Read it! Loved it! Girls aged 11



	Feeling glum, bored, braindead, and lazy? Do you need motivation, meaning and a message to make the most of the wonder that is life? Read on, get inspired....



	The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (2012)

	Tuck everlasting by Natalie Babbit (1975)

	Cloud busting by Malorie Blackman (2004)

	Sadako and the thousand paper cranes by Eleanor Coerr (1977)

	Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (2002)

	The snow goose by Paul Gallico (1940)

	Joey Pigza swallowed the key by Jack Gantos (1998) First book in the Joey Pigza series

	Two weeks with the queen by Morris Gleitzman (1989)

	The long walk by Kerry Greenwood (2004)

	The silver donkey by Sonya Hartnett (2004)

	Ugly by Robert Hoge (2015)

	I am David by Anne Holm (1963)

	Kensuke's kingdom by Michael Morpurgo (1999)

	Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1989) First book in the Hatchet series

	Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1976) Second book in the Logan family saga series Can be read & loved without having read the previous book in this series

	Becoming Joe DiMaggio by Maria Testa (2002)

	Blueback by Tim Winton (1997)



	A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens (1843)

	Out of my mind by Sharon M. Draper (2010)

	George by Alex Gino (2015)

	The endless steppe by Esther Hautzig (1968)

	Red sky in the morning by Elizabeth Laird (1988)

	Sky hawk by Gill Lewis (2011)

	Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah (1999)

	Shadow by Michael Morpurgo (2010)

	Wonder by R.J. Palacio (2012)

	Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar (1983)

	The little prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery (1943)

	A long walk to water by Linda Sue Park (2010)

	Geek girl by Holly Smale (2013) First book in the Geek girl series

	The cay by Theodore Taylor (1969) First book in The cay series

	Mr Stink by David Walliams (2009)



	The tiger rising by Kate DiCamillo (2001)

	Boy overboard by Morris Gleitzman (2002) First book in the Boy overboard series

	The phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)