Teachers' picks: Year 9

The Knife That Killed Me (Definitions)

By McGowan, Anthony

Moonrise

By Crossan, Sarah

Bog Child

By Siobhan Dowd

Gamer

By Chris Bradford

Saving Missy: The Sunday Times bestseller and the most heartwarming debut fiction novel of 2021

By Morrey, Beth

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

By Ness, Patrick, Patrick Ness

Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021

By Caleb Azumah Nelson

The Complete MAUS

By Spiegelman, Art

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

By Yousafzai, Malala, McCormick, Patricia

The Extinction Trials

By S.M. Wilson

Out of My Mind

By Sharon M. Draper

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

By Jackson, Holly

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking)

By Ness, Patrick

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

By Blume, Judy

Run, Rebel

By Mann, Manjeet

The Poet X - WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019

By Acevedo, Elizabeth

Clap When You Land

By Acevedo, Elizabeth

Now is the Time for Running

By Williams, Michael, Michael Williams

Patron Saints of Nothing

By Randy Ribay

Opposite of Always

By Justin Reynolds

Orphan, Monster, Spy

By Matt Killeen

We Were Liars: The award-winning YA book TikTok can't stop talking about!

By E. Lockhart

Demon Road (The Demon Road Trilogy, Book 1)

By Derek Landy

Tamar

By Peet Mal, Mal Peet

The Fountains of Silence

By Sepetys, Ruta

Apache

By Landman, Tanya

Noah Can't Even

By Simon James Green

Abomination

By Swindells, Robert, Robert Swindells

Adventures of a Young Naturalist: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS

By Attenborough, Sir David

Persepolis

By Satrapi, Marjane