Here’s a recommended reading list for Year 4 for children aged 8-9 years. This is just a guide and if you feel your children have read most of these, you can move to the recommended reading list for Year 5 children.
Classics and Popular Authors
• The Railway Children – E Nesbit
• The Treasure Seekers – E Nesbit
• The Borrowers – Mary Norton
• Mary Poppins Series – P.L Travers
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
• Tom’s Midnight Garden – Phillipa Pearce
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
• Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone – J K Rowling
• The BFG – Roald Dahl
• The Twits – Roald Dahl
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
• George’s Marvellous Medicine – Roald Dahl
• The Secret Seven Series – Enid Blyton
• The Famous Five – Enid Blyton
• Five Find-outers series – Enid Blyton
• The Narnia Books – C.S Lewis
Animals
• Dumb Creatures - Jeanne Willis
• The Butterfly Lion – Michael Morpurgo
• The Peppermint Pig – Nina Bowden
• Doctor Dolittle – Hugh Lofting
• The Village Dinosaur – Phyllis Arckle
• The Tales of Olga da Polga – Michael Bond
• The Great Elephant Chase – Gillian Cross
Mystery Stories
• Beaver Towers – Nigel Hinton
• The Watchers – Helen Cresswell
• The Snow Spider Trilogy – Jenny Nimmo
• The Way to Sattin Shore – Phillipa Pearce
• The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth – Eoin Colfer
• The Sandman and the Turtles – Michael Morpurgo
Humour
• Just William – Richard Crompton
• Jeremy James Series -David Henry Wilson
• Vlad the Drac Series – Ann Jungman
• Walking the Bridge of your Nose – Michael Rosen
• Little Wolf – Ian Whybrow
• Eddie Dicken Series – Philip Ardagh
• Desirable – Frank Cottrell Boyce
• The 13 Storey Treehouse – Andy Griffiths
• Mr Stink – David Walliams
• The Boy in the Dress – David Walliams
• Ratburger – David Walliams
• My Friend’s a Werewolf – Pete Johnson
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series – Jeff Kinney
• Give Peas a Chance – Morris Gleitzman
Fantasy
• Earth Giant - Melvyn Burgess
• Angels Unlimited - Annie Dalton
• The Spiderwick Chronicles - Tony Diterlizzi
• Araminta Spook series - Angie Sage
• The Strongest Girl in the World - Sally Gardner
• The Boy Who Could fly - Sally Gardner
• The Invisible Boy - Sally Gardner
• The Smallest Girl Ever - Sally Gardner
Historical
• The Children of Green Knowe – Lucy M Boston
• War Game – Michael Foreman
• The Roman Mysteries: The Thieves of Ostia – Caroline Lawrence
• Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – Michael Morpurgo
• William Shakespeare Scenes from the Life of the World’s Greatest Writer – Mick Manning
Adventure stories
• Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kastner
• How to Train Your Dragon – Helen Cresswell
• The Great Elephant Chase – Gillian Cross
• The Last Castaways – Harry horse
• The Falcon’s Malteser – Anthony Horowitz
• The House that Sailed Away – Pat Hutchins
• Dimanche Diller – Henrietta Bradford
• Toots Underwater – Carol Shields
• Lizzie Dripping – Helen Cresswell
• Ice Palace – Robert Swindells
• How to Steal a Dragons Sword – Cressida Cowell
