Children's/YA Fiction Rated

On this page I am listing children's and YA books read in the last few years (or originally read a long time ago and re-read in recent years), together with my Star Rating.

5-star books are "Must Read", those with 4 stars are highly recommended and 3 stars are well worth a look.

If I've given a book only 2 stars, consider if you are stuck somewhere without other reading material.

1 star means don't bother - do something else instead.

Zero-star books exist somewhere on earth, but none are included in my list below.

You will notice that relatively few books are rated 2 or 1 star.  This reflects the fact that I don't tend to finish a finish a book if I am not enjoying it.

All purely my subjective opinion of course.  Others may strongly disagree but that is the nature of things.

Title
Author
Stars
Elidor
Alan Garner
5
Finding the Fox
Ali Sparkes
3
Frozen in Time
Ali Sparkes
5
Girl With a White Dog
The Devil Walks
Anne Booth
Anne Fine
3
5
The Road of Bones
Anne Fine
3
The Tulip Touch
Anne Fine
3
Raven's Gate
Anthony Horowitz
2
The Brother's Lionheart
Astrid Lindgren
5
Tyme's End
B R Collins
4
Out of the Silent Planet
C S Lewis
5
That Hideous Strength
Perelandra
C S Lewis
C S Lewis
5
4
Prince Caspian
C S Lewis
5
The Horse and his Boy
C S Lewis
5
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C S Lewis
5
The Magicians Nephew
C S Lewis
5
The Silver Chair
C S Lewis
4
The voyage of the Dawn Treader
Cracks
C S Lewis
Caroline Green
5
4
Corbenic
Catherine Fisher
4
Incareron
Catherine Fisher
4
Marianne and Mark
Catherine Storr
3
Marianne Dreams
Catherine Storr
5
The If Game
Catherine Storr
5
The Mirror Image Ghost
Catherine Storr
4
Thursday
Catherine Storr
3
The Dead of Winter
Chris Priestley
3
Through Dead Eyes
Chris Priestly
3
Hunt for the Seventh
Christine Morton-Shaw
3
Breathe:  A Ghost Story
Cliff McNish
5
The Hunting Ground
Cliff McNish
5
A Living Nightmare
Darren Shan
1
Skellig
David Almond
4
The Seeing
Diana Hendry
4
Archer's Goon
Diana Wynne Jones
5
Black Maria
Diana Wynne Jones
3
Cart and Cwidder
Diana Wynne Jones
3
Charmed Life
Diana Wynne Jones
5
Conrad's Fate
Diana Wynne Jones
4
Deep Secret
Diana Wynne Jones
4
Dogsbody
Diana Wynne Jones
5
Drowned Ammet
Diana Wynne Jones
5
Eight Days of Luke
Diana Wynne Jones
3
Fire and Hemlock
Diana Wynne Jones
5
Hexwood
Diana Wynne Jones
3
Power of Three
Diana Wynne Jones
4
The Crown of Dalemark
Diana Wynne Jones
3
The Homeward Bounders
Diana Wynne Jones
5
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Diana Wynne Jones
5
The Magicians of Caprona
Diana Wynne Jones
4
The Merlin Conspiracy
Diana Wynne Jones
3
The Ogre Downstairs
Diana Wynne Jones
3
The Pinhoe Egg
Diana Wynne Jones
4
The Spellcoats
Diana Wynne Jones
3
The Time of the Ghost
Diana Wynne Jones
4
Witch Week
Diana Wynne Jones
5
Shadow Runners
Devil's Footsteps
Daniel Blythe
E E Richardson
2
3
Daylight Saving
The Messengers
Shiverton Hall
Ways to See a Ghost
The Glass Bird Girl
Cosmic
Edward Hogan
Edward Hogan
Emerald Fennell
Emily Diamond
Esme Kerr
Frank Cotterell Boyce
4
5
4
3
4
5
The White Darkness
Geraldine McCaughrean
5
The Demon Headmaster
Gillian Cross
5
Moondial
Silent Saturday
Helen Cresswell
Helen Grant
5
5
Demons of Ghent
The Glass Demon
Helen Grant
Helen Grant
4
4
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Helen Grant
5
Wish Me Dead
Helen Grant
4
Harry Potter Books
J K Rowling
5
Muncle Trogg
Janet Foxley
5
Milo's Wolves
Jenny Nimmo
5
The Rinaldi Ring
Jenny Nimmo
5
The Snow Spider
Jenny Nimmo
3
Ultramarine
Jenny Nimmo
4
Fen Runners
John Gordon
3
The Giant Under the Snow
John Gordon
4
The Leap
Jonathon Stroud
5
Brat Farrar
Josephine Tey
5
Burning Mountain
Uma & Imp
L J Adlington
Larisa Villar Hauser            
4
5
Long Lankin
Lindsay Barraclough
4
Holes
Louis Sachar
5
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom
Louis Sachar
2
Tamar
Mal Peet
5
She is not invisible
Flip
Just in Case
Marcus Sedgwick
Martyn Bedford
Meg Roscoff
4
5
4
Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo
2
Coraline
Neil Gaimon
5
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaimon
4
The Ocean at the end of the lane
Carrie's War
Neil Gaimon
Nina Bawden
5
2
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
5
Auslander
Paul Dowswell
5
Sektion 20
Paul Dowswell
4
Charlotte Sometimes
Penelope Farmer
5
The House in Norham Gardens
Penelope Lively
4
Broken
Penny Kendal
4
Can You Hear Me?
Penny Kendal
5
Christina's Face
Penny Kendal
4
Keeping Quiet
Penny Kendal
5
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
3
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
5
Tom's Midnight Garden
Philipa Pearce
5
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
4
The Recruit
Robert Muchamore
4
Ghost Abbey
Robert Westall
5
Scarecrows
Robert Westall
3
Murder Most Unladylike
Arsenic For Tea
The Messenger Bird
Robin Stevens
Robin Stevens
Ruth Eastman
3
4
3
Varjak Paw
S F Said
4
Chasing the Dark
Hero on a bicycle
Sam Hepburn
Shirley Hughes
3
2
Greenwitch
Susan Cooper
5
Over Sea, Under Stone
Susan Cooper
3
Silver on the Tree
Susan Cooper
4
The Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper
3
The Grey King
Susan Cooper
3
Slated
Bloodchild
Teri Terry
Tim Bowler
3
5
Buried Thunder
Tim Bowler
2
Dragon's Rock
Tim Bowler
2
Frozen Fire
Tim Bowler
4
Midget
Tim Bowler
3
River Boy
Tim Bowler
5
Shadows
Tim Bowler
3
Starseeker
Tim Bowler
4
Storm Catchers
Tim Bowler
3
The Wave
Tod Strasser
4
The Traitors
While the Others Sleep
Tom Becker
Tom Becker
2
4
Hitler's Angel
Skallagrigg
William Osborne
William Horwood
4
5


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