 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Penguin Popular Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: £1.87 / Used from: £0.01 This is the first book I remember being read to me as a kid - you can't fault it
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £6.50 Kids books? Deep metaphors, stunning plot arc - essential
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 | The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.60 'It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye'
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 | Holes by Louis Sachar
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.01 A book that exists on so many levels, not only fantastic for teaching at KS3 but every adult I've handed this to has been unable to put it down
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 | Stone Cold (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Robert Swindells
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 A children's book about a serial killer and a homeless boy? Again, a fantastic writer.
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 | I am David (World Mammoth) by Anne Holm
Buy new: £3.90 / Used from: £0.01 essential
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 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Fiction) by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 It was so difficult to pick just one, but this is every kids dream (well, of my generation anyway!)
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 | The Changeover (Collins Modern Classics) by Margaret Mahy
Buy used from: £1.54 A beautifully written and underrated book
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 | The Chocolate War (Puffin Teenage Books) by Robert Cormier
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £0.01 Robert Cormier gripped me as a teenager, and this book was read time and time again. Pity the film is so awful!
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 | Dance on My Grave (Red Fox young adult books) by Aidan Chambers
Buy used from: £0.01 Like Robert Cormier, Aiden Chambers is another writer who I've returned to as an adult. A daring theme. Stunning prose
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 | Charlotte Sometimes (Red Fox Classics) by Penelope Farmer
Buy used from: £7.98 I only picked up this book because of The Cure song, but it is a wonderful supernatural tale
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 | The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 The Matrix meets ... well ... who can say. A wonderfully futuristic book with environmental undertones
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 | The Peppermint Pig (Puffin Books) by Nina Bawden
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 Of course this has to be included!
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 | The Wave (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Morton Rhue
Buy used from: £0.01 I loved this book so much that I once tried to write a screenplay for it!
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 | I Never Loved Your Mind (Lions) by Paul Zindel
Buy used from: £0.01 So difficult to pick a Paul Zindel book - I chose this one because the title is the best title I've ever seen on a kid's book
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