British Young Adult Authors Bibliography
Sorted by Call Number / Author.
FIC ADL
Adlington, L. J. (Lucy J.), 1970-. Cherry Heaven. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2008.
Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and
are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms
their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be.
FIC ADL
Adlington, L. J. (Lucy J.), 1970-. The diary of Pelly D. 1st U.S. ed. New York, NY : Greenwillow
Books, 2005.
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose
life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.
FIC BEN
Bennett, Veronica, 1953-. Cassandra's sister. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2007.
Presents an historical novel about a young Jane Austen and the companionship of her older sister,
Cassandra.
FIC BER
Bertagna, Julie. Exodus. New York : Walker, 2008, c2002.
In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara
discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters,
and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.
FIC BER
Bertagna, Julie. Zenith. New York : Walker, 2009, c2007.
After finding that New Mungo is not the refuge they sought, Mara, leaving Fox behind, again sets
out to sea with a ship full of refugees and, with the help of the "Gipsea" boy Tuck, tries to find
land at the top of the world that will be safe from storms and rising water.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Kevin. Black Rabbit summer. 1st American ed. New York : Scholastic, 2008.
When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same
night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that
evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Kevin. iBoy. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House, 2011, c2010.
Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack causes fragments of an
iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that
power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Kevin. Lucas. 1st American ed. New York : Scholastic, 2003.
On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from
adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an
unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Kevin. Martyn Pig : a novel. 1st American ed. New York : Scholastic Inc., 2002.
Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not
to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her help in
disposing of the body.
FIC CAN
Cann, Kate. Consumed. New York : Point, [2011], c2009.
A new manager brings many changes to Morton's Keep, capitalizing on its gothic atmosphere and
history, but Rayne sees ominous signs indicating that the one thing that has not changed is the evil
presence she had thought was destroyed.
FIC CAN
Cann, Kate. Possessed. New York : Point, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at
Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over
whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.
FIC CAV
Cave, Patrick. The selected. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010, c2005.
Adeline, a flawed clone, learns from a set of diaries written in 2023 by Dominic, one of her
forebears, that she may be the savior the people have awaited, if only she has the courage and
ingenuity to outwit the forces ranked against her.
FIC CAV
Cave, Patrick. Sharp north. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009,
c2004.
In a futuristic world, Great Families rule Britain through a caste system where reproduction is
seriously restricted, while the Families keep illegal clones or "spares" of themselves.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The murder of Roger Ackroyd : a Hercule Poirot mystery. New York :
Black Dog & Leventhal :, [2006], c1926.
Inspector Hercule Poirot, having retired to the small English village of King's Abbot, is drawn into
the investigation of the murders of the widow Mrs. Ferrars and her suitor, local squire Roger
Ackroyd.
FIC CHR
Christopher, Lucy. Stolen. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents
and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in
time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
FIC DOG
Dogar, Sharon. Annexed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2010.
A fictional account of life with Anne Frank hidden in the secret annex from Peter's point-of-view,
following as he becomes closer with Anne, begins to question his own religion, and is forced to
suppress his own desires to join the fight.
FIC DOG
Dogar, Sharon. Waves. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House/Scholastic, 2007.
While on summer vacation with his family in Brackinton, fifteen-year-old Hal begins to hear
thoughts his sister is having, even though she is in a comatose state in a hospital back home, and
discovers the truth behind the accident that put her there.
FIC DOW
Dowd, Siobhan. Bog child. 1st American ed. New York : David Fickling Books, 2008.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his
upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier
for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
FIC DOW
Dowd, Siobhan. Solace of the road. 1st American ed. New York : David Fickling Books, c2009.
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has
ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom
she is now trying to reach.
FIC DOW
Downham, Jenny. You against me. 1st U.S. ed. Oxford ; : David Fickling Books, [2011], c2010.
Eighteen-year-old Mikey's younger sister claims to have been raped and he seeks to avenge the
crime, but when he meets and makes friends with Ellie, the sister of the accused, he complicates
the situation considerably for all of them.
FIC DUN
Dunant, Sarah. In the company of the courtesan : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2006.
