Recommended reads for Upper Key Stage Two
Welcome to year 5! As Upper Key Stage Two-ers we want to be challenging ourselves with longer texts - as we become more confident readers, we should be exploring a wider range of books, discovering new authors and developing the stamina needed to enjoy longer stories.
Here are some recommended reads for year 5:
| Book | Author(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What’s That Building? | Rebecca Donnelly |
| 2 | Blitzers | Alastair Chisholm & Francesca Ficorilli |
| 3 | The Overthinkers’ Club: Happy List | Nat Luurtsema |
| 4 | The Adventures of Rap Kid | MC Grammar |
| 5 | Digging for Victory | Cathy Faulkner |
| 6 | Nature Heroes | Lily Dyu & Jackie Lay |
| 7 | Riley Wright is Always Wrong | Mel Taylor-Bessent |
| 8 | Rumaysa | Radiya Hafiza & Rhaida El Touny |
| 9 | Wise Up! Wise Down! | John Agard, JonArno Lawson & Satoshi Kitamura |
| 10 | Varmints | Helen Ward |
| 11 | My Name is Sunshine Simpson | G. M. Linton & Fuuji Takashi |
| 12 | Cloud Busting | Malorie Blackman |
| 13 | Roller Girl | Victoria Jamieson |
| 14 | Secrets of a Sun King | Emma Carroll |
| 15 | Impossible Creatures | Katherine Rundell |
| 16 | Brightstorm | Vashti Hardy |
| 17 | The Blockbusters! | Frank Cottrell Boyce & Steven Lenton |
| 18 | Advice from a 12-Year-Old Nobody | Helen Rutter & Julia Christians |
| 19 | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Judith Kerr |
| 20 | The Unchosen One | Amy Sparkes |
| 21 | The Beast and the Bethany | Jack Meggitt-Phillips & Isabelle Follath |
| 22 | The Boy Who Became Queen | Christina Balit |
| 23 | The Ministry of Manners | David Solomons & Hazem Asif |
| 24 | Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan |
| 25 | Arctic Star | Tom Palmer |
| 26 | Greek Boy | Tony Bradman |
| 27 | Edison | Torben Kuhlmann |
| 28 | Omnibird: An Avian Investigator’s Handbook | Giselle Clarkson |
| 29 | Mighty Mega Pets: Freaky Food Fiasco! | Gary Northfield |
| 30 | Bobby Bains Ain’t Playing | Bali Rai & Daniel Duncan |
| 31 | Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo | Philippa Leathley |
| 32 | Dance of Resistance | Catherine Johnson & Katie Hickey |
| 33 | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Joan Aiken |
| 34 | Nate Yu’s Blast from the Past | Maisie Chan |
| 35 | The Witches | Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake |
| 36 | Dexter Procter, the 10-Year-Old Doctor | Adam Kay & Henry Paker |
| 37 | The Greatest Stuff on Earth | Steve Tomecek & John Devolle |
| 38 | Frankie’s World | Aoife Dooley |
| 39 | The Lone Husky | Hannah Gold & Levi Pinfold |
| 40 | Anna at War | Helen Peters |
| 41 | The Shadow Pony | Olivia Wakeford & David Litchfield |
| 42 | Evil Genius | Danny Wallace & Gemma Correll |
| 43 | When Poems Fall from the Sky | Zaro Weil & Junli Song |
| 44 | Medusa Gorgon’s Bad Hair Day | Bethany Walker & Katie Abey |
| 45 | Crookhaven: The School for Thieves | J. J. Arcanjo |
| 46 | The House with Chicken Legs | Sophie Anderson, Elisa Paganelli & Melissa Castrillon |
| 47 | Black Beauty | Michael Morpurgo & Tom de Freston |
| 48 | Land of the Last Wildcat | Lui Sit & David Dean |
| 49 | She Speaks | Honor Cargill-Martin & Camelia Pham |
| 50 | Under Fire | Sufiya Ahmed |