50 books every child should read...

Hello again, poor neglected blog - days and evenings and weekends overrun with things not at my computer !

From the Independent newspaper in the UK, a list created by authors Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen, and Independent writers Katy Guest and John Walsh, with each selecting 10 "not to be missed' books for a Year 7 reader. This piece was prompted by Education Secretary Michael Gove's recommendation that children aged 11 should be reading 50 books a year to improve literacy standards. A book a week...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/the-50-books-every-child-should-read-2250138.html

How many of these have you read ? Do you agree with their selections? Are our 11 year olds reading a book a week ?

Here are a couple of other links with lists of "middle school fiction"...
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/middle-school-fiction
http://atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com/home
and here is a LibraryThing page I set up for a session with Bream Bay College Year 7 and 8 teachers when we were talking about books...
http://www.librarything.com/home/BreamBayCollege