Reading for Please: Years 7–11

This reading for pleasure collection contains books for all year groups from Year 7 to Year 11 and is a fantastic resource for those schools that need a budget-friendly top-up of genuinely engaging books for their library. Encompassing all genres and many diverse themes, every reader will find a book to enjoy, whatever their interests may be. 

Example Title List:

Year 7

• Bringing Back Kay-Kay by Dev Kothari
• Eddie Albert & the Amazing Animal Gang by Paul O'Grady
• Evil Emperor Penguin: The World Will Be Mine by Laura Anderson
• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
• Lights Up by Lisette Auton
• Lil' Muffin Drops the Mic by Romesh Ranganathan
• Most Haunted Castles by Yvette Fielding
• Most Haunted Houses by Yvette Fielding
• Movies Showing Nowhere by Yorick Goldewijk
• Shadow Creatures by Chris Vick
• Spy Ninjas: New Recruits by  
• Stitch by Padraig Kenny
• The Blackthorn Branch by Elen Caldecott
• The Doomfire Secret by Annaliese Avery
• Whispering Hollow by Rachel Burge

Year 8

• 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café by Julian Sedgwick
• A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
• Echo North by Joanna Meyer
• Fake by Ele Fountain
• Godfather Death by Sally Nicholls
• Indi Raye is Totally Faking It by Lauren Layfield
• Keedie by Elle McNicoll
• Never Trust a Gemini by Freja Nicole Woolf
• Oddity by Eli Brown
• On Silver Tides by Sylvia Bishop
• Steady For This by Nathenael Lessore
• The Hunted by Skye Melki-Wegner
• The Line They Drew Through Us by Hiba Noor Khan
• The Thing About Lemons by Tasha Harrison
• Wild by Ele Fountain

Year 9

• A Sea of Wolves by Sarah Street
• An Arrow to the Moon by Emily Pan
• Bad Influence by Tamsin Winter
• Here to Slay by Radhika Sanghani
• I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maureene Goo
• In Your Orbit by Lise Villadsen
• Last Seen Online by Lauren James
• Once Upon a Fever by Angharad Walker
• Tell Me No Lies by Andrea Contos
• The Girl with the Red Boots by Alex Wheatle
• The Stranded by Sarah Daniels
• This is Not the End by Molly Morris
• Tremendous Things by Susin Nielsen
• Waking the Witch by Rachel Burge
• You Wouldn't Catch Me Dead by Tess James-Mackey

Year 10

• A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft
• A Girl Can Dream by Emily Barr
• Aftershocks by Anne Fine
• Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller
• Catch Your Death by Ravena Guron
• I Feed Her to the Beast & the Beast is Me by Shea Jamison
• Influencer by Adam Cesare
• Lie or Die by A Clack
• Oxford Blood by Rachael Davis-Featherstone
• The Boy I Am by K Kettle
• The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth by Sam Pope
• The Other Ones by Fran Hart
• They Bloom At Night by Trang Thanh Tran
• Throwback by Maureene Goo
• Youngblood by Sasha Laurens

Year 11

• Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow
• Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons
• In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
• Kemosha of the Caribbean by Alex Wheatle
• Kissing Emma by Shappi Khorsandi
• Man Down by James Goodhand
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle  Zevin
• Mermaid Moon by Susann Cokal
• Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo
• Royal Blood by Aimee Carter
• Tag, You're Dead by Kathryn Foxfield
• The Forevers by Chris Whitaker
• The Getaway by Giles Lamar
• The Ghost of Us by James Sutter
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong