Year 5 Class Reads
Our top picks for year 5 class sets offer a diverse range of author’s and titles. Includes prize winners such as Vashti Hardy’s Brightstorm and Katherine Rundell’s “The Explorer” as well as shortlisted titles like “The Book Of Stolen Dreams”
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Ajay And The Jaipur Moon
Ajay's wish has come true at last - he's a news reporter! He and his friends even have their own newspaper: The Mumbai Sun.
But living on the Mumbai railways means that money is tight. They need a big story - and when a meteor crashes to Earth, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 658
Ajay And The Mumbai Sun
Abandoned on the Mumbai railways, Ajay has grown up with nothing but a burning wish to be a journalist.
Finding an abandoned printing press, he and his friends Saif, Vinod, Yasmin and Jai create their own newspaper: The Mumbai Sun.
As they hunt...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 659
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...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 653
Armistice Runner
Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she's losing her gran to Alzheimer's. But then she discovers her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War. Could his incredible story of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 482
Artemis Fowl
AT JUST TWELVE YEARS OLD, ARTEMIS FOWL IS A CRIMINAL GENIUS.
No scheme is too dastardly, no plot too devious. And he's just discovered that fairies are real.
Poor fairies.
But these are not the cuddly creatures of bedtime stories. They are ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 278
- MBE Code : 217
Asha And The Spirit Bird
Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home and her mother talks of leaving.
From her den in the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 672
Birdsong
After a devastating car crash, Annie is unable to play her flute and retreats from the music she's always loved.
She exists in a world of angry silence – furious with her mum and furious she can't seem to play her beloved flute any more.
Then...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 104
- MBE Code : 665
Brightstorm
Twins Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm receive word in Lontown that their famous explorer father has died in a failed attempt to reach the southernmost point in the world. Not only that, but he has been accused of stealing fuel before he died!
The ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 344
- MBE Code : 310
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
You MUST have heard of Mr Willy Wonka! He's the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. But do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero of this book.
The other children in our story are nasty little beasts, called:
...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 180
- MBE Code : 219
Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
WHOOSH! Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory.
They can see the whole world below them, but they're not alone. The American Space Hotel has also just ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 644
Crater Lake
Who is the mysterious bloodstained man who stops their coach? Why is no one around when Lance and the rest of Year Six arrive at the brand new Crater Lake activity centre? But this is just the beginning of the school trip from hell; a fight for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 252
- MBE Code : 630
Danny The Champion Of The World
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!
Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had.All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 214
- MBE Code : 194
Darkwhispers
The Brightstorm twins are back for another adventure! Eudora Vane has organized an explorer fleet to search the last known destination of missing adventurer Ermitage Wrigglesworth. Harriet Culpepper and the crew of the Aurora join the mission, but ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 430
- MBE Code : 550
Darwin’s Dragons
Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle - but when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.
Shipwrecked on a Galapagos island, he makes a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 627
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
The first instalment of Jeff Kinney’s side-splittingly funny series.
Join Greg Heffley as he thrusts through the beginning of the new year, and a new school… Where the undersize weaklings are sharing the corridors with kids who are taller, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 210
Ember Spark And The Thunder Of Dragons
Rusty Fizzbang, vet to magical beasts, needs an apprentice. Ember Spark, looking for adventure, is his newest recruit - and together with an unlikely friend, Arno, she is sent to help a baby dragon whose parents have gone missing. But keeping magical...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 666
Firesong
The exciting conclusion to the Brightstorm twins' trilogy within The Brightstorm Chronicles!
Arthur, Maudie, and the rest of the Aurora crew are going on a mission to the Volcanic North, where years before their parents discovered the moth that ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 440
- MBE Code : 544
Foxlight
Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge of the wildlands. Fen is loud and fierce and free. She feels a connection to foxes and a calling from the wild that she's desperate to return to. Rey is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 666
How To Train Your Dragon
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 228
- MBE Code : 313
I Am David
You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone - who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 378
Impossible Creatures
There's a place where all the wildest stories began . From Katherine Rundell, the British Book Awards Author of the Year, comes the paperback release of the first novel in the critically acclaimed, award winning, best-selling Impossible ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 710
Kensukes Kingdom
A captivating text that is sure to be loved by every drama-lover out there. The story of Kensuke's Kingdom includes beautiful new colour illustrations and tells the story of a young boy named Michael, who finds himself in the deathly struggle of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 228
Leila And The Blue Fox
She was very tired.
She lay down, her soft head on her soft paws.
The sunset licked her face.
The snow covered her like a blanket.
Fox wakes, and begins to walk. She crosses ice and snow, over mountains and across frozen oceans, encountering ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 647
Letters From The Lighthouse
February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he's not used ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 626
Little House
Juno’s furious about being sent to stay with her grandfather for the summer. She’ll miss all the fun she and her friends had planned for the holidays. She’ll also miss her mum, but it’s her mum’s fault for leaving anyway.
Then Juno ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 88
- MBE Code : 675