Featured Books for 14+ readers

Big and Clever
Dan Tunstall
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2010 This is a modern, gritty and thrilling morality tale about belonging and about loyalty.  It brilliant captures teen life as it really exists in so many places up and down the country. With a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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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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Black Heart Blue
Louisa Reid
May 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month. A debut novel which packs a heart-stopping punch. Sixteen year old twins Hephzi and Rebecca are about as different from each other as they could be; Hephzi is beautiful and bold, Rebecca suffers from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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Black Ops 2: Death in the Desert
Jim Eldridge
Note: this novel contains graphic scenes of warfare. A high octane, action-packed adventure which will grab readers attention from the opening plane drop and right on into the heart of the bloodiest of conflicts. Black-Ops soldiers Mitch, Two Moons, Gaz,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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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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Black Rabbit Summer
Kevin Brooks
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Pete and his childhood friends meet up one last time, for ‘old time’s sake’. But old times are full of secrets, tensions, bitterness and unhappiness. And everyone sees it a bit differently. And not...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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Blade 1: Enemies
Tim Bowler
Previously published in two parts as Blade: Playing Dead and Blade: Closing In, this is a stunning new package for this groundbreaking series. Narrated by Blade himself, be prepared to enter his world. It's not pretty ...it's urban, real and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Blade 2: Flight
Tim Bowler
Blade has touched the edge of death. His injuries have left him exposed and vulnerable. Now his enemies have tracked him down and Blade knows they'll show no mercy. If he doesn't get away, he's dead. Mary has told him...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Blade: Breaking Free
Tim Bowler
The third in the Blade series, this is another short, very accessible novel for teens. Pacy, gripping and packed with action, and a central character that’s incredibly engaging, even the most reluctant reader will devour it. Blade is in even more danger...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Blade: Closing In
Tim Bowler
The second in the Blade series, this is another short, very accessible novel for teens. Pacy, gripping and packed with action, and a central character that’s incredibly engaging, even the most reluctant reader will devour it. Blade is on the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Blade: Cutting Loose
Tim Bowler
From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of River Boy, Starseeker and Bloodchild comes the penultimate title in this startlingly compelling series. Contemporary, pacy, and utterly gripping, Blade takes you on a roller-coaster ride through the secret, dangerous life of its unforgettable...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Blade: Fighting Back
Tim Bowler
Another hard hitting title about Blade, newly back in the Beast, the city he left when he was eleven. Blade hates the Beast but he has no choice but to go back if he is to rescue Jaz who has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Blade: Mixing it
Tim Bowler
This is where we find out - who's the hunter, who's the prey? From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of River Boy, Starseeker and Bloodchild comes the sixth title in this startlingly compelling series. Contemporary, pacy, and utterly gripping, Blade takes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Blade: Playing Dead
Tim Bowler
Totally gripping teens thriller written in a direct and compelling style. Tough kid Blade wants no one to know him. He’s a loner and wants to keep it that way. It’s the best way to keep out of trouble. But...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Blade: Risking All
Tim Bowler
For Blade life is simple, in his eyes at least.  Win and live, win and die. Just one big enemy left: Me. From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of River Boy, Starseeker and Bloodchild comes the final title in this startlingly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Blade: Running Scared
Tim Bowler
From the prize-winning author of the prestigious Carnegie Medal comes the fourth title to feature the enormously engaging central character, Blade.  Pacy, gripping and very cool and contemporary this series will engage even the most reluctant reader.  A roller-coaster ride...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Blessed
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Teased by Tantalize? And possessed by Eternal? Then prepare yourself to be Blessed in Cynthia Leitich-Smith's latest dark fantasy. For those new to the series then start at the beginning. it will be well worth it. Fans of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Blink and Caution
Tim Wynne-jones
Award-winning crime writer Tim Wynne-Jones toughly tells a gripping and poignant story of two teens swept up into a major crime. Blink is only a skinny kid who’s on the run and surviving on his wits; Caution is also on...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Bliss...
Karen Mccombie
Well-written and so true to life.  Teenage girls are lucky to have the opportunity to read books by an author who has her finger on the pulse of the teenage world. Easy to read and funny yet dealing with issues...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2007
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Blood Feud
Alyxandra Harvey
Passion propels this pacy sequel to My Love Lies Bleeding effortlessly spanning both time and the gulf between the living and the dead. Enter the world of blood and desire where vampires reign and death is not what it seems....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Blood on My Hands
Todd Strasser
A powerful and uncompromising psychological thriller that's not for the faint-hearted.  When seventeen-year-old Callie Carson is found standing over the body of her best friend holding the knife that killed her, everyone assumes she's guilty. Then someone takes a picture...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Blood Red Road
Moira Young
Winner of the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. The story's searing pace, its spare style, the excitement of its fabulously damaged world, its unforgettably vivid characters, its violent action and glorious love story make this a truly sensatonal YA debut novel. Much...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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Blood Red Road
Moira Young
Winner of the 2011 Costa Children's Book Award. The story's searing pace, its spare style, the excitement of its fabulously damaged world, its unforgettably vivid characters, its violent action and glorious love story make this a truly sensatonal YA debut novel. Much...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2012
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Blood Red Snow White
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. The true story of master storyteller Arthur Ransome provides the background for this large scale and absorbing story. As a young man, Ransome was a journalist and, some thought, a spy, in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2007
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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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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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Bloodchild
Tim Bowler
If you’re on the hunt for a book that will really grab you, put shivers down your spine and ensure that at the end of every chapter you gasp for breath then Bowler’s Bloodchild is the novel for you. Incredibly atmospheric of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Bloodchild
Tim Bowler
If you’re on the hunt for a book that will really grab you, put shivers down your spine and ensure that at the end of every chapter you gasp for breath, then Bowler’s Bloodchild is the novel for you. Incredibly atmospheric of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
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Bloodline A Sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula
Kate Cary
11+. This is the original vampire romance: go back to where the bloodlust began! When nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from World War I, he is haunted by nightmares - not only of the horrors of battle, but of the brutal...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2010
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Bloodsong
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is justly regarded as the Godfather of Young Adult fiction in the UK. He doesn’t disappoint with this work of mind-bending imagination and power, in which myth, magic and science fiction are mixed with the basest and best...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2005
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