100 year group recommended reads for secondary

A girl joins a secret guild of scientists who have discovered how to harness the souls of dead people into mechanical animals in the hope that she can bring her dead brother back to life.

Thirteen-year-old Jo tries to juggle life in a family that is half Chinese, half English, running a takeaway in Coventry

An eleven-year-old boy is permanently confined to an isolation unit due to an immune system disorder, but conspires with his new nurse to have an adventure outside.

A collection of poems that focus on one week in a secondary school.

A boy makes a dangerous journey from his home in Ghana to Europe where he hopes to find his brother and sister who left months before.

Thirteen year old Fortune has to leave her family home when she is accused of witchcraft, but becomes caught up in the 1607 flood in southwest England

A girl fights to find a way back to her island home, and her mother, when a new government official bans anyone without leprosy from living there.

In a country cursed by unending winter, three sisters set off after their brother who has been kidnapped by a sinister stranger, and discover the truth of the curse.

After the death of their mother, Penny and David move with their father into an old family home in the middle of a forest, where they join forces with the magical Pog to prevent dark forces taking over the world.

An elite band of warriors is assembled to retrieve an ancient holy relic which has been stolen from the Sultan of Turkey.

A young girl finds a packet of magical seeds which start to wreak havoc in her concrete, depressing town as flowers start growing again

Herbert Lemon and Violet Parma are caught up in an adventure concerning a legendary sea-monster when they try to find out what happened to Violet's missing parents.

A girl travels across the Himalaya Mountains guided by a bird she believes to be the spirit of her grandmother as she ventures from her rural home to the city to find her missing father.

The outbreak of the Second World War throws a young girl's life and family into turmoil.

When eleven-year-old Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, he is drawn in to the magical legacy of his family, and the ongoing battle between the Morrigan and Dagda

A boy contemplates the events that happened when an older boy is found dead in the town where he lives.

Two sisters living in a swamp community threatened by rising sea levels try to find the legendary loup-garou to save their land.

A young Eritrean refugee finding it hard to adjust to her precarious new life in the UK finds comfort in a diary she finds hidden in an old hat box written by a girl the same age as her over 100 years ago.

Explores the life of a young mixed-race boy, Ted, living with his mother and poorly older brother in Victorian Bradfield.

A teenage girl joins a football team as goal keeper at the end of World War I.

A schoolboy has to flee his home when soldiers come to recruit children to join their army, and makes a perilous journey to try and find safety in England.

In a distant future in which humanity travels the stars on sentient trains, a teenage thief is tasked to steal a mysterious object and begins an adventure that will change his life.

When her mum falls into a coma, a young teenager uses key objects from her mother's childhood in Kuwait to magically experience key moments from her past that help strengthen their fragile relationship.

A boy decides to rob a bank after he accidently burns down the house of his crush with a scented candle.

Two girls living on a rundown Glaswegian scheme/estate, and struggling with loss bond when they find an injured fox and her cubs nearby where they live.

A fourteen-year-old girl who was the sole survivor of a sunken migrant ship as a baby is pursued for the precious objects her family left with her

Explores how animals, plants, and humans survive in the Polar regions of our planet, both today and in the past

Encourages the reader to help make a difference in saving our planet from the effects of climate change.

Set against the politics of the English Civil War, a teenage girl with the ability to house spirits inside her fights against an ancient family who plan to take over her body with their own spirits

Follows the history of the LGBTQ+ movement and it's achievements in campaigning for equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community.

A 12-year-old boy's ghost watches his family in the aftermath of his death after being shot dead by a policeman.

Explains what politics is and how it relates to us all in our everyday lives.

Unexplained deaths start to occur in Chust and when a band of Gypsies arrive in the village Peter discovers his father has been keeping secrets from him and owns a sword that can stop the dead coming to life again.

Helen moves to London to live with her dad and the rest of her family, who just happen to be the Greek gods living incognito on Earth.

A teen boy temporarily disabled reluctantly teams up with a Polish immigrant to investigate theft in their neighbourhood

A boy who cannot see colour discovers that his deceased uncle was searching for a cure for the condition that he has.

A girl sets off on a journey to discover how she came to have the ability to read people just by touching their clothes.

A boy has to hide from his friends and teachers the fact that he and his mum are living in a van.

Mia's world is turned upside down when her parents reveal that she is actually a princess of a small European country, and has to deal with all the changes that this revelation brings.

Alem thinks he is on holiday with his father in London, but his father has brought him to the UK to escape the war in Ethiopia and leaves him to survive by himself as a refugee.

Two teenagers are chosen to be apprentice scythes, trained to kill people in a world where no one can die naturally.

In 1930s England, 17 year old Bea's parents want her married off to keep the family estate alive. But she longs for adventure.

Three young women from different backgrounds join the Suffrage movement in the early 20th century just before World War I.

A girl goes on a road trip with her grumpy neighbour after an argument with her mother who lives on a commune.

Two troubled teenagers develop a friendship when they are paired together for a school project

A teenage girl uses poetry to write about her life growing up in a poor area of Harlem.

A teenage girl strives to bring back magic to her people and overthrow the King that had all the maji killed, including her mother.

Two girls strike up an unlikely friendship when they start to collaborate on empowering street art projects

A teenager who wants to pursue a career in stand up comedy finds herself secretly writing jokes and material for a popular boy at her school for his own set

Sixteen-year-old Faith uses the powers of a mysterious tree that thrives on lies to uncover the suspicious circumstances of her archaeologist father's death.

