Featured Books for 14+ readers

August
Bernard Beckett
Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. When dawn breaks they might be seen from the road and rescued, or not. They wait desperately holding onto life, unravelling the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Aurora
Julie Bertagna

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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2011
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking to an orphanage in Warsaw. But...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Back Home
Michelle Magorian
It's 1945. World War II has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Back to Life
Joanna Nadin
More hilarious exploits from the angst ridden teen diarist Rachel Riley.  Fans of Louise Rennison’s character Georgia Nicolson will love this as will all those who have enjoyed the ups and down and ups again of Rachel’s life to date....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Bad Blood
Lorna Sage
This is a literary memoir of the highest calibre by the highly-regarded writer Lorna Sage, which vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place, and illuminates the lives of three generations of women. Lorna Sage's memoir of childhood and adolescence...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2007
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Bad Wedding
Catherine Forde
Interest Age 14+ Reading Age 8+. Forget romance, Jane tells the story of how she made sure that her sister’s wedding was a truly bad wedding. From the bridesmaid dress through the hen night to the actual wedding itself, Jane...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/05/2009
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Ballad
Maggie Stiefvater
The stunning sequel to Lament is a new compelling, romantic and absolutely addictive novel from Maggie Stiefvater set in the vicious world of fairie.  For anyone looking for something both creepy and fantastical this is it. Maggie Stiefvater's publisher Scholastic have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Bang Bang You're Dead
Narinder Dhami
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009. It seems like just another day at school, then Mia's world turns upside down. School is being evacuated. Rumour has it there's a gunman in the building. And Mia has a horrible feeling she knows...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Bartimaeus 1: The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud
This is the first in an unforgettable fantasy sequence called Bartimaeus, every one of which is full of magical intrigue, murder and rebellion.  When Bartimaeus is packed off against his will by Nathaniel, a young magician’s apprentice to steal the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Bartimaeus 2: The Golem's Eye
Jonathan Stroud
Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. But his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises. A dangerous golem makes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Bartimaeus 3: Ptolemy's Gate
Jonathan Stroud
Three years on from the events in The Golem's Eye, the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is largely controlled by two advisers, one of whom is 17-year-old...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
Jonathan Stroud
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Magic and wit make perfect partners in this highly entertaining new story - a prequel to the author's Bartimaeus trilogy - about an unusually quick-witted djinni who has an uncanny...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
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Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
Jonathan Stroud
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Magic and wit make perfect partners in this highly entertaining new story - a prequel to the author's Bartimaeus trilogy - about an unusually quick-witted djinni who has an uncanny...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Beast
Ally Kennen
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Admired hugely its spare prose and confident storytelling’ Teenagers, particularly boys will empathise completely with the hero in Beast even though he may not be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/06/2006
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Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
A teen romance with a twist of danger and the supernatural told with a sure touch that makes it a headlong read from start to finish. Typical teenager Ethan is bored by his life growing up in a small town...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Beautiful Darkness
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
Love across an unbridgeable divide fuels this powerful romance. Ethan Wate lives a humdrum life in a small humdrum town which he is determined to leave as soon as possible. But then he falls in headlong in love. And this...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Bedazzled: Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight Phenomenon
George Beahm
This is the book that all Twilight fans will want to bite into!  From the real world of Stephenie Meyer, to the unreal world of Twilight and the 150 reasons why we love Edward Cullen, this is unputdownable but also...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/11/2009
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Bedlam
Ally Kennen
Ally Kennen's observations of teenage life, along with the themes of dysfunctional families and the people who fall between the gaps in society, are what define her as one of the best authors writing for young people. In Bedlam Ally...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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Before I die
Jenny Downham
While this book is an amazing we have to warn you it really is aimed at the 14+ readers. If you knew you were going to die what would you want to do? Imagine this from a teenage perspective when...
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Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Before I Die
Jenny Downham
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is a haunting yet truly amazing read but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to die what would...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/04/2008
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Before I Die (Audio CD)
Jenny Downham
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is a haunting yet truly amazing title but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to die what would you want to...
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Format: Cd-audio - Released: 03/09/2009
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Being
Kevin Brooks
One of our 'Must Reads'. Who is Robert? When he goes in for his operation, Robert is sure he knows exactly who he is. But, things look different when the surgeon opens him up. It leads Robert to set off...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2007
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Being
Kevin Brooks
One of our 'Must Reads'. Who is Robert? When he goes in for his operation, Robert is sure he knows exactly who he is. But, things look different when the surgeon opens him up. It leads Robert to set off...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2008
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Being Billy
Phil Earle
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2012. A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. "Faces flashed before my eyes. And for every face there was a time that they had let me down. Each punch that landed was revenge,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/12/2007
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Berserk
Ally Kennen
Ally Kennen’s Beast was one of the best debuts of last year and has been lauded with praise and sold in large numbers as well and we feel at Lovereading we helped spread that word-of-mouth through earmarking it early on...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2007
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal. The Judges said: A compelling, page-turning story about a hidden period of history, told with real emotional depth. Flashbacks are employed to great effect, and the excellent characterisation means that you both believe and care...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Between Two Seas
Marie-Louise Jensen
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Marianne promises her dying mother that she’ll seek a better life and especially that she’ll try to find her father. Leaving Grimsby, Marianne sets off on a long and dangerous voyage...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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