How to read with your eyes shut: sequels and series
Sequels and series to get them reading
Years 5 - 6
Joy Cowley, Bow down Shadrach- Mikey, Sky and Hannah have to save the old horse Shadrach from a one-way visit to the glue factory.
- Paula Danziger, Amber Brown series
- Life can be a challenge when your name is the same as a crayon.
- Brian Jacques, Redwall
- Matthias the mouse and his quest for the sword of Martin the Warrior to fight the evil hordes of Cluny the Rat.
- Sherryl Jordan, The Wednesday wizard
- Denzil is just an ordinary wizard's apprentice who finds himself in the twentieth century by mistake
- Emily Rodda, The Deltora quest
- Lief must find the seven lost gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. Only then will the tyranny of the evil Shadow Lord be lifted.
- Emily Rodda, Rowan of Rin
- Sheba the witch has given the villagers of Rin a prophecy that is more like a riddle - a riddle that Rowan must solve if he is to find out the secret of the Mountain.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone- Magic, mystery and Muggles.
- Jon Scieszka, Knights of the kitchen table
- The Time Warp Trio discover they can travel through time thanks to the help or hindrance of a magical book.
- Jacqueline Wilson, The story of Tracy Beaker
- Tracy Beaker wants two things in life - to be adopted, and to be a writer.
- Patricia Wrede, The enchanted forest chronicles
- Princesses don't normally choose to live with dragons, but Cimorene is no ordinary princess - first of the Enchanted Forest chronicles.
Years 7-8
- Diane Duane, So you want to be a wizard
- When Nita retreats to the library to escape some bullies she finds a book she's never seen before - and the title suggests all sorts of possibilities.
- Elizabeth Honey, 45 + 47 Stella Street: and everything that happened
- Hemi tells the story of what really happened in Stella Street when the new people moved in.
Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed life- Cat and his witch sister Gwendolen find themselves in one of the many worlds of the great enchanter Chrestomanci.
- Jack Lasenby, Dead man's head
- Adventures with the Seddon Street gang in a small New Zealand dairy town in the Thirties.
- Jack Lasenby, Because we were the travellers
- A New Zealand in the future, when the heat of the sun limits travel during the day, and all knowledge of technology has been lost, and a boy and his dog must survive on their own.
- Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, plain and tall
- Caleb and Anna don't know what to expect when their father sends for a mail-order bride to join their pioneering life.
- John Marsden, Tomorrow when the war began
- Australia is invaded, and seven teenagers must fight to stay alive and free.
- Garth Nix, The fall
- First in the Seventh Tower series. Tal lives in the mysterious Castle, where a strict hierarchy of ranks controls his every move. But when his father disappears, his life is turned upside down, and a desperate quest to steal a Sunstone becomes even more perilous.
- Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
- A plane-crash, and 13-year-old Brian has only a hatchet to help him survive.
- Robert Westall, The machine-gunners
- Somehow, someone - it could only be boys- had managed to get away with a working machine-gun from a crashed German plane. And someone was keeping it hidden…