Have you read?YR7/YR8 suggested reading list

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts.There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks fir it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod’s family.

He came to the gate of the graveyard. There could be no doubt. The wool ran over the fence…Dumbly, he gripped it, as if it were a lifeline, when in reality it was leading him towards death itself…As surely as the snow falls softly in the forest of one hundred thousand silver birch trees, a father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny.

Ten-year-old Jamie hasn’t cried since it happened. He knows he should have – Jasmine cried, Mum cried, Dad still cries. Roger didn’t, but then he’s just a cta and didn’t know Rose that well really.Everyone kept saying it would get better with time, but that’s just one of those lies that grown-ups tell in awkward situations. Five years on, it’s worse than ever: Dad drinks, Mum’s gone and Jamie’s left with quesyions that he must answer for himself.

1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.Liesel, a nine year old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals a book. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a man’s back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one, that’s who.World been turned on its head by that big old war, and the army seemed like the safest place to be, until we was sent off to fight them Indians, And then? Heck! When death’s so close you can smell his breath, ain’t nothing makes you feel more alive

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam

needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.

When Lyra’s friend Roger disappears, she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-

queens fly through the frozen skies – and where a team of scientists is conducting experiments too horrible to be spoken about.

Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can’t understand are other human beings. When he finds his neighbour’s dog lying down dead on the lawn, ne decides to track down the killer and write a murder mystery about it. But what other mysteries will he end up uncovering?

Connor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first felt ill, ever since she started the treatments that don’t quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there’s a visitor at his window. It’s ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all

from Connor. It wants the truth.

Two boys. One Miracle. A million choices.When a bag stuffed full of money drops out of the sky Damian and Anthony find themselves rich. Very rich indeed. Suddenly the brothers can buy anything they want – except the one thing they really need.

Michael steps into the crumbling garage… What is this thing beneath the Spders’ webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never seen before? The only person Michael can confide in is Mins. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael’s world changes forever…

Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered. Faith realises that she is good at lying and that the tree might hold the key to her father's murder, so she begins to spread untruths far

and wide across her small island community. But as her tales spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter . . .