Auckland Council Libraries: Kickstart your teen's reading

Kickstart your teen's reading

Looking for a book to spark your teen's love for reading? Curated by library assistant Josh, browse these titles to find a new favourite! They won't be able to put it down.

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

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A teenage genius, Artemis, captures Holly Short, a fairy and a captain of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Recon) and holds her for ransom to exploit the magical Fairy People and restore his family's fortune.

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Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz

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Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by Anthony Horowitz. It tells the story of a teenage boy named Alex who enters a world of espionage and action, after discovering his late uncle was hiding his real identity as a top spy.

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Eragon

Christopher Paolini

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Set in the fictional world of Alagaësia, the novels focus on the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, as they struggle to overthrow the evil king Galbatorix.

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Ender's game

Orson Scott Card

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The Ender's Game series are science fiction books set in 2086, after two devasting wars between humanity and the “Formics”, an invading alien race of insect-like creatures.

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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

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While flying over dense Canadian forest to visit his father, Brian’s pilot dies suddenly of a heart attack. Brian ends up crash-landing into a lake in the forest. He must learn to survive on his own with nothing but his hatchet.

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Redwall

Brian Jacques

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Anthropomorphic animals are the focus of this wondrous fantasy series. Sword-wielding mice, heroic hares, and kind-hearted hedgehogs clash with poisonous rats, evil snakes and sinister stoats while the fate of their home hangs in the balance.

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Darkmouth

Shane Hegarty

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There are towns where the border between our world and the world of monsters - properly called Legends - is thin. One of those towns is Darkmouth. Our hero, Finn, is the son of the last remaining Legend Hunters, except... he's a bit rubbish at it.

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Tomorrow, when the war began

John Marsden

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The Tomorrow Series comprises seven invasion novels detailing the invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. A small band of teenagers wage a guerrilla war on the enemy soldiers in the region.

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Nation

Terry Pratchett

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Mau wakes on a desert island to find that everyone and everything he knows was washed away in the storm. He’s completely alone until he finds the 'ghost girl', Daphne. Together, they discover remarkable things and start to forge a new nation.

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Holes

Louis Sachar

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At Camp Green Lake the boys must dig 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.

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The graveyard book

Neil Gaiman

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After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

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