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NanHuaPrimarySchoolEnglishLanguageRecommendedReadingList:Primary3and4
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1 ABearCalledPaddington MichaelBond Adventure 2 ALightintheAttic ShelSilverstein Poetry,Childhood 3 AllThingsBrightandBeautiful JamesHerriot Animal,Compassion 4 Anno'sJourney MitsumasaAnno Travel,WordlessBooks
5 Bambert’sBookofMissingStories ReinhardtJungMeta-fiction,History,Self-discovery
6 BeaPerfectPersoninJustThreeDays StephenManes Family,Self-discovery 7 BecauseofWinn-Dixie KateDiCamillo Pets,Sacrifice
8 BenandMe RobertLawson Friendship,History
9 BlackBeauty AnnaSewell Animal,Adventure
10 BlackWhiteness:AdmiralByrdAloneintheAntarctic RobertBurleigh Exploration,Science
11 Bud,NotBuddy ChristopherCurtis Family,Friends
12 CharlieandtheChocolateFactory RoaldDahlCharacters,Relationships
13 Charlotte'sWeb E.B.White Friendship 14 CollectedStoriesforChildren WalterDeLaMare Anthology,ShortStories
15 CrowBoy TaroYashimaBeingdifferent,Friendship
16 Dominic WilliamSteig Adventure,Friendship
17 ElDeafo CeceBellFriendship,beingdifferent
18 EncyclopediaBrownSavestheDay DonaldSobol Mystery,Crime-fighting
19 FrankEinsteinandtheBrainturbo JonScieszka Science,Inventions 20 Frindle AndrewClements SchoolLife 21 FromtheMixed-upFilesofMrsBasilE.Frankweiler E.L.Konigsburg Mystery 22 GrandfatherTang'sStory AnnTompert Mathematics,Adventure
23 HarriettheSpy LouiseFitzhugh Mystery,Adventure
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24 Heidi JohannaSpyriLoneliness,Self-Discovery
25 Hidden:AChild’sstoryoftheHolocaust LoicDauvillie Holocaust,Family
26 HorribleHistories TerryDearyHistory,ImportantPeople
27 HorribleScience NickArnold Science,Inventions 28 HowtoEatFriedWorms ThomasRockwell Humour,Friendship 29 Howl'sMovingCastle DiannaWynneJones Fantasy,Adventure 30 Jumanji ChrisVanAllsburg Adventure,Mystery 31 JustSoStories RudyardKipling Animal,Adventure 32 LassieComeHome EricKnight Animal,Adventure
33 LittleHouseonthePrairie LauraIngallsWilder Family,Adventure 34 MaryPoppins P.L.Travers Characters,Family 35 Matilda RoaldDahl SchoolLife 36 MiretteontheHighWire EmilyArnoldMcCully Adventure,Circus 37 Nightmares JackPrelutsky Poetry
38 Odd,WeirdandLittle PatrickJennings BeingDifferent,Bullying 39 OldPossum'sBookofPracticalCats TSEliot Poetry,Humour 40 PaulBunyan StevenKellogg Legend
41 PeterandtheWolf SergeiProkofiev Folktales,Adventure
42PeterPan JMBarrie
Childhood,Self-Discovery
43 PippiLongstocking AstridLindgrenIndependence,Friendship
44 PoemStew WilliamCole(ed.) Poetry
45 RamonaQuimby,Age8 BeverlyCleary SchoolLife
46 Shackleton’sJourney WilliamGrill Adventure,History
47 StigoftheDump CliveKing Friendship,Environment
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48 StoriesforChildren IsaacBashevisSinger ShortStories,Anthology 49 TalesofaFourthGradeNothing JudyBlume Family,SchoolLife 50 TheAstoundingBroccoliBoy FrankCottrellBoyce Mystery,Adventure
51 TheBadBeginning LemonySnicket Humour,Emotions
52 TheBFG RoaldDahlAdventure,Relationships
53 TheBicycleMan AllenSay Friendship,History 54 TheBlackCauldron LloydAlexander Fantasy,Adventure 55 TheBlackStallion WalterFarley Animal,Adventure
56 TheBorrowers MaryNorton Mystery,Characters
57 TheCalloftheWild JackLondon Animal,Adventure
58TheChildren'sHomer:TheAdventuresofOdysseusandTaleofTroy PadraicColum
