100 year group recommended reads for secondary

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.

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

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

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

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.

A girl discovers she is at the heart of a fae legend that centres around the forest where she lives.

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

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 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.

A teenager and her friends take up a school challenge to live without their phones for six weeks in order to win a cash prize

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Two children discover a secret that could alter human existence in a world where a virus has caused global infertility.

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

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 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

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

A teenage girl runs away from her abusive father and stumbles upon a living arrangement with an elderly lady whose dementia means she mistakes her for an old friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A teenage boy takes up boxing after being the victim of an unprovoked racist attack.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When a flu wipes out most of the population, strangers Jamie and Andrew form a bond while fighting for survival in a changed world.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A cynical and emotionally distant teenager sneers at others for falling in love, but then falls in love herself.

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.

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