Author: Sarah Bytheway

Year Five Reading Spine

Autumn 1 / Topic: The Vikings	Autumn 2 / Topic: Space	Spring 1 / Topic: Coasts	Spring 2 / Topic: The Victorians	Summer 1 / Topic: The Ancient Maya	Summer 2 / Topic: Our World
Fiction: / Beowulf, Michael Morpurgo / Arthur and the Golden Rope, Joe Todd Stanton / Non-Fiction: / The Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Adventurers! / Poetry: / Beowulf (kenning)	Fiction: / Cosmic , Frank Cottrell-Boyce / Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover / Non-Fiction: / Hidden Figures: The True Story of Fur Black Women and the Space Race / Look Inside: Space / 100 Facts about Space / Tim Peake: Hello, is this planet Earth? / Poetry: / Spaced Out: Space poems chosen by Brian Moses and James Carter	Fiction: / Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce / Floodland, Marcus Sedgwick / Non-Fiction: / Clifftop Crumbles: Newspaper article / Coastal Erosion / (Comprehension Shed Plus) / Poetry: / Crest of White Horses (Comprehension Shed Plus)	Fiction: / Street Child, Berlie Doherty / Non-Fiction: / The Bluest of Blues, Fiona Robinson / Son of the Circus: - A Victorian Story, E.L. Norry / You Wouldn’t Want to be a Victorian Miner! / Poetry: / The Same Inside, Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens	Fiction: / Street Child, Berlie Doherty / Rain Player / Non-Fiction: / The Maya and Chichén Itzá (Time Travel Guides) / Mayan Mystery / Poetry: / Bright Bursts of Colour, Matt Goodfellow / The Rainmaker Danced: John Agard	Fiction: / Bloom, Nicola Skinner / Non-Fiction: / The Incredible Ecosystems of Planet Earth, Rachel Ignotofsky / Poetry: / Poems from a Green & Blue Planet, Sabrina Mahfouz

Reading for Pleasure Recommended choices / (Y5 has a longer list because many children will be off the Reading Scheme)	The Day I Fell into a Fairytale, Ben Miller / The Boy Who Made the World Disappear, Ben Miller / 1,000 Year Old Boy, Ross Welford / Ella on the Outside, Cath Howe / Iguana Boy Saves the World, James Bishop / Far From Home, Berlie Doherty / Let It Go (Frozen Twisted Tale), Jen Calonita / Hetty Feather, Jacqueline Wilson / Gaslight. Eloise Williams / Twelve Minutes to Midnight, Christopher Edge / The Jamie Drake Equation, Christopher Edge / George’s Secret Key to the Universe, Stephen Hawking / The Ship of Shadows, Maria Kuzniar / Young, Gifted and Black, Jamia Wilson / I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast, Michael Holland,Phillip Giordano / Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson / Black Powder, Ally Sherrick / The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan / Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World, Konnie Huq / Varmints, Helen Ward / Factopia, Kate Hale / The Incredible Record Smashers, Jenny Pearson / The House with Chicken Legs, Sophie Anderson / Dragon Mountain, Katie and Kevin Tsang / The Saga of Erik the Viking, Terry Jones / Riddle of the Runes, Janina Ramirez / A Viking Adventure (The Histronauts), Frances Durkin

Year Five Reading Spine