Booked Up to reach 2.5 million children in UK
www.bookedup.org.uk


By Christmas over 2 and half million books will have been given to Year 7 pupils across the country through the free books programme Booked Up, since its inception in 2007. Booked Up, which today launches its fourth year, is run by the national literature charity Booktrust, with the aim of encouraging reading for pleasure and independent reading choice.

Booked Up allows each Year 7 pupil to make their own choice of book from a selection of titles that include fiction, non fiction and poetry. This year children can choose their free book from a list of 19 titles, including six accessible books, to ensure that there is a book that will appeal to every child, whatever their ability or needs. The programme encourages independent reading and supports reading for pleasure as children make the sometimes difficult transition from primary to secondary education.

The new Booked Up book list:

Takeshita Demons by Cristy Burne (Frances Lincoln)
Warning! Aliens Are Invading the School! By Dinah Capparucci (Scholastic)
Z-Rex by Steve Cole (Random House)
The Dying Photo by Alan Gibbons (Barrington Stoke)
The Joshua Files: Invisible City by M.G. Harris (Scholastic)
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper (Bloomsbury)
Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur (Puffin)
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury)
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
Michael Rosen's A-Z: The Best Children's Poetry from Agard to Zephaniah (Puffin)
How to Avoid a Wombat’s Bum by Mitchell Symons (Random House)
The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh (Chicken House)
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan (Hachette)
Boffin Boy and the Forest of the Ninja by David Orme (Ransom)
The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton (Macmillan)
Me and My Cat? By Satoshi Kitamura (Andersen Press)
Stone Soup by Jess Stockham (Child’s Play)
Calm Down, Boris! by Sam Lloyd (Templar)
Clackety-Clacks: Elephant by Luana Rinaldo (Macmillan)

All information about Booked Up can be found on the website www.bookedup.org.uk