Teachers' picks: Year 9

Encounters

By Jason Wallace

The Mosquito Coast

By Theroux, Paul, Pail Theroux

Pig Heart Boy

By Blackman M

Firekeeper's Daughter: The New York Times No. 1 Bestseller

By Boulley, Angeline

Happy Girl Lucky: Hilarious new romantic-comedy books for the Instagram generation: Book 1 (The Valentines)

By Smale, Holly

Oliver Twist

By Charles Dickens

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 1/5

By Adams, Douglas

Harrow Lake

By Kat Ellis

The Black Flamingo

By Dean Atta, Anshika Khullar

The Lord of the Rings

By Tolkien, J. R. R.

Aru Shah and the End of Time

By Chokshi, Roshani

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020

By Deepa Anappara

Coraline

By Gaiman, Neil

Cane Warriors

By Wheatle, Alex

Clean: The London Collection

By Dawson, Juno, Eyre, Beth

The Earth is Singing

By Vanessa Curtis

The Mortal Instruments 1: City of Bones

By Cassandra Clare

Dream On

By Bali Rai

The Gilded Ones

By Namina Forna

The Declaration

By Malley, Gemma

Punching the Air

By Zoboi, Ibi, Salaam, Yusef

Martyn Pig (PUSH)

By Brooks, Kevin

Looking for JJ

By Anne Cassidy

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

By Mildred D. Taylor, David Kearney

Far to Go

By Pick, Alison

The Bunker Diary

By Brooks, Kevin, Kevin Brooks

Monsters of Men

By Patrick Ness

Meat Market

By Dawson, Juno

A Pocketful of Stars

By Bushby, Aisha

Daz 4 Zoe (Puffin Teenage Fiction)

By Swindells, Robert