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Books for Teenagers ages 13+
Please remember this is just a small selection of books we love for teenagers. We have loads more titles in-store. Please ask us for more information.
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Wonder RJ. Palacio |
August Pullman is a 12 year old
boy with awful facial deformations. Having gone through numerous
operations as a child, to help make him somewhat 'normal', he has always
been home-schooled, to save him from the cruelty of other children.
Now, he must go to school. Told between the voices of August, his sister, and his 2 friends, this novel tells the story of August's first year in middle school - the highs & the lows. A brilliant book about what it is like to be the centre of attention, when you'd really rather not be; about the values of good friends 7 most importantly, looking behind someone's exterior to see the shining light underneath. |
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A Monster Calls Patrick Ness |
The monster showed up just after midnight.
As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's
been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every
night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness
and the wind and the screaming...The monster in his back garden, though,
this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild.
And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the
truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea
of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death
from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. This is an
extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. |
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Life: An Exploded Diagram Mal Peet |
This is a brilliant coming-of-age story set
against the backdrop of the Cold War and events leading up to the Cuban
Missile Crisis. Clem Ackroyd lives with his parents and grandmother in a
claustrophobic home too small to accommodate their larger-than-life
characters in the bleak Norlfolk countryside. Clem's life changes
irrevocably when he meets Frankie, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and
experiences first love, in all its pain and glory. The story is told in flashback by Clem when he is living and working in New York City as a designer, and moves from the past of his parents and grandmother to his own teenage years. Not only the threat of explosions, but actual ones as well, feature throughout in this latest novel from one of the finest writers working today. |
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The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman |
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on
killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety
and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts,
ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life
from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer
still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of
the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight
chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to
adolescence. |
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Blood Red Road Moira Youngwinner of 2012's COSTA Award for young adult writing) |
'I ain't afeared of nuthin.' When Saba's brother is stolen, red rage fills her soul. She races across the cruel dustlands to find him. Saba can trust no one, not even the boy who saves her life. A Thrilling read for teenages - for fans of 'The Hunger Games' & 'The Knife of Never Letting Go'
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In the Sea there are Crocodiles Fabio Geda
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night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three
things: don't use drugs, don't use weapons, and don't steal. The next
day he wakes up to find she isn't there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is
left alone in Pakistan to fend for himself. |
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Love Aubrey Suzanne LaFleur
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Something terrible has happened. Eleven-year-old Aubrey is on her own. 'It was fun at first, playing house. Nothing to think about but TV and cheese. A perfect world'. She's determined to hide away and take care of herself, because facing the truth is too much to bear. But with the love of her grandmother and the letters she writes, can Aubrey begin to see that even though she's lost everything - all is not lost? Also very good is 'Eight Keys' by Suzanne LaFleur, dealing with issues every teenager faces - Eleven-year-old Elise feels stuck. Her school locker-buddy squashes her lunch and laughs at her, every day. She doesn't want to go to school - and her best friend Franklin just makes things worse Now I was ready for something to be different. Anything, really. |
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Thin Ice Mickael Engstrom
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When Mik is sent to a small, snowy village in northern Sweden to live with his aunt Lena, he finds himself feeling at home for the first time, away from his alcoholic father. He befriends Pi, a girl at school who makes his heart race, and his cantankerous old neighbour Bengt, who teaches him to fish through the ice and warns him of the danger of the frozen lake. When he is forced to leave his new home, his life becomes a living nightmare. A touching book which throws up issues such as social services & family |
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Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine
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is a heart-warming story of loss and recovery that won the American
National Book Award 2010 - one of the most moving books you'll ever
read. 11-year-old Caitlin has Asperger's syndrome, and has always had
her older brother, Devon, to explain the confusing things around her.
But when Devon is killed in a tragic school shooting, Caitlin has to try
and make sense of the world without him. |
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Looking for Alaska John Green
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Miles
Halter's whole life has been one big non-event until he starts at
anything-but-boring Culver Creek Boarding School and meets Alaska Young.
Gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, screwed up and utterly fascinating she
pulls Miles into her world, launches him into a new life, and steals his
heart. But when tragedy strikes, and Miles comes face-to-face with death
he discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally. |
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Chalkline Jane Mitchell |
Rafiq is only nine when Kashmiri
Freedom Fighters raid his village in search of new recruits. Tall
for his age, he is the first boy to cross the chalk line into a life
of brutality and violence. Jameela cannot forget her brother.
While Rafiq is trained to kill in the rebel camp high in the
mountains, she keeps his memory alive.
