KS3 prose resources for English teachers - Teachit English

From the oh so popular texts (Holes, we're looking at you) to the more obscure (how many of you are teaching The Breadwinner?), there's a vast range of prose resources to choose from.

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (27)

A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines (8)

Abomination by Robert Swindells (8)

Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard (6)

Adam's Common by David Wiseman (1)

The Ant Colony by Jenny Valentine (3)

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (11)

The Bike by Alan Sillitoe (1)

Billy the Kid by Michael Morpurgo (1)

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1)

The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins (11)

Blitzed by Robert Swindells (11)

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd (2)

Boy by Roald Dahl (12)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (5)

Brave New Words (11)

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (5)

Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells (6)

Buddy by Nigel Hinton (7)

Bumface by Morris Gleitzman (1)

The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo (1)

Canon Fire (10)

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (5)

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan (2)

Comparing short stories (8)

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (2)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (5)

Darkside by Tom Becker (10)

Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells (6)

The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross (8)

The Doomspell by Cliff McNish (1)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (The Strange Case of) by Robert Louis Stevenson (1)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1)

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (1)

Face by Benjamin Zephaniah (2)

Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde (2)

The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman (1)

Flour Babies by Anne Fine (2)

The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick (11)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (5)

Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter (1)

Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah (10)

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively (1)

Goggle Eyes by Anne Fine (10)

Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian (5)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (11)

Grinny by Nicholas Fisk (1)

Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz (2)

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (3)

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (10)

Hold On by Alan Gibbons (1)

Holes by Louis Sachar (26)

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (20)

I am David by Anne Holm (5)

I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill (2)

Introducing Dickens (27)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1)

Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo (2)

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo (1)

King of Shadows by Susan Cooper (3)

The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall (1)

The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean (7)

Life as we knew it by Susan Pfeffer (1)

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1)

The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall (7)

Madame Doubtfire (5)

The Midnight Fox (1)

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce (4)

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs (5)

My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick (12)

Myths and Legends (2)

Nightmare in Yellow by Fredric Brown (1)

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (13)

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman (7)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (3)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (18)

Once by Morris Gleitzman (3)

The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo (19)

The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1)

Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman (10)

The Pigman by Paul Zindel (1)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1)

The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (12)

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (10)

The Railway Children (Ladybird abridged version) (1)

Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah (4)

Roald Dahl's short stories (5)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (2)

Room 13 by Robert Swindells (2)

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman (4)

Scarper Jack and the Bloodstained Room by Christopher Russell (13)

The Secret Diary of Anne Frank (9)

The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman (5)

Shadow of the Minotaur (3)

Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (15)

Short stories (15)

Skellig by David Almond (15)

Smash by Robert Swindells (1)

The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney (2)

Stone Cold by Robert Swindells (24)

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (11)

The Story of King Arthur by Robin Lister (1)

The Bully by Jan Needle (1)

The Maze Runner by James Dashner (3)

The Messenger Bird by Ruth Eastham (1)

Throwaways by Ian Strachan (3)

Tins by Alex Shearer (11)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (3)

Tony Kytes the Arch-Deceiver by Thomas Hardy (1)

Trash by Andy Mulligan (9)

The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine (6)

Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams (2)

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp (9)

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (1)

Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman (7)

War Game by Michael Foreman (1)

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1)

Ways to live forever by Sally Nicholls (3)

Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin (15)

Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo (3)

Wilderness by Roddy Doyle (11)

The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (3)

Witch Child by Celia Rees (4)

The Witches by Roald Dahl (3)

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (1)

The Yellowcake Conspiracy by Stephen Davies (21)

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