Famed courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini and her dwarf companion, Bucino Teodoldi, escape to the
wealthy and powerful city of Venice in order to rebuild their business.
FIC FIS
Fisher, Catherine, 1957-. Incarceron. New York : Dial Books, 2010, c2007.
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of
Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
FIC HAR
Harris, Robert, 1957-. Enigma. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c1995. A murder mystery
set during World War II. While trying to crack the code for the unmanned German rockets that were
coming into London at night.
FIC HOR
Hornby, Nick. Slam. New York : Putnam's Sons, c2007.
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and
daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Ark angel. New York : Speak, 2007, c2006.
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new
mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Crocodile tears. New York : Philomel Books, c2009.
Alex Rider's desire to return to life as a normal high school student must be put aside when he is
asked to face his greatest adversary yet, a con man who plans to use genetically modified wheat to
release a deadly virus that will kill millions of innocent people.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Eagle Strike (book 4)/. New York : Speak, 2006, c2003.
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy
Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video
game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the
international drug trade.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Scorpia. New York : Speak, 2006.
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex
goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school
children.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Snakehead : an Alex Rider adventure. New York : Speak, 2008, c2007.
Alex Rider crash lands off the coast of Australia where he is recruited by the Australian Secret
Service to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia, and in the midst of
his dangerous mission, Alex discovers information about his parents' murder.
FIC HUT
Huth, Angela,. Land girls. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Fictional account of young women who work as "land girls" on a farm in rural England. A
hairdresser, college student and girl whose lover is fighting in the English navy join the Lawrence
farm and share a lifelong friendship.
FIC JAM
James, P. D. Death comes to Pemberley. 1st U.S. ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2011.
Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and
announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered.
FIC KOS
Kostick, Conor. Epic. New York : Viking, 2007, c2004.
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his
friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard
the futures of each of their families.
FIC LAW
Lawrence, Louise, 1943-. The patchwork people. New York : Clarion Books, 1994.
In a dismal Wales of the future, with few jobs and fewer resources, a group of destitute, jobless
young people becomes involved with a rich girl whose life is impoverished in spite of her material
comforts.
FIC LEL
Lelic, Simon. A thousand cuts. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2010.
Detective Inspector Lucia May investigates the case of Samuel Szajkowski, a new history teacher
who gunned down three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself, resisting
her supervisor's pressure to make it an open-and-shut case as she uncovers a toxic school culture
that contributed to the teacher's violent breakdown.
FIC LLO
Lloyd, Saci. The carbon diaries 2015. 1st American ed. New York : Holiday House, 2009, c2008.
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic
bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her
family spirals out of control.
FIC LLO
Lloyd, Saci. The carbon diaries 2017. 1st American ed. New York : Holiday House, 2010, c2009.
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change,
eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and
political upheaval disrupt her studies.
FIC MCC
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The white darkness : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2007,
c2005.
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation,
Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking
Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
FIC MCN
McNeil, Frances. Sisters of fortune. 1st world ed. Sutton, Surrey [England] ; : Severn House, 2008,
c2007.
Two sisters, daughters of lowly bank employee, Barney Moran, form a lasting friendship with the
daughter of the bank's owner; and years later come together on Moran's behalf to ask Mr.
Thackrey for help.
FIC MOR
Morpurgo, Michael. Private Peaceful. 1st American ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2004.
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign
up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his
childhood love, Molly, and himself.
FIC NES
Ness, Patrick, 1971-. The knife of never letting go. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press,
2008.
Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when
he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives.
FIC NES
Ness, Patrick, 1971-. Monsters of men. 1st U.S. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions,
questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best
way to achieve peace.
FIC PIG
Pignat, Caroline. Greener grass. Calgary, Alta. : Red Deer Press, 2009, c2008.
Kit Byrne's family unity is tested in nineteenth-century rural Ireland when the potato famine hits
and wealthy landowner Lord Fraser drives them from their home, launching a series of tragedies
that separates Kit from her family as they try to escape to a better life.
FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip,. The amber spyglass. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2000.
