The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins. Click on picture for reviews.
Animal Farm - George Orwell. Click on picture for reviews.
The Honest Truth - Dan Gemeinhart. Click on picture for reviews.
Writing Clementine - Kate Gordon. Click on image for reviews. 5 stars from students.
Between shades of gray - Ruta Sepetys. Click on image for reviews.
Cherub series (and other series by this author) - Robert Muchamore. Very popular with teens. Click on picture for reviews.
The Ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman. Age 14+. Click on picture for reviews.
Once (series) by Morris Gleitzman. Click on image for reviews. Interesting, sad and powerful.
Wonder - R.J. Palacio. Click on image for reviews.
The Sea-Wreck Stranger - Anna MacKenzie. Click on picture for reviews.
Lullaby - Bernard Beckett. Click on picture for reviews.
Paper Planes - Allayne L. Webster. "Amazing". Click on picture for reviews.
Fire Colour One - Jenny Valentine. Click on picture for reviews.
The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle - Paul Gallico. Two extraordinary and beautiful stories. Click on image for reviews.
See ya, Simon - David Hill. And check out other books by this good NZ author. Click on image for reviews.
I am not Esther - Fleur Beale. Click on picture to read reviews and find out about the other books in this riveting series.
Alanna. The first adventure in The Song of the Lioness series - Tamora Pierce. Also check out other books and series by this great writer. Click on image for reviews.
Tristan and Iseult - Rosemary Sutcliff. Rosemary Sutcliff writes great historical fiction for young people. Click on image for reviews.
Watership Down - Richard Adams. Click on picture for reviews.
Mistletoe and Murder. No 5 in the amazing Murder most unladylike Mysteries by Robin Stevens. Click on picture for reviews
Sherlock Holmes stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Still exciting reading! Click on image for reviews.
Momo - Michael Ende. Click on image for reviews.
The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden. A beautiful coming-of-age story. Click on image for reviews.
Girl, Missing - Sophie McKenzie. May not be high literature, but hugely popular with teen readers! Click on image for reviews.
The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart. No. 1 of The Arthurian Saga. Click on image for reviews.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. Jane Austen's books are great family read-alouds with teenagers. Click on image for reviews.
The Solitaire Mystery. A novel about family and destiny - Jostein Gaarder. Click on image for reviews.
Salt to the Sea - Ruth Sepetys. Click on picture for reviews.
Smart - Kim Slater. Rated "thrilling" by teen readers. Click on image for reviews.
Speed of Light - Joy Cowley. Click on picture for reviews. Set in Wellington, NZ.
Cracked - Clare Strahan. Click on picture for reviews.
When Stars are Scattered - Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed. Amazing graphic novel about life in a refugee camp. Hugely recommended. Click on picture for reviews.