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There comes a point in a young life when the time is right to move on from the books and children’s authors they enjoyed as a child to reading books and authors that offer greater challenges as they grow up into adulthood. The books in this 14+ category are exactly that. They bridge that gap to introduce you and your child to adult authors who also write for a teenage / young adult audience.
You could also check out our latest highlights such as 'new voices', which showcases some of the brightest new talent from the prestigious publisher Walker Books or our 'prizewinners' section where we can help you and your child discover authors currently in contention for and/or winners of the most prestigious awards.
And finally, if you want to get your chidren choosing their own books then our special category on our sister site Lovereading called 'new gen' is the perfect place to start.

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Julia Green
A touching and tender teenage novel of love and exploration this tells how sixteen-year-old Emily finds first love and also begins an important search to find her mother. Emily was only two when her artist mother left home and she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
Alyson Noel
A second story about Ever, a girl whose special powers mean she can read auras. Still in love with Damen, despite the confusion around his aura, Ever’s powers of seeing and understanding are increasing but her hold over Damen is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2010
Joanna Nadin
In this, another brilliant installment of Rachel Riley’s hilarious diaries, join her in her no-nonsense, fact-based approach to life. Just when she thought she had finally found her knight in shining skinny jeans i.e. the ONE, an accidental snog with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
C.J. Skuse
Although not the target audience for this debut novel, Pretty Bad Things arrived on my desk at about the time the Catcher in the Rye author, J D Salinger died and there are definite comparisons to be drawn. Here in Pretty...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
William Hussey
Cleverly crafted, this is a masterful horror story that will chill readers to the bone as Jake Harker comes face to face with the evil forces of old witchcraft and its links to Matthew Hopkins, the evil Witchfinder of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
Delphine de Vigan
Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about what concepts of home and family really mean. Lou is bright and successful at school but her home is unhappy...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2010
Alyson Noel
The first in a powerful new series, this is a spellbinding love story fuelled by overwhelming supernatural powers and the conflicting forces of good and evil. The sole survivor of a car crash in which her parents, younger sister and ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/09/2009
Siobhan Dowd
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 Beautifully written and achingly moving, Solace of the Road is the poignant and desperate story of one girl’s search for her mother. Running away from her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Alex Scarrow
This is a thrilling action adventure which hurtles across time and place at breakneck speed. Three children are on the bring of death: Liam is about to drown as the Titanic sinks in 1912, Maddy is on an aeroplane fitted...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Gemma Malley
The Returners is a gripping and thought-provoking thriller from the author of the equally provocative futuristic novels, The Declaration and The Resistance. What happens when your past catches up with you and you don’t like what you see? This powerful...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
Philip Womack
This is a compelling modern fantasy that sees modern-day London threatened by sinister ancient forces. A brutal death, a mysterious object and the Capital sliding into anarchy is what greets Ivo Moncrieff as he arrives in London. Ivo faces a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
Jaclyn Dolamore
A hair-raising story full of suspense and intrigue. Nimira is picked out of her poor life as a music hall performer by the wealthy and mysterious Hollin Parry who asks her to sing for his automaton piano player. Parry is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
A teen romance with a twist of danger and the supernatural told with a sure touch that makes it a headlong read from start to finish. Typical teenager Ethan is bored by his life growing up in a small town...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Tamsyn Murray
A wonderful debut novel which, as well as being laugh-out-loud funny, is full of insights, compassion, and love. Fifteen-year-old Lucy has been stuck in the men's loo ever since she was murdered there six months ago. No one has been...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/02/2010
Jason Wallace
A memorable, moving and disturbing coming-of-age story about how different individuals react to the political changes around them and, especially, to the changing power structure between blacks and whites under the new rule of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 1980s....
