Year 9 suggestions for reading. All of these books can be found in the QMC Library
We recommend anything by: Malorie Blackman, Maggie Steifvater, Des Hunt, Bryan Falkner, Bernard Beckett, Geraldine McCaughrean, David Hill, John Marsden, Michael Morpurgo, Eva Ibbotson, Gary Paulsen, Justin D'Ath, John Boyne, Louis Sacher, Anthony Horowitz, R.A. Spratt, Katherine Applegate, Kate DiCamillo, Lois Lowry, Fleur Beal, Mandy Hager, Tim Winton, Rebecca Stead
Adventure
Humor
Fantasy
Mystery
Animals
Historical
Universal
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We recommend anything by: Malorie Blackman, Maggie Steifvater, Des Hunt, Bryan Falkner, Bernard Beckett, Geraldine McCaughrean, David Hill, John Marsden, Michael Morpurgo, Eva Ibbotson, Gary Paulsen, Justin D'Ath, John Boyne, Louis Sacher, Anthony Horowitz, R.A. Spratt, Katherine Applegate, Kate DiCamillo, Lois Lowry, Fleur Beal, Mandy Hager, Tim Winton, Rebecca Stead
Adventure
- Brotherband series, John Flanagan
- Gone series, Michael Grant
- The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
- Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
- The Raven cycle books, Maggie Stiefvater
Humor
- Dizzy, Cathy Cassidy
- Geek girl series, Holly Smale
- Don't Call Me Ishmael, Michael Gerard Bauer
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Fantasy
- Inkheart (and sequels), Cornelia Funke
- When we wake, Karen Healey
- Skellig, David Almond
- Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve
- His Dark Materials series, Philip Pullman
- The Graveyard Book, Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- Three Doors Trilogy, Emily Rodda
- Heroes of Olympus series, Rick Riordan
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein
- Skullduggery Pleasant series, Derek Landy
- Dreamcatcher, Elizabeth Knox
Mystery
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, Maryrose Wood
- The Cherub series, Robert Muchamore
- Down the Rabbit Hole, Pete Abrahams
- Murder Most Unladylike, Robin Stevens
- When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
Animals
- Black Beauty, Anne Sewell
- Missing Toby, Jill Harris
- Redwall series, Brian Jacques
- Blueback, Tim Winton
- The Princess and the Foal/The Island of Lost Horses, Stacy Gregg
Historical
- The Book Thief, Marcus Zusack
- Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
- Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah
- My Story series
- I Coriander/The Red Necklace, Sally Gardner
- At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Mary Hooper
- I am David, Anne Holm
- Once/Now/Then/After, Morris Gleitzman
Universal
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- Wonder, RJ Palacio
- I am Not Esther, Fleur Beale
- The 10pm Question, Kate DeGoldi
- Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl
- Saving Sam, Susan Brocker
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