Year 5
These age-appropriate reading-for-pleasure recommendations for UKS2 pupils. Over 300 titles to choose from, including bestselling authors and prize winning titles. Choose your selection now to top up your class libraries or you can buy class sets to compliment your schools reading spine.
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A Girl Called Justice
When Justice's mother dies, her father packs her off to Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk. He's a barrister - specialising in murder trials - and he's just too busy to look after her alone.Having previously been ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.1
- Points Value : 6
- Book Cover : Paperback
A Girl Called Justice: The Smugglers Secret
When Justice returns for spring term at Highbury House, it's not long before murder is back on her mind. Assigned to look after the elderly Mr Arthur in Smugglers' Lodge on the other side of the marshes from school, Justice is initially dismayed. But...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 6.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
A Jewel In The Sands Of Time
When the mysterious map given to him by his eccentric Uncle Patrick sweeps Freddie into another astonishing time-travelling adventure, he finds himself in Ancient Egypt - and discovers a terrible plot against the boy king, Tutankhamun.
- ATOS Book Level : 6.1
- Points Value : 9.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
A Romani Story
A gripping football-filled adventure based in the Romani community of 19th-century Sheffield.
This action-packed story is told through the eyes of young Lijah, as he navigates life and discovers football and the legendary Rab Howell.
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- ATOS Book Level : 5.2
- Points Value : 5.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
A Shocker On Shock Street
They're baa-ack! Make way for the bestselling children's series of all time! With a fresh new look, GOOSEBUMPS is set to scare a whole new generation of kids. So reader beware--you're in for a scare! Best friends Erin and Marty love the scary "Shock ...
- ATOS Book Level : 3.2
- Points Value : 3.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
A Storm Of Sisters
When the Widdershins sisters and Granny are called away in deepest winter to look after cousin Clarissa, it doesn’t take long for adventure – or trouble – to find them. The town of Wilderness has plenty to explore with its frozen lake and ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.4
- Points Value : 12.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
A Tale Of Magic
When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: she is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.3
- Points Value : 18.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Aarti & The Blue Gods
Aarti has lived on the island with Aunt for as long as she can remember.
Like the weather, Aunt rules her world with rare warmth. Aarti's only comforts are a book of Indian myths full of blue gods, a fox's friendship, and a toy rabbit she finds in...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.8
- Points Value : 7.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Alex Neptune: Dragon Thief
For as long as Alex Neptune can remember, the ocean has been trying to kill him. So he's not too happy when a bunch of sea creatures drag him to the abandoned aquarium on the hill, where an imprisoned water dragon needs his help. But how can he say ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.5
- Points Value : 5.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Alex Neptune: Pirate Hunter
Alex Neptune is struggling to get to grips with his new oceanic powers...so the last thing he needs is Haven Bay being attacked by pirates in a ship made of rubbish. The marauders are hunting for the missing egg of the elusive water dragon - and Alex...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.7
- Points Value : 8.0
Alvarez (Ultimate Football Heroes)
Julián Álvarez's extravagant football skills won him a youth team place at the famous Argentinian club River Plate at the age of 12, and he quickly rose through the ranks. By 18, the gifted striker was showcasing his prowess in the Copa ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.1
- Points Value : 4.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
American Football Fears
Nothing can stop star American footballer Harris Weathers - until he has a jarring collision, narrowly escaping injury. Harris is fine, physically, but his nerves are rattled. He can’t shake the idea that he could get hurt playing the sport. After ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.0
- Points Value : 1.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
American Football Foul Play
After winning their first playoff game, Badger teammates Kenny Hu and Romeo Russell get some disturbing news. The Supreme Bowl trophy has been stolen from the rival school across town! Even worse, the evidence points to the Badgers’ quarterback ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.0
- Points Value : 1.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
An Author’s Odyssey
In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories!
When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.9
- Points Value : 15.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Angel Of Grasmere
Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer.
July 1940 – as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 4.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Animalcolm
Malcolm doesn’t like animals.
Which is a problem because his family love them. Their house is full of pets. What the house is NOT full of is stuff Malcolm likes. Such as the laptop he wanted for his birthday.
The only bright spot on the ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.1
- Points Value : 5.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Artemis Fowl And The Arctic Incident
Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human help.
Holly Short is convinced it's her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl.
But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He's too busy getting his father ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 9.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Artemis Fowl And The Atlantis Complex
SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH ARTEMIS FOWL
When he gathers the fairy elite to show off his latest invention, it's clear that the former criminal genius has become delusional and paranoid.
He doesn't even trust his closest friends.
...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.2
- Points Value : 12.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Artemis Fowl And The Eternity Code
CAN ARTEMIS FOWL LEAVE HIS CRIMINAL PAST BEHIND?
Not quite. At least, not yet. He's got one last job, and then he's going to be good.
But the job goes horribly wrong. So wrong in fact that now a nasty, ruthless billionaire has stolen Artemis's ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 10.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Artemis Fowl And The Lost Colony
DEMONS
Big human haters, they are (thankfully) stuck in Limbo, a place that exists outside of time and space. But now demons are materialising on Earth at random. This won't be pretty . . .
Artemis is determined to save the day (I know, ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.3
- Points Value : 13.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Artemis Fowl And The Opal Deception
Opal Koboi is back, and the power-crazed pixie wants revenge. Her to-do list:
- Frame Holly Short for murder
- Start a war between fairies and humans
- Kill anyone who's ever annoyed her (yes, this includes Artemis)
But knowledge of the ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.7
- Points Value : 12.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox
FORMER CRIMINAL MASTERMIND ARTEMIS FOWL HAS HOODWINKED FAIRIES AND BATTLED GOBLINS
THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL
Artemis's mother is gravely ill. Unfortunately the cure, an endangered lemur, was made extinct eight years ago . . . by Artemis Fowl. ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.6
- Points Value : 13.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Aru Shah And The Nectar Of Immortality
Aru only has until the next full moon to stop the Sleeper from gaining access to the nectar of immortality, which will grant him infinite power. Her quest will have the Pandavas calling on old friends, meeting new allies, and facing fearsome trials, ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.4
- Points Value : 14.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Attack Of The Jack-O’-Lanterns
Nothing beats Halloween. It's Drew Brockman's favorite holiday. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker.
- ATOS Book Level : 3.3
- Points Value : 2.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Awful Auntie
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 6.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
