Year 9 " Recommended Reading" List
ACTION AND ADVENTURE
Higson, Charlie
The Enemy
(The Enemy series)
McKenzie, Sophie
The Set-Up
(Medusa Project series)
McNab, Andy
DropZone
Scarrow, Alex
Time Riders
(Time Riders series)
Brother in the Land
Swindells, Robert
When the sickness came every adult was wiped
out, and only children under 14 remain, fighting
to survive.
Four babies were implanted with the Medusa
gene 14 years earlier, giving them psychic
powers. Those abilities are just about to kick in!
17 year old Ethan is selected to join the elite
skydiving team. They are sent on covert military
missions, so secret that MI5 deny all knowledge.
Three teens rescued from impending death in
1912, 2010 and 2029 are used to fix broken time.
Danny describes life after WW3 in this tale of
survival and loss of innocence.
SCIENCE-FICTION
Adams, Douglas
Bachorz, Pam
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Candor
Blackman, Malorie
Noughts and Crosses
(Noughts & Crosses series)
Hunger Games
(Hunger Games series)
Collins, Suzanne
Westerfeld, Scott
Ness, Patrick
Uglies
(Uglies series)
The Knife of Never Letting Go
(Chaos Walking series)
A parody of science fiction and popular culture.
A chilling tale of mind control and the dangers
of insisting on perfection.
A look at racism and prejudice in an
alternative society.
The annual Hunger Games are a fight to the
death on live TV. 16 year old Katniss is forced to
enter for the 2nd time in this gripping tale.
In the future plastic surgery is taken to the
extreme.
Imagine a world where you can hear everyone's
thoughts and they can hear yours. Todd realises
secrets have been kept from him, and these will
force him to run...
HUMOUR
Abdel-Fattah, Randa
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Hiaasen, Carl
Hoot
Holt, Tom
Valhalla
Amal is 16, obsessing about boys, chocolate
& magazines. Being a Muslim adds extra worries.
An irreverent and funny satire full of oddball
characters in an American high school.
Valhalla is the Viking afterlife, where warriors
feast, get drunk & are reborn the next day. But
Odin, mischief-maker, has made changes!
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RELATIONSHIPS AND TEENAGE
Blackman, Malorie
Boys Don't Cry
Brashares, Ann
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
(Summers of the Sisterhood series)
Brooks, Kevin
Candy
Dowd, Siobhan
A Swift Pure Cry
Gray, Keith
Ostrich Boys
Limb, Sue
Girl 15, Charming But Insane
Mah, Adeline Yen
Chinese Cinderella
Picoult, Jodie
My Sister's Keeper
Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones
Zevin, Gabrilee
Elsewhere
Dante's world is turned upside down when his ex
turns up with a baby. A tale of teen fatherhood.
Four friends use an old pair of jeans to remain
friends when they are apart. The jeans become a
symbol of constancy in friendship.
Joe is hooked from the moment he sees Candy.
As the bitter truth about Candy's dangerous
world emerges, Joe must decide if love and hope
are worth fighting for.
A story of love, loss, religious belief and
spirituality, set in Ireland in 1984.
Three teens steal the urn containing the ashes
of their best friend Ross, deciding to give him a
fitting send-off. A tale of friendship, loss & hope.
The agony, ecstasy and embarrassment of
being a teenager.
True story of a girl who suffers from rejection
from her family on account of her sex.
Anna is a genetically selected child, created to
heal her older sister's cancer. After years of
painful operations, she chooses to take a stand.
A novel of life and death, forgiveness and
vengeance, memory and forgetting......
A story narrated from beyond the grave.
FANTASY
Black, Holly
Bujor, Flavia
Canavan, Trudi
Canavan, Trudi
Eddings, David
Hearn, Lian
Kilworth, Garry
Nix, Garth
Sedgwick, Marcus
Snyder, Maria V
Tithe
(Modern Faerie Tale series)
Prophesy of the Gems
The Magician's Guild
(Black Magician series)
Priestess of the White
(Age of Five series)
Pawn of Prophecy
(Belgariad series)
Across the Nightingale Floor
(Tales of the Otori series)
Jigsaw
Sabriel
(Old Kingdom series)
The Book of Dead Days
The Poison Study
(Poison Study series)
Kaye is dragged into the dangerous world
of sinister, feral faeries who wreak havoc.
Three girls, each given a gem, have to overcome
their differences to fulfil a dangerous quest.
A tale of conspiracy and magic which is lost
and found.
Five extraordinary humans must serve as
sword and shield of the gods.
The story of a farm boy whose destiny it is to
rule the world.
The search for a boy with special powers after
an evil Japanese warlord has killed his family.
On a remote jungle island Max's diary records
the strange, fantastical and dangerous
happenings!
Sabriel sets out on a quest to avenge the
death of her father.
Boy and Willow try to save their friend Valarian
from a fate worse than death.
Yelanda is saved from execution by agreeing
to be official food taster, risking slow poisoning.
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CLASSICS
Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Hardy, Thomas
Far From the Madding Crowd
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Wells, H G
The Time Machine
The passionate tale of Catherine Earnshaw's
betrayal of the foundling Heathcliff.
Holmes and Dr Watson solve some of their most
famous cases.
Gabriel Oak is only one of Bathsheba's three
suitors, competing with dashing Sergeant Troy
and Farmer Boldwood.
The Manor Farm animals find the pigs as nasty
as their human master. Political satire.
A Victorian scientist propels himself far into the
future - a utopian world with a sinister secret....
GHOST, HORROR AND THRILLER
Armstrong, Kelley
The Summoning
(Darkest Powers series)
Meyer, Stephanie
Sedgwick, Marcus
Twilight (Twilight series)
White Crow
Shan, Darren
The Thin Executioner
Smith, LJ
The Awakening
(Vampire Diaries series)
Chloe just wants to be like any other teenager,
then she starts seeing ghosts everywhere and
gets sent to a home for disturbed kids.
A modern vampire romance.
A dark gothic tale of obsession, good vs evil,
friendship and love. A very creepy story!
In a harsh world of slavery and executions, a boy
is sent on a quest to the lair of a mysterious god.
Elena is drawn to mysterious new boy Stefan
but he is hiding a deadly secret.....
MYSTERY, CRIME AND SUSPENSE
Brown, Dan
Cassidy, Anne
Angels and Demons
(Robert Langdon series)
Looking for JJ
Cassidy, Anne
Story of My Life
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
A murder mystery involving the Catholic Church
and the Illuminati (prequel to The Da Vinci Code).
Explores the motives of the murder of a child
by her best friend.
Kenny faces the longest night of his life, which
will end with a life-or-death decision.
A boy with asperger's syndrome investigates
a dog's death.
SPORT
Hornby, Nick
Fever Pitch
Klass, David
Rigby, Robert
The Braves
Goal!
(Goal series)
Penguins Stopped Play
Thompson, Harry
An account of growing up a fanatical football
supporter.
Gritty teenage football novel about torn loyalties
A young Latino boy is spotted by an-scout and
wins a trial with Newcastle United.
Humorous account of a global tour by a bunch
of village cricketers.
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