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Year 9 Recommended Reading Adventure Bodyguard The Enemy Dear Scarlett Life of Pi Cherub Series Chris Bradford Charlie Higson Fleur Hitchcock Yann Martel Robert Muchamore No one suspects that a

1 Year 9 Recommended Reading Adventure Bodyguard The Enemy Dear Scarlett Life of Pi Cherub Series Chris Bradford Charlie Higson Fleur Hitchcock Yann Martel Robert Muchamore No one suspects that a teenager could protect someone but Connor Reeves is no ordinary 14 year old. When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician - every adult - fell ill. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive. An absorbing story about a young girl's attempts to learn more about her dead father through the objects she finds in a cardboard box he's left her. In the lifeboat are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. CHERUB employs children, mainly orphans, under the age of 17 as intelligence agents. Drama and Romance A Quiet Kind of Thunder Am I Normal Yet + others Sara Barnard Holly Bourne Steffi doesn't talk, but she has so much to say. Rhys can't hear, but he can listen. The story of Evie s life in the grip of OCD. Me Before You trilogy JoJo Moyes Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live but he s just about to meet Lou Clark.

2 All The Bright Places Chinese Cinderella Everything, Everything Jennifer Niven Adeline Yen May Nicole Yoon A story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die. Jung-ling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. Madeline Whittier has never left the house in all of her 17 years. But when Olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to Maddie things begin to change. Fantasy The Selection City of Bones + other books The Throne of Glass and A Court of Thrones and Roses Twilight The Discworld Keira Cass Cassandra Clare Sara J Maas Stephenie Meyer Terry Pratchett Seventeen year old America Singer has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV lottery in which a special few compete. Sixteen year old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager until everything changes the night she witnesses a murder. In the Throne of Glass Celaena is offered her freedom on one condition - to fight as Prince Dorian's champion in a contest sponsored by the king. In A Court of Thrones and Roses Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill, but the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in winter. When 17-year old Bella moves to live with her father, she expects her life will be as dull as the town. However, she quickly discovers there is more going on than she expects including vampires. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place

3 Fire and Flood Lord of the Rings Victoria Scott J R R Tolkein which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Tella's brother is dying and Tella is helpless to save him. Or so she thought. Read about the adventures of hobbits, elves, dwarves and wizards in this famous. Historical Chains Amy Snow Code Name Verity The Book Thief Laurie Halse Anderson Tracy Rees Elizabeth Wein Markus Zusac As the American Revolutionary War rages, a thirteen-year old girl pursues her own fight for freedom. Amy s only friend Aurelia dies young. She leaves Amy a bundle of letters with a coded key that only Amy can unlock. When a vital mission goes wrong Verity has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Mystery / Crime Model Undercover A Pocketful of Rye + others 13 Reasons Why Carina Alexsson Agatha Christie Introducing Axelle Anderson - secret sleuth and part-time model. Follow Miss Marple and see if you can solve the clues before there is another murder. Jay Asher Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a box lying on the porch. Inside he finds 13 cassette tapes recorded by a classmate who committed suicide two weeks earlier.

4 Girl Missing Between the Lies Sophie McKenzie Cathy McPhail Lauren is eager to know more about her past. Could she have been snatched as a baby? Judith Tremayne is missing. She seems to have vanished until Abbie receives a message - 'I want to come home'. Science Fiction and Dystopian The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Noughts and Crosses The Hunger Games The Maze Runner Itch Douglas Adams Malorie Blackman Suzanne Collins James Dashner Simon Mayo It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. Noughts and Crosses is a story that challenges our perceptions of race, power and truth. Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games - a fight to the death on live TV. When the doors of the lift open, Thomas finds himself at the centre of a bizarre and dreadful stone maze. Itchingham Lofte - known as Itch - makes a discovery - a new element, never seen before. Classics Emma Jane Eyre Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte Emma Woodhouse likes meddling in other people s affairs but it doesn t always go well! Jane Eyre finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her employer, Rochester, she

5 To Kill a Mockingbird Animal Farm Frankenstein discovers he has a terrible secret. Harper Lee A novel about growing up in the 1930s in the Southern United States. George A classic fable about a Orwell communist dictatorship told Mary Shelley through animals on a farm. A gothic horror about a monstrous creation. Please try a book from the Classics Challenge including A Room with a View by EM Forster or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Recommended by... Title Author Genre / Focus Level of difficulty - 1 easy to 5 challenging

Recommended by... Title Author Genre / Focus Level of difficulty - 1 easy to 5 challenging Title Author Genre / Focus Level of difficulty - 1 easy to 5 challenging To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Growing up / Social commentary 4 Mrs Owen Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker Action / Adventure