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Maurice Ravel Summer Reading List 2018
All books should be read in original and unabridged editions. As your child reads the book have them describe characters and plot to you. Talk about what they like and dislike so that the book becomes a topic of conversation instead of a chore.
Coming into 6e
Please choose TWO books to read:
Matilda by Roald Dahl The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Going up to 5e
Please read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon and one of the following:
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Going up to 4ème
Please read Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred Taylor
and one of the following:
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee;
The Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene;
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway;
The Other Side of Truth by Beverely Naidoo My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Going up to 3ème:
Please read Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha by Roddy Doyle and one of the following:
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton;
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Going up to Seconde
Choose two of the following Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Circle by David Eggers
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Atonement by Ian McEwan
