Top 100 recommended Year 5 books
Brought to you by The Reader Teacher

Reading Rocks price:
£660.82
The Reader Teacher has chosen 100 recommended reads for Year 5 pupils, aged 9 to 10 years old. In the selection you will find: a wide range of novels to engage all readers, poetry collections to share and enjoy, fact-filled information texts and graphic novels.
The Reader Teacher Top 100 Recommended Reads Book Packs contain all of the titles from the relevant Reader Teacher list as displayed on their website. From time to time, a book in the list will be unavailable. When this happens, we will select a suitable replacement to complete your book pack. A full list of the books is shown below or you can download it from The Teacher Reader website.
If you would like a bespoke list creating specific to your school’s curriculum, we can offer this service through our primary school book services page.
You can choose to buy now with credit / debit card or PayPal by adding the product to the cart below OR fill out the form below to have an invoice sent to your accounts department.
Enquire using the form to buy 50 selected titles!
The Reader Teacher has chosen 100 recommended reads for Year 5 pupils, aged 9 to 10 years old. In the selection you will find: a wide range of novels to engage all readers, poetry collections to share and enjoy, fact-filled information texts and graphic novels.
From time to time this list may change - you can always find and download the most up to list of what the pack contains on The Reader Teacher website.
Title | Format |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Paperback / softback |
Running on the Roof of the World | Paperback / softback |
Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls | Paperback / softback |
Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow : The most joyful book you'll read this year! | Paperback / softback |
The Vanishing Trick | Paperback / softback |
Sky Song | Paperback / softback |
A Pinch of Magic | Paperback / softback |
The Wizards of Once : Book 1 | Paperback / softback |
The Storm Keeper's Island : Storm Keeper Trilogy 1 | Paperback / softback |
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom : Rejacketed | Paperback / softback |
Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1) | Paperback / softback |
Fighting Fantasy:The Warlock of Firetop Mountain | Paperback / softback |
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good | Paperback / softback |
Wonderscape | Paperback / softback |
Malamander | Paperback / softback |
The Promise | Paperback / softback |
Viking Boy | Paperback / softback |
A Pocketful of Stars | Paperback / softback |
The Bad Beginning | Paperback / softback |
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief : The major new hit fantasy series | Hardback |
My Brother Is a Superhero : Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize | Paperback / softback |
The Wolves in the Walls | Mixed media product |
The Strangeworlds Travel Agency : Book 1 | Paperback / softback |
Love That Dog | Paperback / softback |
Good News : Why the World is Not as Bad as You Think. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2022 | Paperback / softback |
The Valley of Lost Secrets | Paperback / softback |
Being Me : Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings | Paperback / softback |
Who Let the Gods Out? | Paperback / softback |
The Secret of Nightingale Wood | Paperback / softback |
Shackleton's Journey | Hardback |
Tall Story | Paperback / softback |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Paperback / softback |
The White Giraffe : Book 1 | Paperback / softback |
The Roman Mysteries: The Thieves of Ostia : Book 1 | Paperback / softback |
The Secret Garden | Hardback |
A Street Dog Named Pup | Paperback / softback |
British Museum: A History of the World in 25 Cities | Hardback |
Mythologica : An encyclopedia of gods, monsters and mortals from ancient Greek | Hardback |
The Undefeated | Paperback / softback |
Swallows And Amazons | Paperback / softback |
The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle | Paperback / softback |
Race to the Frozen North : The Matthew Henson Story | Paperback / softback |
Rise Up : Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories (Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2020) | Hardback |
Rumaysa: A Fairytale | Paperback / softback |
The Umbrella Mouse | Paperback / softback |
The Secret of Platform 13 : 25th Anniversary Illustrated Edition | Paperback / softback |
Rooftoppers | Paperback / softback |
Moth : An Evolution Story | Paperback / softback |
Frankie's World | Paperback / softback |
Moondial | Paperback / softback |
Smile | Paperback / softback |
Charlie and Me : 421 Miles From Home | Paperback / softback |
Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure | Paperback / softback |
A Boy Called Hope | Paperback / softback |
The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker | Paperback / softback |
How To Live Forever | Paperback / softback |
The Highwayman | Paperback / softback |
High-Rise Mystery | Paperback / softback |
The Haunting of Aveline Jones : The first spine-tingling book in the Aveline Jones series | Paperback / softback |
Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers | Paperback / softback |
The Boy At the Back of the Class | Paperback / softback |
Bloom : The Surprising Seeds of Sorrel Fallowfield | Paperback / softback |
Beetle Boy | Paperback / softback |
The Goldfish Boy | Paperback / softback |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Paperback / softback |
A Girl Called Owl | Paperback / softback |
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | Paperback / softback |
The Garden of Lost Secrets | Paperback / softback |
Asha & the Spirit Bird | Paperback / softback |
The Apprentice Witch | Paperback / softback |
The Animals of Farthing Wood Modern Classic | Paperback / softback |
Amari and the Night Brothers | Paperback / softback |
I Am Not a Label : 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present | Paperback / softback |
The Imaginary | Paperback / softback |
The Infinite | Paperback / softback |
Just William | Paperback / softback |
The Ship of Shadows | Paperback / softback |
Frostheart | Paperback / softback |
The Lost Words : Rediscover our natural world with this spellbinding book | Hardback |
Roller Girl | Paperback / softback |
The Silver Sword | Paperback / softback |
The Neverending Story | Paperback / softback |
The Railway Children | Paperback / softback |
Unreal! | Paperback / softback |
Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Bookwanderers | Paperback / softback |
Street Child | Paperback / softback |
Mayhem Mission | Paperback / softback |
Mary Poppins | Paperback / softback |
The Phantom Tollbooth | Paperback / softback |
Llama Out Loud! | Paperback / softback |
Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties | Paperback / softback |
The Last Spell Breather | Paperback / softback |
The Last Bear | Paperback / softback |
Dragon Mountain | Paperback / softback |
The Demon Headmaster | Paperback / softback |
Cosmic | Paperback / softback |
The Clockwork Crow | Paperback / softback |
A Kid in My Class : Poems | Hardback |
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Paperback / softback |
The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy | Paperback / softback |
Apply to pay through your accounts department
We understand schools – Can’t or Don’t want to pay by card or PayPal? No problem, fill in the form below and select which boxes you would like and we’ll take care of the rest directly with your accounts department.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.