Featured Books for 13+ readers

KILLER T
Robert Muchamore
From the creator of the mega-selling Cherub series comes the author's first foray into standalone fiction, a killer-concept, Vegas-set page-turner in which a virus threatens to wipe out humanity. Fourteen-year-old Brit boy Harry is a something of a fish... Featured in: YA readers | 13+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
Philip Pullman
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | Author of the Year, British Book Awards 2018 | More than two decades after Northern Lights the first book of... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback / softback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

City of Ghosts
Victoria Schwab
In a Nutshell: Ghostly goings-on | Epic adventure | Cool characters | “Ghosts are everywhere...Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.” So claims Cass, the awesomely amiable heroine of this atmospheric treat for pre-teen readers. But, in Cass's... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Dark Tracks
Philippa Gregory
In a Nutshell: Drive Out the Devil Dancers Menace, madness and medieval adventure abound in this thrilling fourth volume of the atmospheric Order of Darkness series by a doyenne of historical fiction. Luca Vero belongs to the Order of Darkness... Featured in: YA readers | 13+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Poems to Live Your Life By
Chris Riddell
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | Illustrator and author Chris Riddell has created a rich anthology of poems from the past to the present all of which have a special meaning for him. Grouping them under... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 20/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us. After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Only when the lift door opens,... Featured in: 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

And the Ocean Was Our Sky
Patrick Ness
From the multi-award-winning author of A Monster Calls comes a haunting tale of power and obsession that turns the story of Moby Dick upside down. Featured in: YA readers | 13+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Carolyn Mackler
Fifteen-year-old Virginia feels like a fat, awkward outsider in her perfect family, especially next to her golden-boy big brother Byron. She's got a lot to deal with - her weight, her best friend moving away, the mean girls at school... Featured in: 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 05/04/2018 Info Extract Buy

Dogchild
Kevin Brooks
Jeet was raised by a pack of wild dogs. Recaptured and `rehumanised', Jeet now lives with the last of his people in an ancient walled town in the vast expanse of the Deathlands, besieged by a much larger enemy clan.... Featured in: 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 31/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

Stay A Little Longer
Bali Rai
Interest Age Teen Reading Age 8 | In a Nutshell: Grief, grit and the glow of friendship | A heartfelt, hard-hitting, super-readable novella about the life-affirming, life-saving friendship that blossoms between a young teenager and her 59 year-old neighbour. All sweet-hearted Aman wanted was... Featured in: 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 15/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Firebird
Elizabeth Wein
Interest Age Teen Reading Age 8 | In a Nutshell: Soviet girl-pilot powers through WW2 | A super-readable page-turner spiced with absorbing historical detail, and shot-through with the vitality of an unforgettable heroine. Spearheaded by the author's research into Soviet... Featured in: 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/08/2018 Info Extract Buy