SUGGESTED READING

LIST

FOR

YEAR 9

Relationships/Friendship

A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood

Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman

Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

By Any Other Name by Laura Jarratt

The Day I Met Suzie by Chris Higgins

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott

Goodbye Perfect by Sara Barnard

Heroic and Saving Billy by Phil Earle

The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Margot and Me by Juno Dawson

One by Sarah Crossan

Split Second and Falling Fast by Sophie McKenzie

Truth or Dare by Non Pratt

Adventure/Thriller

Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Messenger of Fear by Michael Grant

Music & Malice in Hurricane Town by Alex Bell

Safest Lies by Megan Miranda

Sweetfreak by Sophie McKenzie

Terminal Velocity by Andy McNab

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Two Can Keep a Secret & One of us is Next by Karen McManus

Historical

Hell & High Water by Tanya Landman

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

My Name’s Not Friday by Jon Walter

Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

Red Shadow by Paul Dowswell

Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington

Futuristic/Sci-fi/Dystopia/Fantasy

Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Enemy Series by Charlie Higson

Eve of Man by Giovanna & Tom Fletcher

Gone by Michael Grant

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I Am Not a Number by Lisa Heathfield

iboy by Kevin Brooks

Ink by Alice Broadway

The Jewel by Amy Ewing

Matched by Ally Condie

Maze Runner by James Dashner

The New Boy by Paula Rawsthorne

The Novice by Taran Matharu

The Other Life by Suzanne Winnacker

Pure by Julianna Baggott

The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Satellite by Nick Lake

Scarlett by Marissa Meyer

Scorpio Races by Maggie Stievater

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Tempest by Julie Cross

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

Web of Darkness by Bali Rai

Humour

Boys Don’t Knit by T. S. Easton

The Radleys by Matt Haig

A Waste of Good Paper by Sean Taylor

Withering Tights by Louise Rennison

Classics

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Other

Front Lines by Michael Grant

Department 19 by Will Hill

Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow by Sioban Curham

Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon

Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Raining Fire by Alan Gibbons

The Burning by Laura Bates

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Unrest by Michelle Harrison

Vendetta by Catherine Doyle

Ebooks

The link to Thornden’s ebook platform

can be found in the ‘Eresources’ folder

in ‘Student Share’.

To log in to the ebook platform use

your school login and password.