Dulwich College Singapore Junior/Senior Library

Recommended Reading 2015

Opening Hours

8.30am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday

Junior Library, Dulwich College Singapore 71 Bukit Batok West Ave 8 Singapore 658966

email: library@dulwich-singapore.edu.sg telephone: +65 68901063 catalogue: http://dcsg.follettdestiny.com/

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)

WelcomeThese reading lists are a selection of the titles available in the Junior/Senior Library at Dulwich College and are intended for students’ and parents’ guidance. They aim to include a range of genres and writing styles to engage, interest and perhaps challenge students to broaden their reading choices. With over 6000 children’s books published in the UK alone every year it is often difficult to identify quality writing so these lists are an attempt to guide you towards some of the best available.

The lists should be used with discretion. If you feel the list for your particular age group does not include titles at an appropriate level for your reading age and ability level you may wish to select from the list intended for a younger or older year group. However the main aim of these lists are to encourage an enjoyment of reading and to introduce you to books you may not have considered reading.

Reading broadens horizons, helps develop written and spoken vocabulary and spelling, aids in the development of empathy, expands one’s thinking and imagination, and may introduce you to new ideas and worlds. It is one of life’s fundamental skills and pleasures.

The Library, in conjunction with the English Department, runs an annual Senior School Reading Challenge where students are encouraged to read from a wide range of genre over the course of a year and maintain a reading log as well as completing a range of literacy tasks. In the Junior School, we have launched a termly Reading Bingo Challenge with pupils being given a choice of fiction genres and non-fiction topics to read around in order to achieve a certificate of achievement.

We also participate in the International School Librarians Network Red Dot Book Award each year http://www.reddotawards.com/ where students are challenged to read eight books in their age category and vote for the favourite. They may then compete in the Readers Cup event and represent Dulwich in an annual quiz, against other Singapore schools, testing their knowledge of the books.

Our library catalogue http://dcsg.follettdestiny.com/ has an extensive range of Recommended Reading Lists under Resource Lists>Public Lists where books are categorized according to genre as well as reading age and level.

You may also wish to make use of our Pinterest page http://www.pinterest.com/DCSGLibrary/ which presents this information in a visual format with links to Good Reads reviews.

Year 3 Recommended ReadingLaurence Anholt. Seriously Silly series

Philip Ardagh. Grubtown Tales

Annie Barrows Ivy and Bean series

Terence Blacker. Ms Wizz series

Adam Blade. Beast Quest series

Michael Bond. Paddington series

Jeff Brown. Flat Stanley

Lauren Child. Clarice Bean series

Steve Cole. Astrosaurs series

Eoin Colfer. The Legend of Spud Murphy

Andrew Cope. Spy Dog series

Roald Dahl. The Twits / Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Joshua Doder. Grk series

Dorothy Edwards. My Naughty Little Sister series

Anne Fine. Bill’s New Frock; Diary of a Killer Cat; How to Write Really Badly; Angel of Nitshill Road

Sally Gardener. Magical Children series

Astrid Lindgren Pippi Longstocking

Dick King-Smith. George Speaks

Michael Morpurgo. Cool; The Butterfly Lion; Marble Crusher

Jill Murphy. Worst Witch series

Dav Pilkey. Captain Underpants

Angie Sage. Araminta Spook series

Francesca Simon. Horrid Henry series

Andy Stanton. Mr Gum series

Catherine Storr Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf

Jeremy Strong. 100 Mile an Hour Dog series

Jill Tomlinson. The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

Ian Whybrow. Little Wolf

Jacqueline Wilson. Monster Story-Teller

Year 4 Recommended ReadingAllan Ahlberg. Clothes Horse; It was a Dark and Stormy Night

David Almond. My Dad’s a Birdman; The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas; The Boy Who Climbed to the Moon

