Featured Books for 14+ readers

Unforgettable
Cecily Von Ziegesar
The fourth in the series sees us returning to the characters of Waverly Academy. With lots of gossip, fashion, scandal, mayhem and romance these books are great fun with plenty of different characters to keep the pace and interest going....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/07/2008
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City Of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments 2)
Cassandra Clare
We were bowled over by Cassandra’s first, City of Bones and from the feedback from readers you clearly were too. This is the second in The Mortal Instruments series and doesn’t disappoint. Utterly captivating, beautifully written, cleverly plotted with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Blood Ties
Sophie Mckenzie
Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2009. Terrifically paced, this thriller links two teenagers who must work fast to unravel the past and discover the dangerous secret that unites them. Theo and Rachel have a lot at stake...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Generation Dead
Daniel Waters
A deeply compelling, sparklingly original supernatural romance about discrimination, prejudice, the power of love and of life and death. A brilliant debut and yet the quality of the writing, both sharp and quirky and the original plot line makes it...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Cathy's Key
Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart
A brilliantly unique, action-packed and interactive novel for teens. It comes complete with evidence pack, providing that all important help to you the reader, alongside the linked online activity at www.cathyskey.co.uk to help solve the homicide investigation that Cathy,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Love Struck
Rachael Wing
A story for teenagers by a teenager. Love Stuck is a thoroughly modern romance by the author of Star-crossed, her debut novel that was published to huge acclaim in 2007. Love-struck is a brilliant summer read for it touches...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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The Witness
James Jauncey
This arresting and compelling novel is a fast-paced literary thriller permeated with a tension and a perfect sense of timing that keeps the reader on edge throughout. With John the only witness to a crime and with the sole survivor...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2008
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Ostrich Boys
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Three Ways to Snog an Alien
Graham Joyce
A hilarious, sharply observed romantic comedy about mysterious girls and disastrous boys that teens will find compelling, thought-provoking but ultimately life-affirming.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Eclipse
Stephenie Meyer
The much-anticipated 3rd novel in the captivating saga of vampire romance that began with Twilight, continued with New Moon. Friendships are stretched beyond breaking point and love choices must be made that are a matter of life and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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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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The Stuff of Nightmares
Malorie Blackman
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.   Fast-paced and terrifying The Stuff of Nightmares is about the demons lurking in ones past that come back to haunt. The reader is taken on a chilling journey as we follow schoolboy Kyle,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Stop In The Name Of Pants!
Louise Rennison
You can’t stop laughing at and with Georgia Nicolson. Now she’s back with a new diary in which, as ever, she charts the ups and downs of her intense – sometimes imaginary - sex-kitten life as it ricochets from the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2008
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Reckless
Cecily Von Ziegesar
Definitely Sex and the City for teens. Wonderfully engrossing and totally addictive with plenty of love/hate relationships to keep everything rocking the It Girl teen series is a mega hit already in the US and is bound to catch on here....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/06/2008
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Joseph Andrews And Shamela
Henry Fielding
'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send it to me by the very first Coach.' (George Cheyne in a letter...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/06/2008
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Letters From Alain
Enrique Perez Diaz
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.    This is a moving tale by a Cuban writer of a child coming to terms with the realities of life in Cuba – a unique society tht despite the world around...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/06/2008
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Heaven's Net Is Wide
Lian Hearn
Loyalty and honour, revenge and cruelty and above all love are the never endingly fascinating strands of the richly woven Tales of the Otori. This volume both introduces the complex world of the Otori and brings the long saga of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2008
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Mariah Mundi: The Midas Box
G P Taylor
A gripping, fast-paced gothic mystery that will have readers aged about 10+ gasping for air but utterly spellbound to the words on the page. Mariah Mundi is an orphan but he’s also a magician’s assistant. Lurking amongst the magician’s equipment...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Sherman Alexie
A favourite of Jenny Downham, January 2011 Guest Editor: "This is a book I discovered only recently.  It made me jealous because the writing is so acute and the writer so talented!  It delighted me for the very same reasons.  This...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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The Last of the High Kings
Kate Thompson
In this sequel to The New Policeman, a visit to  Tír na n’ Óg  becomes a necessity after J J Liddy’s daughter meets a ghost guarding the beacon. There’s something frightening at hand which threatens the whole human race and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Sold
Patricia McCormick
A powerful novel written in vignettes about a Nepalese girl who risks everything for a chance to reclaim her life from the depths of childhood prostitution. Endorsed by Amnesty International UK this title was also a finalist for the US...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Inner Circle: A Private Novel
Kate Brian
Glamour and gloss are the hallmarks of exclusive Easton Academy but under the gloss, there are some very sinister goings on… Reed Brennan is back for a new year of school and needs to bury the traumas of the past...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Sovay
Celia Rees
This terrific historical romp tells how teenager Sovay fights against the restricting conventions of her time. Escaping from her cheating fiancé, Sovay adopts the dress and lifestyle of a highwayman and takes to the dangerous roads of eighteenth century England....
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Zoe And Chloe: Out To Lunch
Sue Limb
Loads of fun, farce and teen romance provide a delightful background for Chloe and Zoe as they make and break their plans for a summer holiday to remember. Falling in and out of love, making up their stories for their...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Louise Rennison
This is teenage angst author Louise Rennison's book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson now to be released as a blockbuster film starring Georgia Groome. Louise is a bestselling author and her books make you laugh out...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Blood Red, Snow White
Marcus Sedgwick
Revolution! Arthur Ransome, an English journalist and writer, sets off for Russia and soon finds himself at the heart of a network of spies and so swept up in extreme danger as Trotsky and Lenin bring down the Tsars and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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Greenmantle
John Buchan
A favourite book of August 2010 Guest Editor Graham Marks, who 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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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Saved
Eleanor Updale
Interest Age 14+ Reading Age 8+.  A thrilling story with big issues at the heart of it, Saved tells how Luke makes a choice between life and death when he bravely defies his parents’ beliefs after witnessing the terrible...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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The Ghost Box
Catherine Fisher
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. A wonderfully suspenseful and page-turning mystery and thriller rolled into one involving a girl, her step-brother, a boy ghost and an old knarled oak tree, with a clever and surprising twist at the end....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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Flint
Chris Powling
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 7+. This bloodcurdling pirate adventure makes a thrilling adventure story of survival. Captured by the pirates, a young boy finds his fate in the hands of the deadly Captain Flint, the most ruthless pirate on...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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