Featured Books for 11+ readers

The Black Room - The Lost Trilogy book 2
Gillian Cross
This, the second part of the Lost trilogy tells how Rob moves between his old, full-size life and his new tiny one. Both are full of dangers and Rob has to show great courage in both in two stories with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Where I Belong
Gillian Cross
Prize-winning author Gillian Cross tells a nail biting and fascinating story that’ll make readers think hard about how the lives of individuals connect and the wide ranging impacts they can have. Told in the voices of three teenagers who become inextricably...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Calling a Dead Man
Gillian Cross
A tense thriller set against a frozen background of Siberia. Two girls set out to uncover the mystery surrounding the apparent death of John Cox. Finding his mobile, they begin a deadly dangerous mission to find their missing friend.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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The Dark Behind the Curtain
Gillian Cross
Spine tingling from start to finish, this brilliant book is shot through with menace before reaching a hugely satisfying conclusion. Colin gets mixed up in the school play by accident. In trouble for something else, doing the play is meant...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Sky Hawk
Gill Lewis
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2012. Rich in atmosphere and full of heart, Sky Hawk is an intense and touching story of how protecting a rare bird forges a deep and special friendship between two children. The osprey is Iona’s...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/12/2011
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White Dolphin
Gill Lewis
May 2012 Book of the Month. Bestselling Gill Lewis’s new story tells of the amazing, life-affirming powers of dolphins.  Kara’s life is in a mess; her mum has disappeared, she is in trouble at school and her father is about to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Crazy Creatures
Gill Arbuthnott
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. A true story that’s stranger than fiction. Find out about the bird that fights by being sick on you, the frog that can kill 1,500 people, the Bee Duvet of Death, plus many more...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/03/2007
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The White Darkness
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. What the judges said: McCaughrean’s control of language and style ensures that this novel, with its original and ambitious plot, produces a fast-moving adventure story. It’s an outstanding survival fantasy that explores the pain of adolescence. The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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Cyrano
Geraldine Mccaughrean
A hilarious retelling of Edmond Rostand’s classic romantic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano is a man of action, a soldier, a man of letters, and a hopeless romantic, and his one defect is his enormous nose. Poor Cyrano is hopelessly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Tamburlaine's Elephants
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is a genius in her ability to draw the reader in to a part of history that might not immediately spring to mind as being of interest and yet she makes you hungry for more.  Here she draws...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/09/2008
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Mister Misery
Gerald Killingworth
This, despite ‘misery’ in its title is a thoroughly entertaining, witty read and one which school children aged 10+ will really hook in to.  Mister Misery is a well drawn character, who you will both like and despise in turn,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2011
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
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The Declaration
Gemma Malley
A powerful, gripping and tense futuristic novel about a world which has gone mad, a world where life is forever except for the likes of Peter and Anna (who shouldn’t be there at all according to the declaration) who are...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2007
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The Declaration
Gemma Malley
A powerful, gripping and tense futuristic novel about a world which has gone mad, a world where life is forever except for the likes of Peter and Anna (who shouldn’t be there at all according to the declaration) who are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2008
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The Resistance
Gemma Malley
This is an absolutely chilling, powerful sequel to Gemma malley’s acclaimed debut, The Declaration. With a dark and sinister vision of the future, it is set in 2140, The Resistance is an incredibly thought-provoking read. We raved about her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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The Resistance
Gemma Malley
This is a powerful, absolutely chilling sequel to Gemma Malley’s acclaimed debut, The Declaration. With a dark and sinister vision of the future, it is set in 2140, The Resistance is an incredibly thought-provoking read. We raved about her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Declaration (audio CD)
Gemma Malley
CD Audio.  A powerful, gripping and tense futuristic novel about a world which has gone mad, a world where life is forever except for the likes of Peter and Anna (who shouldn’t be there at all according to the declaration) who are struggling to...
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Format: Cd-audio - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Returners
Gemma Malley
The Returners is a gripping and thought-provoking thriller from the author of the equally provocative futuristic novels, The Declaration and The Resistance. What happens when your past catches up with you and you don’t like what you see?  This powerful novel questions...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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The Returners
Gemma Malley
The Returners is a gripping and thought-provoking thriller from the author of the equally provocative futuristic novels, The Declaration and The Resistance. What happens when your past catches up with you and you don’t like what you see?  This powerful...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
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The Legacy
Gemma Malley
What started with The Declaration and continued with The Resistance is brilliantly brought to conclusion in The Legacy.  A thrilling finale in which Anna and Peter and their friends risk all to expose the truth behind the quest...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
A powerful story about the physical skills and the mental strength that is needed to survive. Brian has grown up in the city. That’s where he’s comfortable. But on his very first visit to his father following his parents divorce,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2005
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Troubletwisters
Garth Nix, Sean Williams
Two best-selling authors have teamed up to create this highly inventive, fast-paced new series. When twins Jack and Jaide receive a strange letter from Grandma X, a Grandma they have never heard of, they have little idea that they are...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2011
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Troubletwisters
Garth Nix, Sean Williams
Two best-selling authors have teamed up to create this highly inventive, fast-paced new series. When twins Jack and Jaide receive a strange letter from Grandma X, a Grandma they have never heard of, they have little idea that they are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2011
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The Seventh Tower: The Fall
Garth Nix
A new thrilling Dark World fantasy adventure series. As one of the Chosen in the Castle of Seven Towers, Tal is a keeper of the magical sunstones. But he is swept into a new adventures when he is thrown off into...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2008
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Jigsaw
Garry Douglas Kilworth
A nail biting thriller, as Max uncovers a secret which could change the world for ever. Written as a blog recording all that happens to Max when he accompanies his father on an archaeological dig, this is a dramatic and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/05/2007
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Jigsaw
Garry Douglas Kilworth
A nail biting thriller, as Max uncovers a secret which could change the world for ever. Written as a blog recording all that happens to Max when he accompanies his father on an archaeological dig, this is a dramatic and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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The Considine Curse
Gareth P. Jones
Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2012. Fourteen-year-old Mariel returns to England for her grandmother's funeral. It is the first time she has been back since she emigrated with her mother as a baby, and it is the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2011
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Merchant of Venice (Graphic novel)
Gareth Hinds
An elegant, illuminating, mesmerising and highly accessible modern adaptation based on the play by William Shakespeare.  This stylish graphic-novel adaptation boasts a chic modern cast, high drama, and all the dark, familiar beauty and charm of Venice. With elegant drawings and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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Beowulf (Graphic Novel)
Gareth Hinds
A dramatic graphic novel adaptation of the epic Anglo-Saxon legend. Beowulf, the King of heroic epics gets a superb and lavish visual interpretation in this full-colour mixed-media gem. A story that has been told over the generations for more than...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2007
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Conspiracy 365: January
Gabrielle Lord
The launch title in a page turning adventure which kicks off when 15 year old Callum is hunted down by a crazed man who carries a deadly warning.  Now Cal is on the run from both ruthless criminals and the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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