If you are looking for some suggestions to keep young eyes off screens and on the page, look no further! The following list is a mixture of classics, young adult fiction, new publications and old favourites. Recommendations from friends prove to be the most reliable for making reading choices, so I am sure that you can find something for your child from this list provided by their peers.

Happy holidays: happy reading!

Annie Mayes

Malorie Blackman – Black and White, Noughts and Crosses

John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

Meg Cabot - Insatiable

Lucy Christopher – Stolen

Cassandra Clare – The Infernal Devices trilogy

Paul Coelho – The Pilgrimage

Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games

Frank Cottrell Boyce - Millions

Joe Craig - The Jimmy Coates series

Gail Foreman – If I Stay, If I Was Here

Robert Galbraith –The Cuckoo’s Calling

John Green – The Fault in Our Stars, Looking For Alaska

Simon Herrick - Relentless

Charlie Higson – The Enemy, The Dead, The Fear, The Sacrifice, The Hunted

Anthony Horowitz – The Alex Rider series

Piper Kerman – Orange is the New Black

Stephen King – Cell, Dreamcatcher, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Jeff Kinney - The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia

Sarah J. Maas – The Throne of Glass series

Yann Martels – The Life of Pi

Sophie Mckenzie– Girl Missing, Sister Missing, Missing Me

Marissa Meyer – The Lunar Chronicles

Michael Morpurgo – Little Foxes, Kasper Prince of Cats

Robert Muchmore – The Cherub series, The Henderson’s Boys series

Patrick Ness - The Chaos Walking trilogy

George Orwell – Animal Farm

Tom Palmer - Own Goal

Christopher Paolini – Eragon, Eldest, Brisinger, Inheritance

Rainbow Rowell – Eleanor and Park

Rick Riordan – The Percy Jackson/ Heroes of Olympus series

Veronica Roth – The Divergent series

J.K. Rowling – The Harry Potter series

Darren Shan – The Vampire’s Assistant

Akil Sharma – Family Life

Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle

John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men

David Walliams – Gangsta Granny, Rat Burger

Gabrielle Zevin – All These Things I’ve Done