Recommended Reading
Pick and Mix for KS4
Across the Nightingale Floor Lian Hearn
Angel Blood John Singleton
Beast Ally Kennen
Candy Kevin Brooks
Close-Up Sherry Ashworth
Damage Sue Mayfield
Darkhenge Catherine Fisher
Eclipse of the Century Jan Mark
Feed M T Anderson
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
The Shell House Linda Newberry
Looking for JJ Ann Cassidy
Lucas Kevin Brooks
No Angels Robert Swindells
Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman
Postcards from No Man's Land Aiden Chambers
Sara's Face Melvin Burgess
Small-minded Giants Oisin McGann
Tamar Mal Peet
The Road of Bones Anne Fine
The Road of the Dead Kevin Brooks
The Year the Gypsies Came Linzi Glass
Be Selective
Easy Reads
Eoin ColferArtemis Fowl series
Morris GleitzmanGirl Underground (very funny and exciting)
Mary HooperMegan (15 year old girl discovers she is pregnant)
Anthony HorowtizStormbreaker (first in Alex Rider the teenage spy series)
Michael MorpurgoKensuke's Kingdom (boy shipwrecked on a desert island)
William NicholsonWind Singer (first in a fantasy series)
J K RowlingHarry Potter series
Jacqueline WilsonGirls In Love (starts a teenage series)
Benjamin ZephaniahFace (teenager's recovery from car crash involving drug dealers
General
David AlmondKit's Wilderness (teenager's encounter with disturbedboy)
Tim BowlerShadows (search of boy with harsh father for emotional stability) Melvin BurgessJunk (teenagers on the drug scene)
Roald DahlBoy, Going Solo (Dahl's life story, at 920 DAH)
Anne FineTulip Touch (girl's relationship with disturbed friend)
Jamila GavinWheel of Surya (series set in India and Britain)
Bette GreeneSummer of my German Soldier (Jewish girl's love for a German)
Brian JacquesMartin the Warrior (first in Redwall series)
Michelle MagorianA Little Love song (World War II love story)
Beverley NaidooOther Side of Truth (refugees flee to Britain from Africa)
Linda NewberyShell House (teenagers investigate the fate of a soldier)
Garth NixSabriel (first in fantasy series)
Gary PaulsenHatchet series (plane crash leaves boy stranded in wilderness)
Terry PratchettColour of Magic (first in the Discworld fantasy series)
Celia ReesWitch Child (American girl is accused of being a witch)
Louis SacherHoles (miscarriage of justice sends a boy to a detention centre)
Robert SwindellsDaz 4 Zoe (teenage romance set in future city)
No Angels (parallel experiences of modern girl and Victorian boy on London streets)
Robert WestallMachine Gunners; Blitzcat (World War II stories)
Benjamin ZephaniahRefugee Boy (boy escapes from war to seeks new life in London)
Paul ZindelRats(rats threaten New York City)
More Challenging Books
Robert CormierI am the Cheese, Tenderness
Meera SyalAnita and Me (Asian girl growing up in a mining village)
Anita DesaiFire on the Mountain (girl with mad grandmother in Indian village)
Berlie DohertyDear Nobody (schoolgirl becomes pregnant)
Sue MayfieldBlue (teenage girl's emotional experiences vividly presented)
Philip PullmanNorthern Lights (first in trilogy about a parallel world)
William TrevorFelicia's Journey (pregnant Irish girl leaves home)
Nineteenth Century Novels
Try any novels by:
Jane Austen(exquisitely written romantic social comedies)
Charlotte or Emily Bronte(passionate, stormy romances)
Charles Dickens(exciting tales often set in the poverty of C19th London)
Thomas Hardy(romantic tragedies)
Or try:
R.L StevensonTreasure Island, Kidnapped (adventure)
Mark TwainTom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn (adventure).
Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty Days (exciting and colourfully descriptive)
H G WellsWar of the Worlds (Martians invade London)
Oscar WildePicture of Dorian Gray (supernatural )
Early Twentieth Century Novels
John BuchanThirty nine Steps (spy story)
Raymond ChandlerFarewell My Lovely, Big Sleep (American detective stories)
Daphne du MaurierRebecca (classic romance)
Paul GallicoSnow Goose (rescue from Dunkirk)
Laurie LeeCider With Rosie (vivid description of a rural childhood)
George OrwellNineteen Eighty Four (portrayal of a totalitarian society)
Animal Farm (the animals drive out the farmer and run the farm – an allegory of a failed revolution)
John SteinbeckMoon is Down (resistance to the Nazis in Norwegian village)
J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit (shorter and pacier than the Lord of the Rings)
Lord of the Rings(Inner earth fantasy)
Amazon reading recommendations for teenagers
'I Have Lived a Thousand Years' by Livia Bitton-Jackson
'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma' by Jane Austen
'Noughts and Crosses' by Melanie Blackman
'The Great Automatic Grammatizator: And Other Stories' by Roald Dahl
'Winnie The Pooh' by A.A. Milne
'Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy' by Jostein Gaarder
'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' by Judith Kerr
'Nineteen Eighty Four' by George Orwell
'Northern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife', 'The Amber Spyglass' by Philip Pullman
'Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter' by Adeline Jen Mah
'Jurassic Park' by Michael Crichton