50 Books Every Child Should Read

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"Education Secretary Michael Gove says that children aged 11 should be reading 50 books a year to improve literacy standards.

We asked three of Britain’s leading children’s authors and two of our in-house book experts to each pick 10 books, suitable for Year 7 students."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/the-50-books-every-child-should-read-2250138.html

  2. 2.
    Pinocchio (Puffin Classics)
    by Carlo Collodi
  3. 3.
    Emil and the Detectives
    by Erich Kästner
  4. 4.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome
  5. 5.
    Black Hearts in Battersea
    by Joan Aiken
  6. 6.
    The Owl Service
    by Alan Garner
  7. 7.
    The Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster
  8. 8.
    Moominsummer Madness
    by Tove Jansson
  9. 9.
    A hundred million francs (Puffin books.no.143)
    by Paul Berna
  10. 10.
  11. 11.
    The Star of Kazan
    by Eva Ibbotson
  12. 12.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens
  13. 13.
    Just William
    by Richmal Crompton
  14. 14.
    Oscar Wilde's the Happy Prince (Classic Picture Books)
    by Elissa Grodin
  15. 15.
    Just-So Stories, The Complete
    by Rudyard Kipling
  16. 16.
    Treasure Island (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  17. 17.
  18. 18.
    The Man Who Planted Trees
    by Jean Giono
  19. 19.
    The Singing Tree (Newbery Library, Puffin)
    by Kate Seredy
  20. 20.
    The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  21. 21.
    Refugee Boy
    by Benjamin Zephaniah
  22. 22.
    Finn Family Moomintroll (Moomintrolls)
    by Tove Jansson
  23. 23.
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    by Jeff Kinney
  24. 24.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith
  25. 25.
  26. 26.
    The Tygrine Cat
    by Inbali Iserles
  27. 27.
    ?
    Carry on, Jeeves
    by P.G. Wodehouse
  28. 28.
    When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
    by Judith Kerr
  29. 29.
    Moving Pictures
    by Terry Pratchett
  30. 30.
    The Story of Tracy Beaker
    by Jacqueline Wilson
  31. 31.
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  32. 32.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon
  33. 33.
    ?
  34. 34.
    Little Women (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  35. 35.
    How to Be Topp
    by Geoffrey Villans
  36. 36.
    Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel (Alex Rider)
    by Anthony Horowitz
  37. 37.
    Private Peaceful (After Words)
    by Michael Morpurgo
  38. 38.
    Artemis Fowl (new cover)
    by Eoin Colfer
  39. 39.
    The Silver Sword
    by Ian Serraillier
  40. 40.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  41. 41.
    Skellig (Printz Honor)
    by David Almond
  42. 42.
    Red, Cherry Red (Book & CD)
    by Jackie Kay
  44. 44.
    Talking Turkeys (Puffin Teenage Poetry)
    by Zephaniah
  45. 45.
    Greek Myths
    by Ann Turnbull
  47. 47.
    Orchard Book of Greek Myths
    by Geraldine McCaughrean
  48. 48.
    ?
    People Might Hear You
    by Robin Klein
  49. 49.
    Noughts And Crosses

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