Year 11

These teen novels, featuring gritty stories and diverse themes, are perfect for 15-16 year olds. With gripping narratives and thought-provoking content, these books are ideal for older students looking for more mature and engaging stories. Written by a range of bestselling authors, these titles are a must-have for any secondary school library, offering valuable reading material that resonates with young readers and encourages deep reflection.

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A Game Of Life Or Death

When sixteen-year-old Asha Kennedy discovers her older sister Maya's dead body in their home, her world falls apart. Desperate for answers, and to stay out of the hands of the social services she grew up in, Asha turns to her hacker friends for ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.5
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.4
Points Value : 16.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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A Season For Scandal

An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper class world straight out of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmask a villain. When Marigold Bloom finds her family ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.8
Points Value : 13.0
Book Cover : Paperback

Ace Of Spades

Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is...I'm here to divide and conquer. - Aces Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.1
Points Value : 15.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Alex In Wonderland

In the town of Newsands, painfully shy Alex is abandoned by his two best friends for the summer. But he unexpectedly lands a part-time job at Wonderland, a run-down amusement arcade on the seafront, where he gets to know the other teen misfits ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.7
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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All American Boys

A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.9
Points Value : 10.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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All That’s Left In The World

When the Superflu wipes out most of the population, Jamie finds himself completely alone in a cabin in the woods - until an injured stranger crosses his path. Life is dangerous now and, armed with a gun, Jamie goes to pull the trigger. But there's...

ATOS Book Level : 4.5
Points Value : 13.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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All the Crooked Saints

Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle. Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged ...

ATOS Book Level : 6.8
Points Value : 13
Book Cover : Paperback

All The Hidden Monsters

A grisly murder. A detective warlock with a dangerous past. A girl out of her depth. Can they solve the case? Sage is an ordinary girl and a werewolf, moving between worlds, desperate to make sense of her life. When her supernatural friend, ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.0
Points Value : 11.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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All The Invisible Things

With Pez, the days felt endless - cycling, climbing trees, sucking sour sweets till our tongues burned. I'd give anything to be that girl again. For four years Vetty Lake has been keeping her heart in hiding. Since her mum died and her family ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.3
Points Value : 14.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Always And Forever Lara Jean

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot's coming home for the summer...

ATOS Book Level : 4.5
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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As Good As Dead

Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the way her last investigation ended. Soon she’ll be leaving for Cambridge University but then another case finds her . . . and this time it’s all about Pip. Pip is used to online death threats, but there’s one ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 20.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow

A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital - helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can't. Layla and her ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.8
Points Value : 15.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Baby Love

A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy and its consequences, family trouble and unlikely friendships, set in 1960. When Laura meets a French exchange student, Leon, she is flattered by his interest in ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.8
Points Value : 16.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Better Than The Movies

Liz hates her annoyingly attractive neighbour but he’s the only in with her long-term crush… Perpetual daydreamer and hopeless romantic Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 13.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Black AND British: A short, essential history

When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential ...

ATOS Book Level : 8.2
Points Value : 5.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Boy Like Me

It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in UK schools. When a kind librarian leads Jamie to a disguised novel in the library that reflects his own confused feelings towards boys, Jamie sees that he's not the ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.9
Points Value : 11.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Broken Hearts And Zombie Parts

Jesse Spark has a broken heart and in a few short weeks he'll require major surgery to repair it - which means he only has a month to accomplish two almost-impossible tasks. 1) Shoot his epic zombie movie on a shoestring budget if he has any hope ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.1
Points Value : 13.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Burn

“On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron Gas Station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm.” This dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye. Sarah ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.1
Points Value : 13.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Call Down The Hawk

The dreamers walk among us...and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die. And then there are ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.5
Points Value : 18.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Catch Your Death

When three girls are stranded at the grand Bramble Estate in the middle of a snowstorm, they stumble into a murder plot. Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Vanforte in the middle of a family dinner - which means Devi, Lizzie and Jayne are trapped in ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.8
Points Value : 16.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Catfish Rolling

There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.2
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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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

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Date Me, Bryson Keller

Everyone at Fairvale Academy knows Bryson Keller, the super-hot soccer captain who doesn't believe in high-school relationships. They also know about the dare Bryson accepted - each week he has to date the first person who asks him out. A single ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.5
Points Value : 10.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Dead Popular

Kate Jordan Ferreira knows that you don't become the most powerful girl at school by playing nice, and Kate's ruthless. But when other students start revealing long-held secrets anonymously, she realizes someone is playing a much ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.5
Points Value : 10
Book Cover : Paperback

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