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At Co-op Academy Penny Oaks we want to encourage our pupils to read and to love books; we hope that by introducing them to a wide range of amazing books we will instil a love of reading that will last a lifetime.

The amazing teachers at our school have chosen a selection of beautiful books for our pupils to study. The books were chosen for their engaging stories and illustrations, for their diversity in terms of protected characteristics and their links to our overarching class themes. We hope that this selection of books will engage our children, expose them to a diverse range of characters and help to provide them with a deeper understanding of the wider curriculum. 

 

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Nursery & Reception classes

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Whatever Next! (A Bear Family Book, 2): Murphy, Jill + Free Delivery

Little Red Hen: Amazon.co.uk: Allen, Jonathan: 9780552548120: Books

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The Colour Monster Goes to School: Perfect book to tackle school nerves:  Amazon.co.uk: Llenas, Anna, Llenas, Anna: 9781787415522: Books

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Owl Babies x 30 - Scholastic Shop

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Iris and Isaac: Amazon.co.uk: Rayner, Catherine: 9781848950924: Books

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One Snowy Night : Butler, M. Christina, MacNaughton, Tina: Amazon.co.uk:  Books

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Year One

King Leonard's Teddy (Child's Play Library): Amazon.co.uk: Swan, Phoebe,  Swan, Phoebe: 9781786281838: Books

Dear Earth: Amazon.co.uk: Otter, Isabel, Anganuzzi, Clara: 9781848579415:  Books

The Worst Princess : Kemp, Anna, Ogilvie, Sara: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Somebody Swallowed Stanley: Amazon.co.uk: Roberts, Sarah, Peck, Hannah:  9781407195100: Books

The King Who Banned the Dark: Amazon.co.uk: Haworth-Booth, Emily:  9781843653974: Books

The Secret of Black Rock: 1 : Joe Todd Stanton: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Little Red: Amazon.co.uk: Woollvin, Bethan: 9781561459179: Books

Walt Disney's the Jungle Book (Little Golden Books) : Golden Books  Publishing Company: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Charlotte's Web: 70th Anniversary Edition (A Puffin Book): Amazon.co.uk:  White, E. B., Williams, Garth: 9780141354828: Books

Tad: A big story about a brave minibeast : Davies, Benji: Amazon.co.uk:  Books

In the Castle (Little Board Books): 1: Amazon.co.uk: Anna Milbourne, Benji  Davies, Benji Davies: 9781474971546: Books

How to Save a Whale - A Larks and Fables Story: Nia Joseph, Vimal Chandran:  9789387004368: Amazon.com: Books

Coming Home: Morpurgo, Michael, Hyndman, Kerry + Free Delivery

Year Two

Mixed Up Fairy Tales: Split-Page Book: Robinson, Hilary, Sharratt, Nick +  Free Delivery

Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the Skies : Hancher, Adam:  Amazon.co.uk: Books

Whoever Heard of a Flying Bird?: A Children's Book About Not Giving Up :  Cunliffe, David, Barrera, Ivan: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Here We Are: The phenomenal international bestseller from Oliver Jeffers :  Jeffers, Oliver, Jeffers, Oliver: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Beegu: Deacon, Alexis + Free Delivery

Kites by Simon Mole, Oamul Lu | Waterstones

Cherry Blossom and Paper Planes : Jef Aerts, Sanne te Loo, Sanne te Loo:  Amazon.co.uk: Books

All Through the Night: The People Who Work While We Sleep: Amazon.co.uk:  Polly Faber, Harriet Hobday, Harriet Hobday: 9781839943355: Books

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush  Generation : Benjamin, Baroness Floella, Ewen, Diane: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Poems Aloud: An anthology of poems to read out loud: 1: Amazon.co.uk:  Coelho, Joseph, Gray-Barnett, Daniel: 9780711247680: Books

Secret Sky Garden | Book by Linda Sarah, Fiona Lumbers | Official Publisher  Page | Simon & Schuster UK

On Sudden Hill: Sarah, Linda, Davies, Benji + Free Delivery

The Big Book of the Blue: Yuval Zommer (The Big Book series): Amazon.co.uk:  Zommer, Yuval: 9780500651193: Books

Rain : Usher, Sam: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Small Mouse Big City: Amazon.co.uk: Prescott, Simon, Prescott, Simon:  9781845067601: Books

One World: 30th Anniversary Special Edition: 1 : Foreman, Michael:  Amazon.co.uk: Books

Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet : Pankhurst, Kate, Pankhurst,  Kate: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Lubna and Pebble : Meddour, Wendy, Egnéus, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Dolphin Boy: Amazon.co.uk: Morpurgo, Michael, Foreman, Michael:  9781842704486: Books

