Featured Books for 11+ readers

Marianne Dreams
Catherine Storr
Confined to her bed with an illness, she finds a pencil in her great-grandmother's workbox, but the house she draws is as unsatisfying as always - like a shaky doll's house with grass as unlike anything growing as ever. But...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2006
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The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Catherine Jinks
A murder-mystery comedy of errors about a vampire 'support group'.  It's the perfect introduction to the paranormal for young readers.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
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Fat Boy Swim
Catherine Forde
It’s a deal with the devil. Jimmy "Fat Boy Fat" Kelly, a 14-year-old boy mercilessly teased at school and completely inept at sports, has been commissioned by Father "GI Joe" Joseph, the unforgiving sports coach, to make food for a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2003
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Sugarcoated
Catherine Forde
A gripping read about the power and danger of a new relationship. This hard hitting teen novel charts the roller coaster ride of a new and powerful love affair. Claudia finds the boy of her dreams; she'll do anything for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2008
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Firestarter
Catherine Forde
Keith's new next-door neighbour Reece is strange and obsessed with fire. Reeesss who pronounces his name like gas leaking. Reece who makes 3-year-old Annie laugh. Then burns her favourite rag doll. Keith knows he should ignore Reece but Reece is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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The Ghost Box
Catherine Fisher
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. A wonderfully suspenseful and page-turning mystery and thriller rolled into one involving a girl, her step-brother, a boy ghost and an old knarled oak tree, with a clever and surprising twist at the end....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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We Can be Heroes
Catherine Bruton
An astonishing debut.  Moving. Funny. Explosive. And most of all, unexpected...As powerful as Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions. A Piece of Passion from Ali Dougal, Catherine's Editor at Egmont Books: We Can Be Heroes is the sort of book that I dreamt of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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City Of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments 2)
Cassandra Clare
We were bowled over by Cassandra’s first, City of Bones and from the feedback from readers you clearly were too. This is the second in The Mortal Instruments series and doesn’t disappoint. Utterly captivating, beautifully written, cleverly plotted with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Black Tide
Caroline Clough
Set in a disturbing dystopian future boys and girls alike will love this story of friendship and family ties set in a post-apocalyptic Scotland.  A young boy Toby must find his kidnapped father and sister.  His mission takes the reader...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
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Red Fever
Caroline Clough
Winner of the Kelpies Prize 2010 for new Scottish writing for children. A thrilling adventure set at a time of total devastation. Red fever is sweeping the earth. Almost everyone is dead and those that remain are struggling to cope with the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 11/10/2010
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Spy Girl: Out of the Shadows
Carol Hedges
This terrific series, of which this is the second, is smart, cool and sassy.  It’s many a girl’s dream to become a spy – it’s certainly at the top of my 11 year old's list – and Spy Girl is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/07/2006
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Spy Girl: The Dark Side of Midnight
Carol Hedges
Alex Rider meets Nancy Drew in a futuristic spy thriller full of adventure and suspense. Teenager Jazmin has always dreamed of being a spy and gets the chance when her mum, who works in secret intelligence, goes missing on assignment. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2005
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Secrets at St Judes': New Girl
Carmen Reid
A raucous, hilarious and heart-warming tale of modern boarding school life from one of the UK’s bestselling authors of women’s fiction. Packed full of friendship, fun, entertainment, love and hope, it will have huge appeal to the early teenager. Californian...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Secrets at St Jude's Drama Girl
Carmen Reid
A warm-hearted and hugely entertaining celebration of the value – and complications! – of friendship, this captures the special intensity that surrounds life in general and teen friendships in particular in a boarding school setting. Gina is excited to be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Secrets at St Jude's 4: Rebel Girl
Carmen Reid
The four feisty friends from St Jude’s are back for a new term of dramas. These girls have glamorous homes and loads of money but it doesn’t protect them from the ups and downs of new relationships, the ubiquitous desire...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Utterly gripping, this is a deliciously haunting and chilling tale of dark magic and treachery which reaches out across time threatening all who cross its path. A move to a house by the sea is designed to give Max and his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Scat
Carl Hiaasen
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Totally topical, Scat is a brilliant fast-moving eco-aware thriller set in the swamps of Florida. Nick and Marta get sucked into the world of corrupt oil prospectors and fanatical eco-activists when Mrs Starch,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Chomp
Carl Hiaasen
April 2012 Book of the Month. An hilarious, edge-of-your seat read. Animal lovers everywhere will love this great story about dangerous creatures which also gives a behind the scenes look at how the worst TV shows are made. Wahoo’s Dad...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and in tears the next as the author explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2011. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Favourite Story. This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer
Bryan Perro
A fast-paced and gripping epic fantasy tale of a young boy's struggle between good and evil. Amos Daragon is one of the chosen.  On the day of his birth, his fate was written in golden letters in the great history of heroes.  His destiny is to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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Amos Daragon, The Mask Wearer
Bryan Perro
From publisher Book House:  A fast-paced and gripping epic fantasy tale of a young boy's struggle between good and evil. Amos Daragon is one of the chosen.  On the day of his birth, his fate was written in golden letters in the great history of heroes. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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Invention Of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
Tender, magical, utterly original, this is a stunning tour de force from an innovative and daring storyteller and artist.  A book to treasure, to dip in and out of forever whether you’re 9 or 109.  The Invention of Hugo Cabret...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2007
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Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick
Beautifully produced, this is a fabulous addition to the best-selling The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Like its predecessor it is told equally through illustrations and words; Ben’s story is in words and the story from a previous time is...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/09/2011
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Dracula, retold by Chaz Brenchley
Bram Stoker
Can love, courage and goodness defeat the evil thirst of a vampire? In this fight to the bitter end, who will live, who will die, and who will be doomed to a living death? From Shannon, aged 11: 'It's really scary when...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2009
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
Transylvanian Count Dracula is the staple of horror stories. This unabridged edition brings the full story of how Jonathan Harker travels to Castle Dracula and the nightmares he finds there. This edition also includes a useful who’s who of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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A Really Short History Of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Full of extraordinary discoveries and wonder at the world we live in, this is a thrilling scientific journey through history. It raises and answers many of the questions young readers ask about how the greatest scientific discoveries were made and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Dear Blue Peter...
Biddy Baxter
As the programme celebrates its 50th anniversary, Biddy Baxter - the show's legendary editor and the woman who used the Blue Peter badge to encourage children to write in - reveals an extraordinary correspondence that, by the late 1980s, saw...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Burn My Heart
Beverley Naidoo
Internationally acclaimed and award-winning author Beverley Naidoo explores new territory in this beautifully realized and moving story set in Britain's colonial past. It's Kenya in the 1950s - a time when colonial rule vies for supremacy over the Mau Mau....
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/07/2007
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Call of the Deep
Beverley Naidoo
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. These two haunting tales are brought to you from the ocean deep. We meet the good, the wicked, and the downright evil and through them we get a sense of the mesmerising power of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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