Featured Books for 14+ readers

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Girl Parts
John M. Cusick
Teen troubles seem little different in the high tech world of millions of on-line connections in this not distant future. School companions David and Charlie have very different lives; rich David is the centre of an active on line social...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/07/2011
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Girl Nearly 16: Absolute Torture
Sue Limb
Sue Limb’s writing is firmly on the pulse of teens today with the agony and ecstasy of being a teenager brought vividly to life. Every manner of emotion is revealed as both Jess and Fred get to know each other but also how...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Girl Meets Cake
Susie Day
A darkly comic romance about love, friendship, lies and gingerbread men! Heidi's mad online life collides hysterically with her real one in a laugh-out-loud, über-cool teen novel.  Georgia Nicolson fans will adore this hilarious headlong teen-blog.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Ghosting
Keith Gray
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. A chilling and brilliant horror story, Ghosting tells how the make-believe of contacting the spirit world becomes horribly real for Sandy and her brother Nat. Taught by their Mum how to ‘talk’ to the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2008
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Ghostgirl: The Homecoming
Tonya Hurley
More adventures from Charlotte, the Ghost Girl of the title. Discovering she still hasn't made it through to the afterlife, just yet, Charlotte finds herself having to complete an internship helping troubled teens. A welcome return for this funny, mixed-up,...
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Format: Book - Released: 09/07/2009
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Ghostgirl
Tonya Hurley
A satirical yet heartfelt exploration of the invisibility we all feel at times and the lengths we will go to be seen. This book is a real style accessory for teenage girls with its classy pink and black package and...
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Format: Book - Released: 07/08/2008
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Ghost of a Chance
Rhiannon Lassiter
A thrilling story that twists and turns as the deep and menacing malevolence at its heart exercises its power. Always an odd child and an orphan since birth, when fifteen year old Eva disappears it is said that she committed...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Genesis
Bernard Beckett
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 This will intrigue and fascinate you from the start. Set in a futuristic utopian society Anax is taking an exam which will decide if she can enter the elite ‘Academy’ and her subject is Adam...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Genesis
Bernard Beckett
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 This will intrigue and fascinate you from the start. Set in a futuristic utopian society Anax is taking an exam which will decide if she can enter the elite ‘Academy’ and her subject is Adam...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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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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Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind ...
Andy Robb
Witty and tender, Geekhood captures the complexities of teen life and especially the transformation of Archie. Archie’s interests have always been distinctly geeky- mostly he hangs out in the Hovel, a centre for games played with miniature models where he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2012
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Gallows at Twilight (Witchfinder series)
William Hussey
Horror stalks this scary second adventure for Jake who must now lead the war against the Demon Father, newly escaped from hell. Jake’s previous success in closing the demon door shows his prowess but has he the courage to go back into...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Winner of the Best of the Orange Best 2010, selected by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. A powerful story of suffering and the power of love. When a young holocaust survivor is found in the woods by a Greek archaeologist his life is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Frozen Fire
Tim Bowler
Non-stop tension and utterly compelling are the hallmarks of a Tim Bowler thriller; so much so, that you’ll be drawn into the characters and the story from the very start.  He is pre-eminent in the field of psychological thrillers in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2006
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Frozen Fire
Tim Bowler
Non-stop tension and utterly compelling are the hallmarks of a Tim Bowler thriller; so much so, that you’ll be drawn into the characters and the story from the very start. He is pre-eminent in the field of psychological thrillers in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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From Where I Stand
Tabitha Suzuma
Winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2008. There are no punches pulled in this exciting psychological thriller. After witnessing the death of his mother, Raven’s life is a mess despite help from foster carers and the rest. When a friend suggests...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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From Where I Stand
Tabitha Suzuma
Winner of the YoungMinds Book Award 2008. There are no punches pulled in this exciting psychological thriller. After witnessing the death of his mother, Raven’s life is a mess despite help from foster carers and the rest. When a friend suggests...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Freerunner
James Lovegrove
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. An incredibly fast-paced short thriller about a boy called Taj who is the top ‘freerunner’ around, but can he use his skills successfully to stop a gangland hit involving his father ? Tense and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/02/2009
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Free? Stories Celebrating Human Rights
Amnesty International
Top children’s writers have each contributed a powerful story to this collection for Amnesty International.  In fourteen different ways Jamila Gavin, David Almond, Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman, Eoin Colfer and others have written about an aspect of freedom thereby drawing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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