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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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