Featured Books for 14+ readers

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 Adoration of Jenna Fox
Mary E. Pearson
Nominated for the Nebula Andre Norton Award 2009 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,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes AND The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Iain Pears, Ed Glinert
May 2010 Guest Editor Philip Ardagh comments: I discovered the 'consulting detective' Sherlock Holmes when I was about nine and have remained hooked ever since. I've written a humorous adult book using some of the original Strand magazine illustrations. Not long...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2001
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The Alchemist and the Angel
Joanne Owen
Everything changes for orphaned Jan when his beloved uncle, Gustav - anatomist, natural scientist and aspiring alchemist - enlists his help in a quest to create a life-generating serum. To test the serum, they must follow a set of ancient...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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The Amethyst Child
Sarah Singleton
A gripping and thoughtful story about the power of a cult leader on young people. When conventional Amber meets Dowdie she gets drawn into the Community which appears to offer all kinds of interesting alternatives to her own boring, everyday...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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The Ant Colony
Jenny Valentine
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. An irresistible new novel from Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize with Finding Violet Park.  Written with a wonderful lightness of touch, the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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The Anti-prom
Abby McDonald
Three unlikely allies team up for a night of rebellion, romance and revenge in a high-stakes drama from acclaimed young author Abby McDonald. Hilarious and heart-tugging by turns it's not to be missed. Please note that this book contains sexually explicit content.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The Ashleys: Birthday Vicious
Melissa De La Cruz
Perfect for fans of Gossip Girl and Mean Girls and sure to get even the most reluctant tween girl reading.  It's gloriously glamorous but it's not easy keeping up appearances as an Ashley, the group of young socialites who rule...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2009
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The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness
Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never Letting Go with equally hard hitting The Ask and the Answer. Trying to escape, Todd and Viola fall into the hands of Mayor Prentiss. Separated from Viola and imprisoned,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Ask and the Answer: Book 2 in the Chaos Walking Trilogy
Patrick Ness
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.  Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never Letting Go with equally hard hitting The Ask and the Answer. Trying to escape, Todd and Viola fall into the hands of Mayor...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
Lauren Kate
Lauren Kate's irresistible first novel, The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, features the most ruthlessly ambitious heroine since Lady Macbeth. Lauren is also the author of the US bestsellers Fallen and Torment.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Big Woo: My not so secret teenage blog
Susie Day
Georgia Nicholson fans will adore this hilarious headlong teen-blog. Capturing the ups, downs and in-betweens of life as a teenager. This blog is honest, trivial and funny.  
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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The Book of a Thousand Days
Shannon Hale
Recorded as a highly readable diary, this is an original retelling of a fairy tale that gives a taste of the traditional while adding original and unexpected elements to make it anything but an ordinary fairytale and you certainly won't...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne
Voted 2009 Penguin Orange readers' Group Book of the year   Now a major film released in September 2008.   When Bruno’s father is promoted to a new job, the family have to move from their comfortable home in Berlin to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 11/09/2008
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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 Brothers Lionheart
Astrid Lindgren
Magical and touching, the adventures of two brothers in the fantasy land they arrive in after their tragically early deaths is an uplifting as well as an exciting story. After their deaths, Jonathan and Karl are united in the ‘land...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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The Carbon Diaries 2015
Saci Lloyd
Shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Children’s Book Award. This is a novel written in diary form as Laura, a teenager chronicles her life and that of her family as it is in 2015.  It’s edgy, it’s appealing and it’s contemporary and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2008
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The Carbon Diaries 2017
Saci Lloyd
Laura’s witty diary entries cleverly combine the important events in her own life – managing her boyfriend and dealing with her attempts to be in a successful band – with the major and serious issues of climate change in a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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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 Cardturner
Louis Sachar
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. The worldwide best-selling 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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/08/2011
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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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The Caretaker
Harold Pinter
This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both The Caretaker and The Birthday Party.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/1960
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The Carrie Diaries
Candace Bushnell
This terrific teen prequel to ‘Sex and the City’ is a sexy, funny, coming-of-age and totally engaging look at how Carrie became THE Carrie Bradshaw.  She was just a regular girl growing up in Connecticut.  We meet her here in her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
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The Carrie Diaries 2 : Summer and the City
Candace Bushnell
May 2012 Book of the Month. Meet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of New York for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms from country girl to super-cool fashionista in the second explosive Carrie...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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The Catcher In The Rye
J D Salinger
Shortlisted for the 2009 Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year.   One of our 'Must Reads'. A great teenage classic. Holden Caufield is the ultimate outsider; he is expelled from school, falls out with his friends and finally...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/1994
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The Complete Poems
Emily Bronte
The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/09/1992
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
It is a dead dog that sets off the chain reaction that leads Christopher Boone to find out the truth about his mother’s disappearance. But this is no usual detective story. Christopher has Asperger's Syndrome: he can recall numbers, will...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2004
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The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
September 2011 Guest Editor David Almond: "I read this time and time again. It led me on to Wyndham’s other fine works, like The Midwich Cuckoos and The Chrysalids, the first time I really began to explore an author’s whole...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/12/2009
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The Dead (The Enemy Series 2)
Charlie Higson
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011 Charlie Higson packs a punch with the second in his gripping adventure series set in a dystopian future in which adults have ceased to be protectors. England has been struck by a deadly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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The Dead Tossed Waves
Carrie Ryan
Following on from The Forest of Hands and Teeth we follow Mary's daughter, Gabry, as she tries to make a life away from the darkness and drama of the Forest and The Dark City, but soon things are threatening...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 08/04/2010
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