Reading and Viewing List
NUSA Library: Our most popular books!
- Girl on a Plane by Miriam Moss
- The Blood Guard by Carter Roy
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- Wonder by RJ Palacio
- Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
- The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- Superstar Geek by Katy Birchall
- The Bubble Boy by Stewart Foster
- Petunia Perry and the Case of the Ugly Pigeon by Pamela Buchart
- Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones
If you would like to use our library at break and lunch times, please remember to ask Ms Little for a library pass!
Stretch and Challenge Reading List
20th Century | Classics |
---|---|
1984 by George Orwell | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Dracula by Bram Stoker |
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
On the Road by Jack Kerouac | Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou | The Stange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote | Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
The Road by Cormac McCarthy | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
Lord of the Flies by William Golding | The Time Machine by HG Wells |
Staff Selections
- Ms Mulcahy: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Ms Saunders: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Mrs Ellis: The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
- Mrs Tice: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Time Out magazine's top 10 teen films on Netflix!
- Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995) Certificate: PG
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015) Certificate: 18
- The Fault in our Stars (Josh Boone, 2014) Certificate: 12
- City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, 2002) Certificate: 18
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986) Certificate: 12A
- Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010) Certificate: 15
- Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic, 2001) Certificate: 12
- Girlhood (Celine Sciamma, 2014) Certificate: 15
- Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) Certificate: 15
- An Education (Lone Scherfig, 2001) Certificate: 12
Stretch and Challenge Viewing List
BFI's Greatest Films of All Time
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) | 8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) |
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) | 9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1927) |
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953) | 10. 81/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963) |
4. La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939) | 11. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) |
5. Sunrise (FW Murnau, 1927) | 12. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) |
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) | 13. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) |
7. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) | 14. Apocalypse Now! (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) |
15. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949) |
BBC's Greatest Films of the 21st Century
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001) | 8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000) |
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) | 9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) |
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) | 10. No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) |
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) | 11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers, 2013) |
5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014) | 12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) |
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) | 13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006) |
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) | 14. The Act of Killing (Josh Oppenheimer, 2012) |
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) |
English News
- Year 10 Media Students Produce Crime Drama Trailers
Year 10 Media students go to the University of Nottingham to create their own crime drama trailers. (10/03/2020) - Year 11 Watch A Live Performance of An Inspector Calls
Year 11 went to the Theatre Royal in Nottingham to watch a live performance of An Inspector Calls. (12/02/2020) - Year 8 Watch A Live Performance of Frankenstein
42 Year 8 students went to Derby Theatre to watch a live performance of the play Frankenstein. (22/01/2020) - NUSA Young Company Drama Group at the Lakeside Theatre
Last night, NUSA Young Company took part in a technical rehearsal ahead of the Young Creative Awards (03/05/2018) - Year 11 at Poetry Live!
Ninety Year 11 Students were taken to watch 'Poetry Live!' (28/03/2018)