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Skellig
David Almond
Mystery
Awful End (Eddie Dickens trilogy)
Philip Ardagh
Adventure/Humour
Blade: Playing Dead
Tim Bowler
Thriller
Coming Home (Heartland series)
Lauren Brooke
Horse Stories
The Eighteenth Emergency
Betsy Byars
Adventure
Aliens are Invading the School
Dinah Capparucci
Adventure/Humour
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Tony DiTerlizzi
Fantasy
A Dog Called grk
Joshua Doder
Adventure/Humour
The Tulip Touch
Anne Fine
Suspense/Thriller
The Ghost Box
Catherine Fisher
Suspense/Thriller
War Game
Michael Foreman
WW1
Hitler’s Daughter
Jackie French
WWII
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Jack Gantos
Humour/Adventure
Once/Now/Then
Morris Gleitzman
Sticky Beak
Morris Gleitzman
Humour
Harvey Angel
Diana Hendry
Mystery/Thriller/Ghost
The Greek Who Stole Christmas (Diamond Brothers)
Anthony Horowitz
Mystery/Humour
Thirteen Unpredictable Tales
Paul Jennings
Humour/Short Stories
The Frighteners, The Creeper
Pete Johnson
Horror
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Adventure/Humour
Mondays are for Murder, Merlin’s Apprentice
Tanya Landman
Saffy’s Angel (Casson Family series)
Hilary McKay
Teen Life/Humour
Time Train to the Blitz
Sophie McKenzie
Mystery/Time slip
Wreck of the Zanzibar, War Horse
Michael Morpurgo
Adventure
The Sleeping Sword
Michael Morpurgo
Adventure
Something Wickedly Weird
Chris Mould
Mystery/Humour
Journey to Jo’Burg
Beverley Naidoo
Foul Play
Tony Palmer
Mystery/Football
Count Karlstein, The Firework Maker’s Daughter
Philip Pullman
Thriller/Suspense
Kiss of Death
Malcolm Rose
Mystery/Thriller
Pure Chance
Gillian Rubinstein
Adventure/Horses
Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
Thriller/Suspense
The Midnight Library
Nick Shadow
Suspense
Cirque Du Freak (Saga of Darren Shan series)
Darren Shan
Horror
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket
Nightmare Stairs, Invisible
Robert Swindells
Thriller
Deep Water
Ann Turnbull
Adventure/Suspense
Over the Moon
Jean Ure
Teen Life/Romance
Gulf
Robert Westall
Adventure/War
Bats
Paul Zindel
Horror