Short lists of popular fiction

Here you will find short reading lists under various topics, as well as read alikes for your favourite authors

Award Winning Stories
A year down yonder Richard Peck
Clara's war Kathy Kacer
After Hamelin Bill Richardson
Holes Louis Sachar
If I just had two wings Virginia Schwartz
Looking for X Deborah Ellis
The hollow tree Janet Lunn
A single shard Linda Sue Park
The incredible jumbo Barbara Smucker
Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson
Number the stars Lois Lowry
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
A gathering of days Joan Blos
Ticket to curlew Celia Lottridge
Polar, the titanic bear Laurie McGraw
Dear Diary
Strider Beverly Cleary
Catherine called Birdy Karen Cushman
Music of dolphins Karen Hesse
Orphan at my door Jean Little
Elizabeth I, red rose of the house of Tudor Kathryn Lasky
The private notebook of Katie Roberts, age 11 Amy Hest
Standing in the light Mary Pope Osborne
Don't you dare read this, Mrs Dunphry Margaret Peterson Haddix
Mysteries
Cam Jansen and the first day of school David Adler
Sammy Keyes and the search for snake eyes Wendelin Van Draanen
Bernie Magruder and the bats in the belfry Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Martyn pig Kevin Brooks
Stravaganza : city of masks Mary Hoffman
Lord of the kill Theodore Taylor
Time Travel
The root cellar Janet lunn
Handful of time Kit Pearson
The olden days coat Margaret Laurence
Voices after midnight Richard Peck
Your mother was a neanderthal Jon Scieszka
The 13th floor: a ghost story Sid Fleischman
Out of time Caroline Cooney
The devil's arithmetic Jane Yolen
Who is Frances Rain? Margaret Buffie
Voices from the past
Letters from Rifka Karen Hesse
Lyddie Katherine Paterson
The sky is falling Kit Pearson
The ballad of Lucy Whipple Karen Cushman
The eagle of the ninth Rosemary Sutcliff
Summer of the mad monk Cora Taylor
Ticket to Curlew Celia Lottridge
Shadow in Hawthorne Bay Janet Lunn
Daniel's story Carol Matas
If you like Lemony Snicket try these:
Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken
The house with a clock in its walls John Bellairs
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer
Everything on a waffle Polly Horvath
The secret of Platform 13 Eva Ibbotson
Holes Louis Sachar
Time Warp Trio series Jon Scieszka
The ink drinker Eric Sanuoisin
If you like Harry Potter try these:
Into the land of the unicorns Bruce Coville
So you want to be a wizard Diane Duane
The secret of platform 13 Eva Ibbotson
A wizard of Earthsea Ursula Le Guin
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe C.S. Lewis
The worst witch Jill Murphy
The wizard in the woods Jean Ure
The castle in the attic Elizabeth Winthrop
The lost years of Merlin T.A. Barron
The lamp from the warlock's tomb John Bellairs
The dragonslayers Bruce Coville
The witches Roald Dahl
Howl's moving castle Diana Wynne Jones
Dealing with dragons Patricia C. Wrede
Wizard's hall Jane Yolen