Have you read?YR7/YR8 suggested reading list for boys

Just twelve years old and already he’s a criminal genius, plotting to restore his family’s fortune with a spot of corruption and kidnapping.Kidnapping a fairy for ransom, to be precise.Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous – and extremely high tech – fairies. But he may have underestimated their powers. They will fight back. Is the boy about to trigger a cross-species war?

Can you love a bullying, racist thug if he’s your father?Where do you hide when killer babies invade your dreams?How do you react when confronted with your darkest inner demons?What do you do when zombies attack?B Smith is about to find out!

Fifteen-year-old alien hunter Daniel X is on a mission to finish the job that killed his parents – to wipe out the world’s most bloodthirsty aliens on The List.Along with his friend Willy, Joe-Joe, Emma and Dana, Daniel hunts down the aliens on The List one by one. But as he battles towards his top target he can’t forget one thing: he’s got a host of aliens to fight, but on their lists there’s only one name at the top…and that’s his.

Jake and his Dad have a secret.By day George Biggs knocks down buildings, but at the weekends he’s the Master of Disaster, King of Sting, wrestler extraordinaire, the one and only DEMOLITION MAN!But Jake has a plan, one that could transform Dad from a part-time player into a global superstar. What could possibly go wrong…?

Stanley Yelnats’ family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention centre. At Camp Green Lake the boys must dog a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the dried up lake

bed. The Warden claims the labour is character building, but it is a lie. Stanley must dig up the truth.

When the doors of the lift crack open, the only thing Thomas can remember is his first name. But he’s not

alone. He’s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade, an encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible maze.

Like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they came to be there, or what’s happened to the outside world. All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everything to find out.

1941. It’s wartime and when a German plane crashes in flames near Peter’s home, he rushes over hoping to find something exciting to keep.But what he finds instead is an injured young airman.

He needs help, but can either of them trust the enemy?

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now I sopend my time battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive.This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I’ve stolen his lightning bolt – and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea.

Terrorist doesn’t let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place.The terrorist doesn’t know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB.

The dead are back to haunt the living.Evil spirits crowd the streets after dark.Are you in danger of being ghost-touched?With ghostly criminal cases on the rise, psychic investigations agents are in demand as never before. The smallest, most ramshackle – but arguably the best – of these agencies is Lockwood & Co.Meet the dashing, scatty Anthony Lockwood; his loyal, book-loving deputy George Cubbins and their newest agent, brave Lucy Carlyle.