When finally their paths cross again, Rafiq is unrecognisable as the boy who left the village. Will Jameela know him? A thought-provoking book with powerful imagery. |
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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden Helen Grant |
On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see
her alive. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a
ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody
else? Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina. But then
the next girl disappears. |
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Gone Michael Grant |
In the blink of an eye, the world changes. The adults vanish without a
trace, and those left must do all they can to survive. For Sam and
Astrid, it is a race against time as they try to solve the questions
that now dominate their lives. What is the mysterious wall that has
encircled the town of Perdido Beach and trapped everyone within? A modern day 'Lord of the Flies' for teenagers |
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No & Me Delphine de Vigan
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Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend in class
rebel Lucas. At home her father puts a brave face on things but cries in
secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely speaks and hardly ever
leaves the house. To escape this desolate world, Lou goes often to Gare
d'Austerlitz to see the big emotions in the smiles and tears of arrival
and departure. But there she also sees the homeless, meets a girl called No, only a few years older than herself, and decides to make homelessness the topic of her class presentation. Bit by bit, Lou and No become friends until, the project over, No disappears. Heartbroken, Lou asks her parents the unaskable question and her parents say: Yes, No can come to live with them. So Lou goes down into the underworld of Paris's street people to bring her friend up to the light of a home and family life, she thinks. This addresses all the teenage angst - fancying boys; wanting to be accepted, but not being cool enough - in a fantastically written, thoroughly enjoyable book. A must for all teenagers |
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox Mary E Pearson |
This is a chilling, page-turning psychological thriller set in a
clinical future that may be closer than we think. A seventeen-year-old
girl wakes from a year-long coma and is told her name is Jenna Fox. She
doesn't remember the accident; she doesn't remember her life; she
doesn't remember herself. Her parents show her home movies of her past, but is she really the same girl she sees on the screen? When the memories start to come, they come with questions - questions no one wants to answer. How did the accident happen? Why does her own grandmother hate her so? And why does she feel her parents are hiding her away? Who is Jenna Fox? |
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The Prince of Mist Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides
to move his family to a small town on the coast, to an old house that
once belonged to a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann. But the
house holds many secrets and stories of its own. Behind it is an
overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with
a six-pointed star. When he goes to investigate, Max finds that the statues seem to consist of a kind of circus troop with the large statue of a clown at its centre. Max has the curious sensation that the statue is beckoning to him. As the family settles in they grow increasingly uneasy: they discover a box of old films belonging to the Fleischmanns; his sister has disturbing dreams and his other sister hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. They also discover the wreck of a boat that sank many years ago in a terrible storm. Everyone on board perished except for one man - an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach. During the dive, Max sees something that leaves him cold - on the old mast floats a tattered flag with the symbol of the six-pointed star. As they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of the Prince of the Mists begins to emerge |
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The Enemy Charlie Higson
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They'll chase you. They'll rip you open. They'll feed on
you ...When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician
- every adult - fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there - alive? |
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Auslander Paul Dowswell |
When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an
orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to be measured
and assessed. They decide that Peter is racially valuable. He is Volksdeutscher: of German blood. With his blond hair, blue eyes, and acceptably proportioned head, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler-Jugend poster. Someone important will want to adopt Peter. They do. Professor Kaltenbach is very pleased to welcome such a fine Aryan specimen to his household. People will be envious. But Peter is not quite the specimen they think. He is forming his own ideas about what he is seeing, what he is told. Peter doesn't want to be a Nazi, and so he is going to take a very dangerous risk. The most dangerous risk he could possibly choose to take in Berlin in 1942. An eye-opener to life as a german boy during the war |
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Solace of the Road Siobhan Dowd COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2009 |
Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly
Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and
their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school and the
way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blonde locks she feels transformed. She's not Holly any more, she's Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the super-sharp talk. She's older, more confident - the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face the world head on. So begins a bittersweet, and sometimes hilarious journey as Solace swaggers and Holly tiptoes across England and through memory, discovering her true self, and unlocking the secrets of her past. Holly's story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her. Also by Dowd: 'A Swift, Pure Cry' & ' Bog Child'. For younger readers: 'The London Eye Mystery' |
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Chocolate Cake with Hitler Emma Craigie |
Fictionalised account of 11-year old Helga
Goebbels' last days. The daughter of a leading Nazi, she spent the last
10 days of her life trapped in a bunker with Adolf Hitler. Although a fictional account, this book is based on real findings and eyewitness accounts of the time. This is a disturbing novel, but fascinating - we have all read 'Anne Frank' , this gives us the german side from the point of view of an innocent little girl. Fabulous. |
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Out of Shadows Jason Wallace |
Zimbabwe, 1980s The war is over, independence has been won and
Robert Mugabe has come to power offering hope, land and freedom to black
Africans. It is the end of the Old Way and the start of a promising new
era. For Robert Jacklin, life in Zimbabwe offers a new start: new continent, new school, new independence. But he soon learns that not all his classmates are happy with the changes, especially clever, cunning Ivan, who is determined to fight until the very end. A timely novel, with Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe regularly in the news. This is a fantastic first novel -thought provoking, bold and brilliantly written. A must-read for all teenagers and young adults. |
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The Hunger Games Trilogy Suzanne Collins |
The Hunger Games:
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when
she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a
fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death
before - and survival, for her, is second nature. "The Hunger Games" is
a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our
present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever... Movie due in March 2012 |
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The Chaos Walking Trilogy Patrick Ness |
The Knife of Never Letting Go:
This is an unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing
up, by an award-winning writer. Imagine you're the only boy in a
town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear
everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans...Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run. "The Ask and the Answer" is a tense, shocking and deeply moving novel of resistance under the most extreme pressure. |
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Finding Violet Park Jenny Valentine |
Narrated by the most compelling voice since
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, this is a quirky and
original voyage of self-discovery triggered by a lost urn of ashes. The
mini cab office was up a cobbled mews with little flat houses either
side. That's where I first met Violet Park, what was left of her. There was a healing centre next door, a pretty smart name for a place with a battered brown door and no proper door handle and stuck-on wooden numbers in the shape of clowns. The 3 of number 13 was a w stuck on sideways and I thought it was kind of sad and I liked it at the same time. Sixteen-year-old Lucas Swain becomes intrigued by the urn of ashes left in a cab office. Convinced that its occupant -- Violet Park -- is communicating with him, he contrives to gain possession of the urn, little realising that his quest will take him on a voyage of self-discovery and identity, forcing him to finally confront what happened to his absent (and possibly dead) father! Also by Valentine: 'The Ant Colony', 'Broken Soup'. For younger readers: 'Iggy & Me' |
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Secret Countess Iva Ibbotson |
Anna, a young countess, has lived in the
glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace
overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her
now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an
out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid
and she finds work at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but
magnificent mansion. The staff and the family are sure there is something not quite right about their new maid - but she soon wins them over with her warmth and dedication. Then the young Earl returns home from the war - and Anna falls hopelessly in love. But they can never be together: Rupert is engaged to the snobbish and awful Muriel - and anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks... Also by Ibbotson: A Song for Summer, Magic Flutes, The Morning Gift, Company of Swans For younger readers: The Dragonfly Pool, Journey to the River Sea, The Star of Kazan |
| Bloodchild Tim Bowler |
Will lies in a deserted lane. All he knows is that he's had an accident & that his life is slipping away. Against all the odds he survives - but with an almost total loss of memory. He does not even know himself. And that is not all. At night he is tormented by visions, in the daytime by hostile strangers. Why does he have so many enemies? And who is the stranger child who seems to have a story to tell him? Something has happened in this town, something terrifying. Will can sense it but he can't work out what it was. Perhaps the old Will knew. But that was before the accident. The new Will must search for the answers again- and this is a dangerous task. For the town has a secret & there are those who will do everything in their power to preserve it. | |
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Does my Head Look Big in This? 10 Things I Hate about Me Randa Abdul-Fattah |
Abdul-Fattah manages to capture the everyday angst faced by teenagers today in a most interesting and readable way - boys, parents and being accepted and popular are all addressed. Great books. |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Let the Circle be Unbroken Mildred D. Taylor |
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Gossip Girl Series It Girl Series Cecily von Ziegesar |
Light & quirky! Fun to read |
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Twilight
Series Stephanie Meyer |
The series taking the teenage, young adult world by storm. Read the books, watch the film, buy the merchandise!!! |
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Cherub Series Robert Muchamore |
For 13+, this is a series of books about a boy living in an orphanage. He becomes a secret agent, and ultimately the person every boy dreams of being |
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Alex Rider Series Power of Five Series Anthony Horowitz |
For the lovers of adventure & young bond, this is an exciting series with lots of action & adventure |
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Maximum Ride Series James Patterson |
Genetically modified children - they have wings!-take on the world and all that is sent out to destroy them. Great adventures with good writing, from the thriller master himself |
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