meditations | |
|Jules Verne | |Marcus Aurelius |[pic] |
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|Story of Captain Nemo and his submarine| |The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are | |
|Nautilus as they travel deep into the | |a beautiful compositions of the | |
|ocean. | |thoughts and meditations of Marcus | |
| | |Aurelius the wise, the last of the five| |
| | |great emperors of the Roman Empire. | |
|The Chrysalids | |The Odyssey | |
|John Wyndham | |Homer |[pic] |
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|David Strorm's father doesn't approve | |The epic tale of Odysseus and his | |
|of Angus Morton's unusually large | |ten-year journey home after the Trojan | |
|horses, calling them blasphemies | |War forms one of the earliest and | |
|against nature. Little does he realize | |greatest works of Western literature. | |
|that his own son, his niece Rosalind | | | |
|and their friends, have their own | | | |
|secret aberration which would label | | | |
|them as mutants. | | | |
|The Grapes of Wrath |[pic] |The Three Musketeers |[pic] |
|John Steinbeck | |Alexandre Dumas | |
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|The Joad family is forced to travel | |The young D’Artagnan and the legendary | |
|west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in | |musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis | |
|search of the promised land of | |are 'the inseparables' - ready to | |
|California. | |sacrifice everything in a duel or game | |
| | |of dice in order to defend their honour| |
| | |or that of the King and Queen of | |
| | |France. | |
|The Adventures of Robin Hood |[pic] |King Arthur and the Knights of the |[pic] |
|Howard Pyle | |Round Table | |
| | |Roger Lancelyn Green | |
|Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men | | | |
|find themselves labeled as outlaws when| |From the magical moment when Arthur | |
|their adventures land them on the wrong| |releases the sword in the stone to the | |
|side of the law. | |quest for the Holy Grail and the final | |
| | |tragedy of the Last Battle. | |
|Northanger Abbey |[pic] |The Hunchback of Notre-Dame |[pic] |
|Jane Austen | |Victor Hugo | |
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|Decrepit castles, locked rooms, | |A brilliant reworking of the tale of | |
|mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and | |Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a | |
|tyrannical fathers give the story an | |host of unforgettable characters – | |
|uncanny air. | |amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback | |
| | |of the title, hopelessly in love with | |
| | |the gypsy girl Esmeralda and the | |
| | |satanic priest Claude Frollo. | |
|The Snow Queen |[pic] |Peter Pan |[pic] |
|Hans Christian Anderson | |J M Barrie | |
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|The delightful tale of The Snow Queen | |Adventures of Peter Pan—the boy who can| |
|by Hans Christian Andersen tells of a | |fly and never grows up—and Wendy | |
|magical mirror that brings ice to the | |Darling have captured the hearts of | |
|heart and eyes of humans, and we follow| |generations of readers. In this | |
|the little girl Gerda and her friend | |enchanting illustrated volume, the | |
|Kai, who are told of the Snow Queen by | |fantastical world of Neverland and its | |
|Kai's grandmother. | |magical inhabitants. | |
|The Princess and the Goblin |[pic] |Heidi |[pic] |
|George MacDonald | |Johanna Spyri | |
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|The story follows young Princess Irene | |A novel about the events in the life of| |
|and her friend Curdie as they work to | |a young girl in her grandfather's care,| |
|fight wicked goblins who intend to | |in the Swiss Alps. | |
|overthrow the kingdom. | | | |
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