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Category: Action/Thriller/Mystery
- The Mystery of the Screaming Skull by Peter Warr
- A Game of Life and Death by Triona Campbell
- Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
- Lockwood & Co The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud.
- When our worlds collided
- The Wolf Road
- And The Stars Were Burning Brightly
- House of Hollow
- Kemosha of the Caribbean by Alex Wheatle
- The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
- The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
- Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
- The Dark Lady by Akala
- Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
- Street Child by Berlie Doherty
- Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
- Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeymi
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks
- The Island by C L Taylor
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (play) by Simon Stephens (adapted from Mark Haddon)
Category: Amplify: Guest Blogs
- How Historical Fiction and Objects Help Children Learn About Everyday Lives
- Creating Space to be Heard: Student Voice and the English Classroom
- Navigating the Maze: Attempting to unravel the concept of a coaching culture in education.
- Can an Early Years Approach Inspire the Whole of Primary School?
- Why we need to warm up ‘cold call’
- Maximising the Value: What Can the Education System Learn From the World of Continuous Improvement?
- ‘Finding my Lane’ – an imposter syndrome tale
- Teaching Writing: Reflections from a Head of Faculty
- The Power of Simplicity: Supporting Reluctant Writers at Key Stage 4
- ‘Becoming a Writer’.
- Talk for Writing
- Improving Non-Fiction Writing
- The Writing Revolution Resources – An Early Career Perspective
- Teaching Writing: a Work in Progress
- A Writing Curriculum
- Using Word Classes to Empower Struggling Writers
- Promoting Writing for Pleasure
Category: Amplify: Women who Write
Category: Biography/Autobiography
- Born A Crime
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Reaching for the Moon: The autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
- My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
- Chinese Cindarella by Adeline Yen Mah
Category: Black Protagonist
- The Eerie-on-Sea Mysteries by Thomas Taylor
- If My Words Had Wings by Danielle Jawando
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Billy and the Dragon by Nadia Shireen
- Look Up by Nathan Bryon
- The Extraordinary Gardener by Sam Boughton
- Have you seen Elephant? by Dave Barrow
Category: Books by non-white authors
- Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence
- Wild Song by Candy Gourlay
- If They Come For Us by Fatimah AsgharIf
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Steady for This by Nathanael Lessore
- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
- Small Island
- I Am The Subway
- Safiyyah’s War
- When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
- Ellie Pillai is Brown by Christine Pillainayagam
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Rat by Patrice Lawrence
- The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail
- When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
- Home by Toni Morrison
- A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe
- Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Sawbones by Catherine Johnson
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla
- The Tiffin by Mahtab Narsimhan
- Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi
- Poor by Caleb Femi
- The Cream by Mitzie Simms-Williams
- I Am Thunder by Muhammad Khan
- Chinglish By Sue Cheung
- Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- The Game Weavers by Rebecca Zahabi
- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- PET by Awaeke Emezi
- Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu
- Legendborn by Tracey Deonn
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
- Meridian by Alice Walker
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- The Fat Black Woman’s Poems by Grace Nichols
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Category: Books by women
- After School Crime Club by Hayley Webster
- Crossing The Line by Tia Fisher
- Tidy by Emily Gravett
- The Whale Who Wanted More by Rachel Bright
- Between Snow and Wolf by Helen Canac and Agnes Dormergue.
- This Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell
- Children of the Stone City by
- The Way of Dog By Zana Fraillon.
