Featured Books for 11+ readers

Mortal Chaos 2: Deep Oblivion
Matt Dickinson
Fast-paced and thrilling, a dazzlingly varied sequence of unrelated stories all triggered by one single act dance through the second of Matt Dickinson’s Mortal Chaos titles. When a security guard kills a butterfly, the pane of glass it is fluttering...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Earthfall
Mark Walden
Rich in dazzlingly but sinister technology with Grendels, Drones and Hunters on the attack, this headlong adventure of how a group of kids fight against it is a thrilling corkscrew of a story. Miraculously surviving when his sister and mother...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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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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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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Claws
Mike Grinti, Rachel Grinti
May 2012 Debut of the Month. Emma's sister has run off with the faeries. Her parents have spent all their money looking for her and now the family is living on the edge of an enchanted slum-forest nearby. But then...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
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Secret of the Shadows
Cathy Macphail
Prize-winning Cathy MacPhail will send a chill through her readers in haunting novel of how a past evil effects the present. Tyler is thrilled to be spending time with her aunt tidying up the picturesque cottage they have inherited from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2012
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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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Hitler's Angel
William Osborne
May 2012 Debut of the Month. Fans of Robert Muchamore's Cherub and Henderson's Boys or Higson's Young Bond series will devour this book in a sitting. It's a novel that has its base on true fact: Hitler's secret relationship with his niece,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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A Waste of Good Paper
Sean Taylor
A moving, first person story that captures the frustrations and pent-up fury of a boy with a lot of problems. Jason has been told to write something in his new journal everyday. The trouble is there is nothing he wants...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes
May 2012 Book of the Month. Best-selling illustrator Shirley Hughes writes beautifully in this gripping story set during World War Two. Living in Italy during the occupation by the Germans, Paolo and his sister Constanza long to do something for the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The Messenger Bird
Ruth Eastham
May 2012 Book of the Month. Cleverly interweaving a modern day storyline with one from the 1940s, it's the story of Nathan who must find out what the link is between his father's recent disappearance and that of Lily, an ex-Bletchley Park employee, before it's too late...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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There is No Dog
Meg Rosoff
Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and twenty-five million other species including lots of gorgeous girls. Imagine that God is a typical teenage boy. He is lazy, careless, self-obsessed, sex-mad - and about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Secret Breakers : The Power of Three
H. L. Dennis
May 2012 Debut of the Month. Code-breaking readers who love to follow clues and solve a mystery will be addicted to this gripping adventure. The Rules say that it is forbidden to try to unlock the secret code that hides...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent's Shadow
Rick Riordan
May 2012 Book of the Month.  This is the third and final book in this awesome and electrifying Kane Chronicles series that is set in ancient Egypt. Carter and Sadie have their biggest and most important quest yet; to defeat the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/05/2012
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Insurgent
Veronica Roth
May 2012 Book of the Month. This is heart-pounding dystopian fiction at its very best.  Insurgent is the thrillingly dark sequel to the New York Times bestselling debut, Divergent.  No teenager should miss these great reads. Will have fans of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2012
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A Dog Called Homeless
Sarah Lean
May 2012 Debut of the Month. This is an outstandingly assured debut novel from a sparkling new talent.  When Cally Fisher sees her dead mother, real as anything, no one believes her. So Cally stops talking - what's the point...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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The Youngstars
Ursula Jones
Set against the backdrop of grimy, coal-blackened 1930s Britain, The Youngstars tells the story of a variety troupe of teenagers, hauled around the country by their harsh and demanding 'maestro' Mr Piggott (known as 'The Pig'). The youngest of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2012
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Titanic An Edwardian Girl's Diary,1912
Ellen Emerson White
Titanic, My Story is a vividly imagined account of life on the Titanic by a young girl and told in diary form.  A terrific way for children 100 years on to experience what happened in what remains one of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Apocalypse Moon (The Joshua Files book 5)
M. G. Harris
April 2012 Book of the Month. Half Mexican, Manchester United fan and self-confessed geek, M G Harris is the author of the fabulous Mayan phrophecy influenced, futuristic series, The Joshua Files – perfect for action-hero fan 9+ year olds. This is the 5th...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Freaks
Kieran Larwood
April 2012 Debut of the Month and Winner of The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2011. This well-written and action-packed debut is even being considered...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Goblins
Philip Reeve
April 2012 Book of the Month. Fans of Mortal Engines will devour Philip Reeves’s richly detailed goblin extravaganza. The dank and dark towers and stairways of Clovenstone Keep are packed full of dirty, smelly, squabbling goblins. As a breed, they all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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The Fear (The Enemy Series 3)
Charlie Higson
April 2012 Book of the Month.  Best-selling author Charlie Higson has created a chilling world in his thrilling Zombie series. Not only have all the adults – older siblings and parents – lost their minds and become hopeless has-beens but there...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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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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Fear
Michael Grant
April 2012 Book of the Month.  This is a blood-pumping, white-knuckle sci-fi futuristic thriller of epic proportions and the fifth of the six planned titles in the GONE series. Night is falling in the FAYZ. Even though it's been nearly a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2012
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Plague
Michael Grant
This is the fourth book (of six) in the mind-blowing Gone series.  So far with Gone, Hunger and Lies, it's been a blood-pumping, white-knuckle ride of epic proportions.  It's a world without adults and normal life has crashed and burned.  When you...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2012
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The Haunting of Tabitha Grey
Vanessa Curtis
From the very first moment she sees it, Tabitha knows there is something unusual about her new home. Used to moving house and school, Tabitha is quite willing to start a new life but, from the beginning, she is mystified...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2012
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Call Me Drog
Sue Cowing
April 2012 Debut of the Month. Parker’s got a lot of demons to face as he struggles to come to terms with his parent’s separation and his father’s expectations of him. He thinks he’s coping alright until he finds Drog...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
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Fins are Forever
Tera Lynn Childs
April 2012 Book of the Month.  This is the sequel to the hit summer read Forgive my Fins. Plenty of highs and lows of high school drama including plenty of romance together with a hint of paranormal for Lily is a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
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VIII
H. M. Castor
Chosen by April 2012 Guest Editor, Charlie Higson: "The 60s and early 70s, when I was growing up, was a golden age for children’s historical fiction, with the likes of Henry Treece, Geoffrey Trease, Rosemary Sutcliff and Mary...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
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Titanic Death on the Water
Tom Bradman
Death on the Water  brings the great ship alive for young readers by combining both fact and fiction. The famous story of the sinking of the great ship Titantic has fascinated all who have heard it since the actual event...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2012
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