Latest Fiction Books For Key Stage 3
Explore the latest titles for Key Stage 3 readers (ages 11-14), featuring exciting and engaging new releases from bestselling authors. These books are perfect for inspiring young readers and encouraging a love of reading. Whether you’re looking to top up your school library, create dynamic reading corners in classrooms, or provide fresh material for whole-class reading, these new titles are ideal for Key Stage 3 students. Designed to challenge and engage, they offer a mix of genres and themes to suit a wide range of interests and reading levels.
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Bumper Secondary Year Group Collection | 101 Books
The Bumper Secondary Year Group Collection brings together 101 carefully chosen titles to support students across KS3 and KS4. Perfect for secondary classrooms and libraries, this pack includes a wide mix of contemporary fiction, including dyslexia ...
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Endgame
Ruby, Freya and Ivy are all survivors of the Ash Tree Foundation, an organisation that claimed to help teenagers deal with technology addiction but which was a front for a dangerously addictive augmented-reality platform, Novo Reality.
Novo ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.5
- Points Value : 3.0
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Escape
When her school trip takes a perilous turn, Bernice must channel all of her knowledge to survive in this gripping drama from the queen of teen thrillers, Sophie McKenzie.
A dream school trip to a sea-life sanctuary turns into a nightmare for ...
- ATOS Book Level : 3.8
- Points Value : 1.0
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Fallout
Marcus has one brother in a youth offender centre and the other is working with their dad on plans for their next theft. Everyone assumes Marcus will follow in their footsteps, but he has other ideas, different hopes.
When a mysterious accident ...
- ATOS Book Level : 3.9
- Points Value : 7.0
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Midnight Treasure
Tibor is a child of the night, a werwolf, adopted by his guardian, a powerful vampir. He and his friend Roza are on the deadliest of quests, and one that will test their very immortality. And they're not the only ones hunting for the Midnight ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.9
- Points Value : 12.0
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New You For Ever
Can you save the world by living for ever? Anders uncovers the sinister truth about Pleekas in this gripping dystopian thriller from award-winning author Steve Cole.
The year is 2070, and the New You Foundation claim to have found the ultimate ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.4
- Points Value : 2.0
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Out from Boneville: Bone Book 1
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins – Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone – are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled ...
- ATOS Book Level : 2.4
- Points Value : 1.0
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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
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Second Best Friend
Jade and Becky have always been best friends; inseparable and often indistinguishable. But when a spiteful comment from an awful ex pushes Jade to the edge, she begins to see that she has always been second best in everything. When the school ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 3.0
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Sleep Like Death
New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron makes her highly anticipated return to the fairytale realm of Cinderella is Dead with this thrilling twist on the classic story of Snow White.
Princess Eve was raised with one...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.2
- Points Value : 14.0
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Something I Said
From comedian, actor, rapper and screenwriter Ben Bailey Smith comes a blazingly funny, big-hearted story about family, friendship and how far one boy will go to get a laugh. Perfect for fans of David Baddiel and Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
For ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 10.0
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Stand Up
Madhu is 17 and has the weight of the world on her shoulders: her dad is putting pressure on her to apply to university, she misses her estranged sister but contact is strictly forbidden, and she's pulling in every single shift possible at a pizza ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.2
- Points Value : 10.0
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Such Charming Liars
When mother-daughter con artists set out on their final heist before cleaning up their act, it's not long before the job turns deadly and they have a lifeless body to contend with . . .
For all of Kat’s life, it’s been her and her mother, ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.1
- Points Value : 15.0
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The Bletchley Riddle
Remember, you are bound by the official secrets act...
It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. These days, you don’t know who you can trust or who might be a secret spy…
Maths whizz Jakob Novis has been recruited to the secret ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.1
- Points Value : 10.0
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The Boy Who Didn’t Want To Die
The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945.
Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.4
- Points Value : 6.0
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The Fights That Make Us
An unputdownable read about LGBTQ+ history and standing up for what you believe in, from award-winning author Sarah Hagger-Holt.
Maybe there was a place in history for people like me, not on the edges of the story, but right in the centre.
...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.7
- Points Value : 4.7
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The Hollywood Kidnap Case
Alice and Sonny's family yacht is in Egypt, ready to pick up famous actress Estelle Fortune, and take her to London to film her next blockbuster movie.
But just before the boat leaves, Alice discovers that Estelle has vanished! In her room is a ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.8
- Points Value : 10.0
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The Memory Thieves
Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2022
What you don't remember can't hurt you...
Cyan has lived at the Elsewhere Sanctuary for as long as he can remember, freed by Dr Haven from dark memories of his past life. But when Cyan finds a ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.8
- Points Value : 8.0
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead.
The case is dragged up from the past when ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.7
- Points Value : 19.0
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The Royal Jewel Plot
Alice and Sonny are excited for their summer trip, sailing on the luxurious yacht the Lady Rose. They're even more excited when they find out the King of England is going to be onboard too!
There's also a precious jewel on the boat - a rare opal,...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.9
- Points Value : 9.0
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Under A Fire-Red Sky
With the Second World War looming, four young people sit on a train waiting to be evacuated to a safer place...but they don't want to go. They climb out of the carriage and head back home to Greenwich, forming an unlikely friendship.
They spend ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.3
- Points Value : 8.0
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Wolf Road
Tuuli is a prehistoric girl, travelling with her tribe through the seasons – making camp, hunting for food and protecting themselves against the many hazards that the climate throws at them. Tuuli knows there’s a bigger world out there, and when...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.5
- Points Value : 10.0
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Year 7 Recommended Reads Collection | 25 books
The Year 7 Recommended Reads Collection brings together 25 carefully chosen titles to support students aged 11–12 as they begin their secondary school journey. Perfect for KS3 classrooms, this pack includes a mix of contemporary fiction, graphic ...
Year 8 Recommended Reads Collection | 25 books
The Year 8 Recommended Reads Collection brings together 25 carefully chosen titles to support students aged 12–13 as they strengthen their reading stamina, critical thinking, and enjoyment of literature. Perfect for KS3 classrooms, this pack ...
