We are often asked to recommend books that are popular with children and have a good literary content. Here are some suggestions but we would welcome your views and any others that you think should be added to the list.
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Richard Adams |
Watership Down |
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Joan Aiken |
The James III Sequence |
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David Almond |
* Skellig |
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Neil Arksey |
Playing on the Edge |
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Linda Aronson |
Kelp |
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Bernard Ashley |
* Little Soldier |
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Sherry Ashworth |
What’s Your Problem? |
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Joyce Annette Barnes |
Amistad Junior Novelization |
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Joan Bauer |
Squashed |
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Nina Bawden |
* Carrie’s War |
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Leslie Beake |
Song of Be |
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Malorie Blackman |
Hacker |
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Thomas Bloor |
The Memory Prisoner |
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Judy Blume |
Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret |
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Martin Booth |
Music on the Bamboo Radio |
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Tim Bowler |
* River Boy |
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Elinor M Brent-Dyer |
The Chalet School Series |
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Melvin Burgess |
* Billy Elliot |
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Betsy Byars |
* The Pinballs |
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Peter Carey |
The Big Bazoohley |
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Lewis Carroll |
Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland |
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G K Chesterton |
The Puffin Father Brown Stories |
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Agatha Christie |
And then there were none |
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John Christopher |
The Guardians |
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Ann Coburn |
Worm Songs |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Susan Cooper |
* The Dark is Rising Sequence |
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Yvonne Coppard |
Bully |
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Sharon Creech |
* The Wanderer |
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Helen Cresswell |
Moondial |
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Gillian Cross |
Wolf |
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Kevin Crossley-Holland |
Beowulf |
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Annie Dalton |
Angels Unlimited |
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Nicola Davies |
Tangled Webs |
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Daniel Defoe |
Robinson Crusoe |
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Anita Desai |
The Village By The Sea |
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Charles Dickens |
A Christmas Carol |
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Berlie Doherty |
* Granny was a Buffer Girl |
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Gerald Durell |
My Favourite Animal Stories |
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T S Eliot |
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats |
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Deborah Ellis |
The Breadwinner |
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Anne Fine |
* Up on Cloud Nine |
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Catherine Fisher |
* The Empty Hand |
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Nicholas Fisk |
* A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair |
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Anne Frank |
The Diary of a Young Girl |
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Jackie French |
Hitler’s Daughter |
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Paul Gallico |
* Jennie |
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Leon Garfield |
* Black Jack |
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Alan Garner |
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen |
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Carlo Gebler |
August ‘44 |
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Jean Craighead George |
* Julie and the Wolves |
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Adèle Geras |
A Candle in the Dark |
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Rosa Guy |
The Friends |
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Cynthia Harnett |
The Wool-Pack |
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Libby Hathorn |
Way Home |
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Esther Hautzig |
The Endless Steppe |
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Nat Hentoff |
The Day They Came To Arrest the Book |
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Odo Hirsch |
Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman |
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Anne Holm |
I am David |
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Polly Horvath |
Everything on a Waffle |
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Janni Howker |
* Badge on the Barge |
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Norman Hunter |
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawn |
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Brian Jacques |
The Redwall Series |
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Robin Jarvis |
* The Deptford Mice Trilogy |
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Catherine Jinks |
Eye to Eye |
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Reinhardt Jung |
Dreaming in Black & White, translated by Anthea Bell |
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Erich Kastner |
Emil and the Detectives |
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Elizabeth Kay |
The Divide |
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Gene Kemp |
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler |
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Dick King-Smith |
The Crowstarver |
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Madeline L’Engle |
A Wrinkle in Time |
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Elizabeth Laird |
* Secret Friends |
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Charles & Mary Lamb |
Tales FromSkakespeare |
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C.S. Lewis |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
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Joan Lingard |
The Guilty Party |
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Penelope Lively |
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
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Michelle Magorian |
* Back Home |
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Margaret Mahy |
* The Ghost of Thomas Kemp |
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Jan Mark |
Stratford Boys |
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John Masefield |
The Box of Delights |
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William Mayne |
Cuddy |
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Geraldine McCaughrean |
Gold Dust |
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Karen McCombie |
Allys World: The Past, the Present and the Loud Loud Girl |
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Ian McEwan |
The Daydreamer |
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L M Montgomery |
Anne of Green Gables |
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Michael Morpurgo |
* Out of the Ashes |
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Beverley Naidoo |
The Other Side of Truth |
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Bill Naughton |
The Goalkeeper’s Revenge |
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Linda Newbery |
Blitz Boys |
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Jenny Nimmo |
* Griffin’s Castle |
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Mary Norton |
The Borrowers |
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Alfred Noyles |
The Highwayman |
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Robert C O’Brien |
Z for Zachariah |
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Judith O’Neill |
So Far From Skye |
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Pat O’Shea |
The Hounds of the Morrigan |
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Kenneth Oppel |
The Silverwing Saga |
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Ruth Park |
Playing Beatie Bow |
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Katherine Paterson |
* Bridge to Terabithia |
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Jill Paton-Walsh |
* The Dolphin Crossing |
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Gary Paulsen |
Hatchet |
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Gudrun Pausewang |
* Fall-Out |
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Philippa Pearce |
* Minnow on the Say |
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Susan Price |
The Ghost Drum |
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Willard Price |
Cannibal Adventure |
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Philip Pullman |
Northern Lights |
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Christine Purkis |
Paddlefeet |
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Arthur Ransome |
Swallows and Amazons |
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Morton Rhue |
The Wave |
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Hans-Peter Richter |
* Friedrich |
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Philip Ridley |
* Zinderzunder |
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James Riordan |
The Prisoner |
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Katherine Roberts |
The Great Pyramid Robbery |
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Marcus Sedgwick |
* Floodland |
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lain Serrailier |
Silver Sword |
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
Treasure Island |
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David Lee Stone |
The Ratastrophe Catastrophe |
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Rosemary Sutcliff |
* Sword Song |
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Robert Swindells |
* Hurricane Summer |
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Mildred D Taylor |
* Let The Circle Be Unbroken |
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Alfred Lord Tennyson |
The Lady of Shallot |
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Ruth Thomas |
* Hideaway |
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Colin Thompson |
The Paradise Garden |
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Flora Thompson |
Lark Rise To Candleford |
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Kate Thompson |
Switchers |
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J R R Tolkien |
The Hobbit |
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Theresa Tomlinson |
* Child of the May |
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Geoffrey Trease |
Cue for Treason |
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Mark Twain |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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Jules Verne |
Around the World in 80 Days |
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Sylvia Waugh |
The Menyms |
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Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman |
* Dragonlance Chronicles |
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Robert Westall |
* Blitz Cat |
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Henry Williamson |
Tarka the Otter |
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Diana Wynne Jones |
* Black Maria |
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Adeline Yen Mah |
Chinese Cinderella |