Booklist
The Middle Years (6 to 9-plus)
The spread of ability broadens as children grow older. Confidence and reading readiness levels vary enormously too. A class of 8-year-olds may well have a four-year range, or broader, in terms of reading ability.
So these lists do not have age recommendations. Instead the number of pages in each book is given as that is a fairly reasonable, though not wholly accurate, indicator of the demands of the book.
Interest can be very influential in boys' choices of books. They are capable of reading at a fairly low ability level if they find something 'boring', but will slog away painstakingly at something which really fires them!
In this section:
- Shorter Books
- Aliens, Ghosts and Monsters
- Football and Feelings
- Funnies
- All Things New
- Picture Books for Older Readers
- Longer Books
