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11 PLUS RECOMMENDED READING LIST

The tables below shows books and newspaper articles that will help to improve student’s writing and vocabulary skills.

Some of the books and newspaper articles, which are mentioned in the tables below, may appear as comprehension or cloze passages and/or writing topics in the 11 Plus exams.

BOOKS

Nos

Book title

Author

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1	Harry Potter: The Complete Collection (1-7)	J.K. Rowling

2	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles Book 1)	Joan Aiken

3	A Christmas Carol (Puffin Classics)	Charles Dickens

4	Black Beauty (Wordsworth Children's Classics)	Anna Sewell

5	The Secret Island (Secret Stories)	Enid Blyton

6	Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1	Philip Pullman

7	The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials)	Philip Pullman

8	The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials)	Philip Pullman

9	Mockingjay (part III of The Hunger Games Trilogy)	Suzanne Collins

10	The Hunger Games Trilogy - 3 Book Set	Suzanne Collins

11	Around the World in 100 Days	Gary Blackwood

12	The Witches (Dahl Fiction)	Roald Dahl

13	The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events)	Lemony Snicket

14	Best Friends	Jacqueline Wilson

15	The Secret Lake: A children's mystery adventure	Karen Inglis

16	Watership Down (A Puffin Book)	Richard Adams

17	The Butterfly Lion	Michael Morpurgo

18	Battle of Britain - a Second World War Spitfire Pilot 1939 - 1941	Chris Priestley

19	The Railway Children	Edith Nesbit

20	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz (Wordsworth Classics)	L. Frank Baum

21	Oxford Children's Classics: The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame

22	The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien

23	A Stitch in Time	Penelope Lively

24	The Call of the Wild (Global Classics)	Jack London

25	Street Child	Berlie Doherty

NEWS PAPER ARTICLES

Nos

Heading

Publisher

Link


1	The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson	The Guardian

2	'The Fairy Raid': proof that fairies exist?	The Guardian

3	Umbrellas for all occasions be it wet or fine	The Guardian

4	A night in the workhouse casual ward	The Guardian

5	Athene Seyler, the 101 year-old funny lady	The Guardian

6	The ways of the wolf	The Guardian

7	Doctor Who's who	The Guardian

8	'One day we'll disappear': Tuvalu's sinking islands	The Guardian

9	Memories of a traveller's life	The Guardian

10	My Gypsy childhood	The Guardian

11	Children are stuck inside more than ever – how can we give them back their freedom?	The Guardian

12	Let nature heal climate and biodiversity crises, say campaigners	The Guardian

13	The selfish case for saving bees: it’s how to save ourselves	The Guardian

14	Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years	The Guardian

15	Amateur archaeologist finds ‘phenomenal’ trove of rock engraving	The Guardian

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