During the long holiday in June-August, it is valuable for students to keep up their reading. All of the books recommended below are available in the school library:
P4 to M2
Sea of Trolls
The Land of Silver Apples
The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm By Nancy Farmer
The Breadwinner
Parvanah’s Journey By Deborah Ellis
Inkheart
Inkspell
Inkdeath By Cornelia Funke
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
The Garbage King By Elizabeth Laird
Swindle By Gordon Korman (Anything by Gordon Korman)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit By Judith Kerr
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (Maniac McGee and all others by Spinelli)
Wicked by Gregory McGuire
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Murporgo
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vanne Velde
Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel
Pigman By Paul Zindel
Ramose series by C. Wilkinson
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
Queen of Attolia & King of Attolia by Megan Whelan Turner
The Runaways by Ruth Thomas
The Number Devil Hans Enzensberger
Mister Monday series by Garth Nix
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
City of Beasts by Isabelle Allende
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
Bone series by Jeff Smith
Clay by David Almond
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Banks
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
The Pigheart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Millions by Frank Cottrell Bryce
Lost and Found by Andrew Clements
Lionboy series by Zizou Corder
The Black Brothers by Lisa Tetzner
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
The Truth Cookie series by Fiona Dunbar
The Skin I'm In by Sharon G Flake
Middle Years (M3+)
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Freak the Mighty by R. Philbrick
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Missing Judy by Anne Cassidy
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Weaver of Dreams by Elfrida Vipont
Ties That Bind, Ties that Break by Lensey Namioka
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman
Life of Pi by Y. Martel
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
A Curios Incident with a Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Skin I’m In by Sharon g Flake
The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashers
The City of Ember by Jeanne Deprau
Sabriel series by Garth Nix
M4 to Adult
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Half of a Yellow Sun by Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Power of One by Bryce Courtney
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam Rapp
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Red Tent by A Diamant
A Dry White Season by A. Brink
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Chart Throb by Ben Elton
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Non-Fiction
The Burn Journals by B Runyon
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
The Diary of Anne Frank by C. Martin
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Unfeeling by Ian Holding
How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
From Capetown to Cairo by David Ewing Duncan
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
Good to Great by J. Collins
The Darwin Reader by Charles Darwin
Chew on This by Eric Schlosser
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
Adam’s Curse by Bryan Sykes
The Google Story by D. Vise
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
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