Reading Badge

The MYP students are invited and encouraged to read more than just the prescribed literature for lessons. The librarians and language teachers prepare a list of recommended age-appropriate books for the reading badge, which the students read and report about to the Language and Literature assistants. To complete the reading badge, they must read and report 10 books by 29 May 2026.

Reading List

6M

1. Huda Fahmy: Yes, I’m Hot in This (graphic novel)
2. Pam Muñoz Ryan: Esperanza Rising
3. Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan: Save Me a Seat
4. R. J. Palacio: Wonder
5. Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
6. Thanhha Lai: Inside Out & Back Again (poetry)
7. Jack Thorne: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play)
8. Margaret Simpson: Top Ten Irish Legends
9. Margaret Simpson: Arthurian Legends
10. Michael Cox: Viking Legends
11. Terry Deary: Greek Legends
12. Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (short story)
13. Barry Denenberg: Nelson Mandela – No Easy Walk to Freedom
14. Rosa Parks: My Story
15. Malala Yousafzai: I am Malala
16. Kay Woodward: What Would She Do?
17. Fabio Geda: In the Sea There are Crocodiles
18. Roald Dahl: Going Solo
19. Roald Dahl: Rhyme Stew (poetry)
20. Roald Dahl: Revolting Rhymes (poetry)
21. Sam Taplin: The Usborne Book of Poetry (poetry)
22. Jack London: White Fang
23. Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
24. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
25. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
26. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
27. Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
28. H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
29. The Arabian Nights (London: Bloomsbury, 1994)
30. Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
31. Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
32. C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
33. Cornelia Funke: Inkheart
34. Luc Besson: Arthur and the Minimoys
35. Michael Ende: The Neverending Story
36. Terry Pratchett: Witches Abroad
37. Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black: The Wrath of Mulgarath
38. John Bellairs: The House with a Clock in its Walls
39. Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
40. Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book
41. Anthony Horowitz: Raven’s Gate
42. Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider – Stormbreaker
43. John Grisham: Theodore Boone – Kid Lawyer
44. Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia
45. Michael Morpurgo: War horse
46. John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

7M

1. Rick Riordan: Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer
2. Rick Riordan: The Red Pyramid
3. Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
4. Aiden Thomas: The Sunbearer Trials
5. Kat Cho: Wicked Fox
6. Tae Keller: When You Trap a Tiger
7. Rebecca Roanhorse: Race to the Sun
8. Sayantani DasGupta: The Serpent’s Secret
9. Witi Ihimaera: The Whale Rider
10. Philip Pullman: Northern Lights
11. J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
12. Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls
13. Neil Gaiman: Norse Mythology
14. Stephen Fry: Mythos
15. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
16. Morris Gleitzman: Once
17. Lois Lowry: Number the Stars
18. Lisa Moore Ramée: A Good Kind of Trouble
19. Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses
20. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
21. Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
22. S. E. Hinton: The Outsiders
23. Terry Deary: The Vicious Vikings and The Measly Middle Ages
24. Marguerite De Angeli: The Door in the Wall
25. Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy
26. George Orwell: Animal Farm
27. Lois Lowry: The Giver
28. Jeanne DuPrau: The City of Ember
29. Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
30. Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days
31. Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
32. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
33. Louis Sachar: Holes
34. Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
35. Sue Townsend: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole: Aged 13 ¾
36. Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
37. John Green: The Fault in our Stars
38. Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone
39. Tara Sim: Timekeeper
40. Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game
41. William Goldman: The Princess Bride
42. Cassandra Clare: City of Bones
43. Neil Gaiman: Stardust
44. Terry Pratchett: Reaper Man
45. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

8M/I

1. William Shakespeare: Sonnets (poetry)
2. William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (play)    
3. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (play)
4. Randa Abdel-Fattah: Does my Head Look Big in This?
5. Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
6. Linzi Glass: Ruby Red
7. William Nicholson: The Wind Singer
8. Christopher Paolini: Eragon
9. Ransom Riggs: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
10. Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines
11. Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!
12. Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
13. Leigh Bardugo: Six of Crows
14. Stephen King: The Dark Tower – The Gunslinger
15. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
16. Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
17. Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun
18. Toranosuke Shimada: Robo Sapiens – Tales of Tomorrow (graphic novel)
19. Suzanne Collins: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
20. Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go
21. James Dashner: The Maze Runner
22. Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem
23. Frank Herbert: Dune
24. Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
25. Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Terror and Detection (short stories)
26. Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (novella)
27. H. P. Lovecraft: Short Stories
28. George Bernard Shaw.: Pygmalion (play)
29. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
30. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
31. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
32. J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
33. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
34. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
35. Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
36. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
37. John Green: Turtles all the Way Down
38. Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
39. Jay Asher: Th1rteen R3asons Why
40. Sara Shepard: Pretty Little Liars
41. Karen M. McManus: One of Us Is Lying
42. Holly Bourne: The Manifesto on How to be Interesting
43. Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down
44. Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
45. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (short story)