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Recommended young adult books (26)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into young adult here are some young adult books from United Kingdom for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Black Swan Green by David Mitchell EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff o... continue

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman EN

Rating: 4 (9 votes)
Description:
In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall—until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only different. The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them. . . . Forever. Coraline is an extraordinary fairy tale/nightmare from the uniquely skewed imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.

3.

Die Schatzinsel by Robert Louis Stevenson DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Jim Hawkins ist gerade 15 Jahre alt, als er sich auf ein gefährliches Abenteuer einlässt: die Suche nach dem Schatz eines berüchtigten Piraten. - Ein klassischer Abenteuerroman von 1883.

4.

Five Survive by Holly Jackson EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Description:
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly. Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive. Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect girlfriend - a secret crush - a classmate - and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly ... continue

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Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald EN

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Description:
But his anger and fear keep boiling over, threatening his already uncertain future.Underpinning everything is what happened three years ago in their group care home, when Finlay and Banjo were as close as brothers until they stopped speaking.[Bokinfo].


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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, Book 2) by J. K. Rowling EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Description:
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younge... continue

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, Book 7) by J. K. Rowling EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
We now present the seventh and final installment in the epic tale of Harry Potter.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, Book 4) by J. K. Rowling EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards. And in this case, different can be deadly.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, Book 6) by J. K. Rowling EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood... continue