Adventure
'Chronicles of Ancient Darkness' by Michelle Paver
Michelle Paver’s passion for animals, anthropology and the distant past flows magically throughout the whole series of the Chronicles, including Wolf Brother, Spirit Walker, Soul Eater, Outcast, Oath Breaker.
'Journey to the River Sea' by Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson writes well in two different styles – she is very good at writing believable and realistic books and still makes them full of adventure and excitement.
Other recommended books by the author: 'The Star of Kazan', 'The Secret of Platform 13'.
'Harry and the Wrinkles' by Alan Temperley
It starts off with Harry’s parents dying. His horrible childminder refuses to look after him. This means that he is packed off to live with his great aunts who he has never met before. He is expecting a dull boring time, but all is not what it seems. This book is full of adventure, comedy and mystery. It’s a really good book!
Other books: 'Harry and the Treasure of Eddie Carver'.
'The White Giraffe' by Lauren St John
A thrilling story on a eleven year-old girl who loses her parents and moves to a game reserve in Africa ,where many mysteries and secrets are discovered and found .
'A Series of Unfortunate Events' by Lemony Snicket
Science Fiction and Fantasy
'Ink Heart' by Cornelia Funke
Other books in the series: 'Ink Spell', 'Ink Death'
Other recommended books by the author: 'Dragon Rider', 'The Thief Lord'
'Wild Magic: the Immortals' by Tamora Pierce
Historical
'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliff
Other recommended books by the author: 'Outcast', 'The Mark of the Horse Lord'
Mystery
'Saffy’s Angel' by Hilary McKay
Saffy finds she is adopted and that she has been left a stone angel in her grandfather’s will.
Other books in the series: 'Indigo’s Star', 'Permanent Rose', 'Caddy Ever After', 'Forever Rose'
'Girl Missing' by Sophie Mackenzie
Other recommended books by the author: 'Blood Ties'
'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon
Contemporary Issues
'The Granny Project' (play) by Anne Fine
'Noughts and Crosses' by Malorie Blackman
Showing posts with label Year 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year 7. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Year 7 Reading List
With the Easter holidays rapidly approaching what could be more pleasant than a little trip to the library? Here are a few suggestions of what to get out:
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Pig Heart Boy - Malorie Blackman
Kezzie - Theresa Breslin
Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce
Scarlett - Cathy Cassidy
Airman - Eoin Colfer
Lion Boy - Zizou Corder
Heartbeat - Sharon Creech
Bollywood Babes - Narinder Dhami
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson
The Divide - Elizabeth Kay
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
The Garbage King - Elizabeth Laird
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
Stop the Train - Geraldine McCaughrean
Girl, Missing - Sophie McKenzie
The Wind Singer - William Nicholson
Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Montmorency - Elanore Updale
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
St Mary's and Wordfest
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Right, get writing!
If you want some advice about how to write well you could do worse than try out these pages from The Guardian newspaper or these ones setting out the Ten Rules for Writing Fiction.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
World Book Day
World Book Day is coming this Thursday. To discover more, see videos, read extracts and find out about competitions click here.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Kipling and Indian Literature
British author and poet Rudyard Kipling is known for his love of India, but his reputation in the country remains controversial.
Plans for a museum commemorating Mr Kipling's Mumbai home have been shelved over concerns that it would be politically unpalatable, as he was a renowned imperialist, fierce opponent of independence and a chronicler of the British Raj
Andrew Lycett, Mr Kipling's biographer, and Aravind Adiga, and Indian journalist and author who won the 2008 Man Booker prize for his works The White Tiger, reflect on Mr Kipling's relationship with India.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Websites - Books: Books - Websites
Want to find a good book but don't know where to look? You might want to check out these websites from Booktrust, Oxford University Press and the Guardian
Three authors for the price of one!
Erin Hunter is not an author, as you might expect, but three authors (Kate Cary, Victoria Holmes and Cherith Baldry) who have taken the name of Erin Hunter and written a series of books called Warrior Cats. There are over thirty books so far and they are still more to come.
Our Year 7 blogger tells us that you have to like cats and know a little about them if you are going to understand what's going on. She explains that when reading the books it's like you are watching what's happening, as you can hear what the cat is thinking. Erin Hunter is her favourite author and she can highly recommend the whole series.
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Robert Burns
Just in case you're preparing for Burns Night and are looking for a grand, wee poem ...
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Authors' websites
An awful lot of authors now have their own websites. So if you are interested in Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, Judy Blume or Terry Deary you might want to check out their sites.
Obviously, as an English teacher, I'm also going to point you in the direction of some less populist authors. Why not look at the website, for example, of the poet Michael Symmons Roberts or the novelist Ian McEwan?
Monday, 18 January 2010
Writing Letters
Dear Readers,
Today we are going to cover letter writing. Or should that be...
Dear Readers
Today we are going to cover letter writing???
See what the BBC thinks by clicking here for a simple, interactive exercise. Then get some useful advice from the people behind the Oxford Dictionaries by clicking here. If you need a sample letter then click here.
Yours sincerely (or should that be faithfully ... or lots of love ... or with my warmest regards ...?)
Friday, 15 January 2010
Demeter and Persephone
Year 7 to 6th Form
The 6th Form have been studying Carol Ann Duffy's poem about Demeter from The World 's Wife. It's a great myth and here's a fun cartoon version of it. Or click here for Tennyson's version.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Catherine Tate, David Tennant and Shakespeare
We have posted this at the special request of Year 7. You can see the Red Nose Day sketch here. The poem Catherine Tate quotes with amazing skill (in the end) is Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 which you can read below:
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Another (less comic) version can be seen here.
"A goodly rotten apple" is a (mis)quotation from The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 3 and "That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet" is a quotation from Romeo and Juliet. Just so you know.
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