 | If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Buy new: £6.00 / Used from: £3.18 A three hanky novel. Don't read reviews with plot spoilers - just read it *****
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 | The Kiss of Death by Marcus Sedgwick
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £1.68 A real vampire novel set in old Venice
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 | Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
Buy used from: £0.01 A highly original new version of the story of Arthur and Merlin. Won the Carnegie medal *****
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 | Witch Child by Celia Rees
Buy used from: £0.01 Fabulous and full of historical detail from the Puritan / Mayflower period.
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 | Holes by Louis Sachar
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.01 A remarkable read. *****
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 | The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £5.85 A wonderful novel set at the start of the French Revolution. A fantastically detailed page-turner with Gardner's magical edge. *****
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 | Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.58 An absolute classic for younger readers, but I loved it too.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite of the trilogy has the most adventure in its plot.
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 | The Diamond of Drury Lane (Cat Royal) by Julia Golding
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.00 Another adventure for younger readers, but fantastic fun.
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 | Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.37 It may be Pullmanesque and slightly convoluted, but is another fab adventure.
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 | Numbers by Rachel Ward
Buy new: £4.35 / Used from: £0.01 A superb debut novel for teens. Very contemporary and thought-provoking.
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.63 Far creepier than the film. Brilliant! *****
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 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret gift edition with DVD by Brian Selznick
Buy used from: £50.36 A cinematic treat, steeped in the history of the very first moving pictures
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 | Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
Buy new: £4.53 / Used from: £0.01 First in a series set in a Samurai-like land. Evocative and full of character.
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