Genres

 

Adult Books Potentially Suitable for Older Children

The Thirty Nine Steps

The White Cottage Mystery

Adventure

A Ravelled Flag

Hero on a Bicycle

Skulduggery Pleasant

The Salt-Stained Book

The Thirty Nine Steps

Treasure Island

Tunnels

 

Anarchic and Dystopian Fiction

       The Borrible Trilogy

 

Animal

Varjak Paw

Classics

Charlotte Sometimes

Flambards

Swallows and Amazons

 The Edge of the Cloud

The Thirty Nine Steps

Treasure Island

Coming of Age Novels

The Broken Bridge

Crime

The Case of the Deadly Desperados

The Ruby in the Smoke

The White Cottage Mystery (adult novel potentially suitable)

Fantasy

Charlotte Sometimes

Keeper

King of Shadows

Nation

Skulduggery Pleasant

 Tunnels

Varjak Paw

Ghosts and the Supernatural

Keeper

Historical Fiction

Charlotte Sometimes

Flambards

Hero on a Bicycle

King of Shadows

Nation 

 The Edge of the Cloud

The Ruby in the Smoke

Tiger, Tiger

Treasure Island (written in the nineteenth century and set in the eighteenth)

Poetry

Pony Books

Flambards 

There Must Be Horses

Science Fiction

Social Realism

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

There Must Be Horses

Sport

Keeper (football)

War

Charlotte Sometimes (WWI homefront, English girls' school)

Hero on a Bicycle (WWII homefront, Italy)

Westerns

The Case of the Deadly Desperados