There comes a point in a young life when the time is right to move on from the books and children’s authors they enjoyed as a child to reading books and authors that offer greater challenges as they grow up into adulthood. The books in this 14+ category are exactly that. They bridge that gap to introduce you and your child to adult authors who also write for a teenage / young adult audience.
You could also check out our latest highlights such as 'new voices', which showcases some of the brightest new talent from the prestigious publisher Walker Books or our 'prizewinners' section where we can help you and your child discover authors currently in contention for and/or winners of the most prestigious awards.
And finally, if you want to get your chidren choosing their own books then our special category on our sister site Lovereading called 'new gen' is the perfect place to start.

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Suzanne Collins
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge...This thrilling final instalment of this ground-breaking trilogy promises...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/08/2010
Jane Eagland
This is an incredibly eerie and chilling story of 16 year old Meriel Garland who is trapped in her grandfather’s strict regime of study and silence. It’s a narrow, solitary existence, yet Meriel doesn’t always feel alone for someone is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2010
Mary Hoffman
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 There’s romance, intrigue, religion and bloodshed all tightly interwoven in this historical thriller. Rather than marrying the old nobleman her father has chosen for her, Elinor determines to run away with Bertran...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
Kate De Goldi
This is a warm, surprising, quirky, yet real and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. It’s a coming of age tale of Frankie Parsons, a twelve year old boy (who thinks and acts much older) who worries incessantly...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2010
Amy Meredith
Gripping and gory, prepare to be seriously haunted by this powerful second title in the Dark Touch series. Schoolboy Kyle is savaged to death as he takes a short cut home through the woods. Who or what killed him? Eve...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
Jim Eldridge
Note: this novel contains graphic scenes of warfare. A high octane, action-packed adventure which will grab readers attention from the opening plane drop and right on into the heart of the bloodiest of conflicts. Black-Ops soldiers Mitch, Two Moons, Gaz,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
Cornelia Funke
This title is published in September 2010 but we have an exclusive extract to whet your appetite. Best-selling author Cornelia Funke whose Inkheart was a world-wide phenomenon has created a wonderful new imaginary world peopled with a gigantic cast of...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
John E. Smelcer
This is an astonishing tale of survival 'with more psychological depth than Robinson Crusoe*'; very poignant and based on true events. It delves deeper into its themes of survival and endurance than his previous novel The Great Death and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
Michael Grant
A compelling sequel to the best-selling Gone and Hunger, Lies is a dark, thrilling and thought-provoking adventure. Lies is set in a dystopian future where food is scarce and life is fragile; all those over fifteen have been annihilated leaving...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
John Buchan
August 2010 Guest Editor Graham Marks explains his inspiration: "Erskine Childers’ Riddle of the Sands and John Buchan’s Greenmantle were two books I read when I was 11 or 12 years old and which have never left me. They were...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
Dennis Wheatley
August 2010 Guest Editor Graham Marks on a master storyteller: "I think Dennis Wheatley’s The Devil Rides Out was the first time the cover of a book completely grabbed me (not a bad title, either) and then the story inside...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/01/2007
Erskine Childers
August 2010 Guest Editor Graham Marks is inspired by spy classics: "Erskine Childers’ Riddle of the Sands and John Buchan’s Greenmantle were two books I read when I was 11 or 12 years old and which have never left me....
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/1995
Michael Crichton
You’ve no doubt seen the film, but the book is so much darker it has to be read. This will scare you far more than any special effects because not only are Crichton’s descriptions of this genetically engineered park terrifying he looks much...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/1998
Frank Hampson
Graham Marks, our August 2010 Guest Editor, on comic book classics: "I’ve always loved comics and I remember the first time I was awed by sheer genius was when I came across Frank Hampson’s Dan Dare, and for someone who...
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/12/2009
Raymond Chandler, Mark Billingham
Graham Marks, Guest Editor for August 2010, remembers: "My dad gave me his own Penguin edition of Raymond Chandler’s The High Window (which I still have) when I was about 14. I took it with me when I went back...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/03/1989
John Wyndham
Graham Marks, August 2010 Guest Editor, has chosen this chilling classic: "John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos were two of the scariest books I’d ever read. When I came across them it was the first...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/12/2009
John Wyndham
Graham Marks, August 2010 Guest Editor: "John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos were two of the scariest books I’d ever read. When I came across them it was the first time I realised that while some...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
Delphine de Vigan
Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about what concepts of home and family really mean. Lou is bright and successful at school but her home is unhappy...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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Lucy Christopher
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2010 Julia Eccleshare, our editorial expert and chairman of the Branford Boase Award judges says: ‘Stolen is a wonderfully accomplished first novel. Sure-footed and without a word wasted Lucy has created a fantastic sense of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
Ian Beck
Take a thrilling journey into the past in this clever time slip mystery which, written in different voices from different times, takes its readers from a dystopian future to a Dickensian past. Caleb is on a tourist trip to the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
Anna Kendall
Huge in scope, this is a gripping and unusual adventure and romance packed full of larger than life characters and astonishing exploits. Forced to use his gift of ‘crossing over’ into the world of the dead so that he can...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
Mia James
Welcome to a stunning debut and a rollercoaster emotional ride of anger, mystery, fear and romance. This is a spooky, London-based debut Young Adult novel that cleverly intertwines Highgate cemetery, still haunted from sightings of vampires back in the 1960s...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/07/2010
Lauren Kate
Falling in love is a wonderful feeling and when Luce falls headlong for Daniel as she arrives in the strange environment of her new reform school she feels its full impact. But who exactly is Daniel and why does she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
Matt Haig
Dripping in blood, this is a story of family secrets so terrible that they shouldn’t be uncovered...Rowan and Clara think they are ordinary teenagers. They live quietly with their ordinary Mum and Dad doing all the things that their friends...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
Kelly Link
Dazzling and unlikely stories disturb and delight in this hugely original collection. Fantasy, horror and just plain mischief jostle together in the ten stories which kick off with what happens when Miles digs up the wrong grave to recover the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
Yann Martell
Pi’s family is moving their zoo when the boat sinks and 16-year old Pi is left afloat in a lifeboat with four animals which includes a tiger. The book starts slowly but this stunning, unique work is worth persevering with. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
Niccolo Ammaniti
An international bestseller, this almost painfully lucid picture gives a terrifying insight into what happens when nine-year-old Michele makes a terrifying discovery in an old farmhouse on one ordinary hot, hot summer’s day when he is out playing with his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
Alyxandra Harvey
Passion propels this pacy sequel to My Love Lies Bleeding effortlessly spanning both time and the gulf between the living and the dead. Enter the world of blood and desire where vampires reign and death is not what it seems....
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
Marcus Sedgwick
Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic thriller in which nothing can quite be taken for granted. Rebecca is forced to abandon her bustling life in London for the unfamiliar village of Winterfold. So different from...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
Joseph Delaney
This is the terrifying seventh title in the Wardstone Chronicles about a young 13 year old boy training to be an exorcist. Ideal for readers who have outgrown Harry Potter, but be prepared the titles are very scary so for...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
Oxford Dictionaries
11-16 (Years 7-11, KS3-4) . A brand new, up-to-date, comprehensive German dictionary for schools, with full verb tables and central colour supplement giving essential phrases and expressions. Ideal for all ages of German language learners especially 11-16 years. Links to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
Susan Rennie
11+ (Year 7+, KS3-4). Published by the world’s most trusted dictionary publisher, extensively tested in schools, and compiled by a team of educational experts and children lexicographers, the Oxford English Thesaurus for Schools is perfect for 11-16 learners. Designed to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/05/2010
Keith Gray
Shortlisted for the Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009, the Young Minds Book Prize 2009, the Carnegie Award 2009, for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award and the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A novel that so cleverly, almost miraculously...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010, the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010 and for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009. A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where a boy confronts a stranger who has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/04/2010
Maggie Stiefvater
This is the heart-wrenching sequel to Shiver, which has surpassed all sales expectations on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s compelling, romantic and absolutely addictive. Yet again Maggie has delivered a beautifully crafted and haunting love story that will have...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
Ian Fleming
July 2010 Guest Editor Marcus Sedgwick explains why he has selected Casino Royale: "I could give you a thousand reasons (well, almost) why I wish I'd written this, the first James Bond novel by Ian Fleming. Okay, so some bits...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2004
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Louis Sachar
The worldwide bestselling author of Holes takes readers on a journey right into the extraordinary and obsessive world of bridge. Don’t be put off by this central theme before having a read of the extract on Lovereading4kids. Alton Richards is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2010
Diana De Gunzburg, Tony Wild
Beginning where Wilkie Collins’ classic left off, it’s hard to believe The Moonstone Legacy is a debut for the quality of the writing is exceptional and has a real timeless quality about it. The story itself is a terrific mix...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/05/2010
Chris Wooding
Enter this terrifying parallel world if you dare! Everything about Malice is original and just a little bit different. Cleverly told as both a novel and a graphic novel, this is the scary story of how a kid disappears into the secret world...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010
Anne Michaels
Winner of the Best of the Orange Best 2010, selected by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. A powerful story of suffering and the power of love. When a young holocaust survivor is found in the woods by a Greek archaeologist his life is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
Louis Sachar
The worldwide bestselling author of Holes takes readers on a journey right into the extraordinary and obsessive world of bridge. Don’t be put off by this central theme before having a read of the extract on Lovereading4kids. Alton Richards is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2010
Bernard Beckett
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 This will intrigue and fascinate you from the start. Set in a futuristic utopian society Anax is taking an exam which will decide if she can enter the elite ‘Academy’ and her subject is Adam...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Margo Lanagan
A collection of ten electrifying short stories from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Red Spikes and Tender Morsels. Lanagan deftly navigates a new set of worlds in which the boundaries between reality and possibility are paper-thin ....
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Wilkie Collins, Sandra Kemp, Sandra Kemp
T S Eliot called The Moonstone 'the first and greatest of English detective novels'. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/1998
Tabitha Suzuma
Carefully but without pulling any punches, Forbidden explores the power and pain of the feelings that pull Lochan and Maya together. Coping with their chaotic life which burdens them with responsibility far too young, the two siblings become increasingly inter-dependent....
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
This book is packed to the brim with great games, crafts and adventures, encouraging children and their families, carers and teachers to get into the great outdoors. Whether you live in the city or village, whether you are a parent...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2006
Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
A terrific book to lure kids away from their computers and to go outside to discover the natural world around us. It’s packed with ideas for creative activities using natural materials to make things. Aimed more at the parent than...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
Great title and this book does exactly what it says – Go Wild outdoors before you grow up! There are so many activities within the pages to tempt young people outside and to undertake a range of outdoor adventures. Whether...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/2009
Carmen Reid
The four feisty friends from St Jude’s are back for a new term of dramas. These girls have glamorous homes and loads of money but it doesn’t protect them from the ups and downs of new relationships, the ubiquitous desire...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Neil Gaiman
Winner of the CLIP Carnegie Medal 2010. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life in the graveyard. When Baby Bod escapes a murderer intent on killing his whole family, he is taken in by the graveyard ghosts....
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
Eoin Colfer
And Another Thing, the 6th book in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy, or rather ‘double trilogy’ as it has now become, has been written by the brilliantly funny Eoin Colfer, international number-one bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Colfer is not unaccustomed to strange going-ons...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Ann Brashares
An addictive and understanding read which charts one summer in the lives of three girls and captures the importance of friendship and in particular of weathering the changes to it on the cusp of adolescence. Ama, Polly and Jo were...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
Joanna Nadin
Genuinely laugh-out-loud funny from the first page, this double helping of Joanna Nadin’s brilliant funny and immensely engaging protagonist Rachel Riley featuring The Meaning of Life and My (not so) simple Life, will be devoured by teenagers and adults in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Meg Cabot
Step right into the celebrity life of teenage supermodel Nikki. Apparently the golden girl of the catwalk Nikki looks like an absolute airhead but that’s just the surface. Underneath there’s nerdy Emmerson Watts who somehow got trapped in the wrong body and is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
Maryrose Wood
A dark and deadly Gothic fantasy set among plants which have the power both to give life and to take it away. Jessamine has always tended her father’s poison garden and knows the plants intimately. She knows what can kill...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Dan Tunstall
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 This is a modern, gritty and thrilling morality tale about belonging and about loyalty. It brilliant captures teen life as it really exists in so many places up and down the country. With a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
Sarwat Chadda
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 A fresh voice, Sawat Chadda has written a tough street story capturing the violence that is out there in most cities. Fifteen year old Billi is facing the last test before she follows her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
Jandy Nelson
This is a debut novel that once read will never be forgotten. It's a vibrant, deeply romantic novel that will bring tears to your eyes but it will also bring laughter through the tears! It's also funny, sexy and deeply meaningful. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious American National Book Award - Utterly gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage novel, set just after WW2, full of powerful and conflicting emotions, which captures the dramatic shift from child to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
Francisco X. Stork
Totally unsentimental this is nonetheless an exceptionally moving story that is full of insight and written with a rare tenderness. Two boys in desperate situations come together one summer in St Anthony’s Home. Pancho’s one ambition is track down and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2010
Jackson Pearce
The violence of the werewolf is everywhere in this powerful story of two sisters’ fight to stop the death of other girls. Scarlett and Rosie are only young when they are savagely attacked by a werewolf, an encounter that leaves...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Jenny Han
One girl, two boys…How can Isabel, Belly to the boys, choose as she grows up with them through one glorious summer holiday after another? Belly has always yearned for the inaccessible, cool Conrad. But what does he feel for her?...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff has written another superb book for young adults, although this will be equally enjoyed by the more mature adults out there too! Pell leaves home determined not to get caught in the spiral of poverty and drudgery her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Mary E. Pearson
A brilliant, haunting thriller which probes chilling psychological depths. Jenna has one year missing from her life: she’s moved from sixteen to seventeen in a coma. As she gradually comes back to life, her father calls her recovery a miracle...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
Rachel Ward
A gripping thriller set in a not too distant future tells of Adam’s secret and his dreaded power – he can tell the date of people’s death. As the waters rise and conditions in the countryside worsen, Adam and his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
Melvin Burgess
Carnegie-prize winning author, Melvin Burgess, has written a long-awaited new novel. This compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s care home is a powerful study of a particularly highly charged and distressing subject and one that is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Samantha Mackintosh
A hilarious, hectic, full-on diary saga as Tallulah Bird, aka Lula, faces up to turning sixteen in just five days without ever having been kissed! And it is not for lack of trying. Lula seems to be jinxed. At least,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
Becca Fitzpatrick
A gripping romance tinged with a strange and dark side as forces from long, long ago. Nora never meant to get into a deep romance and she certainly never means to fall for Patch. But Patch’s blue eyes are irresistible...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Jim Eldridge
A terrific new series for teen boys who want something that bridges the gap from Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson to authors such as Chris Ryan and Andy McNab. This, the first in the series is a high-octane, adrenalin-fuelled combat...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
Maxine Linnell
This is a cleverly charted time-slip novel that's also a real pageturner that will make you laugh, think and cry. Two girls swap lives – Holly lives now, and Marilyn lives in 1962. Holly is sexy and has attitude. Marilyn has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2010
Anna Perera
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2009. Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An important and moving story of an ordinary teenage boy innocently caught up in a modern-day nightmare which exposes the shortcomings...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
Rachel Ward
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 A tough, teenage novel about being different. Jem’s life has been hard from the beginning and it is not made any easier by her dangerous secret; every time she looks into a person’s eyes,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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