Featured Books for 14+ readers

Girl, Stolen
April Henry
A teenage girl is inadvertently kidnapped, a car is stolen by a gang but when the gang realises who they have in the car they have no intention of letting her go without recompense.  But Cheyenne, despite being blind and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Girls to Total Goddesses in Seven Days
Sue Limb
Brilliant fun, this is a roller coaster of a read as it swings effortlessly from the wild extremes of  total despair to absolute ecstasy capturing the trials and tribulations of Zoe and Chloe, best friends forever. Zoe and Chloe have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
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Girls, Guilty but Somehow Glorious
Sue Limb
Zoe and Chloe have always been best friends. But, then there are the boys… Can Zoe extricate Chloe from ‘the beast’? And can Zoe get her dream boy Oliver Wyatt to notice her? Will either or both get anyone to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Girls, Muddy, Moody Yet Magnificent
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 parents and, above...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Gladiator: Fight for Freedom
Simon Scarrow
Action and high paced drama fuel this gripping adventure set in the heart of Ancient Rome. Full of danger, courage, death and hope, young Gladiator, Marcus Cornelius Primus’s story fiercely describes how he knuckles down to the gruelling training programme...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Go Wild! 101 Things to Do Outdoors Before You Grow Up
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/2009
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Goldfinger
Ian Fleming
Auric Goldfinger is the kind of man Bond loves to hate: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful - a cheat and a crook. So Bond relishes his mission to discover what this man - the richest in the country - intends to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2004
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Gone
Michael Grant
Gripping from the first moment, this is a scary, an unputdownable and a brilliantly plotted fantasy. One minute all the adults are there - next they're gone! Only the children remain and they are trapped, cut off...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan
Composed and published while John Bunyan (1628-1688) was in prison for his religious principles, "Grace Abounding" is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography. It was written in an age when religious radicalism was regarded as socially subversive, and is a haunting, often harrowing and ultimately inspiring...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/1987
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Graffiti My Soul
Niven Govinden
Some fairly hard hitting stuff in this tale of Veerapen and his friends stuck in the boredom of their suburban lives. Niven Govinden really projects the voices of the disaffected, ‘bored with life’ teenager. The story starts at the end...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/01/2008
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
October 2011 Guest Editor Roddy Doyle: A small boy called Pip is in a graveyard just as it’s getting dark. He’s looking at the grave where his parents and five brothers are buried. An escaped convict jumps out from behind...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 30/01/2003
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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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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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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
When Gulliver finds himself washed up on the shores of the island of Lilliput inhabited by ‘little people’ and taken prisoner his life is to change forever but that is just the beginning of his story. For following his escape...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 14 March 2007. Nigeria in the 1960s and the birth...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2007
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Halo
Zizou Corder
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010. This is well written with excellent characterisation, particularly of the main protagonist in the story, a girl called Halo.  There is plenty of excitement, action and adventure in the story together with lots...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Hand Of Blood (gr8reads)
Charles Butler
Interest Age 14+ Reading Age 7+. Horror propels this dramatic but simply written story of what happens after Meg is given a hand transplant following an attack by a savage dog.  Meg’s hand is ripped apart by Jet but when...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2009
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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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Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/1994
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Harsh Cry Of The Heron
Lian Hearn
This novel stand alone as a thrilling tale of passion, love and betrayal set in Japan a long time ago. Full of poignancy, it's totally gripping and as ever Lian’s writing is dazzling and laden with the atmospheric detail of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 15/09/2006
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
A powerful story about the physical skills and the mental strength that is needed to survive. Brian has grown up in the city. That’s where he’s comfortable. But on his very first visit to his father following his parents divorce,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2005
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Havoc
Chris Wooding
Havoc is the second gripping and clever adventure about some real children trapped in a comic book world. If you’ve not read the first book, Malice, we suggest you start with that, as the nail-biting cliff-hanger ending is worth...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness" has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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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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Heist Society
Ally Carter
Kat's got a deadline - two weeks to pull off the biggest heist in history... From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gallagher Girls series.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Hellion: The Curse of Snakes
Christopher Fowler
A thrilling urban debut teen novel from the author of the hugely successful Bryant & May crime novels for adults.  Creepy and scary by turns Hellion will have you looking over your shoulder long after you’ve read the final page...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Henry Tumour
Anthony McGowan
Winner of the Booktrust teenage prize in 2006, Henry Tumour is exceedingly funny, compulsive, thought-provoking, challenging, dark and tragic by turns. As Mal Peet, another author of brilliant teenage fiction said, ‘Henry Tumour is a boisterous, anarchic, frequently vulgar comedy....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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Heroes
Robert Cormier
A provocative story about the return home of teenage war hero and war victim, Francis Joseph Cassavant, to confront his past - the youth leader he idolized and who betrayed him - and the girl he still loves.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/09/1999
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Hide and Seek
Cathy Macphail
Interest age 12+ Reading age 8+. Chilling from start to finish this is a brilliant, fast moving and spooky story. When new girl Destiny arrives at school she asks if it is really haunted… Everyone knows it isn’t but tricking...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/06/2009
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High Jinx
Sara Lawrence
An hilarious and raunchy modern-day boarding school with some very modern day girls in it who have nothing to do with school on their minds. Jinx and her friend Liberty are gang leaders: behaving badly is their motto. When new...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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