Featured Books for 14+ readers

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aurora
Julie Bertagna

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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2011
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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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Are We There Yet?
David Levithan
Two brothers, Italy and love…it’s a potent combination. Elijah and Danny really don’t get on. They seem to have nothing except their shared blood in common. But, when their parents dispatch them to Italy they find they can be closer...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/02/2007
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Apache
Tanya Landman
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. An inspiring story of survival against a background of bloodshed. The fourteen year old Apache girl who narrates the story tells of her fight for her land, her tribe - and her life! The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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Annexed
Sharon Dogar
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011. The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most treasured children’s books of the last fifty years. Anne’s account...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Anne Frank
Chosen by Michael Rosen. First published over 60 years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. However, the recent major new BBC TV dramatisation has brought her extraordinary writing to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2002
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
Animal Farm - the history of a revolution, under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm but it all went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of...
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Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 03/09/1998
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Anila's Journey
Mary Finn
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. A stunning debut novel, Anila’s Journey captures a girl with an amazing talent for drawing who is swept up in an epic journey up the Ganges where she hopes she may find...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Louise Rennison
This is teenage angst author Louise Rennison's book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson now to be released as a blockbuster film starring Georgia Groome. Louise is a bestselling author and her books make you laugh out...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Angels On Sunset Boulevard
Melissa De La Cruz
This novel will take the reader into an extraordinary world, a world that will capture the reader from the very first page with its unusual originality. It’s glam, light-hearted yet mysterious and the story reveals an utterly different and darker...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Angelmonster
Veronica Bennett
Sixteen-year-old step sisters Mary and Jane are bored. Longing for romance they dream of attracting the attention of a rich and handsome man who will take them away to somewhere foreign and interesting. When the poet Shelley walks...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/10/2005
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Angel's Fury
Bryony Pearce
A gripping psychological drama that captures the absolute terror that the past can have on the present. Cassie is haunted first by nightmares and then even in the daytime when her thoughts seem to be taken over by terrors from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2011
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Angel Fire
L. A. Weatherly
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection.   Winner of 2011 Leeds Book Award Shortlisted for the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2011 Shortlisted for Worcestershire Teen Book Award 2011 Longlisted for Southern Schools Book Award 2011 If you're still into...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
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Angel Blood
John Singleton
A terrify and deeply moving story about four teenagers trapped in the Bin. They are odd balls, misfits, maybe even a bit mad but they are smart enough to know that Dr Dearly is a real danger to them. But...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/02/2007
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Angel
Cliff Mcnish
A brilliant and powerful novel from the highly-acclaimed author of Breathe Cliff McNish. It’s a novel about obsession, a theme that will strike strong chords with tween and teenage readers and also about family, friends, school and bullying. With...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2008
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Angel
L. A. Weatherly
If Eoin Colfer reinvented the fairy and Stephenie Meyer reinvented the vampire then without a doubt L. A. Weatherly has reinvented the angel in this powerful, dark and hugely suspenseful novel that switches effortlessly between fast-paced action adventure and heart-stopping...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2010
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And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Audio CD)
Eoin Colfer
An Audio version of this long awaited sequel. And Another Thing, the 6th book in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy, or rather ‘double trilogy’ as it has now become, has been written by the brilliantly funny Eoin Colfer, international number-one bestselling author of the Artemis...
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 11/10/2009
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And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three
Eoin Colfer
And Another Thing, the 6th book in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy, or rather ‘double trilogy’ as it has now become, has been written by the brilliantly funny Eoin Colfer, international number-one bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Colfer is not...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 11/10/2009
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And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three
Eoin Colfer
And Another Thing, the 6th book in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy, or rather ‘double trilogy’ as it has now become, has been written by the brilliantly funny Eoin Colfer, international number-one bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Colfer is not unaccustomed to strange going-ons...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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An Inspector Calls
J B Priestley
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. In this play an inspector interrupts a party to investigate a girl's suicide,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 12/01/1993
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An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore
A must for teenagers. Powerful photographs make their points eloquently and from them Al Gore argues passionately for everyone to do everything they can to slow down the rate at which the climate is being destroyed. The message is irresistible...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2007
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