| :: Year 8 Reading Challenge :: Bronze :: Silver :: Gold :: Tasks :: |
The Year 8 fiction categories / genres are:
• Classics
• Historical
• Humour
• Spooks & Spectres
• Sport
• Own Choice |
| For each Level students must read 10 fiction books. At least 1 title from the named genres, plus 5 own choice. |
| The chosen books should have a yellow (confidant reader) or a purple (TR) spine label. |
| :: Bronze Level :: |
| Classics |
Historical |
Humour |
* Charlotte Bronte
* Emily Bronte
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* R.L. Stevenson
* Jonathan Swift
* Jules Verne
* = Abridged versions = 1 stamp.
Unabridged versions = 1 Classic stamp + 2 stamps in Own Choice. |
Rachel Anderson
Caroline Lawrence
Michelle Magorian
Michael Morpurgo - not his animal stories
My Story series in TR Survivors series in TR |
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Morris Gleitzman
Andy Griffiths
Paul Jennings
Michael Lawrence
Megan McDonald
Jamie Rix
Lemony Snicket
Jean Ure
|
| Spooks & Spectres |
Sport |
Own Choice |
Theresa Breslin: Whispers in the Graveyard
Jenny Carroll's Mediator series
Louise Cooper's Creatures series
Diane Hendry
Anthony Horowitz: Horowitz Horror
Ann Jungman's Vlad the Drac series
Eva Ibbotson's witchy/ghost stories
Penelope Lively: Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Linda Newberry: At the Firefly Gate
Philippa Pearce: Tom's Midnight Garden
Dennis Pepper: Nasty Endings
* Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
|
Tony Bradman
Cattell & Agard
Rob Childs
Matt Christopher series
Michael Coleman: Angels FC
Narinder Dhami: Bend it like Beckham
Alan Durant: Sports Stories
Donna Kingg: Unbeatable series
Gary Linacker: Favourite Football Stories
James Riordan: Football Stories
David Ross: How we got back ...
|
Any 5 JF, JFT or TR authors. |
| :: Silver Level :: |
| Classics |
Historical |
Humour |
* Charlotte Bronte
* Emily Bronte
* Daniel Defoe
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* R.L. Stevenson
* Jonathan Swift
* Jules Verne
* = Abridged versions = 1 stamp.
Unabridged versions = 1 Classic stamp + 2 stamps in Own Choice. |
Rachel Anderson
Michelle Magorian
Michael Morpurgo - not his animal stories
My Story series in TR |
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Morris Gleitzman
Andy Griffiths
Paul Jennings
Michael Lawrence
Jamie Rix
Lemony Snicket
Jean Ure |
| Spooks & Spectres |
Sport |
Own Choice |
Theresa Breslin: Whispers in the Graveyard
Jenny Carroll's Mediator series
Terry Deary: The Boy Who Haunted Himself
Anthony Horowitz: Horowitz Horror
Pete Johnson: Dead Hour
Penelope Lively: Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Linda Newberry: At the Firefly Gate
Philippa Pearce: Tom's Midnight Garden
Celia Rees
Marcus Sedgewick
* Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Justin Somper
Various short story anthologies in JFS & TR
|
Cattell & Agard
Rob Childs
Matt Christopher series
Michael Coleman: Angels FC
Trevor Colgan [TR]
Narinder Dhami: Bend it like Beckham
Alan Durant: Sports Stories
Alan Gibbons
Donna Kingg: Unbeatable series
Gary Linacker: Favourite Football Stories
Mal Peet: Keeper
Bali Rai: Dream On
James Riordan: Football Stories
David Ross: How we got back ...
|
Any 5 JF, JFT or TR authors. |
| :: Gold Level :: |
| Classics |
Historical |
Humour |
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
William Golding
R.L. Stevenson
Unabridged versions versions only at this level |
Rachel Anderson
Caroline Lawrence
Michelle Magorian
Michael Morpurgo - not his animal stories
My Story series in TR |
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Morris Gleitzman
Andy Griffiths
Michael Lawrence
Jamie Rix
Lemony Snicket
Sue Townsend
Jean Ure |
| Spooks & Spectres |
Sport |
Own Choice |
Susan Hill: Woman in Black
Edgar Allen Poe
Celia Rees
Marcus Sedgwick
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
|
Cattell & Agard
Trevor Colgan [TR]
Narinder Dhami: Bend it like Beckham
Alan Durant: Sports Stories
Alan Gibbons
Donna Kingg: Unbeatable series
Gary Linacker: Favourite Football Stories
Mal Peet: Keeper
Bali Rai: Dream On
James Riordan: Football Stories
David Ross: How we got back ...
|
Any 5 JF, JFT or TR authors. |
