Featured Books for 11+ readers

The Runaway
Angela Mcallister
From this highly acclaimed author comes a haunting 19th century story of loss and revenge, the power of friendship and the power of forgiveness. Inspired by true events, The Runaway is a beautifully written, compelling story of transforming darkness into...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout
Andy Stanton
One of the 8 titles longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Prize-winning Andy Stanton’s disgusting Mr Gum has gone missing in this new zany and hilarious adventure set in that most unusual of places, Lamonic Bibber. Mr Gum hates...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
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Trash
Andy Mulligan
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 Headlong and heart-stopping, this is an adventure you just can’t put down. When Raphael and Gardo find a bag among the piles of steaming rubbish which they spend all day everyday sorting...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Boy Soldier
Andy Mcnab, Robert Rigby
Action packed adventure in this taut thriller in which Danny sets out to find out what really happened to his grandfather in the Columbian jungle. When Danny’s turned down by the Army because of his missing grandfather’s reputation...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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Flash Flood
Andy Croft
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 6.5+ High drama in this simply written but gripping watery adventure. Bored on a wet holiday, Jaz and Toni set out to find some fun in the nearest town. But they don’t realise how quickly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2009
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Come On Danny (gr8reads)
Andy Croft
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 7+. Full of emotion and understanding but written in such a way that a struggling or reluctant reader will devour, Come On Danny is a hard hitting story describing the difficulties of dealing with life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/05/2009
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Lewis Hamilton
Andy Croft
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 7+. Formula 1 is one of the most popular global sports with boys and girls all over the world eager to emulate their star.  For many children, however, until Lewis Hamilton became F1 World Champion...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2010
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Villain.net: Council Of Evil
Andy Briggs
A hurtling adventure begins at the click of a computer. Ordinary schoolboy Jake Hunter finds himself a global fugitive wanted for blackmail, theft and kidnapping after he enters a tempting looking website. The stakes are high in the race for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Hero.Com: Virus Attack
Andy Briggs
Another superpowered adventure from a master of pen and plot.  If you’re looking for a book that is exploding with gadgets, gizmos, adrenaline, exotic landscapes and fun then look no further than this series, of which this is the second,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Villain.net: Dark Hunter
Andy Briggs
If you’re looking for a book that is exploding with gadgets, gizmos, adrenaline, exotic landscapes and fun then look no further than this anti-series, of which this is the second, which is published alongside its antithesis, Hero.com.  There’s even some...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Adjusters
Andrew Taylor
A chilling story of perfect children, medically transformed! Newly arrived in a new town and in a new school it doesn’t take Henry long to discover that something is wrong. Very wrong. How can all the pupils be so clever?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2012
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Ravenwood
Andrew Peters
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 9+. Set high up in the last of the forest worlds, this is a powerful fantasy adventure fuelled by an eerie magic written by a dramatic storyteller. Ark knows too much for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Return to Ribblestrop
Andrew Mulligan
Winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. The judging panel was chaired by Lovereading4kids Editor in Chief Julia Eccleshare who is also the Guardian Children's Books editor. She said of the winner: “The judges considered energetically and argued...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud
Andrew Lane
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2010.  Two dead bodies. One unforgettable hero.  The beginning of a legend.  Followers of the young James Bond and junior spy Alex Rider will enjoy the adventures of school boy Sherlock Holmes who...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud Audio CD
Andrew Lane
Followers of the young James Bond and junior spy Alex Rider will enjoy the adventures of school boy Sherlock Holmes who already shows many of the trademark skills that later make him a world renowned detective. Sent to live with chilly relatives in...
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 04/06/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes 2: Red Leech
Andrew Lane
Anyone with a sense of adventure and an enquiring mind will enjoy the puzzles and questions that the likeable young Sherlock Holmes sets out to resolve. Young Sherlock determines to get to the bottom of the secrets that the adults...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes 2: Red Leech CD-Audio
Andrew Lane
The CD-Audio version of the novel. Anyone with a sense of adventure and an enquiring mind will enjoy the puzzles and questions that the likeable young Sherlock Holmes sets out to resolve. Young Sherlock determines to get to the bottom...
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Format: Audiobook On Cd - Released: 05/11/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice
Andrew Lane
The world’s favourite detective was already showing signs of his future exceptional talent for investigation as a child. Ignoring the obvious when he comes across his brother holding a knife and with a dead body in front of him, the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2011
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm
Andrew Lane
Young Sherlock Holmes is back for his fourth exciting adventure. A mysterious fire, a friend who has vanished and a man who claims to raise the dead make this a case all the more baffling for the Young Sherlock Holmes.  Sherlock...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
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Young Sherlock Holmes 4: Fire Storm
Andrew Lane
Teenage Sherlock has come up against some challenges in his time, but what confronts him now is baffling. His friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it. Sherlock begins to doubt...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2011
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Centre Of My World
Andreas Steinhofel
This is an incredibly powerful, provocative and compelling novel that has equal appeal to teenagers as it does to adults.  The themes of love and longing combine together to create a book that is not just beautifully written but also...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006
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The Pasta Detectives
Andreas Steinhofel
Shortlisted for the 2011 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. This is a funny and original mystery starring two unlikely boy detectives, the mildly autistic Rico and the brainy but anxiety-ridden Oscar.  The story of The Pasta Detectives explores the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Free? Stories Celebrating Human Rights
Amnesty International
Top children’s writers have each contributed a powerful story to this collection for Amnesty International.  In fourteen different ways Jamila Gavin, David Almond, Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman, Eoin Colfer and others have written about an aspect of freedom thereby drawing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Kumari: Goddess of Secrets
Amanda Lees
A fast-paced adventure of magic, mystery and enterprise. Girl goddess Kumari has only twenty-four hours to save Papa and her people in the Hidden Kingdom against the mysterious enemy who threatens them all. And Kumari is still learning how to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/05/2008
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Kumari: Goddess of Destiny
Amanda Lees
Old enemies and new revelations make this a thrilling climax to the Kumari trilogy which began with Kumari: Goddess of Gotham and followed with Kumari: Goddess of Secrets.  Kumari is a great heroine – feisty and determined but also sweet-natured...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2008
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Haunting Violet
Alyxandra Harvey
Violet's mother has worked as a fraudulent medium for a decade and Violet has taken part in enough of her mother's tricks to feel more than a little jaded about anything supernatural. The ghosts, however, believe in Violet and she's...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2011
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Radiance - A Riley Bloom Novel
Alyson Noel
This is a witty, moving, heart-warming story set in the afterlife about a 12 year old girl who dies but finds once she gets to the afterlife that she's a soul catcher, someone who must on her first job there...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2011
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Beast
Ally Kennen
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Admired hugely its spare prose and confident storytelling’ Teenagers, particularly boys will empathise completely with the hero in Beast even though he may not be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/06/2006
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Bedlam
Ally Kennen
Ally Kennen's observations of teenage life, along with the themes of dysfunctional families and the people who fall between the gaps in society, are what define her as one of the best authors writing for young people. In Bedlam Ally...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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Quarry
Ally Kennen
When he receives anonymous texts challenging him to bizarre dares, Scrappy's sure one of his mates is having a laugh. Anyway, his confusing teenage life just got more exciting. But the unknown sender cannot be a friend - and the challenges become increasingly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2011
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