11 Plus Recommended Reading List
Updated: Feb 6, 2022
Recommended reading list to improve comprehension and vocabulary for 11 plus exams.
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Title | Author | Reading Difficulty |
Little Lord Fauntleroy | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Easier |
The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Easier |
The Railway Children | E Nesbit | Easier |
The Wind In The Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Easier |
Swallows & Amazons | Arthur Ransome | Easier |
Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers | Easier |
The Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild | Easier |
The Lion the Witch & The Wardrobe | CS Lewis | Easier |
Charlotte’s Web | EB White | Easier |
Tom’s Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce | Easier |
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Joan Aiken | Easier |
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Judith Kerr | Easier |
The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | Average |
The Call of the Wild | Jack London | Average |
Watership Down | Richard Adams | Average |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Average |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Average |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | Average |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Average |
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | Average |
The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi | Average |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | Roger Lancelyn Green | Average |
Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley | Harder |
Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Harder |
Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | Harder |
Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | Harder |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | Harder |
A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Harder |
Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Harder |
The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Harder |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | Harder |
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