Preparing for Year 9 Learning
English
Some friendly guidance and suggestions for Year 9 bookworms and reluctant readers alike to while away the time over your long summer holiday! We hope that there are plenty of titles to suit all tastes and reading abilities. There is a distinct mixture of established authors and new writers, and the titles have been divided looly into subject areas for your convenience. Do u a arch engine to check the ones you like the sound of; you will be able to e the blurb or read information about the novel. Some of the texts and their authors will be familiar to you, so you can begin by ticking ones off you have already read! Many of the recommendations will be available in your local library as well as at MSJ; also, if you wish to buy them, they should all easily be found on-line or in a reputable bookshop. Any book marked with * are en as a good starting-point for EAL students or readers who find it tricky to tackle long or demanding texts.销售案例
Coming of Age novels
The explore a wide range of life experiences of young people in various ttings and situations, as they grow, develop and react to the adult world around them, leaving childhood behind. A number of
them are great pre-twentieth century classics; others are written in a more modern style: all are highly recommended for their content and pro style. The nineteenth-century novels amongst them can be a great introduction to Victorian pro to prepare you for the challenges of IGCSE English Literature:
*Carrie’s War; *The Peppermint Pig by Nina Bawden
*Chine Cinderella by Adeline Jen Mah
*Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
The Go- Between; The Shrimp and the Anemone by L.P. Hartley
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
双赢英文The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
*Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells
*The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
观沧海译文A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
中秋节快乐英文怎么说*The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
The Sun in the Morning by M.M. Kaye (autobiography of childhood and adolescence in India)
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A Room with a View by E.M.Forster
*The Runaways by Ruth Thomas
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No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull
*Sumitra’s Story;*Rainbows of the Gutter by Rukshana Smith
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Novels t in particular historical times
The stories are t across a wide range of different periods in history from the Ancient World to after the Second World War, and some are beyond our shores; some of them are by contemporary writers, others by earlier ones. It is particularly important as you study Language and Literature higher up the School to be familiar with times and places that are different from our own modern lives, so you might like to try them now:
*War Hor; *Private Peaceful *An Elephant in the Garden; *Sparrow; *Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo
Testament of Youth (an autobiography of a school girl who wins a place at Oxford University and then becomes a VAD nur in WW1) by Vera Brittain
All Quiet on the Western Front by E. M. Remarque
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
The Girl with the Pearl Earring; Burning Bright; Remarkable Creatures; The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Spies by Michael Frayn
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
*Smith by Leon Garfield
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Between Shades of Grey by Ruth Sepetys
*Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D.Taylor
Rebecca; The King’s General; Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne d u Maurier
Remembrance; The Medici Seal; The Nostradamus Prophecy; Spy for the Queen of Scots by Theresa Breslin
Of Mice and Men;*The Pearl by John Steinbeck
*Song for a Dark Queen;* The Shield Ring by Romary Sutcliff
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
Love for Lydia; Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. Bates
Every Man for Himlf; The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
*Cur on the Sea by Geoffrey Trea
Frost in May by Antonia White
The Poldark novels by Winston Graham
荆轲刺秦王原文及翻译Ghost stories, thrillers, tales of the unexpected
bookdownQuite a medley of different fiction to keep you intrigued, in suspen and, at times, fearful! They will make interesting inspiration for your creation of exciting narratives:
The Woman in Black; The Mist in the Mirror; The Small Hand; Mrs de Winter (this novel is the quel to Daphne d u Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’) by Susan Hill
*Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin
成都游戏开发培训The Signalman by Charles Dickens
*The Scarecrows by Robert Westall
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
*King of the Shadows by Susan Cooper
The Haunting by Margaret Mahyresult
Tales of the Unexpected; More Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
Hauntings; Supernatural Tales by Vernon Lee
Rebecca; The Hou on the Strand; My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
*The Crowfield Cur by Pat Walsh
Elidor by Alan Garner
Revolver; The Kiss of Death by Marcus Sedgwick
*The Haunting of Jessica Raven by Anne Halam
*The Devil in the Fog by Leon Garfield
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