- Bad Influence by Tamsin Winter
- October October by Katya Balen
- Unraveller
- Small Things Like These
- Black Butterflies
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
- Boy 87 by Ele Fountain
- The Space We’re In by Katya Balan
- Wonder by R J Palacio
- Beverly Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
- The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
- Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
- One by Sarah Crossan
- The Bone Sparrow by Zana Frallion
- When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
- Monsters by Sharon Dogar
- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
- Maggot Moon by Sally Garner
- Becoming Jo by Sophie McKenzie
- Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
Category: Comedy
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Osbert the Avenger by Christopher William Hill
- The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Category: Drama
- Tsunami Girl by Julian Sedgwick
- Our Day Out by Willy Russell
- Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
Category: Dystopia
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Category: Explores disability
- The Little Big Things by Henry Fraser
Category: explores prejudice
Category: EYFS
- The Storm Whale by Benji Davies
Category: Fantasy
- Lightfall by Tim Probert
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
- The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti
Category: Gothic/Horror
- The Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart
- Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Category: Graphic Novel
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan
Category: Guest Blogs
Category: Historical Fiction
- The Wall Between Us
- The Promise by Damon Galgut
- Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
- After the War – From Auschwitz to Ambleside by Tom Palmer
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- When the Guns Fall Silent by James Riordan
- Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah
- Once by Morris Gleitzman
Category: Jennifer's Blogs
- A Writing Curriculum (Part 1)
- English Curriculum and ‘The Spherical Cow’…
- HWRK Magazine: Creative Writing and Self-Regulation
- ‘Checking out me [grammar]’
- GCSE Narrative Writing: Form Fragments
- Visualise Metaphor
- Revealing the master plan…
- Grammar for (academic) writing: sentences working hard…
- Re-thinking Dual Coding: Visuospatial Modelling in English
- The Power to Choose
- A literacy post…
- Modelling the Work Review
- What does teaching metacognitively look like?
- Macbeth Booklet: a work in progress
- What are we reading for? A helpful list for students…
- Knowledge and Skill Audits: know your team
- Time for a change
- ‘Hollow’ by Vanessa Kisuule
- Language and Power
- Write like a… short story writer
- Zero Written Feedback: a trial
- Storming the Citadel: a quest for cultural capital
- Poetry 2: Knowledge and Revision
- Poetry 1: Key Principles
- Quotation Revision and Confidence!
- Unseen Poetry Without the Stress…
- Call me a ‘ball-breaker’ one more time…
- Wellbeing: the subtle art of saying “no”; saying “not yet”, and asking the right questions…
- Words of the Week: what we do…
- Challenge for All: #PracPed18
- Seven ways I’ve kicked my homework habit…
- Memory and Recall: Practical Strategies for a Linear World
- Vocabulary Flood
- differentiation (with a small ‘d’)
- 27 English reading and analysis resources which work!
- A Level Literature Ideas – #3: Mood Boards
- A Level Literature Ideas – #2: Essay Planning
- A Level Literature Ideas – #1: Writing Introductions
- Vocabulary Project: Part 2 – technical terminology for high ability learners
- Apparently, I will do anything for a nice pen…
- Vocabulary Project: Part 1- Rationale and Launch #appletonacademy
- Five displays which work…
- What I learned from spending a year in the wrong school…
- What happens in Slam Club, stays in Slam Club…
- My battle with “teacher talk”, plus tips for winning the skirmishes.
- Doodling in the English Classroom
- Marginal Gains with Controlled Assessments
- Universal Panacea? The Number 1 Shift in UK Education I Wish to See in My Lifetime… Shake the Dust
- 5 Reasons why you should bring Spoken Word into your classroom…
- Poetry Writing 1 – Symbolism
- The Beginning
Category: KS1
- The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
- Little Echo
Category: KS2
- Swimming to the Moon by Jane Elson
Category: KS3
- The Beacon by Susan Hill
- I am the Minotaur by Anthony McGowan
- Abomination by Robert Swindells
Category: KS4
- The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Category: KS5
Category: Leadership
Category: Less Confident Readers
- The Truth of Things by Anthony McGowan
Category: Non-Fiction
Category: Novels
- Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
- Being Alive: the sequel to Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Billy Elliot by Melvin Burgess
- Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Category: Personal Reflection
Category: Picturebook
Category: Poetry
Category: PSHE
Category: Resources
- Inauguration Day Poem by Amanda Gorman
Category: Sci-Fi
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Category: Series
Category: Short Stories
Category: Teaching Ideas
Category: Teen Protagonist
Category: The Reading List Project
- When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
- Twelve Minutes to Midnight by Christopher Edge
- Category: LGBTQIA+
- Category: Romance
  - 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Category: Uncategorized
Category: Verse Novels

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