Featured Books for 11+ readers

Gamer
Chris Bradford
Interest Age 8-14 Reading Age 8+  From the best-selling author of Young Samurai, a new, action packed dystopian novel, with a striking lenticular jacket, sure to stand out on bookshelves!Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling or dyslexic readers.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2012
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Grownups Can't be Friends with Dragons
Antony Wootten
A fast-paced and ultimately heart-warming tale that will appeal to 8+ year olds, particularly boys and a lovely read for fathers and sons to share.  It's the extraordinary story of a boy growing up and coming to terms with the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2012
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The Monster Snowman
Gillian Cross
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 7+  Jack and his friends build the greatest, scariest snowman in the whole world - until it comes alive! An entertaining and clever story by an award- winning author and illustator, Ross Collins. Also suitable...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/11/2012
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The Hogwarts Library Boxed Set
J.K. Rowling
The Hogwarts Library is an essential collection for any wizard or Muggle home. Eager seekers of wizard learning will find within a treasure trove of magical facts, additional notes from the esteemed Professor Albus Dumbledore, and illustrations from J.K. Rowling....
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Format: Multiple copy pack - Released: 08/11/2012
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The Great Unexpected
Sharon Creech
November 2012 Book of the Month  Prize-winning Sharon Creech tells a heart warming and delicate story of unexpected connections that lead to great happiness when they are unravelled. Friends Lizzie and Naomi, both of whom are orphans, meet Finn, a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2012
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North Child
Edith Pattou
This is an epic that fans of Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy will thoroughly enjoy.  Full of magic, of high drama, of superstitions and of compelling characters, readers will be held spellbound by Edith Patou’s lyrical writing. The world of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2012
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Hero on a Bicycle
Shirley Hughes
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2013 - Best Story   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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2012
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The Dead are Rising
Jeff Norton
Combining the best of reading and video-gaming the awesome Metawars series is chock full of excitement and action.  This is the second in the series.  The first, Metawars: Fight for the Future has been a huge hit particularly with computer...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2012
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Weird Happenings
Kaye Umansky
Interest Age 9-12 Reading Age 8+ The Weirds are a most unusual family in every way; mum is a stunt woman, dad is a scientist with a habit of blowing big things up and gran is just a little bit magical....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Stat Man
Alan Durant
Interest Age 10-14 Reading Age 8+ A brilliant read for all football – and stats-mad - readers. Scorelines, substitutions, club records and more, Arnie is great at remembering everything about football. Sadly, he’s not so great at playing it…But that doesn’t...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Meet the Weirds
Kaye Umansky
Interest Age 9-12 Reading Age 8+ The Weirds are a most unusual family in every way; mum is a stunt woman, dad is a scientist with a habit of blowing big things up and gran is just a little bit magical....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Wildly Weird
Kaye Umansky
Interest Age 9-12 Reading Age 8+ The Weirds are a most unusual family in every way; mum is a stunt woman, dad is a scientist with a habit of blowing big things up and gran is just a little bit magical....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Itch
Simon Mayo
Shortlisted for the National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year 2012   A terrific action adventure packed-full of fascinating true science! Itch is making an unusual collection: when it is finished, it will include all the elements of the periodic...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2012
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The World of David Walliams
David Walliams
FOUR hilarious and moving novels from Sport Relief swim champion and bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2012
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Finale
Becca Fitzpatrick
November 2012 Book of the Month   The stunning final instalment in the bestselling Hush, Hush sequence that began with Hush, Hush, continued in Crescendo and then Silence. Finale is one of the most hotly anticipated novels of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 23/10/2012
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The Hobbit Companion
David Day
For Hobbit fans everywhere both young and old, The Hobbit Companion is an absolute treat that's not to be missed. Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J.R.R. Tolkien delightedly spun in The Hobbit and The Lord of the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 18/10/2012
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Eleven Eleven
Paul Dowswell
A powerful combination of historic detail, timeless narrative and action-packed plot.  The author places three teenagers, one American, one British and the other German at the centre of the story in the lead up to the 11th day of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 11/10/2012
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Liar and Spy
Rebecca Stead
One of Julia Eccleshare’s Stand-out Children’s Book of the Year 2012 Award-winning Rebecca Steed tells a wonderfully touching story with great sensitivity within an exciting and dramatic adventure. Georges (his unusual name is part of his problem) has just moved to...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Constable and Toop
Gareth P. Jones
Funny, gruesome and scary, with the great setting of a funeral parlour, this is an action packed adventure full of the darker and dirtier details of life in Victorian...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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The Wolf Princess
Cathryn Constable
Shortlisted for the National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year 2012 and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Exciting, atmospheric, romantic and stylish, The Wolf Princess marks a welcome return to the comfort of traditional storytelling.  Steeped in history and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Garth Nix
A sizzling collection of witch tales from some of the best writers from around the world, this anthology looks at all kinds of witches – cruel, kind, funny, dour – and the paraphernalia of their profession. What all trusting readers...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Oblivion
Anthony Horowitz
Best-selling Anthony Horowitz gives his eager fans a roller coaster ride in this thrilling addition to his supernatural Power of Five sequence of stories. Time has moved on, the Five have been separated and the world is now broken possibly...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Ghost Knight
Cornelia Funke
November 2012 Book of the Month  A thrilling ghost story set in a boarding school situated right in the heart of Salisbury Cathedral. Eleven year old Jon Whitcroft doesn’t want to be packed off to boarding school and is sure...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Cool Science Tricks 50 Fantastic Feats for Kids of All Ages
Daniel Tatarsky
Filled to the brim with fantastic science feats that are easy to learn and difficult to forget! It's a book for kids (and for those adults who have never grown up - yes dad that's you!).  Hours of entertainment too...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, God of the Sea, has woken from a very deep sleep and come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die. But they're the least of his problems. Because Percy finds himself...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
The three volumes of this award-winning trilogy are beautifully presented in this mighty single volume.   Set in two parallel universes, the story of Lyra, a young orphan and her demon Pantalaimon begins in Oxford. Swept up in a dangerous plot...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Seeking Crystal
Joss Stirling
February 2013 eBook of the Month   A captivating story from the much-admired pen of Joss Stirling, creator of Finding Sky and Stealing Phoenix.  Crystal Brook seems doomed to play second fiddle to her more successful, more popular sister Diamond.  However,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena
Rick Riordan
The phenomenally successful Rick Riordan is back with the next thrilling installment of the Heroes of Olympus series.  Can Percy Jackson and the Half-blood Heroes succeed on their quest to find The Doors of Death or will the Greek Gods...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2012
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Lance of Truth
Katherine Roberts
The quest for Camelot's survival continues in this page-turning and enchanting story of magic, dragons, knights, swords and horses. Lance of Truth is the second part in this four part Aruthian quest based adventure by Katherine Roberts. We meet Rhianna...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2012
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Sword of Light
Katherine Roberts
This cracking page-turning adventure is now available in paperback.  The future of Camelot is in the hands of Arthur's secret daughter, Rhianna.  Utterly gripping, this is the start of a series for 9+ year olds by an award winning author. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2012
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