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Children's Fiction

Detective Thingy Majiggy (7+ years)

Cecelia Ahern

The Coral Island

RM Ballantyne

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L Frank Baum

Madeline

Ludwig Bemelmans

Paddington

Michael. Bond

An Angel for May

Melvin Burgess

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Squirrel's Search for Love (4+ years)

Lisa Cherry

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

Being Billy

Phil

Anna Casey's Place in the World

Adrian Fogelin

The Small miracle

Paul Gallico

A Walz Through the Hills

G.M. Glaskin

Who Am I? The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937

Anita Heiss

Journey to the River Sea

Eva Ibbotson

What Mummies Are Made Of by Stephanie Hutton

Storgy Kids

Watch over me

Nina LaCour

Back Home

Michelle Magorian

The Children of the New Forest

Frederick Marryat.

Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles (4-8 years)

Michelle Meadows

A Long Way Home

Michael Morpurgo

The Cherub Series

Robert Muchamore

Close Your Pretty Eyes (11-13 years)

Sally Nicholls

Fablehouse (9+ years)

E.L. Norry

The Ruby In The Smoke: 1 (A Sally Lockhart Mystery)

Philip Pullman

This is my truth (12+ years)

Yasmin Rahman

When Marnie was There

Joan G Robinson

Don't Ask The Dragon

Lemn Sissay (Author) Greg Stobbs (Illustrator)

The Leftovers

Eleanor Spence

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart

Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Homecoming: Volume 1

Cynthia Voight

My Bright Shining Star

Fatima Whitbread (Author), Rhian Wright (Illustrator)

We Are The Beaker Girls

Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

Hetty Feather (novel)

Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

Midnight

Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

The Snow Queen

Hans Christian Anderson

Peter Pan in Kensington Garden

J M Barrie

The Finding

Nina

Peter and Lotta's Christmas

Elsa Beskow

My Forever Family: from fostering to adoption

Nicky Brookes

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The day my school got famous (7+ years)

Jen Carney

Mole's Move (4+ years)

Lisa Cherry

Tell me again about the night i was born

Jamie Lee Curtis

Oliver Twist (adapted)

Charles Dickens

Moonfleet

J. Meade Falkner

The Thief Lord (novel)

Cornelia Funke

Coram Boy

Jamila Gavin

Oscar's Layers

Felicity Graham

Strong and Tough

Rico Hinson-King and Nick Sharratt

The Invisible String (3-6 years)

Patrice Karst

The Water Babies

Charles Kingsley

Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Ross Lindgren et al.

Goodnight Mister Tom

Michelle Magorian

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables (adapted)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucky Button

Michael Morpurgo

We Are Wolves

Katrina Nannestad

The Sound of Everything

Rebecca Normal

Pollyanna

Eleanor H Porter

I was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers

Philip Pullman

The Star Outside My Window (8-11 years)

Onjali Q. Rauf

Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone

J K Rowling

The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Lemony Snicket

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

Trenton Lee Stewart

Fosterboy

Rhian Taylor

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Home Girl

Alex Wheatle

Tales of the Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful

Sophie Willan

The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson

The Illustrated Mum

Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things

Matilda Woods

Something Like Home (Ages 9+)

Andrea Beatriz Arango

Cinderella

Giambattista Basile

The Outside Child

Nina Bawden

The Ghosts and Jamal

Bridget Blankley

Bird Boy

Catherine Bruton

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Boxcar Children Mysteries

Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Wanderer

Sharon Diaz Creech et al.

The BFG (book)

Roald Dahl

Great Expectations (adapted)

Charles Dickens

Understood Betsy

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Pictures of Hollis Wood

Patricia Reilly

Jamaal Target: Phantom Agent

Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie

One for the Murphys

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Home For a While (4-8 years)

Lauren Kerstein

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Willoughbys

Lois Lowry

Delly Duck (4-8 years)

Holly Marlow

Saffy's Angel

Hilary McKay

Alone On A Wide Wide Sea

Michael Morpurgo

Henderson's Boys

Robert Muchamore

The Cat Who Saved Books

Sosuke Natsukawa (Author), Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)

Runaways (9+ years)

E.L. Norry

Escape from Cockatoo Island

Yvette Poshoglian

Mostly Mary

Gwynedd Vulliamy Rae et al.

The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself (4-9 years)

Ali Redford

Dennis and the Big Decisions (2-5 years)

Paul Sambrooks

Jamberoo Road

Eleanor Roberts Spence et al.

Extraordinary Birds (8-12 years)

Sandy Stark-McGinnis

The Circus is Coming

Noel Streatfeild

The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime

Hana Tooke (Author), Ayesha L. Rubio (Illustrator)

Nowhere Island

Tania Unswoth

Uprising

Alex Wheatle

The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries

J.T. Williams

Dustbin Baby

Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

My Mum Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah

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