Featured Books for 14+ readers

There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Louis Sachar
In Holes, best-selling author Louis Sachar showed his understanding and compassion for a group of boys who have got outside the system. In There’s a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, he shows the same sensitivity to Bradley Chalkers, one boy...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 20/02/2004
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There is No Dog
Meg Rosoff
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Carnegie Medal winner Meg Rosoff gives a whole new look to life in this brilliantly entertaining novel about what if the job of being god was in the hands of a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The World of the Hunger Games

A must-have for fans of both the Hunger Games novels and the new Hunger Games film.  Welcome to Panem, the world of The Hunger Games. This is the definitive, richly illustrated, full-colour guide to all the districts of Panem, all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Woman In White
Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/04/2008
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The Witness
James Jauncey
This arresting and compelling novel is a fast-paced literary thriller permeated with a tension and a perfect sense of timing that keeps the reader on edge throughout. With John the only witness to a crime and with the sole survivor...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2008
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The White Horse Trick
Kate Thompson
A dramatic climax to The New Policeman Trilogy. The time is the end of the 21st century and climate change has wiped out a whole country leaving it unable to support its pitiful population. Those who are left are enslaved by the wealthy war...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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The White Horse Trick
Kate Thompson
In a dramatic climax to The New Policeman Trilogy, the time is the end of the 21st century and climate change has wiped out a whole country leaving it unable to support its pitiful population. Those who are left are...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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The Weight of Water
Sarah Crossan
The Weight of Water is a startlingly original piece of fiction written in verse; most simply a brilliant coming of age story.  First love, friendship and quiet courage combine in this spare and beautiful story that will leave you sad,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
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The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/1994
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The Watch That Ends the Night : Voices from the Titanic
Allan Wolf
Age 14+. Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope – twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force. If you're interested in this book, you might also like: Titanic: Disaster...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The Walker Book of Classic Poetry and Poets
Michael Rosen
Age 9+ This is an invaluable introduction to poets and poetry, with lively biographical sketches and fascinating notes written by Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen, this is a classic collection to be read from cover to cover and back again or...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2001
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The Ultimate Teen Book Guide
Daniel Hahn
Stuck for something to read? Whether you’re searching for a book to blow your mind and change your life, or a light read for the beach, particularly at a time when you can’t lay your hands on a computer that’s online in order...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
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The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide
Stephenie Meyer
This must-have edition is the definitive encyclopedic reference to the Twilight Saga and provides readers with everything they need to further explore the unforgettable world Stephenie Meyer created in TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, ECLIPSE, and BREAKING DAWN. Featuring almost 100 colour...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2009
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The Turn of the Screw, and The Aspern Papers
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2003
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The Truth About Leo
David Yelland
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award 2010 Full of insight, this is a deeply moving story about how a child handles a parent with a serious problem. Leo’s life with his father is a mess but there is no way...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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The Truth About Forever
Sarah Dessen
A kind-hearted and intuitive account of a young woman dealing with the private issues in her life, chiefly the death of her father. She joins a gang of artistic friends through the Wish catering company and she begins to understand...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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The Truth About Celia Frost
Paula Rawsthorne
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 11+. This gripping debut novel unravels a hidden secret in a story about a girl who urgently needs to find out why she has always led such a very unusual life. Celia Frost...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
David Almond
Award-winning David Almond breaks new boundaries in his storytelling of this remarkable tale. Billy Dean is an innocent child surrounded by decay and threatened with an undefined violence. In his unique voice, he tells his own story of survival, and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/1999
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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The Tomorrow Seed - The Reaper Trilogy
Andrew Butcher
The third and final edition to this futuristic trilogy set in the world without adults. The sickness kills off all those who are over 18 leaving behind teenagers who suddenly find that they have to survive on their own in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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The Time Of The Reaper - The Reaper Trilogy
Andrew Butcher
The first in a thrilling futuristic trilogy set in a world without adults. The sickness kills off all those who are over 18 leaving behind teenagers who suddenly find that they have to survive on their own in a world...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2007
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The Time Machine (Classics Illustrated)
H.G. Wells
The Lovereading comment: A retelling of a classic story featuring the heroic deeds of King Arthur and the knights of the round table. This edition of The Time Machine is one of a range of marvellous comic books created in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2009
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The Time Machine
H G Wells
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2005
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
A classic spy thriller, chosen by February 2011 Guest Editor Tim Bowler: "I read this when I was thirteen and it's the first book that showed me what a good thriller can do. From its taut opening where the frightened Scudder...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2004
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The Things We Did for Love
Natasha Farrant
March 2012 Debut of the Month. A beautiful and bittersweet love story set in the real village of Oradour-sur-Glane which was cruelly and apparently randomly destroyed during the Second World War. Teenagers Luc and Arianne meet and fall in love. Ari...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Thief-taker's Apprentice
Stephen Deas
Tautly told, this gripping adventure tells how following one act of outrageous boldness a young cutpurse becomes apprentice to the city’s thief taker, a man driven by a powerful need to settle an old score. From his new master Syannis,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 26/08/2010
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The Summer That Changed Everything
Ann Brashares
An addictive and understanding read which charts one summer in the lives of three girls and captures the importance of friendship and in particular of weathering the changes to it on the cusp of adolescence. Ama, Polly and Jo were...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
One girl, two boys…How can Isabel, Belly to the boys, choose as she grows up with them through one glorious summer holiday after another? Belly has always yearned for the inaccessible, cool Conrad. But what does he feel for her?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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