Year 10
The tutor reading programme was set up to keep teenagers reading and accessing quality texts and stories from different cultures, transitions and time periods. These novels selected for their grittier more adult themes to keep young adults engaged. All titles are available as class sets or whole year group quantities.
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1984
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Winston Smith has always been a dutiful citizen of Oceania, rewriting history to meet the demands of the Ministry of Truth. But with each lie that he writes, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 344
- MBE Code : 431
1984
Acclaimed to be one of Britain’s most popular novels, George Orwell’s creation of 1984 is set in a society which is terrorised by a totalitarian ideology, that is cultivated by “The Party.”
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 164
A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.
But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 432
- MBE Code : 712
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 432
- MBE Code : 345
Ace Of Spades
Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is...I'm here to divide and conquer. - AcesWelcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until now. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 470
- MBE Code : 513
All That’s Left In The World
When the Superflu wipes out most of the population, Jamie finds himself completely alone in a cabin in the woods - until an injured stranger crosses his path.
Life is dangerous now and, armed with a gun, Jamie goes to pull the trigger. But there's...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 354
- MBE Code : 542
Animal Farm
All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others.
When the ill-treated animals of Manor Farm rebel against their master Mr Jones and take over the farm, they start to believe in a life of freedom and equality for all. But slowly, the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 116
- MBE Code : 430
Animal Farm
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'
First published on August 17th 1945 by George Orwell, being refused by publisher after publisher, his simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. Animal farm is the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 120
- MBE Code : 107
Anita & Me
The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The title of Anita & Me reflects on the character of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family, surrounded in the Black Country mining village of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 205
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When they meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the two loners start spending time together, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 379
Birthday
Meet Eric and Morgan. Born on the same day, at the same time, in the same place.They’ve always shared this one day together, but as they grow up they begin to grow apart. Everyone expects Eric to get a football scholarship, but no one knows he’s ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 312
- MBE Code : 463
Bog Child
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 ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 361
Boy Kills Man
Nothing is more unsettling in this world than a kid with a gun...
On the streets of Medellin, Colombia, actions speak louder than words, and the rule of the bandidos is the only law worth listening to.
Like most kids of their age, Shorty and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 391
Brighton Rock
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 368
Crossing The Line (2024 YOTO Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice)
'Do you feel safe?'
A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines.
Erik's life has been falling apart ever since his dad died. Homework and being good at school stop feeling important when you're the new man of the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 580
Cuts Both Ways
London is everything to Cynthia, so when her parents move her to a place where there is only one bus an hour and the faint smell of horse manure continuously permeates the air, it's a culture shock, to say the least. As is transitioning to a private ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 667
Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 172
- MBE Code : 425
Flowers For Algernon
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 405
Glasgow Boys (Carnegie Shortlisted 2025)
Meet Finlay. He's studying for his nursing degree at Glasgow University, against all the odds. But coming straight from care means he has no support network.
How can he write essays, find paid work and NOT fall for the beautiful boy at uni, when ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 730
Guard Your Heart (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
Boy meets girl on the Northern Irish border.Derry. Summer 2016. Aidan and Iona, now eighteen, were both born on the day of the Northern Ireland peace deal.Aidan is Catholic, Irish, and Republican. With his ex-political prisoner father gone and his ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 296
- MBE Code : 450
Heartbreak Boys
At the start of summer, Jack and Nate find themselves dumped as their respective exes, Dylan and Tariq, start up a new relationship together. Not only that, their exes start posting pics on social media, showing the whole world how fabulous their ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 405
- MBE Code : 464
Homer’s Odyssey
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation.
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 686
I Am Legend
An acclaimed SF novel about vampires. The last man on earth is not alone ...
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 365
I Am Thunder
I Am Thunder is the Branford Boase Award-winning debut YA novel which questions how far you'll go to stand up for what you believe.
Fifteen-year-old Muzna Saleem is used to being invisible. So no one is more surprised than her when Arif Malik, the...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 407
I Capture the Castle
I Capture the Castle is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home.
Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 592
- MBE Code : 384