Year 11 recommended reading list for teens aged 15-16
A selection of reading books to challenge and interest Year 11 pupils – aged 15-16 – in KS4 secondary schools. Authors include Ray Bradbury and John Steinbeck.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Notes from a Small Island
In a Sunburned Country
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
One Summer: America, 1927
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bill Bryson’s African Diary
Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer’s Guide to Getting It Right
Walkabout: A Walk in the Woods & Down Under
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
Bill Bryson: The Complete Notes
The Lost Continent & Neither Here Nor There
Icons of England
The Best American Travel Writing 2000
Journeys in English
Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Bill Bryson Collector’s Edition: Notes from a Small Island / Neither Here Nor There / I’m a Stranger Here Myself
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 (The Best American Series ®)
The Road Less Travelled: 1,000 Amazing Places off the Tourist Trail
Bill Bryson Box Set: Three Vols. A Walk In The Woods, Notes From A Big Country, Notes From A Small Island
A selection of reading books to challenge and interest Year 11 pupils – aged 15-16 – in KS4 secondary schools. Authors include Ray Bradbury and John Steinbeck.
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