KS4 Extended Reading List YA Fiction by Jill Fenton

Ace of Spades

jfe5 — 2023-01-25 10:16:47 UTC

Buried secrets burst into the open at an exclusive high school in this explosive thriller which doubles as a blistering critique of institutionalised racism.
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The Poet X

jfe5 — 2023-01-25 10:19:01 UTC

The Poet X is a raw, effervescent debut novel about the power of language and speaking your own truth. Written entirely in verse, this Waterstones Children’s Book Prize nominee follows the trials and tribulations of Xiomara, a teenager growing up in a tough Harlem neighbourhood, and her creative release in the world of slam poetry.
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Love, Simon

jfe5 — 2023-01-25 10:20:02 UTC

Meet Simon: cynical, funny, insecure, full of obsessions, hopes and dreams like every other 17 year old. But Simon also has a big, glowing secret, and that secret is going to get out if class clown Martin doesn’t get what he wants.
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Speak (Graphic Novel)

jfe5 — 2023-01-25 10:21:58 UTC

Melinda is an outcast at Merryweather High. Something happened over the summer - something bad - and now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen. So what's the point in speaking at all?

Through her work on an art project, Melinda is finally able to face what really happened that night. But before she can make peace with the ghosts of the past, she has to confront the reality of the present - and stop someone who still wishes to do her harm. Only words can save her. She can't stay silent. Not any more.
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The Black Flamingo

jfe5 — 2023-01-25 10:23:06 UTC

Big hearted and dizzyingly flamboyant, Atta’s verse novel about a black gay teen reclaiming his identity as a drag artist is an outspoken triumph from the opening couplet to the last.
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Six of Crows

jfe5 — 2023-01-25 10:27:00 UTC

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist.

Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction - if they don't kill each other first.
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The Cruel Prince (Folk of the Air series)

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 10:23:59 UTC

Step into the world of faerie in the first instalment of Black's magical romance series, as mortal Jude finds herself forced to make her way in a fantastical royal court.
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Am I Normal Yet (The Spinster Club Series)

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 10:26:21 UTC

All Evie wants is to be normal. And now that she's almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the-girl-who-went-nuts, there's only one thing left to tick off her list... But relationships can mess with anyone's head - something Evie's new friends Amber and Lottie know only too well. The trouble is, if Evie won't tell them her secrets, how can they stop her making a huge mistake?
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Felix Ever After

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 10:27:35 UTC

A wonderfully inclusive transgender love story, Callender’s important novel finds the eponymous Felix caught in an unlikely love triangle after he receives transphobic abuse from an anonymous source.
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 10:28:48 UTC

The night Cameron Post's parents died, her first emotion was relief. Relief they would never know that hours earlier, she'd been kissing a girl. Now living with her conservative Aunt in small-town Montana, hiding her sexuality and blending in becomes second nature to Cameron until she begins an intense friendship with the beautiful Coley Taylor. Desperate to 'correct' her niece, Cameron's Aunt takes drastic action.
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Noughts and Crosses series

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 10:47:33 UTC

A teen boy and girl from opposing factions in society take on the system and try to change it.

Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses.

The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go.

Against a background of prejudice, distrust and mounting terrorist violence, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger...
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Moonrise

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 10:52:45 UTC

Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row. But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think.
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We Come Apart

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 10:55:00 UTC

Jess would never have looked twice at Nicu if her friends hadn't left her in the lurch. Nicu is all big eyes and ill-fitting clothes, eager as a puppy, even when they're picking up litter in the park for community service.
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Rosie Loves Jack

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 14:09:17 UTC

A teenage girl with downs syndrome runs away from her family when she is split up from her boyfriend because of his anger issues.
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Harrow Lake

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 16:08:19 UTC

Tha daughter of a film director is packed off to her mother's hometown, where she uncovers some dark family secrets.

Welcome to Harrow Lake. Someone's expecting you . . .
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Coram Boy

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 16:17:40 UTC

Epic story of a man who trades in illegitimate children and a child who survives and is reunited with his gentleman father.
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The Fault In Our Stars

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 16:19:43 UTC

A 16-year-old girl suffering with terminal cancer meets a boy at her support group meeting who makes her think differently about life and death.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time

jfe5 — 2023-02-02 16:24:16 UTC

'Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them'. This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. When Christopher decides to find out who killed the neighbour's dog, his mystery story becomes more complicated than he could have ever predicted.
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After The Fire

jfe5 — 2023-02-05 15:44:23 UTC

A teen girl raised in a strict religious cult begins to distrust the cult leader and question his methods

Without rules, things fall apart. That's what Father John says. Moonbeam knew what her future held. Protected from the dangers of the outside world by rules and the Fence, she was destined to marry Father John, head of their little community.

But that was before her mother was banished; before Nate arrived and forced her to question everything.

What do you do when everything you thought you knew turns out to be a lie?

A provocative and powerful novel about control, trust and identity.
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The Upper World

jfe5 — 2023-02-05 16:53:38 UTC

The story of two teenagers a generation apart, connected across time by one bullet about to devastate both of their lives.

2020: Close to getting expelled and caught up in a deadly feud, the tensions surrounding Esso seem to be leading to a single moment that could shatter his future.

2035: Stripped of everything, football prodigy Rhia has just one thing left on her mind - figuring out how to avert a bullet that was fired fifteen years in the past.

Everything changes when Esso gains access to a mysterious world where he can see glimpses of the past and future, and when Rhia starts understanding the physics of it. The two must work together to master the secrets of the Upper World and seize control of their own destinies before it's too late.
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Clap When You Land

jfe5 — 2023-03-15 08:26:23 UTC

In a dual narrative novel in verse that brims with both grief and love, award-winning and bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
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Red Rising

jfe5 — 2025-07-15 08:34:08 UTC

In the opening volume in Brown's bestselling series, a miner working at the heart of Mars makes a staggering discovery about the real fate of humankind after escaping from the dying Planet Earth.

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