100 recommended reads for... Year 6

The owl serviceAlan Garner

Howl’s moving castleDiana Wynne Jones

Ruby Redfort: look into my eyes

Lauren Child

Private PeacefulMichael Morpurgo

Time travelling with a hamster

Ross Welford

Grandpa’s great escapeDavid Walliams

The beast of Buckingham Palace

David Walliams

Rose BlancheIan McEwan

How to live foreverColin Thompson

Swallows and AmazonsArthur Ransome

KidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson

The boyhood of Burglar BillAllan Ahlberg

Tales from ShakespeareCharles Lamb and Mary Lamb

Foul playTom Palmer

Fight for freedomSimon Scarrow

Grimms’ fairy talesJacob Grimm

ScarlettCathy Cassidy

The silver swordIan Serraillier

The wolves of Willoughby Chase

Joan Aiken

Talking turkeysBenjamin Zephaniah

The river singersTom Moorhouse

Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson

The secret gardenFrances Hodgson Burnett

The wonderful wizard of OzL Frank Baum

The eagle of the NinthRosemary Sutcliff

Sky hawkGill Lewis

The highwaymanAlfred Noyes

The ruins of GorlanJohn Flanagan

Hetty FeatherJacqueline Wilson

Shadow ForestMatt Haig

BlackoutRobert Swindells

WonderR J Palacio

The end of the skySandi Toksvig

Boy in the towerPolly Ho-Yen

Beyond the Deepwoods: Book 1 of the Twig saga

Paul Stewart

TruckersTerry Pratchett

Fly me homePolly Ho-Yen

The girl savageKatherine Rundell

The midnight foxBetsy Byars

Black BeautyAnna Sewell

The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club

Alex Bell

The robe of skullsVivian French

Potty painters, writers and other barmy artists

Adam Sutherland

Malala YousafzaiClaudia Martin

Asterix the GaulRene Goscinny

We are the Beaker girlsJacqueline Wilson

Twelve minutes to midnightChristopher Edge

My cousin is a time travellerDavid Solomons

The secret of the unicorn Herge

Who could that be at this hour?

Lemony Snicket

Midnight for Charlie BoneJenny Nimmo

The un-forgotten coatFrank Cottrell-Boyce

Mondays are murderTanya Landman

Voices from the Second World War

National TheatreMarina McIntyre

Midnight piratesAlly Kennen

Life according to... Alice B. Lovely

Karen McCombie

Gregor the overlanderSuzanne Collins

What monster?Liz Pichon

The house of the catsMaggie Pearson

Osbert the avengerChristopher William Hill

Ruby HollerSharon Creech

The last of the spiritsChris Priestley

Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone

J K Rowling

A year without AutumnLiz Kessler

I, CorianderSally Gardner

My school, our worldSusan Hughes

Goth Girl and the fete worse than death

Chris Riddell

Glass green beads: a collection of poems for girls

Alice’s adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll

BlitzcatRobert Westall

The dreamsnatcherAbi Elphinstone

Dork diaries: birthday drama!

Rachel Renee Russell

Do you speak chocolate?Cas Lester

The distance between me and the cherry tree

Paola Peretti

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The orchestraRichard Spilsbury

CogheartPeter Bunzl

The house with chicken legsSophie Anderson

Money for beginnersMatthew Oldham

The garbage kingElizabeth Laird

Wonderland: Alice in poetry Spirit of the jungleBear Grylls

Return to the jungleBear Grylls

Kat Wolfe investigates

Lauren St John

CosmicFrank Cottrell-Boyce

HootCarl Hiaasen

The boy with the butterfly mind

Victoria Williamson

Lampie and the children of the sea

Annet Schaap

Tales from old IrelandMalachy Doyle

No ballet shoes in Syria

Catherine Bruton

The fire withinChris d’Lacey

Hana’s suitcaseKaren Levine

Wolf brotherMichelle Paver

Billy the KidMichael Morpurgo

The sleeping armyFrancesca Simon

JellyJo Cotterill

TuesdayDavid Wiesner

InkheartCornelia Funke

Von Doogan and the curse of the golden monkey

Lorenzo Etherington

Who let the gods out?Maz Evans