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Daniel Hahn
Stuck for something to read? Whether you’re searching for a book to blow your mind and change your life, or a light read for the beach, particularly at a time when you can’t lay your hands on a computer that’s online in order...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
Rosemary Clement-Moore
This is a love story that will leave you utterly breathless. Meet Sylvie, a heroine who will steal your heart and who has lost so much. Shawn and Rhys are the two young men who vie for her attention; one...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
Neal Shusterman
This is a tremendously exciting and imaginative supernatural thriller that explores questions of life, death and what just might lie in-between. It’s the sort of book that makes the hairs on your neck rise up. Continuing where The Everlost...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Carmen Reid
A warm-hearted and hugely entertaining celebration of the value – and complications! – of friendship, this captures the special intensity that surrounds life in general and teen friendships in particular in a boarding school setting. Gina is excited to be...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
Markus Zusak
Bestselling novelist Markus Zusak has written a taut and compelling novel which, suitably enough since it is about boxing, packs a punch. With not enough money coming into the house, two brothers set about to earn some extra cash. Picked...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
Cliff Mcnish
If you're looking for a real page-turner that will have you gasping for breath then this is it. It's a horror story and a love story intertwined and 15 year old Savannah Grey is possibly the only person who can...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Gemma Malley
A powerful, gripping and tense futuristic novel about a world which has gone mad, a world where life is forever except for the likes of Peter and Anna (who shouldn’t be there at all according to the declaration) who are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2008
Gemma Malley
CD Audio. A powerful, gripping and tense futuristic novel about a world which has gone mad, a world where life is forever except for the likes of Peter and Anna (who shouldn’t be there at all according to the declaration) who are struggling to...
Format: Cd-audio - Released: 04/05/2009
Al Gore
Al Gore’s powerful contribution to the climate change debate is presented here in an accessible format for younger readers. His proposals are both simple and radical. He believes that climate change affects every part of our lives and that everyone...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2009
Gemma Malley
This is a powerful, absolutely chilling sequel to Gemma Malley’s acclaimed debut, The Declaration. With a dark and sinister vision of the future, it is set in 2140, The Resistance is an incredibly thought-provoking read. We raved about her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
Tony Juniper
The Director of ‘Friends of the Earth’ sets out his manifesto for what we need to do if we are to save this planet for future generations and stressing the fact that these changes need to start being made now....
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/01/2008
J D Salinger
Shortlisted for the 2009 Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year. One of our 'Must Reads'. A great teenage classic. Holden Caufield is the ultimate outsider; he is expelled from school, falls out with his friends and finally...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/1994
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Michael Grant
THE LOVEREADING4KIDS MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY 2010 Hugh 14. Hunger, like it’s prequel Gone was unputdownable. It's an excellent follow-up to an original idea. More children are developing powers and the world inside the FAYZ is spinning...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2010
Alyxandra Harvey
This is a teen romance to really get your teeth into. It’s an action-packed, urban fantasy full of Gothic seduction, teen angst, passion, wicked humour and adventure, all skilfully ignited by an age-old prophecy and a reluctant vampire princess that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
Sue Limb
Loads of fun, farce and teen romance provide a delightful background for Chloe and Zoe as they make and break their plans for a summer holiday to remember. Falling in and out of love, making up their stories for their parents and, above...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
Sue Limb
Sue Limb’s writing is firmly on the pulse of teens today with the agony and ecstasy of being a teenager brought vividly to life. Every manner of emotion is revealed as both Jess and Fred get to know each other but also how...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
Patrick Ness
Winner of the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 - the judges acclaimed it as “a major achievement in the making” Shortlisted for the Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking to an orphanage in Warsaw. But...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
Saci Lloyd
Laura’s witty diary entries cleverly combine the important events in her own life – managing her boyfriend and dealing with her attempts to be in a successful band – with the major and serious issues of climate change in a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
Ben Horton
As commercial and compelling as a computer game, this is the first book in a major new series. Edgy, exhilarating and fast-paced not all teens will have the guts to read this but we're sure there will be many that get...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
Julia Jarman
This is raw and powerful writing but a book that should be read for it doesn’t shy away from telling the reader exactly how awful a Young Offenders’ Institution is for a first-timer. Aged seventeen, Lee is inside for a crime...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
Keren David
An edgy and contemporary thriller about the life changing dangers of knife crime – and that’s just for the witness. When Ty tells the police what he has seen, his life is changed forever. His enemies are ruthless and will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
Kate Cann
January 2010 Guest Editor Sophie Mckenzie on Diving In by Kate Cann 'Kate Cann's books opened my eyes to how accessible and engaging teenage writing these days can be. I love the confessional style with which she tells her stories and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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