Watford Grammar School

Key Stage 3 Reading List

Fantasy and Magic books (coming soon)
Historical and Adventure books (coming soon)
Science Fiction books (coming soon)
War books (coming soon)


Miscellaneous Books

  • The Fire-Eaters - David Almond Yr7+
  • Grass for His Pillow - Lian Hearn  Yr9+
  • Fleshmarket - Nicola Morgan  Yr8+
  • Raider's Tide - Maggie Prince  Yr8+
  • The Wanderer - Sharon Creech  Yr7+
  • Stripes of the Side Step Wolf - Sonya Hartnett  Yr9+
  • A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly  Yr8+
  • Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli  Yr7+
  • Wringer - Jerry Spinelli  Yr7+
  • Death and the Arrow - Chris Priestley  Yr7+
  • Keeper - Mal Peet  Yr7+
  • Heartbeat - Sharon Creech  Yr7+
  • America is Me - E.R. Frank  Yr10+
  • Millions Frank - Cottrell Boyce  Yr7+
  • Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo  [Yr7+
  • Sisterland - Linda Newbury  Yr8+
  • How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff  Yr12+  
  • Martyn Pig - Kevin Brooks  Yr8+
  • What the Birds See - Sonya Hartnett  Yr 7/8
  • Exodus - Julie Bertagna  Yr 7/8
  • Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve  Yr7+
  • Caught in the Crossfire - Alan Gibbons  Yr7+
  • Hoot - Carl Hiaasen  Yr7
  • Lucas - Kevin Brooks  Yr 8/9
  • Up on Cloud Nine - Anne Fine  Yr 7/8
  • The Great Blue Yonder - Alex Shearer  Yr 7
  • Beauty - Robin McKinley  Yr 7/8
  • Coming of Age - Valerie Mendes  Yr 9/10
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon Christopher Boone Yr 8+
  • The Shell House - Linda Newbery  Yr8+
  • Poison - Chris Wooding  Yr 7/8/9
  • The Dark Horse - Marcus Sedgwick  Yr 7/8
  • The Edge - Alan Gibbons  Yr 7/8
  • The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick  Yr 8/9
  • Follow Me Down - Julie Hearn  Yr 11 +
  • Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy  Yr12+
  • The Great Good Thing - Roderick Townley  Yr10+
  • Boy (Autobiography) - Roald Dahl  Yr 7/8
  • E=MC2 (Science) Yr 11 +
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything (Science) - Bill Bryson  Yr10+
  • Adrian Mole - Susan Townsend  Yr9
  • The Point Crime Series - Various  KS3
  • The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman  KS3
  • Small Island (Travel) - Bill Bryson  Yr10+
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Traditional) - Louis Carroll  
  • Black Ships Before Troy (Epic) - Rosemary Sutcliff  KS3
  • The God Beneath the Sea - Leon Garfield  KS3
  • Storm (Ghosts) - Kevin Crossley-Holland  KS3
  • Black Swan Green (Biography) - David Mitchell Yr9+
  • Small Island - Andrea Levy A Yr10+
  • Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell  Yr10+
  • Across the Barricades (Relationships) - Joan Lingard  
  • White Fang (Animals) - Jack London  
  • Black Beauty (Animals) - Anna Sewell  
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (Detective) - A Conan. Doyle  
  • The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (1st in Series) - A McCall Smith  
  • Three Men in a Boat (Comedy) - Jerome. K. Jerome  
  • Thank You, Jeeves (Comedy, one of a Series) - P.G. Wodehouse  
  • Torn Sawyer (Comedy/Relationships) - Mark Twain  
  • Huckleberry Finn (Relationships) - Mark Twain  
  • Oliver Twist (Relationships) - Charles Dickens  
  • Great Expectations (Relationships) - Charles Dickens  
  • Silas Marner (Relationships) - George Eliot  
  • The Mill on the Floss (Relationships) - George Eliot  
  • Jane Eyre (Relationships) - Charlotte Bronte 
  • My Family and other Animals - Gerald Durrell  
  • Watership Down - Richard Adams  
  • A Ring of Bright Water - Gavin Maxwell Davies  
  • The Star of Kazan/ Journey to the River Sea (Relationships) - Eva Ibbotson  
  • Kindred (Relationships/Adventure) - Olivia Butler
  • The Frozen Waterfall - Gaye Hicyilmaz  
  • Black Harvest - Ann Pilling  
  • Northanger Abbey(Gothic Parody) - Jane Austen  KS3+
  • Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman   KS3
  • The Tower Room - Adele Geras   KS3
  • Kelp - Linda Aranson   KS3
  • Horace - Chris d'Lacey   KS3
  • Girls Under Pressure - Jaqueline Wilson   KS3
  • Forever - Judy Blume   KS4
  • The Wedding Present - Adele Geras   KS3
  • Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Adele Geras   KS3
  • Lucas - Kevin Brooks   KS3
  • Daz4 Zoe - Robert Swindells   KS3
  • Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn   KS3
  • The Night After Tomorrow - Sue Welford   KS3
  • The Boy in the Bubble - Ian Strachan   KS3
  • Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard   KS3
  • No Shame, No Fear - Ann Turnbull   KS3
  • Big Mouth and Ugly Girl - Joyce Carol Oates   KS3
  • The Changeover - Margaret Mahy   KS3
  • The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory   KS3 
  • Essays in Love - Alain de Botton   KS3/4
  • High Fidelity - Nick Hornby   KS3/4
  • I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith   KS4
  • Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier   KS4
  • Therese Raquin - Emile Zola   KS4
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte   KS4
  • Small Island - Andrea Levy   KS4
  • The Siege - Helen Dunmore   KS4
  • Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell   KS4
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy   KS4
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy   KS4
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte   KS3
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen   KS3
  • The Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier   KS3 
     
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Having looked carefully at the capital development needs of the school and the level of funding currently available to us, we now intend to focus our energy on restoring Lady's Close House.

This is the most historic building on the school site and is central to every girl's development at WGGS. Lady's Close is the Y7 base, where pupils have their own space and Form Rooms. The girls have special affection for the building because it represents the start of their careers at WGGS. The grand old house is also the home of the English Department.

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