Picks for Picky
Readers
Recommended by Alan (13), who loves to
read when he finds a book that he loves |
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Artemis
Fowl
Eoin Colfer's
Artemis
Fowl,
The
Arctic Incident,
The Eternity Code. |
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The Bartimaeus
Trilogy
Jonathan Stroud makes a brilliant beginning in
The Amulet of
Samarkand. |
Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson
Cartoon stories that satirize school, comic book heroes and
modern life. |
The Chronicles
of Ancient Darkness
The epic series begins with action-packed thrills in
Wolf Brother. |
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Darren
Shan
Read them in one gulp -
Cirque
du Freak to
The
Vampire Prince (#7). |
Ender
series
Orson Scott Card's Ender's
Game,
Ender's
Shadow; thrilling SF. |
Eragon
1st in Christopher Paolini's exciting new Inheritance series. |
Harry
Potter
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is
fantastic! |
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Maniac
Magee
Jerry Spinelli's story of the perfect kid hero in flap-soled sneakers. |
Samurai
Spirit
Burt Kozak's 'Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life';
samurai stories. |
Smallville
Tales of a teen Superman from #1,
Arrival
to #6,
Buried Secrets. |
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Jared, Simon & Mallory Grace take on dark faery in this
spooky series. |
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Swords
for Hire
Will Allen's 'Two of the most unlikely heroes you'll ever
meet'. |
Warriors
Felines:
Into the Wild,
Fire & Ice,
Forest of Secrets,
Rising Storm |
The Wee Free Men
Dreams and nightmares come to life in Terry
Pratchett's Discworld. |
See also our Columns on
Teen Reads,
including
The Reading Torch,
Motivating Reluctant Readers,
Image Oriented Readers,
Take a Trip, Get an Earful,
Teen Reads Rule! |
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