Lord Williams’s School Upper School Library Suggested Reading for KS4 Students Chris Bradford The Bodyguard Series Hostage (1) Target (4) Ransom (2) Assassin (5) Ambush (3) This series follows the adventures of teenage bodyguard Connor Reaves as he is assigned to protect teenagers in a variety of situations and locations. Action packed! Ian Fleming James Bond Series Casino Royale (1) Live and Let Die (2) Moonraker (3) + Full Series of Titles Available Classic espionage adventures with 007, James Bond. Charlie Higson Young Bond Series Silverfin (1) Bloodfever (2) Double or Die (3) Hurricaine Gold (4) By Royal Command (5) Meet young James Bond before 007 status, in a variety of explosive adventures! Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider Series Stormbreaker (1) Snakehead (7) Point Blanc (2) Crocodile Tears (8) Skeleton Key (3) Scorpia Rising (9) Eagle Strike (4) Russian Roulette (10) Scorpia (5) Never Say Die (11) Ark Angel (6) Alex Rider, teenage MI6 agent undertakes a series of dangerous undercover missions. Lord Williams’s School Upper School Library Suggested Reading for KS4 Students Claire McFall Bomb Maker England is in economic turmoil and has closed its borders with Scotland. Any Celts found in England are branded and even executed. Scottish Lizzie, is the ‘property’ of psychopathic London gang boss Alexander. Used as his bomb maker, she is under his protection, but also at his complete disposal. Can she escape Alexander’s deadly grip? Andy McNab The New Recruit (Liam Scott Series) The New Recruit (1) The New Enemy (3) The New Patrol (2) What if you prank killed your best friend. How do you move on from that? You try to forget and enrol in the Army. Training is tough, but you survive it. Finally, you’re out on tour in Afghanistan, under enemy fire and you come face to face with your best friend’s brother. He still blames you for his brother’s death. Now you have much more to fear than just the enemy. Robert Muchamore Cherub Series Terrorists wouldn’t let strangers into their homes because they might be undercover agents, but their children might bring their mates home and they would have automatic access! Terrorists wouldn’t suspect that a kid could bug every room in their house, copy their PCs hard drive and be capable of noting down all the numbers in their phone books. CHERUB kids live in the real world but they slip under adult radar and get information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. For official purposes, these children do not exist! Chris Ryan Agent 21 Series Agent 21 (1) Codebreaker (3) Reloaded (2) Deadfall (4) Zac’s parents die in an unexplained mass murder. He is then approached by a mysterious man, who recruits him to work for ‘a government agency.’ Many questions, few answers. Zac Darke’s life is about to change forever… Lord Williams’s School Upper School Library Suggested Reading for KS4 Students Gene Brewer K-PAX When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be the right place for him. But this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr Gene Brewer has had under his care before. Calling himself "Prot" the man says that he is from the planet K-PAX. Mike Lancaster 0.4 'My name is Kyle Straker. And I don't exist anymore.' This is the story of Kyle Straker, recorded on to old audio tapes. You might think these tapes are a hoax, but perhaps they contain the history of a past world... If what the tapes say are true, it means that everything we think we know is a lie and if everything we know is a lie, does that mean that we are, too? Pittacus Lore The Lorien Legacies Series I Am Number Four (1) The Revenge of Seven (5) The Power of Six (2) The Fate of Ten (6) The Rise of Nine (3) United as One (7) The Fall of Five (4) They killed Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England and Number Three in Kenya. John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him. But you can’t run forever, you have to stop and make a stand. Stephenie Meyer The Host Melanie Stryder is a fighter. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed to this fate. Wanderer, the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body didn't expect the former tenant of her body to refuse to allow ‘Wanderer’ possession of her mind and here begins a fascinating mental ‘tug of war’. A fascinating read. Lord Williams’s School Upper School Library Suggested Reading for KS4 Students H G. Wells War Of The Worlds The night after a shooting star is seen whizzing across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Gruesome alien creatures emerge from it armed with all-destroying heat-rays and it soon becomes clear that humanity have a fight on their hands for their very survival. Classic Science Fiction! John Wyndham Chocky Matthew's parents are worried that he is too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. Chocky causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say unusual things: He speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Who is Chocky? What could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos In sleepy Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the villagers fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone wakes unharmed, except that all the women in the village discover that they are pregnant. These Midwich children do not belong to their parents. All are blonde haired, and golden eyed. They grow up too quickly and they possess frightening abilities which allow them to control others… Rick Yancey The 5th Wave Trilogy The 5th Wave (1) The Infinite Sea (2) The Last Star (3) After the 4th wave, only one rule applies, trust no one. Now begins the 5th Wave and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from beings that only look human who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive… !? Lord Williams’s School Upper School Library Suggested Reading for KS4 Students Susan Ee Penryn and the End of Days Trilogy Angelfall (1) World After (2) End of Days (3) It's been six weeks since the angels of the apocalypse destroyed the world as we know it. Only pockets of humanity remain. Savage street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When angels fly away with a helpless girl, her seventeen- year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Becca Fitzpatrick Hush Hush Series Hush Hush (1) Crescendo (3) Silence (2) Finale (4) A sacred oath, a fallen angel, and a forbidden love...This darkly romantic story introduces heroine Nora Grey, as an apparently normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim and attractive bad boy, Patch, Dark Angel and now her lab-partner in biology class. Amanda Hocking The Watersong Series Wake (1) Tidal (3 Lullaby (2) Elegy (4) Sixteen-year-old Gemma’s greatest passion has always been the water. She craves late night swims, where she can be alone yet belong to the sea. Lately she's had company. Penn, Thea, and Lexi spend their nights dancing, singing, and partying on the cove and one night Gemma joins them. Next morning, she knows something has changed... Julie Kagawa The Iron Fey Series Iron King (1) Iron Queen (3) Iron Daughter (2) Iron Knight (4) Meghan Chase has never quite fitted in at school...or at home. When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar and her best friend becomes very protective of her, she senses that everything she's known is about to change. Lord Williams’s School Upper School Library Suggested Reading for KS4 Students Melissa Marr Wicked Lovely Series Wicked Lovely (1) Radiant Shadows (4) Ink Exchange (2) Darkest Mercy (5) Fragile Eternity (3) Don't stare at invisible faeries. Don't speak to invisible faeries. Don't ever attract their attention. But it's too late for Aislinn, Keenan is the Summer King and has sought his queen for nine centuries… Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses Trilogy A Court of Thorns and Roses (1) A Court of Mist and Fury (2) A Court of Wings and Ruin (3) Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Ancient curses, romantic attraction ensue. Some Adult Content. Not recommended for younger readers. Scott Speer Immortal City Novels Immortal City (1) Natural Born Angel (2) Battle Angel (3) Jason Godspeed is the hottest Angel in a city obsessed with Immortals… Everyone loves him except Maddy Montgomery. Here, guardian angels protect people for money but what happens if an angel saves someone love? L.A. Weatherly Angel Trilogy Angel (1) Angel Fire (2) Angel Fever (3) Willow is different from other girls.