Year 9

Fiction suitable for ages 13+, all the latest titles and bestselling authors, ideal to top up any secondary school library or to be used as whole school reading texts.

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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 Sky Painted Gold

Growing up in her sleepy Cornish village dreaming of being a writer, sixteen-year-old Lou has always wondered about the grand Cardew house which has stood empty for years. And when the owners arrive for the summer - a handsome, dashing brother and...

ATOS Book Level : 5.5
Points Value : 15.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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A Spoonful Of Murder

When Hazel Wong's beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice-President) to Hazel's family estate in beautiful, bustling Hong Kong. But when they arrive they discover something ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 10.0
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 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

Allies Of The Night (Cirque Du Freak)

The quest for the Vampaneze Lord continues for the hunters of the dusk. Darren gets an unwelcome taste of reality when he is forced to go back to school and his past catches up with him. Maturing at one fifth the rate of a normal human, Darren has...

ATOS Book Level : 5.3
Points Value : 6
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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Arsenic For Tea

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy's glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for Daisy's birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 9.0
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
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Blood Fever

James Bond has discovered danger. Now it's come looking for him. An Eton boy's family disappears at sea. James uncovers a shadowy society operating in a hidden corner of the school. And far from England, in the bandit-infested interior of ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.6
Points Value : 14.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Bog Child (Playscript)

DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like shes been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around himhis brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings ...

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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
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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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Codename Eagle

After his failed escape to England across the Pyrenees, Paul Hansen is living, once again, in France. While the Germans blitz London and other major cities, Paul is getting more and more restless. Though he's part of the resistance movement, the past...

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Cream Buns And Crime

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are famous for the murder cases they have solved - but there are many other mysteries in the pages of Hazel's casebook. From the macabre Case of the Deepdean Vampire, to the baffling Case of the Blue Violet, and their ...

ATOS Book Level : 6.1
Points Value : 7.0
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Crooked Kingdom

Welcome to the world of the Grisha. Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives....

ATOS Book Level : 5.6
Points Value : 25.0
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Cuts Both Ways

London is everything to Cynthia, so when her parents move her to a place where there is only one bus an hour and the faint smell of horse manure continuously permeates the air, it's a culture shock, to say the least. As is transitioning to a private ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.3
Points Value : 11.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Dark Parallel

Josh and Ixchel have travelled back in time, but it might not be so easy to get home again. They've landed in the Mayan era, when the prophecy about the world ending in 2012 was first foretold. And they cannot believe who they have found there. ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.7
Points Value : 11
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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Death In The Spotlight

Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting. But the Detective Society is never far away from danger, and it's clear there's trouble afoot at ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.6
Points Value : 11.0
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Death Sets Sail

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is murder. Also travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 11.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Does My Head Look Big In This?

School is tough enough without throwing a hijab into the mix... Amal is a 16-year-old Melbourne teen with all the usual obsessions about boys, exams, chocolate and magazines. She's also a Muslim, struggling to honour the Islamic faith in a ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.9
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Double Or Die

Kidnap. Violence. Explosions. Murder. No ordinary weekend. But then, James Bond is no ordinary boy . . . In a North London cemetery a professor is kidnapped at gunpoint. A suspicious letter crammed with cryptic clues arrives at Eton. To decipher ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 14.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Elsewhere

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning . Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.3
Points Value : 9.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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