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
Douglas Adams was a British author and scriptwriter, best known for creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The original radio comedy was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Adams adapted the series into a bestselling novel, published in 1979 by Pan Books. The book was followed by sequels: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe and Everything (1982), So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984), and Mostly Harmless (1992).
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and its sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988). He contributed scripts to the television series Doctor Who, including the stories “The Pirate Planet” and “City of Death”.
His works have been translated into multiple languages and adapted for stage, television, and film. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy won the Golden Pan Award for sales exceeding one million copies. Adams was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2013.
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.
Science fiction books for children and teens with titles by Karen Inglis, Christopher Edge, Madeleine L’Engle, Louis Sachar, Donna Barba Higuera, S. F. Said, Malorie Blackman, James Dashner, Douglas Adams, Soyoung Park, Ben Oliver & more.
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