A rich young American and a Spanish hotel maid meet and fall in love against the backdrop of Franco-dictated Spain in the 1950s.

A collection of short comics and cartoons to highlight the call for climate change and the preservation of the planet's natural resources.

When a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths.

The discovery of a dragon leads a boy into new adventures.

Recounts the life of a young German girl in Germany during World War II.

In a near future where climate change has redefined political borders across the globe, fourteen-year-old Mhairi tries to return home from Khartoum to her native Isle of Arran but picks up a small refugee boy along the way

A brother and sister flee their war-torn home during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 to try and find the father they barely know who is living in England.

A shy teenager finds friendship and romance when he lands a summer job in a local seaside amusement arcade.

A teenage girl struggling with her mother's death and an Eritrean refugee find hope when fate throws them together.

An African American girl and the daughter of an ardent segregationist find that they have growing feelings for each other in racially divided 1950s North America.

One eventful summer's day builds to uncertain conclusion for Adam coping with loss, love and the constant pressure of his religious bigoted family.

A boy spends the summer getting to know his older brother before he is executed, having spent the last ten years on death row.

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.

Two teenage girls find the dynamics of their friendship change when they make friends with a new girl with a history of physical abuse in her family.

A 17 year old girl with anterograde amnesia goes on a trip to the Arctic to find the boy she remembers kissing on a beach.

Follows the life of Linus, a teenage runaway, after he is kidnapped and held captive in a bunker with five strangers.

A shy, introverted teenager living with tragedy in his past life comes out of his shell with the help of new friends at his school.

When the McAllister siblings come home for Christmas, they find themselves navigating romance, relationships and family secrets.

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.

A boy lives with the emotional and physical abuse his father bestowed upon him and his mother before he was taken into care and adopted.

18 year old Cody Reynolds tries to find answers in the months following her best friend's shocking suicide.

Ollie and Will were a summer fling; now they're classmates. But only one of them is out.

A bullied teen vows to kill his tormentors with a homemade pipe bomb.

Seventeen-year-old Marianne has been training on board The Maiden to be the Viper for her entire life - to serve and protect the King and the citizens of The Twelve Isles - but to become the Viper and protect the islands she loves she must find the strength to defeat her father.

Ben's been grieving for his best friend, Will, who suddenly disappeared from their tiny village a year ago. But when twins Sam and Jack begin at the school, things start to look up. Cool, good-looking and popular, they draw Ben into their world and introduce him to The Challenge.

A teen boy falls in love with a girl who is trying to find out the truth behind her mother's death when she was a baby

A 17 year old girl suffering from selective amnesia, returns to the family island where an awful tragedy took place

Follows the final school year of Simon Snow, the literary wizard character about whom "Fangirl" character Cath writes in her fan blog.

Follows three days in the life of Holden Caulfield, a troubled sixteen year old who has been expelled from three schools, told from his hospital bed where he is convalescing

In a near-future Britain of closed borders and political turmoil, teenager Sam, daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister, joins the rebellion against the extreme martial law restrictions and enforcement imposed on the youth

A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where a boy confronts a stranger come to take revenge on his dead father.

As the air on Earth runs out, a teenage girl enjoys travels around Madrid and Paris with her apparently long-lost cousin but soon starts to suspect that she may have an agenda

In a near-future Britain where civil war rages against an extreme right-wing government, a teenage trans mixed-race girl sets out to save her father and deliver his vital software, hidden in her 'phone.

Ellie's new stepsister Leah is not what she pretends to be and it's up to Ellie to find out before things get out of hand.

A Pan-African fantasy in which a zoo worker with hidden powers and a disgraced warrior find themselves thrust together on an expedition to hunt a legendary monster.

A teen girl suffering anorexia becomes pregnant and tries to overcome her disorder for the baby's sake

A teenage girl in foster care struggles with her issues with trust and rejection as her current foster family and a boy at school try to break through her self-defences.

18-year-old Salama Kassab, works as a doctor and surgeon in a makeshift hospital in Homs during the Syrian civil war struggles balancing duty to her country and to herself.

When a teenager moves into a new house with his mum, new stepdad and stepsister, he begins to suspect that the previous owners were hiding a huge secret.

Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis. They have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins.

An illustrated coming-of-age verse novel about family, mental health and the healing power of music.

In a catastrophe-ravaged future England, two teenagers defy the rigid rules and they begin to acquire a legendary status.

Twin sisters find themselves influenced by dark forces in the remote Irish town they have moved to with their mother and step-father.

Three young people caught up in WWII must work together when an enemy pilot delivers a mysterious package.

Based on an Irish legend, two teens fall in love against a backdrop of a blazing hot summer.

Two sisters, who have only just learned of each other's existence, become friends when their father dies

When he's detained at an airport, an eighteen-year-old gay Iranian Muslim tells the story of how he came out and his journey of self-discovery in Rome, which led to his detention and interview.

A child-soldier in Somalia escapes from his militia captors but that's only the start of his problems.

Forced to face a world without the guiding light of her bright, brilliant big sister, Emmy must wrestle with the impact of private grief, public scrutiny and discover who she once was and who she will become, now that Beth is gone.