Year 8 recommended reading list for children aged 12-13
A selection of reading books to challenge and interest Year 8 pupils – aged 12-13 – in KS3 secondary schools. Authors include Michael Morpurgo and Anne Fine.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
A Study in Scarlet
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
The Valley of Fear
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Silver Blaze (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
The Red Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #7)
A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four
The Adventure of the Empty House (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Five Orange Pips (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
Sherlock Holmes
A Case of Identity (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #3)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #4)
A selection of reading books to challenge and interest Year 8 pupils – aged 12-13 – in KS3 secondary schools. Authors include Michael Morpurgo and Anne Fine.
Victorians topic books for children with titles by Mick Manning, E.L Norry, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Catherine Bruton, Philip Pullman, Berlie Doherty, Terry Deary, Lindsay Galvin and Kieran Larwood.
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