Key Stage 4

Discover the latest titles for Key Stage 4 readers (ages 14-16), featuring contemporary and thought-provoking new releases from bestselling authors. These books are perfect for encouraging independent reading, supporting GCSE preparation, and sparking meaningful discussions. Whether you’re looking to top up your school library, enhance reading corners in classrooms, or provide engaging texts for group reading sessions, these fresh titles are ideal for Key Stage 4 students. Designed to challenge and inspire, they cover a wide range of themes and genres to cater to the diverse interests of older students.

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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 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

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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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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Bad Magic: A Skulduggery Graphic Novel

A small town in the middle of Ireland, a string of unexplained deaths and a monster on the loose. Better call in the experts. When Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain drive into Termoncara, they discover a town with a dark past and a people ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.1
Points Value : 1.0
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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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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How Far We’ve Come

Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is. Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she imagines escape. Meeting a ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.4
Points Value : 13.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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How To Die Famous

London-born Abel has landed the role of a lifetime for an upcoming blockbuster. On the face of it he’s Hollywood’s latest teen star, but below the surface he’s an undercover journalist on a mission to expose the ‘squeaky clean’ ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.5
Points Value : 14.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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If My Words Had Wings

When fifteen-year-old Tyrell Forrester gets caught up in a high-profile armed robbery, he's sentenced to eighteen months in a young offenders’ prison. Now he’s getting out, and he’s determined to turn his life around. Despite his release, ...

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

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Jay’s Guide To Crushing It

Jay - sorry, Jennifer - and her family move to a new town for a fresh start, after bullying at her last school went too far. Jennifer's mum insists that she do things differently, so gone are her jeans, T-shirts, skateboard and short hair. ...

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

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Key Stage 4 Fiction Collection | 23 Books

This pack contains some of the latest and most popular novels aimed at the key stage 4 age range. All of the titles are tested for Accelerated Reader and include all the quiz information you will need on a handy label inside the front cover. ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.4
Book Cover : Paperback

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Laura Wood Collection | 4 Books

Neatly packaged collection of these bestselling titles by Laura Wood All of the titles are tested for Accelerated Reader and include all the quiz information you will need on a handy label inside the front cover. All of the titles are aimed at ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.5
Book Cover : Paperback

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Meet Me In Mumbai

A novel in two acts - told eighteen years apart - gives voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned teen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption. Coming to the US to study, Ayesha is swept up in a whirlwind ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.1
Points Value : 14.0
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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Murder On A School Night

There’s never a good time to find a dead body. But finding a dead body while you’re trying to kiss your crush? Dead awkward. All Kerry wants to do is stay at home with her rom-coms and strict retainer schedule. Instead, her BFF Annie has ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.9
Points Value : 16.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Opposite Of Always

When Jack and Kate meet at a party, he knows he’s falling – hard. Soon she’s meeting his best friends and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack. But then Kate dies. And their story should end there. Yet Kate’s death sends Jack ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.3
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Perfect On Paper

Can give you the solution to any of your relationship woes - for a fee. Uses her power for good. Most of the time. Really cannot stand the new Australian jock at school, Alexander Brougham. Has maybe not the best judgement when it comes to her ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.4
Points Value : 14.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Rapunzella Or, Don’t Touch My Hair

Rapunzella is imprisoned in an enchanted forest made of her own Afro and the might of the evil King Charming seems unstoppable. But is it? Can Rapunzella use her power to change the future? You're fifteen, you spend your time at school and at ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.6
Points Value : 13.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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Robin Hood Ballots, Blasts & Betrayal

Robin Hood is campaigning to get his dad, Ardagh Hood, elected Sheriff of Nottingham. But their rival is arch-gangster Guy Gisborne, who won't hesitate to stuff ballot boxes with fake votes to ensure that he wins the vote. And Robin has more ...

ATOS Book Level : 6.2
Points Value : 8.0
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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Secondary Boys 14+ Collection | 20 Books

A fantastic collection aimed at boys aged 14+ including some graphic novels and some titles with dyslexia friendly text. All of the titles are tested for Accelerated Reader and include all the quiz information you will need on a handy label inside...

ATOS Book Level : 2.9

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