 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: £3.86 / Used from: £2.44 Difficult but brilliant for more mature reader
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 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Definitions) by John Boyne
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.99 Not the most well-written but what an ending
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 | Once by Morris Gleitzman
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.49 Thought provoking stuff
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 | Beyond the Deepwoods (Edge Chronicles) by Chris Riddell
Buy new: £1.58 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent introduction to a great series
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 | The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 First of a wonderful trilogy
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 | Missing by Catherine MacPhail
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.45 A consistently good author. Very realistic
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 | Worse Than Boys by Catherine MacPhail
Buy new: £0.90 / Used from: £0.01 Probably my favourite by Catherine MacPhail
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 | Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
Buy new: £3.28 / Used from: £1.50 Kept you guessing!
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 | Goodnight Mister Tom (Puffin Modern Classics) by Michelle Magorian
Buy new: £0.72 / Used from: £0.01 No list would be complete without this
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 | Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Sentimental classic I know but still riveting
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 | Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £3.26 Different, funny and exciting
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 | The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Buy new: £2.11 / Used from: £0.01 Just a great read
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 | Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
Buy new: £3.57 / Used from: £1.40 Definitely Morpurgo's best!
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 | Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.15 A political choice set in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising
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 | The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £6.68 Now this was good fun
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 | Tunnels (Tunnels 1) by Roderick Gordon; Brian Williams
Buy new: £3.64 / Used from: £0.01 This just got better and better
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 | Blue Sky Freedom by Gabrielle Halberstam
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Though provoking political thriller
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 | Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Buy new: £0.18 / Used from: £0.01 Thriller with a difference
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 | Nightrise (Power of Five) by Anthony Horowitz
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.93 Much better than its prequels
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 | The Outlaw Varjak Paw by Sf Said
Buy used from: £0.33 The first one was good. This was much better
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 | Journey to the River Sea (New Longman Literature 11-14) by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: £7.13 / Used from: £2.98 Cracking stories. Who really collects glass eyeballs?
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 | The Boy in the Bubble by Ian Strachan
Buy used from: £1.95 Difficult to get hold of but worth the effort
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 | Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig
Buy new: £1.58 / Used from: £0.50 Good for the Danes!
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 | Spilled Water by Sally Grindley
Buy new: £1.58 / Used from: £0.01 Another author well worth giving a go!
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 | Airman by Eoin Colfer
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £2.87 Colfer at his best
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