Featured Books for 11+ readers

Ask Me Anything

Fascinating, funny and frighteningly addictive trivia, this is a book that will provide every fact you ever wanted to know.  Organised into key sections covering such things as Space, the Human Body, Culture, the book presents a huge array of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Undead
Kirsty McKay
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 11+. 'A kick-ass teen-action zombie-fest. Fast, furious, freaky, funny and seriously sick. Oh, and did I mention it kicks ass ?' Charlie Higson, bestselling...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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A Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH. Best-selling Roddy Doyle has written a wonderful, funny and warm-hearted family story about the dying of a granny which weaves together the lives of four generations and a little bit of ghostly mystery too. Mary’s relationship...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Spook's: I am Grimalkin
Joseph Delaney
This latest chilling instalment in the Wardstone Chronicles follows Grimalkin, the terrifying witch assassin, feared wherever she is known.  Click here to visit the Spooks books website featuring videos and the author's Spook's series blog.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Words in the Dust
Trent Reedy
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 11+. A touching and thought-provoking story set in contemporary Afghanistan, Words in the Dust uncovers how the lives of women and girls are changing. Zulaikha, a younger sister born with a disfiguring cleft...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Mist
Kathryn James
"Listen, my children. Have you heard of the Lost Girls? They go into the woods and never come back ..." Mist is Kathryn James' first novel. She currently works as a filmmaker documenting the lives of gypsies living in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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My Name is Mina
David Almond
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal. The Judges said: A wonderful celebration of words, language and creativity which completely nails the voice of Mina, its central character, and demonstrates a true stream of consciousness. Mina has much to teach us all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The Search for WondLa
Tony Diterlizzi
Creator of the best-selling Spiderwick series, Tony Diterlizzi has created a hugely imaginative world in which twelve year old Eva Nine sets out on a seemingly impossible quest with just a small picture with the word ‘WONDLA’ on it to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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History Keepers: The Storm Begins
Damian Dibben
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 9+. It's time for a new hero . . . Think Harry Potter meets Doctor Who in this explosive new series for 9+.  The past is in danger and only Jake Djones...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Sticky Ends
Jeanne Willis
Age 7+. Twenty six fabulously funny modern cautionary tales are wittily illustrated by Tony Ross in this vivid and entertaining collection. The sticky ends of the title bring delightful surprises to verses about the truly disgusting nature of school dinners,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The Adventures of the New Cut Gang
Philip Pullman
Award-winning storyteller Philip Pullman’s gripping historical adventure stories for younger readers about the New Cut Gang are attractively published in this handsome hardback. Set in the streets of London in 1894 the two stories, 'Thunderbolt’s Waxwork' and 'The Glass-Fitter’s Ball',...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Witchfinder 3: The Last Nightfall
William Hussey
This finale in the Witchfinder series is eagerly awaited and the series itself has been universally acknowledged by both authors and reviewers as something special.  The fear unleashed by the author throughout the trilogy is breathtaking but not to be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The World of Norm : May Contain Nuts
Jonathan Meres
The everyday becomes ridiculous in this hilarious story of Norm’s life – as seen through his own unusual and somewhat biased eyes! Norm’s life seems to have gone badly wrong and it is all his parents’ fault. Why did they...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Day of Vengeance (A Jack Christie Adventure)
Johnny O'Brien
This is action and adventure time travel at its best and great for boys too.  Schoolboy time-traveller Jack Christie is thrown back to 1940s Nazi-occupied France. With spitfire dogfights, jeep races and thrilling chases Jack and his best friend Angus...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Justin Thyme
Panama Oxridge
This debut novel is a terrific blend of action, adventure, espionage and time travel set in the wilds of Scotland and featuring a 13 year old boy who believes that an anonymous gift he's been given will enable him to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer
Derek Landy
The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a Good Thing. There's just one catch. There's a reason the Necromancers don't need her any more. And that's because they've found their Death Bringer already, the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 16/04/2011
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Wickedness
Deborah White
This is a stunning debut from an exciting new voice in teenage fiction, author Deborah White. It is a thrilling adventure that combines history, fantasy and romance and is refreshingly original.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Poison Diaries 2 : Nightshade
Maryrose Wood
Our heroine, Jessamine, has lost her faith in the men she loved, and her innocence as well. She turns to the dark side and plots to kill her father, using his own poisons, before becoming an assassin, a poisoner for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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A Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH. Best-selling Roddy Doyle has written a wonderful, funny and warm-hearted family story about the dying of a granny which weaves together the lives of four generations and a little bit of ghostly mystery too. Mary’s relationship...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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A Tiger Too Many
Antony Wootten
April 2012 Debut of the Month. A Tiger Too Many is enchanting from the word go and very readable.  The sentences are short and concise with no waffle and therefore the story goes forward quite briskly and the reader’s attention...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/08/2011
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Bad Day
Graham Marks
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. This exciting adventure captures the intensity of a first meeting – with a difference. Tessa is Rob’s online friend but now, they have made a plan to meet. Anxiously, Rob prepares himself for everything...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/08/2011
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The Cardturner
Louis Sachar
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. The worldwide best-selling author of Holes takes readers on a journey right into the extraordinary and obsessive world of bridge. Don’t be put off by this central theme before having a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/08/2011
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Girl, Missing
Sophie Mckenzie
This is a gripping thriller, inspired by the real-life case of a toddler who went missing in the early ‘90s.  Touching on areas such as difficult relationships with parents, kidnapping and adoption, along with a compelling and high-speed plot, romance,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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There is No Dog
Meg Rosoff
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Carnegie Medal winner Meg Rosoff gives a whole new look to life in this brilliantly entertaining novel about what if the job of being god was in the hands of a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Unleashed 1: A Life and Death Job
Ali Sparkes
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Prize winning Ali Sparkes has created a fresh new series about a group of children with special powers. In stories brimming with adventure and danger, the kids live together using all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
Jonathan Stroud
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Magic and wit make perfect partners in this highly entertaining new story - a prequel to the author's Bartimaeus trilogy - about an unusually quick-witted djinni who has an uncanny...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Merrybegot
Julie Hearn
Gripping and lyrical, this is a multi-layered novel with a strong historical background of the witch hunting that took place during the English Civil War crossed with a story of the fairy world and the different kind of magic that...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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George and the Big Bang
Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking
World famous scientist Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy have created a third amazing adventure cleverly blended with real science. A trip to the world famous Large Hadron Collider gives George and his friend Annie the chance to find out...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Inheritors
William Golding
This was Golding’s second published novel and hailed by critics as his best, so startling was it that one, Arthur Koestler, described it as ‘an earthquake in the petrified forests of the English Novel’. 55 years on the novel...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Truth About Celia Frost
Paula Rawsthorne
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 11+. This gripping debut novel unravels a hidden secret in a story about a girl who urgently needs to find out why she has always led such a very unusual life. Celia Frost...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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