Year 9 Reading List May 2025 by Jill Fenton https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss Some suggested reads for year 9 students en-us 2025-04-28 06:37:38 UTC 2025-05-01 11:57:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Empress and Aniya jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427751091 When Empress and Aniya switch bodies on their 16th birthday, they learn a valuable lesson about the importance of friendship.

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427751091 The Society For Soulless Girls jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427763167 Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous North Tower murders at the elite Carvell College of Arts, forcing Carvell to close its doors.

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In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege...

]]> 2025-04-28 09:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427763890 Clap When You Land jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427764664 Two sisters, who have only just learned of each other's existence, become friends when their father dies.

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427764664 See You On Venus jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427765511 Two teens embark on a journey to Spain to discover the meaning of love, death and everything in between in this star-crossed tale.

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427765511 Burn jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427765883 "On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron Gas Station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm."

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427765883 All That's Left In The World - USA jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427766381 2025-04-28 09:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427766381 Rivers of London jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767406 Overlaying a wonderful supernatural gloss on the streets and landmarks of the capital, Aaronovitch provides a thrillingly exciting opening mystery for his detective/apprentice wizard protagonist in the opening instalment of the Rivers of London series.

]]> 2025-04-28 09:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767406 Punching The Air jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767486 After a sixteen-year-old American boy is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison, he struggles to find a way to keep true to himself.

]]> 2025-04-28 09:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767486 We Come Apart jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767578 Follows the romance between Romanian refugee Nicu, and Jess, whose home life is overshadowed by violence.

]]> 2025-04-28 09:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767578 Speak jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767920 A young girl who busted an end-of-summer party after being raped by an older boy is ostracized by her friends and so retreats into her own head, unable to articulate what happened to her.

]]> 2025-04-28 09:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427767920 Bog Child jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427768125
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427768125 The House In The Cerulean Sea jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427768539 An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place - and realizing that family could be yours.

]]> 2025-04-28 09:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427768539 Close To Home jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427769123 Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying...

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427769123 I Must Betray You jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427769345 A teenager living in the repressive regime of 1989 Romania faces the choice whether to inform on his family to save their lives.

]]> 2025-04-28 09:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427769345 When The World Was Ours jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427769615 Max, Leo and Elsa are three friends in Vienna in 1936, whose lives are transformed by the course of events over the next nine years.

]]> 2025-04-28 09:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427769615 Grim jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427770511 Jessica Harrow is dead… but her journey has only just begun. Discover the world of the afterlife, where Jessica has been recruited as a Reaper, tasked with ferrying countless souls to their final destination

]]> 2025-04-28 09:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427770511 Crossing The Line jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427774058 When Erik's bad behaviour attracts the wrong crowd, he's sucked into a terrifying new world of drug dealing, trap houses and violence.

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427774058 The Things We Leave Behind jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427801301 A 16-year-old refugee is found near to collapse and recounts her story to a kind adult, explaining how a totalitarian government in London ripped her family apart.

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]]> 2025-04-28 09:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427801301 Let's Split Up jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427830107 When hot "it-couple" Brad and Shelley are brutally murdered in a manor on the edge of town, a group of teen friends investigate.

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]]> 2025-04-28 10:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427830107 Oxygen Mask jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427830726 A graphic novel in free verse, encompassing the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter action of 2020, from the perspective of a teenager quarantined with his family.

]]> 2025-04-28 10:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427830726 Mistborn jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427863594 Kickstarting the Mistborn series in stunning style, Sanderson's wildly entertaining fantasy heist sees a motley assortment of criminals attempt to overthrow an all-powerful tyrant.

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]]> 2025-04-28 10:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427863594 The Boy Who Steals Houses jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427956411 A teenager and his autistic brother are taken in by a family whose home they have broken into to live in while they were away.

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]]> 2025-04-28 12:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427956411 The Silver Chain jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427956856 An illustrated coming-of-age verse novel about family, mental health and the healing power of music.

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]]> 2025-04-28 12:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3427956856 The Promise Boys jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3428233671 Three teen boys of colour must investigate their principal's murder to clear their own names.

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]]> 2025-04-28 15:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3428233671 Five Total Strangers jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3428234125 She thought being stranded was the worst thing that could happen. She was wrong.

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]]> 2025-04-28 15:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3428234125 What If? jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3428307384 From the eating habits of a marauding T-Rex to deceased Facebook users, the creator of the hugely popular webcomic answers the absurd, eccentric and inspired questions of the general public using level-headed science in this simply addictive book.

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]]> 2025-04-28 16:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3428307384 R&J Penguin Readers jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432713253 2025-05-01 07:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432713253 R&J Manga jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432715659 2025-05-01 07:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432715659 R&J Graphic Novel jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432716260 2025-05-01 07:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432716260 R&J Graphic Novel: Quick Text Version jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432716548 2025-05-01 07:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432716548 Seven Million Sunflowers jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432889131 2025-05-01 11:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432889131 The Reappearance of Rachel Price jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432889861 2025-05-01 11:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432889861 When Our Worlds Collided jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432890551 When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teenagers from very different walks of life are unexpectedly brought together.

What follows flips their worlds upside down and makes Chantelle, Jackson, and Marc question the deep-rooted prejudice and racism that exists within the police, the media, and the rest of society.

]]> 2025-05-01 11:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432890551 Long Way Down jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432891404 A boy is visited by ghosts of family and friends he knew as he takes the lift down from his family's flat to exact revenge on the person who shot his brother dead in a gangland attack.

]]> 2025-05-01 11:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432891404 To Kill A Mockingbird jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432891954 Great adaptation that retains the essence of the original, with well matched, emotive illustrations.

]]> 2025-05-01 11:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432891954 I Shall Never Fall In Love jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432892901 A joyfully queer and stunningly romantic graphic novel inspired by the work of Jane Austen and perfect for fans of Heartstopper, Bloom and Lex Croucher.

]]> 2025-05-01 11:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432892901 Macbeth: Manga Shakespeare jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432893344 An adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth retold as a manga-style comic.

]]> 2025-05-01 11:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432893344 Cold Iron jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bf4f4mn4x7rxrlss/wish/3432894827 On the rural Isle of Man, aspiring singer-songwriter Kay Farragher dreams of escaping her humdrum life. But she's about to get more than she bargained for - and some bargains are not to be trusted...

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