Grade 7-9
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Reading to Challenge and Change You

Books designed to target every interest and push your thinking further

Novels

WHITE FANG

The wild tames the heart through loyalty and hardship

ANIMAL FARM

Revolution devours ideals as power corrupts every voice

FAHRENHEIT 451

Censorship burns thought; books ignite freedom and memory

KING SOLOMON’S MINES

An empire’s treasure exposes its myths and moral compromises

LORD OF THE FLIES

When civilisation collapses, innocence surrenders to savagery

OF MICE AND
MEN

Friendship and hope falter under the weight of broken dreams

THE LITTLE
PRINCE

Childlike wonder reveals truths adults forget to see

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Beauty without conscience corrupts the soul beyond recognition

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

Empathy gives wisdom to the powerful leader

OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Endurance dignifies defeat; struggle reveals meaning in loss

THE TIME
MACHINE

Class complacency breeds futures that quietly devour their makers

THE GREAT
DIVORCE

Heaven is chosen wherever pride surrenders to joy

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

Humanity’s power rests precariously on its ignorance

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

Faith, courage, and imagination reveal a world where moral choices shape destiny

TREASURE ISLAND

Adventures test one’s ingenuity, heart and loyalty

PETER PAN

The wonder of childhood and the cost of clinging to it forever

THE BOOK THIEF

Words shelter love and spark resistance against darkness

THE BRONZE BOW

Vengeance hardens; forgiving love unstrings the heart’s bow

THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES

Fear magnifies falsehoods; patient reason reveals the truth

THE OUTSIDERS

Real courage is tenderness in a world demanding toughness.

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HIS DARK MATERIALS

Curiosity threatens dogma providing new oppurtunities

WATERSHIP DOWN

Communities are built from shared stories and practices

TUCK EVERLASTING

Mortality makes each moment precious if we can notice it

TWENTY THOUSE LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

Awe without empathy hardens genius into isolating obsession

THE SPACE TRILOGY

Pride distorts paradise into conquest

MONKEY KING

Discipline and true friendship tempers abuses of power

THE CALL OF THE WILD

Instincts are central to identity and freedom

TOM SAWYER

Playful cunning matures into conscience

THE GIVER

Comfort without memory erases freedom

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Seeing through others’ eyes unmasks prejudice

Short Stories & Novellas

THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

In the country of the blind, seeing becomes heresy

THE HAPPY PRINCE

Gilded beauty becomes love when given to the poor

I, ROBOT

Humans have a responsibility for machine morality

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

Attention, empathy, and reason make justice surprisingly humane

THE LEGND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW

Fear manufactures its own ghosts  when Superstition trumps reason

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

Living tattoos foretell futures shaped by wonder and ruin

THE LOTTERY

Tradition legitimises evil and strengthens its own power

THE GARDEN PARTY

Delicate epiphanies expose class distance

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Charity is the antedote to hatred and selfishness

DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

Repressed desire consumes the whole self

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Scripts

THE TEMPEST

Forgivenes restores rightful rule and freedom

12 ANGRY MEN

Justice begins with listening and looking past prejudices

THE MIRACLE WORKER

Lanugage has the power to create new life

OUR TOWN

Recognise the holiness of ordinary moments

THE WINTER’S
TALE

Love resurrects what was wrongfully murdered

AN INSPECTOR
CALLS

Denying shared responsibility multiplies harm

THE IMPORTANCE OFBEING EARNEST

Wit unmasks hypocrisy and class folly

MACBETH

Seductive prophecies unleash ambition that poisons tomorrow

PYGMALION

Appearance opens doors but character keeps them open

THE BIRDS

Satire and parody dsimantles our utopian fantasies

Poetry

THE SELECTED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind”

THE SELECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST

Quiet roads reveal duty, desire, and the cost of choosing

THE SELECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES

Guard your dreams they carry dignity hope and resilience

LEAVES OF GRASS B WALT WHITMAN

Every self contains multitudes celebrate common sacred life

THE SELECTED POEMS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

Faith and memory steady wandering hearts

AND STILL
I RISE BY
MAYA ANGELOU

Defiant grace transforms oppression into song

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

Innocence and experience collide revealing visionary moral perception

THE BEST POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A chorus of centuries shows language shaping human truth

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

Beauty and death entwine haunting reason with dread

THE SELECTED POEMS OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

Devotion wrestles desire and renunciation makes love more luminous

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