   
 






 


 
 

Year Three


Once Upon a Snowstorm: Richard Johnson: 1 : Johnson, Richard: Amazon.co.uk:  Books

Cinderella of the Nile: One Story, Many Voices Series : Naidoo, Beverley,  Vafaeian, Marjan: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning by Laurence Anholt


Herakles: Book 5- Early Myths: Kids Books on Greek Myth by Simon Spence


There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom by James Sellick, Frann Preston-Gannon |  Waterstones

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The Wild Way Home: Kirtley, Sophie + Free Delivery

Myths, Monsters and Mayhem in Ancient Greece: Davies, James, Davies, James  + Free Delivery

Habitat Destruction (Climate Change): Amazon.co.uk: Harriet Brundle:  9781912502882: Books

Blue House: Phoebe Wahl + Free Delivery

Enzo's Egg by Twinkl Originals

The Breakfast Club Adventures by Marcus Rashford - 9781529076622 - Pan  Macmillan

Greta and the Giants: inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world:  1 : Tucker, Zoë, Persico, Zoe: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Revolting Rhymes (Colour Edition): Dahl, Roald, Blake, Quentin + Free  Delivery

Who Let the Gods Out?: the first EPIC adventure in Maz Evans's laugh-out-loud  hilarious series: Amazon.co.uk: Evans, Maz: 9781910655412: Books

 

Year Four

Oliver Twist (Usborne Young Reading) (Young Reading Series 3):  Amazon.co.uk: Sebag-Montefiore, Mary, Ablett, Barry: 9780746077078: Books

Leather Shoe Charlie: Industrial Revolution (UK) (Economy and Culture  Storybooks) : Kim, Gyeong-Hwa, Balbusso, Anna, Balbusso, Elena:  Amazon.co.uk: Books

 

A Christmas in Time (The Time-Seekers) : Sally Nicholls: Amazon.co.uk: Books



Plague by Ann Turnbull, Akbar Ali | Waterstones

Plague by Ben Hubbard | Hachette UK


The Great Fire of London: Anniversary Edition of the Great Fire of 1666:  Amazon.co.uk: Adams, Emma, Weston Lewis, James: 9780750298209: Books

The Great Fire: A City in Flames (National Archives): Amazon.co.uk: Ann  Turnbull: 9781408186862: Books

One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of Gambia (Millbrook Picture Books)

The Girl Who Walked On Air: 1: Amazon.co.uk: Carroll, Emma: 9780571297160:  Books

Journey to the River Sea: Eva Ibbotson: Amazon.co.uk: Eva Ibbotson:  9781447265689: Books

Romans topic books for children - School Reading List

You Wouldn't Want to be A Roman Soldier! Extended Edition : David Stewart,  David Antram: Amazon.co.uk: Books


Escape from Pompeii : Balit, Christina: Amazon.co.uk: Books

How things happen in the natural world Year 5 Reader 9 (PELICAN GUIDED  READING & WRITING): Amazon.co.uk: Sparks Linfield, Rachael, Body, Wendy:  9780582433298: Books










 

Year Five







Varmints: Amazon.co.uk: Ward, Helen: 9781848775053: Books

 

Holes: Louis Sachar : Sachar, Louis: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 : Becker,  Helaine, Phumiruk, Dow: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Black in Time

Space Oddity: an out-of-this-world adventure from bestselling author  Christopher Edge: 1: Amazon.co.uk: Edge, Christopher: 9781912626861: Books

Atlas of Adventures: Wonders of the World: 1: Amazon.co.uk: Handicott, Ben,  Letherland, Lucy: 9781786032171: Books

Can You See Me?: A powerful story of autism, empathy and kindness : Scott,  Libby, Westcott, Rebecca: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Little Elizabeth: The Young Princess Who Became Queen : Wilding, Valerie,  Gregory, Pauline: Amazon.co.uk: Books

The Fart that Changed the World (the Top 5 Children's Fiction Bestseller!):  Amazon.co.uk: Mangan, Stephen, Mangan, Anita: 9780702315008: Books

Tales From Beyond the Rainbow

Eyewitness Victorians book

Investigating the Victorians: Amazon.co.uk: Alison Honey, Peter Stevenson:  9780707801674: Books

Everest by Alexandra Stewart and Joe Todd- Stanton (Bloomsbury)

 

Year Six

War Horse : Morpurgo, Michael: Amazon.co.uk: Books


Boy 87: a multi award-winning children's novel about refugees, friendship  and survival: Amazon.co.uk: Ele Fountain: 9781782691976: Books