We hate to say it but we are nearly half way through the summer holidays! Yikes! So if your children haven’t managed to pick out a good book yet, or have run out of titles, then here is a great list of book titles for children #UAEreads brilliantly compiled for us by Cranleigh School Abu Dhabi.
Ages 7-9+
Adam Gidwitz A Tale Dark and Grimm
Allan Ahlberg, My Brother’s Ghost (Puffin) 9+
Allan Ahlberg, The Boyhood of Burglar Bill (Puffin) 8+
Ally Kennen, Sparks (Marion Lloyd Books) 9+
Andy Stanton, Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire (Egmont) 7+
Andy Stanton, Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout, illus. David Tazzyman (Egmont) 7+
Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons
Brian Jacques Redwall
Clive King Stig of the Dump
Dave Shelton, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat (David Fickling) 9+
David Almond, My Name is Mina (Hodder) 9+
David Walliams Ratburger
David Almond, The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas, illus. Oliver Jeffers (Walker), 9+
Emma Carroll The Girl Who Walked on Air
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
Erich Kastner Emil and the Detectives
Eva Ibbotson, The Abominables (Scholastic) 8+
Eva Ibbotson, The Ogre of Oglefort (Macmillan) 8+
Francesca Simon, The Lost Gods (Faber/Profile) 9+
Frank Cottrell Boyce Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic (Macmillan) 9+
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions (Macmillan) 9+
Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat, photographs by Carl Hunter and Clare Heney (Walker) 9+
Gene Kemp The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler
Gill Lewis Scarlet Ibis
Ian Serraillier The Silver Sword
Joan Aiken Black Hearts in Battersea
John Masefield The Box of Delights
J.K Rowling Harry Potter Series
Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses, illus. K. G. Campbell (Walker; U.S., Candlewick) 9+
Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone (Orion) 9+
Linda Newbery, Lob, illustrated by Pam Smy (David Fickling) 8+
Lissa Evans, Small Change for Stuart (Doubleday) 8+
Mary Norton The Borrowers
Matt Haig Shadow Forest
Michael Morpurgo Listen to the Moon
Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother (Orion) 9+
Morris Gleitzman, Now (Puffin) 9+
Nina Bawden Carrie’s War
Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Roald Dahl Matilda
Roald Dahl The Witches
Ross Montgomery Alex the Dog and the Unopenable Door
Philippa Pearce, The Little Gentleman (Puffin) 9+
Piers Torday The Dark Wild
Simon French, Where in the World (Little Hare) 9+
Toby Ibbotson Mountwood School for Ghosts
Ages 10+
Andy Mulligan, Return to Ribblestrop (Simon & Schuster) 10+
Ann Turnbull, No Shame, No Fear (Walker) 10+
Anthony Horrowitz Stormbreaker
Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece (Orion) 10+
Charlie Fletcher, Stoneheart (Hodder) 10+
Christopher Russell, Brind and the Dogs of War (Puffin) 10+
C.S. Lewis The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
David Almond, The Fire Eaters (Hodder) 10+
E.B. White Charlotte’s Webb
Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan) 10+
Gillian Cross, After Tomorrow (Oxford), Age 10+
Henry Williamson Tarka The Otter
Jean Ure, Bad Alice (Hodder & Stoughton) 10+
Jill Murphy, The Worst Witch Saves the Day (Penguin) 8–11
Julie Hearn, The Merrybegot (Oxford) 10+
Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers (Faber), Age 10+
Marcus Sedgwick, The Book of Dead Days (Orion) 10+
Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful (Collins) 10+
Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mr Tom
Michelle Paver, Ghost Hunter (Orion) 10+
Mildred D. Taylor Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Patricia Elliott, Murkmere (Hodder) 10+
Rebecca Stead, Liar & Spy (Andersen), Age 10+
Richard O’Brien Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
F. Said, Phoenix, illus. Dave McKean(David Fickling) 10+
Sally Prue, The Truth Sayer (Oxford) 10+
Simon Mason, Moon Pie (David Fickling) 10+
Tim Wynne-Jones, The Boy in the Burning House (Groundwood Books, 2000; Usborne) 10+
Tim Wynne-Jones, The Survival Game (Usborne Publishing) 10+
Ages 11+
