Lower Secondary Reading List

1 A Writer’s Cauldron - Esther Menon

2 The Cuckoo Sister - Vivien Alcock

3 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl

4 Out of Bounds - Beverly Naidoo

5 The Garbage King - Elizabeth Laird

6 Totto Chan - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

7 Fifty-fifty Tutti-fruitti Chocolate-chip and Other Stories - Esther Menon

8 From Hereabout Hill: A collection of short stories - Michael Morpurgo

9 I am David - Anne Holm

10 Billy Elliot - Melvin Burgess

11 The other side of truth - Beverly Naidoo

12 Island of the blue dolphin - Scott O’Dell

13 Friedrich Hans - Peter Richter

14 Or else the lightning God and other stories - Catherine Lim

15 The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend

16 A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck

17 Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko

18 The Curse of Addy McMahon - Katie Davis

19 Sold - Patricia McCormick

20 Frame - Frank Cottrell Boyce

21 The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Amy Tan

22 Chalkline - Jane Mitchell

23 One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War - Charles London

24 Nation - Terry Pratchett

25 Breathing Underwater - Alex Flinn