Can you help create some book lists?

[stargirl1701]

I'm a primary school teacher and my school is celebrating a big anniversary next session. I run the upper school reading club (P5-7) and I was hoping to do some book lists - one for each decade the school has been open. A 'top ten reads of the...' idea. I need some help compiling the lists. I'm looking for chapter books for the 9-12 age range. I want to stick to books published in the UK.

1940s - I've got nothing

1950s
The Borrowers
Tom's Midnight Garden
Marianne Dreams

1960s
Summer Birds
Stig of the Dump
The Owl Service

1970s
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Charmed Life

1980s
The Indian in the Cupboard
Redwall
Moondial

1990s
The Story of Tracey Beaker
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone

2000s
Journey to the River Sea
The Various
Millions

2010s
Goth Girl
How to Train Your Dragon
The Dream Snatcher
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day

What would you add? I'm hoping for 10 in each decade. My childhood reading was way too heavy in the classics from pre WW2!

If you choose to do pre 1940s, then The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937).
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (1946).
Little House on the Prairie was published in 1935, but some of the later books, eg Little Town On The Prairie, were published in the 1940s.

Rumer Godden does have some lovely titles, I like An Episode of Sparrows, but it was published first in the USA and only published here a year later in 1956, so wouldn't be included if stargirl is looking for works published first in UK.

1940s
The Little Prince

How did I forget - The Turbulent Term of Tyke Taylor 1977

Gah - Tyke TILER

1940s:
Mystery at Witchend by Malcolm Saville (he then published 19 more up to the 70s, but that one is clearly wartime)
Also Wish for a Pony (Monica Edwards) was first published around 1947.
Cue for Treason (Geoffrey Trease) was published in 1940 plus the Bannermere Series first one was published in 1949.