Please can you share what your school age child’s favourite book is?

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I had an induction for my teacher training course.
My homework for the summer is to find some good books for each school year reception to year 6.

I have 2 children but they are now teenagers and there are fabulous new authors on the scene since my boys were little.

Thanks in advance.

Reception: anything Richard Scarry

Do you have a decent library near you? Ask the librarian for their top tips?

DD is in Reception. She loves Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Knight in Training Series, the Queen's Head, and the Gracie La Roo books.

My year 2 love Emer Stamps secret diary of Pig series.

DS is just finishing Y6. His favourite book series is The School for Good and Evil for Soman Chainani.

DD just ending year 2 loves school for good and evil.
Before that we did Harry Potter (of course) and Percy Jackson.

But that's me reading not her.
Reading herself is more like worst witch

DD is 7, she loves the Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton - did them at school this year. Really got her imagination going!

Yr6 A Town Called Perfect or The Wizards of Once

My just finishing Y1 child loves the Bolds, the Bear Grylls series and the shorter Roald Dahl books

Beast quest books anything by David Walliams or Tom Gates. Harry Potter still a big thing for my DS's.

Sorry year five and year one boys they love the Frank Lampard footie books as well

DD is in year 1. Reading to herself she likes Pippi Longstocking, The Worst Witch.

Being read to, we've recently loved Malamander by Thomas Taylor. Fast paced mystery with a really strong sense of place. A bit scary for many year 1 children though - aimed at more like ks2 I would think.

Also for another new one, The train to impossible places. Great adventure story, again a bit scary.

She also loved Phillip Pullman The scarecrow and his servant. Not much like his work for young adults except for in the (gentler) philosophy (how much of the scarecrow can you replace before he is a different scarecrow).

DD is just finishing year 1. She is obsessed with Dirty Bertie stories! She’s also really enjoyed Matilda and The Witches. They did a superhero theme at school and she likes Traction Man and Supertato.

My nephew is almost 10 and he loves Tom Gates books.

My year 2 child likes Amelia fang, the boy who grew dragons, Charlie changes into a chicken, currently reading otteline.

My year 5 reads anything really. Goodnight Mr tom, back home, his dark materials and book of dust, Katherine Rundell, abi elphinstone, Eva ibbotsen...

DS is reception and we've just read and loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He's also enjoyed George's Marvellous Medicjne and some of the Bear Grylls Adventure Books.

My reception child loves the Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair series (both Enid Blyton).

Have a look at the Book Trust.
My DS is now 7 he loves reading Dirty Bertie.
I’m a parent helper and listen to year 5 read popular authors are David Walliams and Tom Gates. They also liked The Boyband of the Apocalypse.
My daughter loves Harry Potter and the Author Tamsin Cooke.

Over the primary school years...

Percy Jackson
The Pamela Butchart baby aliens series
'Cakes in space' and others by same author for younger year group
The accidental prime minister by Tom McLaughlin
Emma Carroll

DS Year 6 loves reading the Alex Ryder books by Anthony Horowitz.
DD when she was around Year 5, read one Jacqueline Wilson book after another.

We’re just finishing the last of the How to Train Your Dragon books - it’s a great series and we’ve both really enjoyed reading it (I was pleased to see the other day that Cressida Cowell has just been made Children’s Laureate). DS is in Year 2 but it’s probably more suitable for older year groups.

You might want to ask MN to edit your thread title

I have school age DC

But they are not primary school age

Yr 3 - Dork Diaries and The Naughtiest Girl series - totally difficult!

One of my favourite memories as a class teacher was reading my year 3 class one of the Joan Aitken Mortimer stories. ( Think it was the one called " The escaped Black Mamba" )

The children were literally rolling around the floor with laughter with tears rolling down their faces. ( This was in the days where you could read your class a story for pleasure and not stop every 60 seconds asking them if they could spot the fronted adverbial in the paragraph you had just read... 😡)

This year my Yr2 boy has loved:

The 13-storey treehouse books
The wombles books
HAmish books by Danny wallace
Horrible histories
Horrible science
The corpse talk books
King coo

I read p5, then took the class onto p6, the septimus heap series by Angie Sage. They adored it and that's why we continued the next year . For an amazing topic however, Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver has a whole scheme of outdoor learning activities and it's brilliant.