Recommended Reading 推薦閱讀

Cultivate the interest of children and youth in reading can widen their scope of reading and knowledge, enhance their ability in language usage. So we will recommend some books which match with students' stages and development. And we also provided some course especially with the selected novels.

我們相信培養兒童及青少年對閱讀的興趣，養成良好的閱讀習慣，可以擴闊他們的閱讀範圍和知識，提高他們運用語文的能力。因此，我們會推薦一些適合學生程度的書籍供參考。同時，我們還會提供專門研習精選小說的課程給學生。

Charlotte’s Web

Charlotte’s Web is a classic children’s novel about a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. Charlotte’s Web explores themes of friendship, loyalty, nature, justice, language, and the cycles of life and death. This book is especially good for first time readers who have taken the big jump from short stories to a real novel. It is easy reading and the talking animals captivate the young children.

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol, has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. This book is about Ebenezer Scrooge's eerie encounters with a series of spectral visitors. Journeying with them through Christmases past, present, and future, he is ultimately transformed from an arrogant, obstinate, and insensitive miser to a generous, warmhearted, and caring human being. Written by one of England's greatest and most popular novelists, A Christmas Carol has come to epitomize the true meaning of Christmas.

Matilda

Matilda by Roald Dahl is a classic work of children's literature from a well-loved author of children's fiction. It tells the whimsical and magical story of Matilda, a brilliant child who is ignored and mistreated by her terrible parents. However, Matilda soon discovers that she is able to outsmart her parents and her evil Headmistress with a little help from her kind-hearted teacher and just a bit of magic.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

This allegorical fantasy novel is the story of four British children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, who accidentally step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch, get caught up in a war, and emerge as kings and queens. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.

The Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard is a children's book by British author Lynne Reid Banks, and illustrated by Brock Cole - it was first published in 1980, and has received numerous awards, as well as being made into a film in 1995. At first, Omri is unimpressed with the plastic Indian toy he is given for his birthday. But when he puts it in his old cupboard and turns the key, something extraordinary happens that will change Omri's life forever. For Little Bull, the Iroquois Indian brave, comes to life...

城南舊事

《城南舊事》可視為林海音的代表作。它描寫一九二０年代，北京城南一座四合院裡，住著英子溫暖和樂的一家，透過主角英子童稚的雙眼，觀看大人世界的悲歡離合，有一種說不出來的天真，卻道盡人世複雜的情感。直到爸爸病故，她的童年隨之結束，她的旁觀者身分也至此結束，在十三歲的年紀「開始負起了不是小孩子該負的責任」。人生的段落切割得如此倉卒，更襯托出無憂無慮的童年歡樂的短暫可貴。城南舊事也翻譯成多種語文，並獲瑞士頒贈「藍眼鏡蛇獎」。《城南舊事》更榮獲亞洲週刊評選為「二十世紀中文小說一百強」。