Year 6 Transition to Year 7 Reading List

If you are coming to Gravesend Grammar School this September then here is a list of our favourite books to read over the summer holidays. Take a look and see if there's something that catches your eye and then visit your local library.

Year 6 transition to year 7 reading suggestions
Genre and title	Author
Graphic novels
Star Cat	James Turner
Percy Jackson	Rick Riordan
Illustrated books
Planet Omar	Zannib Mian
Toto the Ninja Cat	Dermot O'Leary
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good	Louie Stowell
Short stories
A Good Day For Climbing Trees	Jaco Jacobs
Kensuke's Kingdom	Michael Morpurgo
Ghost	Jason Reynolds
Books written in verse
The Crossover	Kwame Alexander
Chapter books
Crater Lake	Jennifer Killick
The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates	Jenny Pearson & Rob Biddulph
The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman
October, October	Katya Balen
Tell Me No Lies	Malorie Blackman
The Explorer	Katherine Rundell
Series
The Polar Bear Explorers' Club	Alex Bell
Cogheart	Peter Bunzl
Brightstorm: a sky-ship adventure	Vashti Hardy
The Train to Impossible Places: a cursed delivery	P G Bell
Who Let The Gods Out?	Maz Evans
Stormbreaker	Anthony Horowitz
Non fiction
Fearless! How to be your true, confident self	Liam Hackett
You Are Awesome	Matthew Syed & Toby Triumph
Be Confident, Be You	Becky Goddard Hill