Lyra and Will have fallen into unspeakable danger. With help from the armored bear Iorek
Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must enter a gray-lit world where no living soul
has ever gone. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living--and the dead-finally comes to depend on Lyra and Will and the simple truth of one simple story.
FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip,. The golden compass. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1995.
Lyra Balacqua is content to run wild among the scholars in Jordan College. But the moment she
hears hushed talk of Dust, an extraordinary particle, she's drawn into the heart of a terrible
struggle--a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. Her
destiny must be fulfilled not in this world, but far beyond.
FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip,. The ruby in the smoke. New York: Knopf, 1987.
Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip,. Shadow in the North. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Sequel to: The Ruby in the Smoke. Starting her own business in 1978, Sally Lockhart tries to learn
the identity of a wealthy industrialist who has lost a huge sum of money and is confronted by a
group of powerful individuals who will stop at nothing to keep the secret.
FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip,. The subtle knife. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1997.
Lyra has passed through a shimmering portal in the sky and finds herself in a beautiful, haunted
otherworld. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra, with her ally, Will, uncover a deadly
secret. With every step, they move closer to an even greater threat--and the shattering truth of their
own destiny.
FIC RIC
Rich, Naomi. Alis. New York : Viking, 2009.
Raised within the strict religious confines of the Community of the Book, Alis flees from an
arranged marriage to the much older Minister of her town, and her life takes a series of unexpected
twists before she returns to accept her fate.
FIC RIC
Richards, Justin. The chaos code. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2007.
Fifteen-year-old Matt and his new friend Robin travel the globe on a quest to retrieve an ancient
code--rumored to have brought down the ancient civilization of Atlantis--from the hands of a
madman who is bent on destroying the modern world.
FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, [1999].
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and
Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has
once more been released on the school.
FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the deathly hallows. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Levine, 2007.
Follows the journey of the series' protagonist Harry Potter as he attempts to bring an end to his
archenemy, Lord Voldemort.
FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the goblet of fire. 1st American ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine
Books, 2000.
Harry Potter, a fourth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, longs to
escape his hateful relatives, the Dursleys, and live as a normal fourteen-year-old wizard, but what
Harry does not yet realize is that he is not a normal wizard, and in his case, different can be
deadly.
FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the half-blood prince. 1st American ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine,
2005.
Novice wizard Harry Potter, now sixteen-years-old, begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry in the midst of the battle between good and evil which has heated up
with the return of the Dark Lord Voldemort.
FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 1st American ed. New York : A.A. Levine,
2003.
Fifteen-year-old wizard Harry Potter struggles with a threatening teacher, problematic house elf,
the dread of upcoming final exams, and haunting dreams that hint toward his mysterious past.
FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K.,. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Askaban. New York: Scholastic, 1997.
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront
the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone. 1st American ed. New York : A.A. Levine Books,
1998.
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny
proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
FIC SUT
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Frontier wolf. 1st Front Street pbk. ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2008, c1980.
As punishment for his poor judgment, a young, inexperienced Roman army officer is sent to
Northern England to assume the command of a motley group known as the Frontier Wolves.
FIC SUT
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The mark of the Horse Lord. 1st Front Street pbk. ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street,
2006.
Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the now-blind displaced King of the Scots, former gladiator
and slave Phaedrus impersonates the Horse Lord to regain control of the Scottish kingdom from
the Picts.
FIC SUT
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The shield ring. 1st Front Street pbk. ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street ;, 2007,
c1956.
A young girl witnesses the waning power of the Norse in their continuing conflict with the
Normans in eleventh century England.
FIC WAR
Ward, Rachel, 1978-. Num8ers : the cha0s. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House, 2011.
Adam, who sees the dates people will die and feels the pain of their deaths when he looks in their
eyes, returns to London, and he wonders if catastrophe is coming when many people's numbers
are in January 2027, particularly on New Year's Day.
FIC WYN
Wynd, Oswald, 1913-. The ginger tree. 1st Perennial classics ed. New York : Perennial, 2002, c1977.
Mary Mackenzie travels from Britain to China so that she can marry the man she is betrothed to,
but when she arrives, she falls in love with a young Japanese nobleman, and she must choose
between her love and her country.