Recommended Reading & Summer Reading Challenge

"NHGS 99 Recommended Reads" is a list of books that every student should aim to read before they leave NHGS. 

Here are the books on the list for key stage 3 students (the first 33 books), this is good place for incoming students to start. 

Happy Reading!

1 / The Lie Tree

2 / The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

3 / The Reason I Jump

4 / Ghost Boys

5 / Where the River Runs Gold

6 / Watership Down

7 / The Boy at the Back of the Class

8 / Gulliver's Travels

9 / Great Expectations

10 / A Kestrel for a Knave

11 / The Colour of Magic

12 / Terror Kid

13 / Kit's Wilderness

14 / Coram Boy

15 / The Boy in the Tower

16 / The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

17 / Lily and Dunkin

18 / Goodnight Mister Tom

19 / The Hobbit

20 / Wonder

21 / Earthsea

22 / Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

23 / The Sword in the Stone

24 / Life of Pi

25 / Northern Lights

26 / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

27 / The Fault in Our Stars

28 / High Rise Mystery

29 / The War of the Worlds

30 / Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone

31 / War Horse

30 / Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

32 / Alex Ryder Stormbreaker

33 / Chinese Cinderella

To see the full "NHGS 99" (for Key Stage 3 to 5), please click here.

Miss Kent's Summer Reading Challenge

We look forward to welcoming your child to NHGS in September. The single most useful - and arguably entertaining - thing your child can do to prepare for secondary school life is to read regularly over the summer. 

We will be setting your child our own summer reading challenge linked to our NHGS 99 programme. The NHGS 99 is a list of books that we hope Y7s will have read by the time that they leave the school in Y13. We would like them to make a start on the KS3 selection this summer. 

Please show the list to your child and, through the summer holiday, encourage them to meet the 20 minute a day challenge - and aim to read 6 books, including at least one from the NHGS 99 list. Your child will be given a card on Transition Day to record and share what they have read with their English teachers and our LRC manager, Mrs Craven, in September.

There is a link to the card below.