GreekMyths,Adventures
59 TheDragonsareSingingTonight JackPrelutsky Poetry
60 TheEducationofNicholasBenedict TrentonLeeStewartAdventure,Beingdifferent
61 TheFooloftheWorldandtheFlyingShip ArthurRansome Characters,Friends
62 TheGardenofAbdulGasazi ChrisVanAllsburg Mystery
63 TheHouseatPoohCorner A.A.Milne Animal,Friendship
64 TheHundredandOneDalmatians DodieSmith Animals,Adventure
65 TheHundredDresses EleanorEstesBeingdifferent,Friendship
66 TheInventionofHugoCabret BrianSelznick Adventure,Science 67 TheIronGiant TedHughes Fantasy,Characters
68 TheMagicFarawayTree EnidBlyton Fantasy,Adventure
69 TheMysteriousBenedictSociety TrentonLeeStewart Adventure,Friendship
70 TheNewKidontheBlock JackPrelutsky Poetry,Humour
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71TheReluctantDragon KennethGrahame Friendship,Fantasy
72 TheSelfishGiant OscarWildeChildhood,Self-Discovery
73TheStinkyCheeseManandOtherFairlyStupidTales JonScieszka
FracturedFairyTales,Humour
74 TheStoryofKingArthurandHisKnights HowardPyleAdventure,MedievalLife
75 TheTaleofDespereaux KateDiCamillo Adventure,Characters 76 TheTaleofSamuelWhiskers BeatrixPotter Adventure,Family 77 TheTurtleofOman NaomiNye Self-discovery 78 TheTrueStoryofthe3LittlePigs JonScieszka FracturedFairyTales
79 TheTwits RoaldDahl Humour,Characters
80 TheWhippingBoy SidFleishmann Friendship,Adventure
81 TheWonderfulWizardofOz L.FrankBaum Friendship,Adventure
82 TheySawtheFuture KathleenKrull Non-Fiction,Biography
83ThisSameSky:ACollectionofPoemsfromaroundtheWorld NaomiNye(Ed.) Poetry,WorldCulture
84 TottoChan:TheLittleGirlintheWindow TetsukoKuroyanagiChildhood,JapaneseCulture
85 WheelontheSchool MeindertdeJong Adventure 86 WheretheSidewalkEnds ShelSilverstein Poetry,Humour 87 WhiteFang JackLondon Animal,Adventure
88 ZlatehtheGoatandOtherStories IsaacBashevisSinger Folktales,Adventure
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1 20,000LeaguesUndertheSea JulesVerne Adventure,ScienceFiction 2 AJourneytotheCenteroftheEarth JulesVerne Adventure,ScienceFiction 3 AroundtheWorldin80Days JulesVerne Travel,Adventure
4 Gulliver’sTravels JonathanSwiftTravel,Relationship,Adventure
5 Iliad Homer War,GreekCivilization 6 JaneEyre CharlotteBronte Family,Self-discovery 7 Kidnapped RobertLouisStevenson Adventure 8 KingArthurandTheKnightsoftheRoundTable HowardPyle Relationships,Adventure 9 KingSolomon’sMines H.RiderHaggard Adventure
10 MobyDick HermanMelville Obsession,Relationships
11 Odyssey Homer War,GreekCivilization
12 PrideandPrejudice JaneAusten Relationships,Self-Discovery
13 RobinsonCrusoe DanielDefoe Loneliness,Adventure 14 TheAdventuresofSherlockHolmes ArthurConanDoyle Crime,Character,Motive 15 TheCountofMonteCristo AlexandreDumas Character,Justice 16 TheHunchbackofNotreDame VictorHugo Injustice,Relationships
17 TheInvisibleMan H.G.Wells Mystery,ScienceFiction 18 TheLastoftheMohicans JamesFenimoreCooper War,Conflict,Culture 19 TheManintheIronMask AlexandreDumas Character,Justice 20 TheMerryAdventuresofRobinHood HowardPyle Injustice,Adventure 21 ThePhantomoftheOpera VictorHugo Mystery,Relationships 22 TheStrangeCaseofDr.JekyllandMr.Hyde RobertLouisStevenson Mystery,Schizophrenia 23 TheThreeMusketeers AlexandreDumas Character,Relationships
24 TheTimeMachine H.G.Wells Mystery,ScienceFiction 25 TheWaroftheWorlds H.G.Wells Mystery,ScienceFiction
26 TreasureIsland RobertLouisStevenson Adventure,Piracy