A list of novels, comics and non-fiction about children and teenagers that through necessity, trickery or coercion become soldiers
- Alex Rider series – Anthony Horowitz
- A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah
- Animorphs series – K.A. Applegate
- Attack on Titan (manga) – Hajime Isayama
- Boy Soldier – Andy McNab
- Buffalo Soldier – Tanya Landman
- Charley’s War (graphic novel) – Pat Mills & drawn by Joe Colquhoun
- CHERUB series – Robert Muchamore
- Child Soldier – Jessica Dee Humphreys & Claudia Davila
- Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
- Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein
- Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
- Fullmetal Alchemist (manga) – Hiromu Arakawa
- Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
- How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
- Johnny Recruit – Theo Houle Behe & Thomas Muzzell
- Leviathan trilogy – Scott Westerfeld
- Little Soldier – Bernard Ashley
- Percy Jackson series – Rick Riordan
- Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephaniah
- Rose Under Fire – Elizabeth Wein
- The Hero and the Crown & The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
- Warchild – Emmanuel Jal
