Reluctant Reader Teenage Fiction

Interest age 13+ years | Reading age 10+ years

This new range of teenage fiction for reluctant readers brings you some of the best writing from authors around the world.

Ransom is well known for our superb range of titles designed to engage and encourage reluctant readers, and we are now taking the opportunity to build on our strong programme with a growing list of fiction for reluctant teens.

Jump

Author:

Fanie Viljoen

ISBN:

9781781276594

Price:

£6.99

No. of Pages:

108

Rudi and Steven decide to shoot a funny video, the kind of stupid video you would make to impress a girl. Soon they have loads of followers on YouTube and they acquire a new nickname – the Vidiots.
But then they meet Marco. Marco has plans to make the Vidiots’ tricks better and more daring. He will make them really famous. But then things take a turn for the worse…

Keeping Mum

Author:

Jill Atkins

ISBN:

9781781276617

Price:

£6.99

No. of Pages:

138

Abbi is in trouble at school: she’s always late, or forgetting her homework, or falling asleep in class. When her teachers investigate they discover that Abbi’s mother is an alcoholic, and Abbi is doing everything at home, looking after her mum and her younger brother, as well as attending school. After all, if Abbi can’t hold it all together, surely the family will be split up.

Can Abbi and her mum get help?

Seeing Red

Author:

Jill Atkins

ISBN:

9781781276631

Price:

£6.99

No. of Pages:

144

Vicki feels very misunderstood. She’s fifteen, she’s angry and she’s always in trouble with her parents. It gets so bad that she decides to run away from home.

Vicky travels to London, where she finds that life on the streets is far from easy. It’s only when Vicky travels out to the countryside to pick strawberries, to earn some money, that she meets Red and things begin to take a positive turn.

Being Jack

Authors:

Jill Atkins

ISBN:

9781781276655

Price:

£6.99

No. of Pages:

146

A powerful story of triumph over adversity. Jack is a popular football player at school. He is keen to make a start at the activity week in Snowdonia, but when tragedy strikes his world is upended.

An accident on the mountain leaves him paralysed in both legs and unable to walk. Confined to a wheelchair, Jack faces the toughest fight of his life.