Teachers' picks: Year 9

The Shadow of What Was Lost: Book One of the Licanius Trilogy

By Islington, James

The Good Luck Girls

By Davis, Charlotte Nicole

Stay A Little Longer

By Bali Rai

Indigo Donut

By Patrice Lawrence

Truly Devious: A Mystery

By Maureen Johnson

The Girls I've Been

By Tess Sharpe

Cinderella Is Dead: the TikTok sensation

By Kalynn Bayron

The Truth About Lies

By Tracy Darnton

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

The Declaration

By Malley, Gemma

Rani And Sukh

By Rai, Bali

Crongton Knights: Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

By Alex Wheatle

The Quiet at the End of the World

By Lauren James

Internment

By Samira Ahmed

Meat Market

By Dawson, Juno

The Gilded Ones

By Namina Forna

Looking for JJ

By Anne Cassidy

Dream On

By Bali Rai

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

By Mildred D. Taylor, David Kearney

To All The Boys I've Loved Before

By Jenny Han