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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A Better Nightmare

A dark and spectacular contemporary fantasy, packed with adventure - think Beautiful Creatures meets X-Men. Emily Emerson has the Grimm. A disease nobody wants. Removed to a facility, she becomes property of the state, a pale shadow of her ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.2
Points Value : 13
Book Cover : Paperback

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

Almost Nothing Happened

17-year-old Callum is facing an unfortunate truth: his summer exchange in rural France was a failure. No epic adventure, no summer fling, and his French is still rubbish. Just as he should be boarding the Eurostar home, without even a hint of a plan,...

ATOS Book Level : 5.6
Points Value : 5.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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

Big Words

Biggest goes first – always. That’s one of the unspoken rules of Kiln, the forbidden wasteland where Sam and his mates hang out. So when Sam comes up with a plan to go sledging on the rust-ridden bonnet of a rotting car, he goes first. To show ...

ATOS Book Level : 3.9
Points Value : 3.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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

Bury Your Friends

Ten friends. One night. A classy celebration. A deranged killer. Lots of murder. Noah and his best friends are finally graduating from Woodthorn Academy with the world and all its promises laid out before them. To celebrate exam results day, ...

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

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

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

Glow Up, Lara Bloom

MY NAME IS LARA BLOOM AND THIS IS MY LIFE . . . Meet Lara Bloom - the best friend you never knew you needed. This is her diary . . . When Lara meets super-cute new boy Caiden, she begins to think that the way to his heart is to give herself a ...

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

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

Impossible Creatures: The Poisoned King

When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago - the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.0
Points Value : 8.0
Book Cover : Paperback

Keep Your Friends Close

Chloe Roberts is on top of the world at Morton Academy. She’s a shoo-in for Head Girl and the lead spot in the school’s secret society: Jewel and Bone. But then her best friend, Nikhita Patel, betrays her, and life comes crashing down. Things ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.1
Points Value : 14.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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

Make Me A Monster

As a mortician's assistant at her parents' funeral home, Meka's days are not for the squeamish. Luckily, her boyfriend Noah doesn't mind, and Meka finally feels ready to say those three little words that will change everything. Then tragedy ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.6
Points Value : 12.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

Rosie Raja: Mission to Cairo

It is the autumn of 1941, and Rosie Raja is back for another action-packed and electrifying adventure. After successfully helping her spy father complete his mission in France, Rosie has gained quite a reputation for herself and is determined to ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.5
Points Value : 6.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

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

The Black Queen

Tinsley McArthur was supposed to become homecoming queen, just like generations of McArthur women before her. But in a bid for diversity, Lovett High wants a black queen this year and the top contender is the bold and beautiful Nova Albright. Though ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.5
Points Value : 16.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback

Boy Who Didn't Want To Die (front cover)

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
Book Cover : Paperback

The Dagger and the Flame

In the dark underbelly of a beautiful city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in love… In Fantome, Shade-magic is a deadly commodity controlled by ...

ATOS Book Level : 5.7
Points Value : 18.0
Book Cover : Paperback

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

The Forbidden Atlas

Isaac and Hattie have been invited to a high-profile event at the French National Archives in Paris to finally celebrate their achievement in saving time. But as Isaac prepares to make his speech, the lights go out and a single shot is fired. The ...

ATOS Book Level : 4.9
Points Value : 8.0
Book Cover : Paperback

The Hive

A FUTURE QUEEN LIES MURDERED ... Justice is merciless in the Hive, a monarchy of tomorrow, where young bodyguard Feldspar awaits execution, guilty of being alive when her charge is dead. The girl has one defender – Niko, a royal maverick. ...

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

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

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
Book Cover : Paperback