Malorie Blackman. Cloudbusting

Frank Cottrell Boyce. Unforgotten Coat

Humphrey Carpenter. Mr Majeika series

Cressida Cowell. How to Train Your Dragon series

Sharon Creech. The Wanderer

Roald Dahl. Danny the Champion of the World

Antoine De Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince

Sam Gayton. Snow Merchant

Ted Hughes. The Iron Man; How the Whale Became

Eva Ibbotson. One Boy and His Dog

Pete Johnson. Trust Me, I’m a Troublemaker

Eric Kastner. Emil and the Detectives

Clive King. Stig of the Dump

Elizabeth Laird. Secret Friends

C.S. Lewis. Narnia series

Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

Philippa Pearce. Battle of Bubble and Squeak; A dog so small

Philip Pullman. Clockwork; Firework Maker’s Daughter; I was a Rat

Philip Reeve. There’s no such thing as dragons; Oliver and the Seawigs

Chris Riddell. Ottoline series; Goth Girl series

Louis Sachar. Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes; There’s a girl in the boy’s bathroom

SF Said. Varjak Paw

Marcus Sedgewick. Raven mysteries

Barbara Sleigh. Carbonel series

Dodie Smith. One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Lemony Snicket. A Series of Unfortunate Events

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Fergus Crane; Ottoline; Goth girl

Jeremy Strong. The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog series; My Brother’s Famous Bottom series

Robert Swindells. Room 13

David Walliams. Gangsta Granny; Mr Stink; Billionaire Boy

E.B. White. Charlotte’s Web

Marcia Williams. Archie’s War; The Adventures of Robin Hood

Year 5 Recommended ReadingJoan Aiken. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Malorie Blackman. Pigheart Boy

Frank Cottrell Boyce. Framed; Millions

Betsy Byars. The 18th Emergency

Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl series

Chris D’Lacey. The Last Dragon Chronicles series

Bertie Doherty. Street Child

Deborah Ellis. Breadwinner series

Cornelia Funke. Dragonrider

Jack Gantos. Joey Pigza series

Adele Geras, Linda Newbery and Ann Turnbull. Historical House series

Morris Gleitzman. Two Weeks with the Queen; Once series

Debi Gliori. Pure Dead Magic

Julia Golding. Cat Royal series; Companions series

Charlie Higson. Young Bond series

Anthony Horowitz. Alex Rider series; Diamond Brothers series

Eva Ibbotson. Journey to the River Sea

Brian Jacques. Redwall series

Pete Johnson. The Bad Spy’s Guide

Judith Kerr. When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit

Derek Landy. Skulduggery Pleasant series

Michael Lawrence. Jiggy McCue series

Sally Nicholls. Ways to Live Forever

Jenny Nimmo. Charlie Bone series

Garth Nix. Keys to the Kingdom series

Mary Norton. The Borrowers

James Patterson. I Funny series

Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother

Philip Pullman. Spring-Heeled Jack; Firework maker’s Daughter

Philip Reeve. Predator Cities series

Philip Ridley. Krindlekrax; Scribbleboy

Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson series

Louis Sachar. Wayside School series

Angie Sage. Magyk series

Ali Sparkes. Shapeshifter series

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Edge Chronicles series

Red Dot Book Award WinnersJUNIOR (Years 3–5)

Adeline Foo. The Diary of Amos Lee

David Walliams. Mr Stink

Andy Griffiths. The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow

William Joyce. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore

AJ Low, Aden Jimenez, and Felicia Low-Jimenez. Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong

Chris Riddell. Ottoline and the Yellow Cat

Neil Gaiman. Fortunately, the Milk

Eva Ibbotson. One Dog and his Boy

Nicola Davies. Rubbish Town Hero

Matt Haig. To Be a Cat

Chris Riddell. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

Kevin Henkes. The Year of Billy Miller

MIDDLE (Years 5–7)

