Featured Books for 14+ readers

I'm Not Scared
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Life of Pi
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. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Linger
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Pastworld
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Pretty Monsters
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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The Radleys
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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The Immortals: Shadowland
Alyson Noel
Ever and Damen have travelled through countless past lives and fought off the world's darkest enemies in search of each other. But just when their destiny seems finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon them. A single touch of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2010
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Fallen
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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White Crow
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan
August 2011 Guest Editor Julie Hearn: It is with a mixture of respect and delight that I greet any book capable of blasting an entire genre out of the water with its audacity and grace. Tender Morsels is such a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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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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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Black Bones
E.E. Richardson
Interest Age 14+ Reading Age 8+. This is a fun supernatural Buffy-style romp guaranteed to hook reluctant or struggling teen readers.   Award-winning Barrington Stoke have a decade of experience in publishing books for the dyslexic, struggling or reluctant reader and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2010
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Samurai
Ian Beck
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. This is a beautifully written retelling of a traditional Japanese myth, brought vividly to life by some stunning graphic novel-style illustrations by the award-winning Ian Beck.  This series - Reloaded - from Barrington Stoke...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2010
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Numbers 2 The Chaos
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2010
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What I Saw and How I Lied
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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The Sky is Everywhere
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. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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The Cardturner Audio CD
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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2010
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Black Ops: Jungle Kill
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Kisses for Lula
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,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Double Trouble Another Year in the (not So) Simple Life of Rachel Riley
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Nicholas Dane
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Bride's Farewell
Meg Rosoff
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Enemy (The Enemy series 1)
Charlie Higson
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010.  A thrilling story of survival against the odds in a world in which adults have been killed or brain-crazed leaving only children under fourteen and with no one to look after them.  How...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
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?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Sisters Red
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Worldshaker
Richard Harland
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 This is a brilliant tale of revolution, of adventure that will hook readers from the very first page. With plot twists that you’re never expecting, wonderful characters that jump off the page and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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The Cardturner
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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2010
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The Moonstone Legacy
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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 31/05/2010
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