Inspirational Titles for KS3

  

ADVENTURE BOOKS

Exodus by Julie Bertagna –

A quest for survival and a search for a new world

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Adventure & dealing with grief

Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz

The MI6 adventure spy adventure series

Thunder and Lightning by Jan Mark

An adventure mystery all about planes

Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett

A time travelling adventure!

Seeker by William Nicholson

A thrilling, high-octane adventure

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson  

An adventure mystery.

                                                                

CLASSIC BOOKS

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A family drama following the lives of the March sisters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The story of a young girl’s passage to adulthood in the early nineteenth century

Wuthering Heights by EmilyBronte

A wild, passionate story set on a lonely moorland

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A gripping drama which opens in an overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

An adventure into a secret garden, showing that people can change

Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian

A long-bereaved old man grudgingly takes London evacuee into his home

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit

Five children find a cantankerous sand fairy in a gravel pit.

                                                                   

FANTASY BOOKS

Midget by Tim Bowler

Unable to speak, but powerful; family conflict

Basilisk by N. M. Brown

A story of two worlds

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

A terrifying and exhilarating thriller!

The Dark is Rising series  by Susan Cooper

A series of five books, beginning with ‘Over Sea, Under Stone’ – a story of a quest

Ingo by Helen Dunmore

Mermaids and coping with loss

Dark Ground by Gillian Cross

A boy is forced to survive in a dangerous world with a twist

Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons

A gripping, fantasy thriller. Phoenix hates his new home and the new school where he is bullied

FUNNY BOOKS

Agent Z by Mark Haddon

Very funny! Read it and find out…

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

A hysterically funny story about a boy who finds himself in ridiculous situations

The World of Norm by Jonathan Meres

A funny, clever book about the hapless 12-year old Norm

The Race for the Lost Keystone by Val Rutt

An amusing adventure story –talking animals, a mad great-aunt…

Billionaire Boy by David Walliams

The story of a boy with a billion pounds and not a single friend!

Demon Dentist by David Walliams

Full of mad characters and hilarious jokes, this is the thriller for you!

Mr Stink by David Walliams

An original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious novel

                                                        

NON-FICTION BOOKS

Bill Bryson- Notes from a Big Country (and other travel books)

An American’s very funny perspective on Britain and British culture

Terry Deary-Horrible Histories – The gory aspects of history

Gerald Durrell-My Family and Other Animals

A young boy, fascinated by wildlife, and his crazy, funny family move to Crete

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne, a Jewish Dutch girl, has to hide from the. Germans in a tiny secret room with her family and another family for two years

Bear Grylls- Mud, Sweat and Tears

The autobiography of the famous adventurer/risk-taker

Laurie Lee- Cider with Rosie

The funny and moving autobiography of a young boy growing up in Gloucestershire just after the 1st World War

                                                    

HOPEFULLY THESE BOOKS GIVE YOU SOME INSPIRATION!!