Fiction - Upper Years Accelerated Reader

We offer over 200 fiction titles, all quizzed for Accelerated Reader and classified under the Upper Years category, specifically designed for Key Stage 4 students (ages 14+).

This selection includes a wide range of engaging and thought-provoking books, perfect for older teens. The titles span various genres, including contemporary fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and more, providing students with a broad spectrum of reading material that aligns with their academic and personal interests.

Each book is matched with an Accelerated Reader quiz, allowing Key Stage 4 students to track their comprehension and reading progress. These titles are an excellent choice for secondary school libraries, classrooms, or independent reading, offering challenging content that aligns with the needs of older readers.

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Bumper Secondary Accelerated Reader Collection | 100 Books

This bumper library collection brings together 100 carefully selected titles across the Accelerated Reader programme, spanning Middle Years, Middle Years Plus, and Upper Years interest ranges. Designed to provide breadth and balance, the pack offers ...

ATOS Book Level : 0.7
Book Cover : Paperback

Date With Danger

Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. Date with Danger has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6, and is fully illustrated throughout. It was ...

ATOS Book Level : 1.7
Points Value : 0.5
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

The Bench

Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. The Bench has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6, and is fully illustrated throughout. An old man sits ...

ATOS Book Level : 1.9
Points Value : 0.5
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

The Wrong Wheels

Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. The Wrong Wheels has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6, and is fully illustrated throughout. Troy ...

ATOS Book Level : 2.1
Points Value : 0.5
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Rainbow Volume 1

Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination – she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home ...

ATOS Book Level : 2.2
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

The Girl From The Sea

Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mother, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of ...

ATOS Book Level : 2.6
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Glee Club

Mel loves her school's Glee Club, but will their director falling ill and an unexpected romance get in the way of the team's victory? Edited to a reading age of 6.5. Mel and her friends love the high school Glee Club. They can't wait to take on ...

ATOS Book Level : 2.8
Points Value : 0.5
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Pale

The Lazarus Serum can bring you back from the dead - but when you come back you've changed - you're a Pale, an outcast. It's the last thing Jed wants, but an accident changes everything and Jed's forced to discover the true cost of living forever.

ATOS Book Level : 2.9
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Heartstopper Vol.5

Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?...

ATOS Book Level : 2.9
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Cherub: The Recruit: (Graphic Novel)

A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.1
Points Value : 2
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Welcome To St. Hell (Recommended For Readers Age 16+)

Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this... But she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it...

ATOS Book Level : 3.1
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Getting Away With It

Taut, gritty thriller from the phenomenally successful author of Looking for JJ and Finding Jennifer Jones. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 12+ They thought the joyride would be a bit of a laugh. They ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.1
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Old Dog New Tricks

When the Singh family move into a new house, their neighbour Mick is far from welcoming. He's mean to everyone and his racist beliefs make living next door to him hard for the Singhs. But Harvey is convinced that Mick just needs help and that he's ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.3
Points Value : 2.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

A Sudden Storm

An innocent night out to celebrate a sixteenth birthday turns to tragedy in this powerful story of racial intolerance from award-winning author Bali Rai. It’s Arjan’s sixteenth birthday and he’s celebrating with his mates – going to see a ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.4
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Sunshine

When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a programme that sent students to be counsellors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing...

ATOS Book Level : 3.4
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Concrete Rose

With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom working two jobs, seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter helps the only way he knows how: slinging drugs. Life's not perfect, but he's got everything under control. Until he finds out he's a father... ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.4
Points Value : 10.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

The Life I’m In

My feet are heavy as stones when I walk up the block wondering why I can't find my old self. Char has always had to be tough. But now the hard edges that have always driven people away are all the protection she has against the world. When ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.5
Points Value : 10.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Hey, Kiddo

An important graphic novel memoir that was a US National Book Award Finalist. In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is muchmore complicated than that. His mom ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.5
Points Value : 2.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Run, Rebel

I am restless, my feet need to fly.Amber is trapped - by her father's rules, by his expectations, by her own fears.Now she's ready to fight - for her mother, for her sister, for herself.Freedom always comes at a price.Run, Rebel is a trailblazing ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.7
Points Value : 5
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Seven Million Sunflowers

Escaping war is only half the battle as the Kovalenko family swap Ukrainian dangers for life with a British family. 15-year-old Kateryno and her family live in Kharkiv. Their lives are shattered when on February 24th 2022 the Russian army invades....

ATOS Book Level : 3.7
Points Value : 6.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

The Last Days Of Archie Maxwell

Dads leave home all the time. It's not that unusual, really. Leon's dad walked out. So did Mo's. But Archie's? Well, that's a different story – a story that Archie must keep secret at all cost. Archie knows he should accept Dad for who he is, so he...

ATOS Book Level : 3.8
Points Value : 3.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Letting Go

When Agnes made a promise to her girlfriend Ellie, she thought they would be together forever. One year later, Agnes is keeping that promise and it's put her in a situation she never could have predicted; climbing a desolate mountain, in miserable ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.9
Points Value : 2.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Dumb Chocolate Eyes

A brutally honest and effective story about adolescent boredom and destructive friendships, from Carnegie medalist Kevin Brooks. It was one of those childhood friendships of convenience - two lads in the same village who go to the same school. But ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.0
Points Value : 0.5
Book Cover : Paperback

What If It’s Us

Meet Arthur and Ben. ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. BEN thinks the universe needs to mind its business....

ATOS Book Level : 4.0
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

The Fall

Jealousy drives Mog to make a terrible mistake in this tragic and gritty tale of betrayal, sparsely and finely told by a master of teen storytelling. Mog might be a loser, but he’s not as much of a loser as Duffy, poster child for victims ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.0
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children