Fiction Books For Year 8

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Kerb Stain Boys

A sharp, witty and heartfelt tale of the ups and downs of teenage life from multi-award-winning Alex Wheatle. Life on the Crongton estate can be rough for Briggy. Dad's lost his job, Mum's working so hard to make ends meet, and big brother ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.0
Points Value : 3.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Know My Place

A teenager’s longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly portrayed in this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting story of life in the foster-care system. A teenager’s longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly ...

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

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Like A Girl

Fourteen-year-old Eden McCoy doesn't fit in. All she's good at is running, and she doesn't even dare join the track team. Her priority is to stay in the shadows and avoid the Glossies - a ruthless clique of girls who use social media to punish and ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.7
Points Value : 11.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Lost

When Alfie Turner loses his mum, it feels like his world is falling apart. She was the glue that held their family together and, now that she's gone, Alfie and his dad don't really know how to be a family without her. And then Alfie meets Alice....

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

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Midwinterblood

What would you sacrifice for someone you've loved forever? Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, MIDWINTERBLOOD is a dark, breathtaking and cleverly crafted paranormal love story like no other, beautifully told in seven parts and spanning ten ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.0
Points Value : 7.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Mistletoe And Murder – Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Book 5

The fabulously festive fifth Murder Most Unladylike mystery. It's Christmas, and the snow is falling in Cambridge, where the detective duo Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the festive period. But Hazel's hopes of relaxing amongst the ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.0
Points Value : 10.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Murder Most Unladylike – Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Book 1

At Deepdean School for Girls, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have set up their own detective agency. But they are struggling to find any real crimes to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.) Then ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.8
Points Value : 9.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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My Brother’s Name Is Jessica

Sam has known his sister Jessica all his life. Tonight is the first time they're going to meet. Sam Waver has always been a loner: bullied, struggling at school, with parents who have very little time for him. The one person he has always been ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.4
Points Value : 8.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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My Perfect Cousin

Cousins Yasmin and Ruby have always been rivals, but both sides of the story are exposed in this cleverly composed clean-teen novella from Karen McCombie. Ruby can’t stand her “perfect” cousin Yasmin. Yasmin is pretty, popular and has a ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.6
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Mystery Of The Night Watchers

MAY, 1910. As the blazing Halley's comet draws close to the earth, Nancy is uprooted to start a new life in Suffolk with a grandfather she has never met. With every curtain drawn shut, Nancy is forbidden from leaving her grandfather's house: no one ...

ATOS Book Level : 6.2
Points Value : 10.0
Book Cover : Paperback

Noor-Un-Nissa Inayat Khan

It's 1940 and hundreds of families are being forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to stand by while Nazi forces invade her home and terrorise her people, so she travels to England and signs up to join the war efforts, despite her ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 6.0
Book Cover : Paperback

Now Is The Time For Running

Deo is a great footballer, a fierce protector of his older brother, Innocent. His brother is easily nervous, easily happy but good at keeping score on the dusty fields of Zimbabwe where the boys play. Then Mugabe's soldiers come, destroying the ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.5
Points Value : 8.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Oh My Gods

She's just moved in with her dorky dad and self-absorbed older siblings - who just happen to be Greek gods, living incognito in London! It's hard not to feel inferior when your older sister is Aphrodite, queen of beauty and massive star of social ...

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

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Once Upon A Crime

A thrilling new short story collection in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Featuring six marvellous mini-mysteries, including four original, brand-new and never-seen-before stories: The Case of the ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.6
Points Value : 10.0
Book Cover : Paperback

Only Mostly Devastated

Ollie and Will were a summer fling; now they're classmates. But only one of them is out...SIMON VS THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets a modern-day, queer re-imagining of GREASE. It was the very last Wednesday of August when I realized Disney had been ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.8
Points Value : 11.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Paper Dragons: The Fight For The Hidden Realm

Twelve-year-old Zhi Ging has always been an outcast. Until she receives an invitation to Hok Woh, an underwater school that offers her the chance to become immortal, and to finally belong. There, she battles in hair-raising boat races, meets ...

ATOS Book Level : 6.5
Points Value : 13.0
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Pike

Nicky and Kenny return in Pike as a fishing expedition nosedives into near tragedy. The Bacon Pond is famous for its monster-sized fish and Kenny is determined to catch one. And as usual, Nicky is dragged along for the ride. But when the boys glimpse...

ATOS Book Level : 4.6
Points Value : 3.0
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Rebound

It's 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times, he's packed off to stay with his grandparents for the summer. There his ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.3
Points Value : 4.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Rise To The Sun

Toni is grieving the loss of her roadie father and needing to figure out where her life will go from here - and she's desperate to get back to loving music. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again) and is ...

ATOS Book Level : 6.0
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Robin Hood: Prisons, Parties & Powerboats Robert Muchamore’s Robin Hood Book 7

The seventh episode in the latest bulls-eye hit series from the bestselling author of Cherub. Teen rebel and social-media star Robin Hood continues his fight against brutal and corrupt authorities. Robin is having fun sabotaging former Sheriff of ...

ATOS Book Level : 6.6
Points Value : 9.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Runaways

Jamie and July are both eleven-year-olds living in London - but they have very different lives. They meet for the first time at Waterloo Station in the last week of the holidays. They are both desperate to get away from home. July is really worried ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.4
Points Value : 7.0
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S.P.E.A.R.

Everyone has a power to harness at the S.P.E.A.R training academy, but can Troy master his in time? A thrilling action-packed adventure from Bodyguard author Chris Bradford. When Troy is caught up in a terrorist attack that takes the lives of ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.8
Points Value : 1.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Scavengers

Landfill has lived his whole life as a scavenger, running with wooflings, swimming with turtles and feasting on whatever he can catch. Old Babagoo has always looked after him, on one condition. Follow Babagoo's rules. And the most important rule ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.8
Points Value : 9.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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Silas Marner

George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many ...

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