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NanHuaPrimarySchoolEnglishLanguageRecommendedReadingList:Primary5and6

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1 1984 GeorgeOrwell Utopia,Justice,Freedom 2 ABundleofSticks PaulRhoadsMauser Bullying,Self-discovery

3 AChristmasCarol CharlesDickens Characters,Relationships

4 AGirlNamedDisaster NancyFarmer Courage,Injustice,Cultures

5 ALightintheAttic ShelSilverstein Poetry 6 ANorthernLight JenniferDonnelly Crime,Mystery 7 ARingofEndlessLight MadeleineL'Engle Friendship,Imagination

8 ASingleShard LindaSueParkPerseverance,KoreanCulture

9 ATaleofTwoCities CharlesDickens Injustice,Adventure 10 AVisittoWilliamBlake'sInn NancyWillard Poetry 11 AWizardofEarthsea UrsulaLeGuin Self-discovery,Fantasy

12 AWrinkleinTime MadeleineL'Engle Fantasy,Adventure

13 Abel'sIsland WilliamSteig Independence,Adventure

14 Alice'sAdventuresinWonderland LewisCarrol Imagination,Adventure

15 AnimalFarm GeorgeOrwell Utopia,Justice,Freedom

16 AnneFrank:TheDiaryofaYoungGirl AnneFrank War,Self-Discovery 17 AnneofGreenGables L.M.Montgomery Family,Self-Discovery 18 AreYouThere,God?It'sMe,Margaret JudyBlume GrowingUp 19 AroundtheWorldinEightyDays JulesVerne Adventure,Travel

20 Arthur,fortheVeryFirstTime PatriciaMacLachlan Humour,HumanBehaviour

21 Bambert'sBookofMissingStories ReinhardtJung SocialIssues,Relationships 22 Beowulf MichaelMorpurgo Myth,Adventure 23 BookofGreekMyths IngriandEdgarD'Aulaire Myths,GreekCivilization 24 BridgetoTerabithia KatherinePaterson Friendship,Imagination 25 CallItCourage ArmstrongSperry Feelings,Adventure 26 Carrie'sWar NinaBawden War,Mystery

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27 Charlotte'sWeb E.B.White Friendship,Independence

28 CommodorePerryintheLandoftheShogun RhodaBlumbergAdventure,JapaneseCivilization

29 Conrad'sWar AndrewDavies Family,Adventure 30 Coraline NeilGaiman Mystery,Relationships 31 Daddy-Long-Legs JeanWebster Relationships,SchoolLife

32 Dogsong GaryPaulsen Adventure,Self-Discovery

33 Dragon'sBlood JaneYolen Fantasy 34 FiveChildrenandIt E.Nesbit Fantasy,Adventure 35 Frankenstein MaryShelley Horror,Characters

36 FreakyFriday MaryRodgers Family,Fantasy

37 GreatExpectations CharlesDickens Characters,Relationships

38 HailstonesandHalibutBones MaryO'Neill Poetry 39 HarounandtheSeaofStories SalmanRushdie Adventure,Fantasy 40 HuckleberryFinn MarkTwain Childhood,Adventure

41IamMalala:TheGirlwhoStoodupforEducationandwasShotbytheTaliban MalalaYousafzai

Education,Equality,Terrorism

42 JacobHaveILoved KatherinePaterson Family,Self-Discovery

43 JulieoftheWolves JeanGeorge Animals,Adventure

44 JumpShiptoFreedom JamesLincolnCollier Slavery 45 Kidnapped RobertLouisStevenson Adventure,Characters 46 Kim RudyardKipling Adventure,Self-Discovery 47 Kon-Tiki ThorHeyerdahl Travel,Civilizations 48 LittleWomen LouisaMayAlcott Friendship,Family 49 Miracles RichardLewis(Ed.) Poetry 50 Mockingbird KathrynErskine SpecialNeeds,Relationships 51 MrsFrisbyandtheRatsofNIMH RobertO'Brien Justice,Adventure

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52 MyFamilyandOtherAnimals GeraldDurrell Family,Animals 53 Nightmares:PoemstoTroubleYourSleep JackPreleutsky Poetry 54 NoPrettyPictures:AChildofWar AnitaLabel War,Childhood

55 NumbertheStars LoisLowry War,Childhood

56 PigeonPost ArthurRansome Mystery,Adventure 57 Pollyanna JeanPorter Childhood,Self-Discovery

58 RedScarfGirl:AMemoiroftheCulturalRevolution JiLiJang Biography,China 59 RollofThunder,HearMyCry MildredD.Taylor Racism,SocialProblems 60 Scorpions WalterMyers SocialIssues,Gangs 61 Shizuko'sDaughter KyokoMori Family,Self-Discovery 62 SingtotheDawn MinfongHo SiblingRivalry

