Teachers' picks: Year 9

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

By E. Lockhart

A Pocketful of Stars

By Bushby, Aisha

Far to Go

By Pick, Alison

Monsters of Men

By Patrick Ness

The Bunker Diary

By Brooks, Kevin, Kevin Brooks

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Akala

The Gifted, the Talented and Me

By Sutcliffe, WILLIAM

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

Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Enter another world in this magical SUNDAY TIMES bestseller: 1/3 (Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy)

By Taylor, Laini

When Mr Dog Bites

By Conaghan, Brian, Brian Conaghan

Red Queen: Red Queen Book 1

By Victoria Aveyard