Trenton Lee Stewart. The Mysterious Benedict Society

Chris Morphew. The Phoenix Files

Raina Telgemeier. Smile

RJ Palacio. Wonder

Simon Mayo. Itch

Siobhan Dowd. London Eye Mystery

Candy Gourlay. Tall Story

Andy Mulligan. Trash

Sarah Crossan. Weight of Water

Kate DiCamillo. Flora and Ulysses

Holly Black. Doll Bones

Katherine Rundell. Rooftoppers

Jonathan Stroud. The Screaming Staircase

Cece Bell. El Deafo

SENIOR (Years 9–10)

Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games

William Kamkwamba. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Daniel Finn. Two Good Thieves

David Small. Stitches

John Green. The Fault In Our Stars

Johan Harstad. 172 Hours on the Moon

Patrick Ness. The Knife of Never Letting Go

Sherman Alexie. The Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian

David Almond. The Boy Who Swam With Pirhanas

David Levithan. Every Day

Fabio Geda. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles

Jason Wallace. Out of the Shadows

Siobhan Dowd. A Monster Calls

E Lockhart. We Were Liars

Year 6 Recommended ReadingDavid Almond. Skellig; My Name is Mina

Nina Bawden. Carrie’s War

Malorie Blackman. Pig Heart Boy

Pseudonymous Bosch. The Name of this Book is Secret [and others in the series]

Tim Bowler. River Boy

Frank Cottrell Boyce. Millions; Cosmic

Georgia Byng. Molly Moon series

Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl series

Zizou Corder. Lionboy

Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons; Chasing Redbird; Ruby Holler

Siobhan Dowd. London Eye Mystery

Helen Dunmore. Ingo series

Charlie Fletcher. Stoneheart series

Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book; Coraline

Sally Grindley. Spilled Water

Carl Hiaasen. Hoot

Charlie Higson. Young Bond series

Anthony Horowitz. Stormbreaker series

Eva Ibbotson. Journey to the River Sea; The Star of Kazan; The Abominables

Brian Jacques. Redwall series

Elizabeth Laird. Garbage King

Derek Landy. Skulduggery Pleasant series

Michael Morpurgo. Private Peaceful

Patrick Ness. A Monster Calls

Sally Nicholls. Ways to Live Forever

Garth Nix. Sabriel series

RJ Palacio. Wonder

Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother; The Outsiders

Philip Reeve. Larklight; Mortal Engines series

Katherine Rundell. Rooftoppers

Chris Ryan. Alpha Force series

Louis Sachar. Holes

Angie Sage. Septimus Flyte series

Brian Selznick. The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Ian Seraillier. The Silver Sword

Justin Somper. Vampirates series

Rebecca Stead. Liar and Spy

JRR Tolkein. The Hobbit

Eleanor Updale. Montmorency series

Years 7/8 Recommended ReadingRichard Adams. Watership Down

Malorie Blackman. Noughts and Crosses

John Boyne. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Anne Cassidy. Looking for JJ

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes

Gillian Cross. After Tomorrow

Joseph Delaney. Spook’s Apprentice series

Deborah Ellis. The Breadwinner

Anne Fine. The Tulip Touch, Flour Babies

Cornelia Funke. Thief Lord; Inkheart

Sally Gardner. I Coriander; The Red Necklace

Jamila Gavin. Coram Boy

Morris Gleitzman. Two Weeks with the Queen

Julia Golding. Diamond of Drury Lane

Michael Grant. Gone

Mark Haddon. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

Frances Hardinge. Fly By Night

Mary Hooper. At the Sign of the Sugared Plum [and others]

Judith Kerr. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Michelle Magorian. Goodnight Mr Tom

Adeline Yen Mah. Chinese Cinderella

Geraldine McCaughrean. The Kite Rider

Ian McEwan. Day Dreamer

Michael Morpurgo. Private Peaceful

William Nicholson. Wind Singer series

RJ Palacio. Wonder

Christopher Paolini. Eragon

Anabel Pitcher. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Terry Pratchett. Johnny and the Bomb

Philip Pullman. Northern Lights; Ruby in the Smoke series

Philip Reeve. Here Lies Arthur

Alex Scarrow. Time Riders series

Mildred Taylor. Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry

JRR Tolkein. Lord of the Rings

Sue Townsend. Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Jeanette Winterson. Tanglewreck

Marcus Zusack. The Book Thief

Library FAQWhen can I use the library?You can use the library before school, at break-time, lunchtime and after school as well as during your timetabled library session in lesson time.