63 Skellig DavidAlmond Friendship,Adventure 64 SongsofInnocenceandExperience WilliamBlake Poetry,Emotions

65 Spartacus HowardFastAdventure,RomanCivilization

66 StuartLittle E.B.White Friendship,Family 67 Superfudge JudyBlume Family

68 TheAmazingMauriceandHisAmazingRodents TerryPratchett Animals,Adventure 69 TheBlackPearl ScottO'Dell Adventure.Rivalry

70 TheBorrowers MaryNorton Adventure

71 TheChroniclesofNarnia C.S.Lewis Family,Fantasy

72 TheClayMarble MinfongHo War,Hope

73 TheCuriousIncidentoftheDogintheNight-Time MarkHammond Mystery,Disability 74 TheDarkisRising SusanCooper Mystery,Adventure 75 TheDayMyFatherBecameaBush JokeVanLeeuwen War,Relationships

76 TheExamination MalcolmBosseAdventure,Family,AncientChina

77 TheFamilyfromOneEndStreet EveGarnett Family,CityLife,Poverty 78 TheFledgling JaneLangton Adventure,Fantasy

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79 TheGhostofThomasKempe PenelopeLively Mystery,Adventure

80 TheGiver LoisLowry Adventure,Mystery 81 TheGoldenCompass PhilipPullman Fantasy,Adventure 82 TheGolem BarbaraRogasky Myths,JewishCulture 83 TheGraveyardBook NeilGaiman Mystery,Relationships

84 TheHaunting MargaretMahy Horror,Characters 85 TheHobbit J.R.R.Tolkien Fantasy,Adventure 86 TheHouseofDiesDrear VirginiaHamilton Mystery,History 87 TheIncredibleJourney SheilaBurnford Animals,Adventure 88 TheJungleBook RudyardKipling Adventure 89 TheLifeofPi YannMartel Adventure,Survival

90 TheLittlePrinceAntoinedeSaint-Exupery

Travel,Friendship,Self-Discovery

91 TheLordoftheRingsTrilogy J.R.R.Tolkien Fantasy,Relationships

92 TheMasterPuppeteer KatherinePatersonChildhood,JapaneseCulture

93 TheMoorchild EloiseMcGraw Prejudice,Fear

94 TheMysteriousBenedictSociety TrentonLeeStewart Adventure,Friendship 95 TheNightGardener JonathanAuxier Adventure,Mystery 96 TheOtherSideofTruth BeverlyNaidoo War,Family,Injustice

97 TheOutsiders S.E.Hinton Self-discovery,Conflict

98 ThePearl JohnSteinbeck Greed,Family,Injustice

99ThePenderwicks:ASummerTaleofFourSisters,TwoRabbits,andaVeryInterestingBoy JeanneBirdsall Family,Conflicts

100 ThePhantomTollbooth NortonJuster Adventure,Fantasy 101 ThePrinceandthePauper MarkTwain Injustice,Adventure

102 TheRailwayChildren EdithNesbit Injustice,Friendship

103 TheRattleBagSeamusHeaney&TedHughes Poetry

104 TheRedPony JohnSteinbeck Animals,Adventure

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105 TheRedPencil AndreaPinkney Refugee,War

106 TheSecretGardenFrancesHodgsonBurnett

Adventure,Self-Discovery

107 TheSilverSword IanSerrailier War,Family 108 TheSlaveDancer PaulaFox SocialIssues,Slavery 109 TheStoryofScience AnnaClaybourne Science,History 110 TheStoryofTracyBeaker JacquelineWilson Childhood,Relationships

111 TheTaleofDespereaux KateDiCamillo Fantasy,Adventure 112 TheTrueConfessionsofCharlotteDoyle Avi Crime,Mystery 113 TheTwenty-oneBalloons WilliamPeneDuBois Adventure,Travel 114 TheViewfromSaturday E.L.Konigsburg SchoolLife

115 TheVillagebytheSea AnitaDesai Poverty,Urbanization

116 TheWave MortonRhue SchoolLife,SocialIssues 117 TheWhisperingTown JenniferElvgren War,Holocaust

118 TheWitchofBlackbirdPond ElizabethSpeare SocialIssues,Justice

119 TheWizardofOz L.FrankBaum Friendship,Adventure

120 ThroughMyEyes RubyBridgesHistory,Racism,Biography

121 ThroughtheLooking-Glass LewisCarroll Adventure,Imagination

122 TomSawyer MarkTwain Childhood,Adventure

123 Tom'sMidnightGarden PhilippaPearceFamily,Adventure,Self-discovery

124 TreasureIsland RobertLouisStevenson Adventure,Characters

125 TuckEverlasting NatalieBabbitt Self-discovery,Family

126 WatershipDown RichardAdams Adventure,Injustice

127 WestoftheMoon MargiPreus Adventure,Relationships 128 WindintheWillows KennethGrahame Friendship,Adventure 129 Wonderstruck BrianSelznick SpecialNeeds,Family 130 YoungCharlesDarwinandtheVoyageoftheBeagle RuthAshby Travel,Biography