Literary Canon

Students will begin their St Mary’s Literary Canon reading journey when they join us in Year 7. During afternoon reading time, students read with their Form Tutor and form group. The book lists from September 2021 can be found below. You will notice that some titles are repeated in multiple year groups, this is because our reading calendar was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Author Biography - Jeff Kinney (Born 19 February 1971)

American born Jeff Kinney is definitely one of your favourite authors. You all know him as the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series and his books fly off my library shelves every day!

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Year 7 Books

From September 2021

You Are Awesome by Matt Syed
Peter Pan by James Matthew
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Gospel of Mark
Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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Year 8 Books

From September 2021

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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Year 9 Books

From September 2021

I Am Malala by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Gospel of Mark
After the First Death by Robert Cormier
You Are Awesome by Matt Syed

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