National Curriculum Recommended Authors for KS3

New Windmills Fiction 11-14 | Short Stories 11-14 | New Windmills Fiction 14-16+ | Short Stories 14-16+ | Drama

National Curriculum Recommended Authors

The novels, collections of short stories and plays listed below are by authors recommended in the New National Curriculum for Key Stage 3.

New Windmills Fiction 11-14
Malorie Blackman Words Last Forever		Anita Desai The Village by the Sea
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol		Alan Gibbons Blood Pressure
Willis Hall The Last Vampire		Anthony Horowitz Skeleton Key
Elizabeth Laird The Garbage King		Elizabeth Laird Red Sky in the Morning
Joan Lingard Tell the Moon to Come Out		Joan Lingard Me and My Shadow
Joan Lingard Across the Barricades		Jack London White Fang
Jan Mark Heathrow Nights		$Kensuke\ss Kingdom$ Michael Morpurgo Kensuke's Kingdom
Michael Morpurgo Why the Whales Came		$Arthur\c High King of Britian$ Michael Morpurgo Arthur, High King of Britain
Beverley Naidoo The Other Side of Truth		Celia Rees Truth or Dare
Philip Reeve Mortal Engines		Marcus Sedgewick The Foreshadowing
RL Stevenson Treasure Island		Robert Swindells Blitzed
Robert Swindells Ruby Tanya		Robert Swindells Stone Cold
$Roll of Thunder\c Hear My Cry$ Mildred D Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry		HG Wells The Time Machine
HG Wells The War of the Worlds		Robert Westall The Machine Gunners
Benjamin Zephaniah Gangsta Rap		Benjamin Zephaniah Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah Face

Short Stories 11-14
Michael Morpurgo From Hereabout Hill		Michael Morpurgo Singing for Mrs Pettigrew
Michael Morpurgo Canon Fire		Beverley Naidoo Out of Bounds
Various Authors Brave New Words

New Windmills Fiction 14-16+
Maya Angelou I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings		$The Handmaid\ss Tale$ Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice		Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens Great Expectations		Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
George Eliot Silas Marner		George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four
George Orwell Animal Farm

Short Stories 14-16+
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Stories		Thomas Hardy The Withered Arm
DH Lawrence Selected Tales

Drama
Benjamin Zephaniah Face: The Play		Bernard Ashley The Play of Little Soldier

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