Keeping kids entertained during the summer holidays ;- Visit the library and let kids choose books to keep them reading, learning and busy.
Twyford Tuition’s essential reads and our recommended books to read over the summer holidays.
Year 2 Essential Reads
Traction Man Is Here by Mini Grey
The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
Instructions by Neil Gaiman
Tiddler/Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Year 3 Essential Reads
The Accidental Prime Minister by Tom McLaughlin
Flyntlock Bones – The Eye of Mogdrod by Derek Keilty
This Bee is not Afraid of Me edited by Fran Long and Isabel Galleymore
The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd
Varjak Paw by SF Said
Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
Year 4 Essential Reads
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
The Village that Vanished by Ann Grifalconi
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Vanishing Rainforest by Richard Platt
Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo
Year 5 Essential Reads
Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure by Vashti Hardy
Malamander by Thomas Taylor
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans
The Violet Veil Mysteries by Sophie Cleverly
Beetle Boy by MG Leonard
Year 6 Essential Reads
The Secret Garden by Frances Hogson Burnett
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Coraline
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Year 7 Essential Reads
His Dark Materials Gift-Edition Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set by Philip Pullman
Journey To The River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Year 8 Essential Reads
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Hound of the baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder on the orient express; Hercule Poirot (series) by Agatha Christie
Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine
Year 9 Essential Reads
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
Bridge to the Stars by Henning Mankel
Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
Coram Boy Jamila Gavin
Year 10 Essential Reads
When The World Was Ours
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
Whats the T?
Punching the Air
The Great Godden
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevens
Year 11 Essential Reads
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Savage Her Reply by Deirdre Sullivan
When Shadows Fall by Sita Brahmachari
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin