Featured Books for 14+ readers

Living With Teenagers
Anonymous
No holds are barred in this touching, funny and alarmingly insightful ‘family’ story about the downs and sometimes! ups of living with 3 teenagers. These three are no saints but, as their mother fondly remembers sometimes, they were once sweet...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Tudor Rose (A Timepiece novel)
Anne Perry
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. The past comes alive for Rosie when she finds herself transported back to the time of the Tudors and to the court of Queen Elizabeth I herself. Rosie finds herself playing an important role...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/09/2011
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Fugitive Pieces
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Anne Frank
Chosen by Michael Rosen. First published over 60 years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. However, the recent major new BBC TV dramatisation has brought her extraordinary writing to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2002
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The Road Of Bones
Anne Fine
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize 2007. Yuri knows no freedom of thought. In his country, everything must be kept hidden – even from the neighbours. When Yuri makes one loose comment, he finds his life turned upside down as he is...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2006
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A Shame to Miss Poetry
Anne Fine
Age 14+. Selected personally by multi-award-winning author and 2001-3 Children's Laureate, Anne Fine, this is a super collection of poetry that shouldn't be missed by any teen. Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, Robet Browning, Leonard Clark, Adele Geras, Seamus Heaney, A E...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2002
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The Road Of Bones
Anne Fine
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize 2007. An epic story of survival that raises important questions about totalitarian governments and the imposition of social change. For years Yuri has watched the devastating effect of oppression on his own life and on...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/05/2007
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Singing It
Anne Cottringer
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Award 2008. New place, new school and new friends to make - and all doubly if your parents called you 'Flower Power'. Luckily she has her songs to help her deal with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Dead Time
Anne Cassidy
May 2012 Book of the Month. Award-winning Anne Cassidy grips her readers in this thrilling crime novel. Everywhere she turns, Rose’s life seems to be haunted by disaster. Her mother has been missing for five years after mysteriously vanishing with her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher
One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Heartbreaking and funny in equal measure, 10-year-old Jamie's direct and wide-eyed account of the emotional chaos he and his family live through following the death of his sister...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2011
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Audio CD read by David Tennant
Annabel Pitcher
Audio CD read by David Tennant. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year Award 2011 You'll be utterly mesmerised by the voice of a 10 year old boy whose family have quite frankly gone AWOL since one of his twin...
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Format: Audiobook On Cd - Released: 10/03/2011
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal and the 2012 Branford Boase Award. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. The Carnegie Judges said: With a great central character, a sophisticated plot and an ending that is both credible...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Guantanamo Boy
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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The Glass Collector
Anna Perera
A stunning new novel from the acclaimed author of Guantanamo Boy.  Fifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo. His job? To collect broken glass. His life? Wasted. His hope? To find a future he can...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/02/2011
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Crossing Over
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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Luxe
Anna Godbersen
Compulsive, tantalizing and utterly irresistible, this is a gorgeous, glamorous, must-have debut. Set in New York in 1899, it’s glittering with jewels, brimming with secrets and social intrigue, and loaded with plenty of eligible young men – and one gorgeous...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Rumours: A Luxe Novel
Anna Godbersen
Lovereading comment to follow soon...   To read the first title in the Luxe series, please click here.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
Ann Rinaldi
A wonderfully atmospheric historical novel based on the story of the first African American female poet and a perfect introduction to the subject of slavery.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2008
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Truth: A teenagers survival guide
Ann Mcpherson, Aidan Macfarlane
This is an essential guide for every teenager from the authors of the phenomenally successful Health Freak books.  With over a million copies sold worldwide and translated into 22 languages, these books have been a global publishing phenomenon, bringing both...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2007
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Summers Of The Sisterhood
Ann Brashares
A great book and an immensely satisfying read for all those who have already discovered the 'Summers of the Sisterhood' titles and for those who haven't then Forever in Blue is as good a starting as any. You'll experience a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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The Summer That Changed Everything
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind ...
Andy Robb
Witty and tender, Geekhood captures the complexities of teen life and especially the transformation of Archie. Archie’s interests have always been distinctly geeky- mostly he hangs out in the Hovel, a centre for games played with miniature models where he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2012
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Trash
Andy Mulligan
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal. The Judges said: A vivid and emotionally powerful story told through some great switches of authentic narrative voice, giving the perfect marriage of character and plot as the three children tell their stories. Though there...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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Boy Soldier
Andy Mcnab, Robert Rigby
Action packed adventure in this taut thriller in which Danny sets out to find out what really happened to his grandfather in the Columbian jungle. When Danny’s turned down by the Army because of his missing grandfather’s reputation...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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Flash Flood
Andy Croft
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 6.5+ High drama in this simply written but gripping watery adventure. Bored on a wet holiday, Jaz and Toni set out to find some fun in the nearest town. But they don’t realise how quickly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2009
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Come On Danny (gr8reads)
Andy Croft
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 7+. Full of emotion and understanding but written in such a way that a struggling or reluctant reader will devour, Come On Danny is a hard hitting story describing the difficulties of dealing with life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/05/2009
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The Hunt
Andrew Fukuda
May 2012 eBook of Month. If you're on the hunt for an original plot that's thought-provoking and chilling then The Hunt will be just up your street.  Gene is human in a world where they've been made extinct other than those...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2011
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Slave Harvest - The Reaper Trilogy
Andrew Butcher
The second installment in this mind-blowing futuristic trilogy set in a world without grown-ups. The sickness kills off all those who are over 18 leaving behind teenagers who suddenly find that they have to survive on their own in a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/12/2007
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The Time Of The Reaper - The Reaper Trilogy
Andrew Butcher
The first in a thrilling futuristic trilogy set in a world without adults. The sickness kills off all those who are over 18 leaving behind teenagers who suddenly find that they have to survive on their own in a world...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2007
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The Tomorrow Seed - The Reaper Trilogy
Andrew Butcher
The third and final edition to this futuristic trilogy set in the world without adults. The sickness kills off all those who are over 18 leaving behind teenagers who suddenly find that they have to survive on their own in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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