What is your year 7 child reading?

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I want recommendations for mine!

will Y6 but in secondary do?

he's currently reading/has recently read:

Skullduggery Pleasant - can't remember author

Airman - Eoin Colfer

Sherlock Holmes

War Horse - Michael Morpurgo

Blitz Cat - Robert Westall

Dragonrider - Cornelia Funke

Biggles

Hitler's Canary - Sandi Toksvig

Lion Boy - can't remember author

he's thoroughly enjoyed all these

Horrid Henry

Oh sorry - read that as 7 yr old. Ignore me!

nuts

Ds yr 7 doesn't read but listens to tapes

Just listened to the complete Series of Unfortunate Events

Maxiumum Ride series by James Patterson

Hive series by Mark Walden

Will read anything to do with Top Gear (tends to dip into books and magazines)

Just bought him the Stormbreaker series on tape which arrived today.

Also just did Holes by Louis Sacher at school which he enjoyed.

DD 10 is Year 5 and currently reading The Princess Diaries which is probably a little bit old for her but she has really enjoyed them.

Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Vampirates, anything by Terry Pratchett, the Rangers Apprentice series, he loved Skulduggery Pleasant, the Star Wars novels (and there seem to be hundreds), Antony Horowitz, Dr Who novels, you name it, if he likes the look of it, he reads it.

I've posted on your other thread.

Thank you everyone - sorry about two threads, but I wasn't sure if book people read school threads a vice versa. Lots of brilliant ideas - I think I'll go for a "boys" book and a historical - and get her something with a pink cover about 'feelings' for a rest in between the "duty" reading!

A couple of interesting 'feelings' books (not pink though) if you haven't come across them yet:
Deeper than blue
Before I die

It's aimed at teenagers, I would say.
But - like many other teenage books - it would be appreciated by adults too.

There are some 'issues' - sex, drugs, etc., but handled sensitively. I wouldn't recommend it to 11 yr-olds, but I wouldn't object to my 10 yr-old reading it.

I find this whole "suitable for age.." business very tricky. I was reading adult books by age 12 or so, and some of them were very unsuitable. I would prefer teens and tweens to be reading 'teenage' books even if they are pushing the boundaries a bit.

Many 8 yr-old girls are reading JW books with some harrowing details and content, as well as watching hours of soap operas, which I don't agree with. But 11-13s are hardly going to be corrupted by a bit of sex/drugs handled sensitively in a book. At least I think not.

This book does have some fairly explicit, though brief, sex scenes, and swearing.

from the blurb:
Everyone has to die. We all know it.
With only a few months of life left, sixteen-year-old Tessa knows it better than most.
She's made a list though - ten things she wants to do before she dis. Number one is sex.
Starting tonight.

My dd1 has always been an avid reader - read On Beauty at 11/12. Prob not appropriate but there you go. Liked Noughts and Crosses, Curious Incident.., Refugee Boy. Her friends seem to be the same. Now 14 and feels vulnerable without a book! Anything that's not Science Fiction or Fantasy. We often read the same books and talk about them.

minsmum - intrigued as to where your ds is - mine are at a school where Y6 is currently part of secondary, didn't know there were many others, whereabouts are you?

I also meant to add anything by Susan Cooper is worth reading. I've got The Dark is Rising sequence which is 5 books in one, and there are also ones about Trafalgar and Shakespeare (King of Shadows) that are excellent.

Malorie Blackman books are good- noughts and crosses is emotional and thought provoking (I liked it!) and is very suitable for KS3- also part of a trilogy so thats good!

I thought the boy would never read but now, like Cat64, can't stop him.

Year 6 - was Mr Horowitz's year - Gromesome Grange and Alex Rider. Swiftly followed by all the Darren Shan vampire stuff.

Year 7 - Wolf Brother - Soul Eater etc - Michael Paver (I liked those)

Imperial Spy - Mark Robson

Boy Soldier series by Andy McNab

The Belgariad series by David Eddings - a bit Lord of the Rings-ish

My ds was interested in the Belgariad. I'm trying to find my copies, had them for 24 years now! He loved the power of 5 series by Antony Horowitz as well.

Anne Frank, The last vampire, Anything by Jaqueline Wilson, Michael Lawrence books-The Killer underpants, Nudey Dudey, The toilet of doom, The snottle (Hilarious- I read some of these with her)

Lots of the above plus: I Coriander by Sally Gardner, Cherub series by Robert Muchamore, Silverfin: A James Bond Adventure (Young Bond) by Charlie Higson plus others in the series, Jane Eyre.

Robert Muchamore's "Cherub" series was declared by my son to be much better than Anthony Horowitz's Alex Ryder series (which he reads as well) and each book is eagerly awaited. He's been reading them since he was 11 and is now 13 so must suit a range of ages. We're in Scotland so don't know what Y6 or Y7 means.

I run two reading clubs at secondary school for 11-14 yr-olds; and the big thing of the moment is the Cherub series. They are definitely the books that teenagers are recommending to their friends, passing on to their mates, and chatting about together.

They do include some fairly graphic violence (more extreme than Alex Rider) and 'teenage-relationships' stuff, moving to sex in a fairly explicit/matter-of-fact way, and also drugs. My 10-yr-old has read them all, and I have no problem with that, but I know of some parents of 12 yr-olds who would object.

(Btw I love the way the book deals with homosexuality. The hero of the book is mildly homophobic - in a way many teenage boys are - and the unreasonableness of his position is dealt with very subtly and sensitively.)

My year 8 is really enjoying "Dogs dont tell jokes" by Louis Sacher

My ds is reading the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, and loving them. He has also read the Micheal Lawrence books and Harry Potter.