Adèle Geras, Troy (Fickling/Scholastic) 11+
Alex Shearer, The Hunted (Macmillan) 11+
Alex Shearer, The Speed of the Dark (Macmillan) 11+
Celia Rees, Witch Child (Bloomsbury) 11+
Elizabeth Laird, Jake’s Tower (Heinemann, MacMillan) 11+
Eve Garnett The Family From One End of the Street
Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night (Macmillan) 11+
Frances Hardinge, Twilight Robbery (Macmillan) 11+
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed (Macmillan) 11+
Gaye Hiçyilmaz, Girl in Red (Orion) 11+
Gillian Cross After Tomorrow
Gregory Hughes, Unhooking the Moon (Quercus) 11+
James Holland Duty Calls: Dunkirk
Karen Wallace, Raspberries on the Yangtze (Simon & Schuster) 11+
Kate Saunders Five Children on the Western Front
Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (Bodley Head, Doubleday) 11+
Leslie Wilson, Last Train from Kummersdorf (Faber) 11+
Michael Ende The Neverending Story
Mary Hoffman, The Falconer’s Knot (Bloomsbury) 11+
Patrick Modiano Catherine Certitude
Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (Scholastic) 11+
Piers Torday, The Dark Wild (Quercus), Age 11+
Robert Westall Blitzcat
Roddy Doyle Brilliant
Sita Brahmachari Artichoke Hearts
Tanya Landman, The Goldsmith’s Daughter (Walker) 11+
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Doubleday, Transworld) 11+
Ages 12+
Candy Gourlay, Shine (David Fickling) 12+
David Almond, Clay (Hodder) 12+
Lockhart, We Were Liars, (Hot Key; U.S., Delacorte) 12+
Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt (Corgi) 12+
Jan Mark, Heathrow Nights (Hodder) 12+
Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park (HarperCollins) 12+
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin), Age 12+
Kevin Brooks, Lucas (Chicken House) 12+
Linda Newbery, The Shell House (David Fickling) 12+
Mal Peet, The Penalty (Walker) 12+
Marcus Sedgwick, She Is Not Invisible (Orion) 12+
Marcus Sedgwick, The Dark Horse (Orion) 12+
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Jonathan Cape, David Fickling) 12+
Natasha Farrant, Flora in Love (Faber) 12+
Rhiannon Lassiter, Bad Blood (Oxford) 12+
Roddy Doyle, A Greyhound of a Girl (Scholastic) 12+
Saci Lloyd, Momentum (Hodder) 12+
Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books), Age 12+
Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry (Doubleday) 12+
Sonya Hartnett, Thursday’s Child (Penguin Australia, 2000; Walker) 12+
Theresa Breslin, Prisoner of the Inquisition (Doubleday) 12+
Tim Lott, Fearless (Walker) 12+
William Sutcliffe, The Wall (Bloomsbury), Age 12+
Age 13+
Jan Mark, Useful Idiots (David Fickling) 13+
Jenny Downham, Before I Die (Definitions) 13+
Keith Gray, Malarkey (Red Fox) 13+
Keith Gray, Warehouse (Red Fox) 13+
Kevin Brooks, Candy (Chicken House) 13+
Kevin Brooks, Kissing the Rain (Chicken House) 13+
Marcus Sedgwick, White Crow (Orion) 13+
Patrick Cave, Blown Away (Simon & Schuster) 13+
Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go (Walker) 13+
Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child (David Fickling) 13+
Age 14+
Aidan Chambers, Dying to Know You (Bodley Head) 14+
Ally Kennen, Bullet Boys (Scholastic) 14+
Anthony McGowan, The Knife That Killed Me (Definitions) 14+
Bernard Ashley, Revenge House (Orchard)
Bernard Beckett, Genesis (Quercus)
Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth (Puffin)
Julie Bertagna, Exodus (Macmillan)
Julie Hearn, Rowan the Strange (Oxford)
Lydia Syson, A World Between Us (Hot Key Books), Age 14+
Mal Peet, Exposure (Walker)
Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver (Orion)
Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Puffin) 14+
Morris Gleitzman, Then (Puffin)
Russell Hoban, Soonchild, illus. Alexis Deacon (Walker) 14+
Sally Gardner, The Silver Blade (Orion)
Siobhan Dowd, Solace of the Road (David Fickling)
Susan Cooper, Green Boy (Bodley Head)
Terry Pratchett, Nation (Doubleday)
And if you want more inspiration then do look at:
Love Reading 4 Kids which can give you recommendations and reviews of books from all types of genres including some ideas for classic fiction reading
The Daily Telegraph’s 100 best children’s books of all time
And Time Magazine also have 100 best children’s books
Happy reading!
