CONTEMPORARY
STORIES
Ashley, Bernard: Little Soldier - Child African soldier amongst
the London Dockland street gangs
Bowler, Tim: River Boy - A boy's grandfather's determination
to finish his last painting about a riverboy
Burgess, Melvin, Junk - Two teenage runaways in love with
each other and with heroin
Doherty, Berlie, Dear Nobody - Two teenagers trying to cope
with parenthood
Lingard, Joan, Twelfth Day of July - A young couple in Belfast
trying to make a new life
ANIMAL STORIES
Adams, Richard, Watership Down - Adventure fantasy about
rabbits
Atkinson, Eleanor, Greyfriars Bobby - True story about
a faithful dog
Bawden, Nina, The Peppermint Pig - How a pig kept a family
together
Hendry, Frances, Quest for a Kelpie - Historical fantasy
set in Bonnie Prince Charlie's Scotland
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild - US adventure story
of a dog in the frozen North
CLASSIC STORIES
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women - American family story
about 4 sisters
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice - A man changes his
manners and a young lady changes her mind
Blackmore, R D, Lorna Doone - Historical romance and revenge
in 17th century Exmoor
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre - A 19th century heroine
and her struggles
Burnett, Francis Hodgson, The Secret Garden - Orphaned
girl's' discovery of a secret garden and a secret
Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Fantasy
of a girl's adventures amongst animals who speak
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe - A man's survival on a
remote island
Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist - Child exploitation and
the London underworld
Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sherlock
Holmes detective tale
Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows - Tale about
speaking animals
Montgomery, L M , Anne of Green Gables - Young orphan
on an Canadian farm
Sewell, Anna, Black Beauty - Animal story exposing the
contemporary cruelty towards horses
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Kidnapped - Scottish adventure
of boy's fight against a murderous uncle
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island - Classic treasure
adventure story
Tolkien, J R R, The Hobbit - Fantasy about a hobbit seeking
gold and finding a ring
Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn - US story about a boy's
adventures down the Mississippi River
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie - US
story about a family moving westwards
FANTASY STORIES
Barrie, J M: Peter Pan - Fantasy adventure of a family
taken by Peter Pan to Neverland
Garner, Alan, Elidor - Fantasy world of Elidor invading
Manchester
Garner, Alan, Red Shift - 3 men separated in time
Lewis, C S, The Narnia Chronicles - A magic ring and the
fantasy world of Narnia
Nesbit, Edith, The Phoenix and the Carpet - A Phoenix
and a magic carpet
Norton, Mary, The Borrowers - A tiny people living under
the floor
Pullman, Philip, The Dark Materials Trilogy - Set in alternative
universes
SECOND WORLD WAR STORIES
Bawden,
Nina, Carrie's War - 2 evacuated children adapting to life
in Wales
Buchignani, Walter, Tell No One Who You Are - A true story
of a young Jewish girl in Belgium hiding from the Nazis
Frank, Anne, The Diary of Anne Frank - A Dutch Jewish
girl's diary of hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam
Kerr, Judith, When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit - A family
fleeing from Nazi Germany
Magorian, Michelle, Goodnight Mister Tom - A young evacuee's
relationship with an old man
Richter, Hans Peter, I Was There - A young person living
in Third Reich Germany
Serralier, Ian, The Silver Sword - Children trying to
find their parents in Nazi Europe
Temperley, Alan, Murdo's War - Boy's adventure story set
in Scotland
MYSTERIES
AND THRILLERS
Almond, David: Kit's Wilderness - A game called death
turns into a challenge
Dunlop, Eileen, The House on the Hill - A secret room
in Glasgow
Pilling, Ann, Henry's Leg - A boy's collecting hobby turns
into a thriller
Porter, Gene Stratton, Freckles - An orphan in the Limberlost
wilderness learns to survive
Swindells, Robert, Brother in the Land - Survival of a
boy after a nuclear holocaust
Watson, James, Talking in Whispers - A teenager in Chile
outlawed from the ruling Junta
HISTORICAL STORIES
Breslin, Theresa, Kezzie - Family story of a quest for a
missing sister during Scotland in the 1930's Depression
Garfield, Leon, Smith - A young pickpocket in 18th century
London
Gavin, Jamila, Coram Boy - Two boys during the 18th century
slave trade
Geras, Adele, Troy - Retelling of the ancient Greek tale
of the siege of Troy
Hunter, Mollie, The Stronghold - 1st century Orkney society
and brochs
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, Arthur.The Seeing Stone - Reworking
of the legends about Arthur
Pullman, Philip, The Ruby in the Smoke - A mystery in
Victorian London
Taylor, Mildred D, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Life
for a black child in the American South during the 1930's
Compiled
by
Mrs J Neilson
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