Junior/Senior school students should sign in if using the library after school. Younger children should not use the library outside school hours unless accompanied by a parent.

Parents are welcome in the library before and after school.

How do I borrow books?Your library card is your school ID card in your lanyard.

How many books can I borrow and for how long?Years 3–6 : two items for two weeks. Years 7–9 : four items for four weeks.

How do I find a book I want? We have an online catalogue called Destiny. You can access it on a computer in school or at home at http://dcsg.follettdestiny.com/

It is also listed on the Student Portal. You may also like to install and use the free app, Destiny Quest, on an iPad or mobile device.

You can use the catalogue as a Guest or log in to your own library

account using your computer user name (first-name.surname) and your Log On (the numbers on your ID card without the zeroes).

You can search the catalogue by author, title, subject or keyword. You can also reserve books, post book reviews and even recommend books to friends in school. We have created a number of Resource/Reading Lists on the catalogue you can search to find recommendations of books by genre, year group and subject.

You could also check out our Library Pinterest Board www.pinterest.com/DCSGLibrary for reading recommendations. We welcome any suggestions you may have for improvements or books we should buy.

Can I use the computers?If you wish to use a computer, laptop or iPad it must be for research, schoolwork, homework or revision purposes, not games or social media.

You should sign up to use a computer at the main library desk. Please be aware that the library computer use is monitored and students misusing them risk having their access in the library withdrawn.

Years 9 Recommended ReadingDouglas Adams. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice; Emma Malorie Blackman. Noughts and Crosses; Boys Don’t Cry; Noble Conflict Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre Kevin Brooks. iBoy; Bunker DiaryJohn Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps Anne Cassidy. Looking for JJ and others Jung Chang. Wild Swans Robert Cormier. The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese Roald Dahl. Skin and other stories; Tales of the Unexpected Berlie Doherty. Dear Nobody Jennifer Donnelly. A Gathering Light Daphne Du Maurier. Rebecca David Eddings. Belgariad series F Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby John Flanagan. Ranger’s Apprentice series Alan Gibbons. The EdgeWilliam Golding. Lord of the Flies John Green. Fault In Our Stars; Paper Towns; Will GraysonGraham Greene. Brighton Rock Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles Liam Hearn. Tales of the Otori series Susan Hill. I’m the King of the Castle; Woman in Black SE Hinton. The Outsiders Aldous Huxley. Brave New World Jerome K Jerome. Three Men in a Boat

Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird Laurie Lee. Cider With Rosie Yann Martel. Life of PiAnthony McGowan. The Knife That Killed Me Beverley Naidoo. Other Side of Truth Patrick Ness. The Knife of Never Letting Go [Chaos Walking trilogy]George Orwell. Animal Farm; 1984 Christopher Paolini. The Inheritance Cycle series Mervyn Peake. Gormenghast trilogy Annabel Pitcher. Ketchup Clouds Morton Rhue. The Wave Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now [and others]JD Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye Marcus Sedgwick. Revolver; My Swordhand is Singing; Blood Red, Snow White Mary Shelley. Frankenstein Alexie Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianDodie Smith. I Capture the Castle John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men RL Stevenson. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Bram Stoker. Dracula Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels Jules Verne. Journey to the Centre of the Earth HG Wells. War of the Worlds; Time Machine PG Wodehouse. Jeeves & Wooster series John Wyndham. The Day of the Triffids; Chrysalids Rick Yancey. The 5th Wave series