Featured Books for 11+ readers

Sigrun's Secret
Marie-Louise Jensen
A richly evoked Viking world sets the scene for this powerful and romantic coming of age story. Snatched from her happy life with her parents on the farm where she tames horses and helps her mother who is a healer,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2011. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Favourite Story. This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Pain Merchants (The Healing Wars)
Janice Hardy
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 Part one of a powerful historical fantasy full of politics, magic and enchantment. The Healing Wars tells of the unusual powers of fifteen year old orphan, Naya. In a world where many have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Street Heroes: Runaways
Joe Layburn
Street Heroes: Runaways is a fast-paced thriller that deals with important issues while keeping readers gripped from start to finish. By the aclaimed author of Ghostscape and Street Heroes it is in a nutshell ‘Heroes’ for children.  The Street Heroes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Dreamer Ballerina
Sarah Rubin
A warm-hearted story full of hopes and dreams told by Casey who loves to dance. Casey’s passion leaps off the page as with a combination of hard work and talent she pursues her dream to dance in New York. Casey’s...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2011
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If I Could Fly
Jill Hucklesby
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. A haunting and magical story about the living and the dead and those who seem able to live somewhere in between. Calypso Summer is on the run. She can’t remember why...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2011
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Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me
Joanna Nadin
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Lovereading4kids comment: Billy Grimshaw thinks the world of his dad. He hasn’t seen him for ages, but Billy knows he’ll be home as soon as he can get away from his important...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/12/2010
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Conspiracy 365: December
Gabrielle Lord
This is the culmination of a terrific series of 12 books, published one a month during 2010 - the final title in what is without doubt a page turning adventure which began when 15 year old Callum was hunted down...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/12/2010
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Alien Storm
A.G. Taylor
A gripping science-fiction adventure pits a group of kids with super powers against a mysterious Russian billionaire. Infected by an extraordinary virus from a meteor storm, Sarah, Robert and the younger children in their charge are now at risk from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2010
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Candy Girl
Karen Mccombie
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. Hilarious comedy by a top author. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.  To view other titles we think are suitable for reluctant readers please click here. A Dyslexia Friendly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/11/2010
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Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Complete Boxed Set
Michelle Paver
Dazzling entertainment and seamless storytelling from the winner of the Guardian Book of the Year Award 2010 with Ghost Hunter, the final title in the quite superb Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series.  To celebrate the culmination of the series the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 11/11/2010
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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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The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
The Bravo Two Zero mission is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival. Of the eight members involved in an SAS patrol during the Gulf War in 1991, only one escaped capture - Chris Ryan. This is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/11/2010
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Conspiracy 365: November
Gabrielle Lord
A terrific series of 12 books, published one a month during 2010, this is the eleventh title in a page turning adventure which began when 15 year old Callum was hunted down by a crazed man carrying a deadly warning....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/11/2010
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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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War Horse Special Colour Edition
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo’s tender story of Joey, a brave hearted farm horse who finds himself caught up in the horrors of war, cleverly conveys both the violence and the occasional compassion, which occurs during conflict. A classic story of animal courage...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2010
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The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love
Dyan Sheldon
Girls in love will do some very crazy things! This book offers a fantastically funny environmental take on high school comedy. High school is pretty predictable - there are the geeks, the hipsters, the princesses, the jocks... But when Cody...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
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The Rupert Companion

Terry Jones, March 2011 Guest Editor: " The book that made the biggest impression on me as a child was the 1945 Rupert The Bear Annual. It’s the one in which Rupert wishes for a fairy cycle and then wishes he...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2010
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Bartimaeus 3: Ptolemy's Gate
Jonathan Stroud
Three years on from the events in The Golem's Eye, the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is largely controlled by two advisers, one of whom is 17-year-old...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Bartimaeus 2: The Golem's Eye
Jonathan Stroud
Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. But his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises. A dangerous golem makes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Billionaire Boy
David Walliams
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011 Hugely entertaining, this captivating story is also thought provoking about the perils of having way too much money. Joe Spud is the richest twelve-year-old in the world; he has everything his heart...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Fox Friend
Michael Morpurgo
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. This is a wonderfully touching and beautifully crafted story about growing up and learning about real life from an author who is widely considered to be the best teller of stories for children.  He's...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/10/2010
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Green Men of Gressingham
Philip Ardagh
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 7+. The Green Men of Gressingham are medieval outlaws. When a new tax is introduced, they turn to kidnapping! A hilarious play on Robin Hood. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/10/2010
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2010
Robert Le Roy Ripley
Following hot on the heels of last year's best-selling edition, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2010 offers a whole new feast of bizarre facts, fiends and freaks - all guaranteed to fascinate, surprise and amaze. Marvel at the ice man, who survived Everest's 'Death...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
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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: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
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Twilight Limited Edition
Stephenie Meyer
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer - Have a White Christmas with The Twilight Saga: ____________________________ Fangtastic makeover for Twilight lovers Any Edward fan can now 'vamp themselves' with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/10/2010
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New Moon Limited Edition
Stephenie Meyer
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer - Have a White Christmas with The Twilight Saga: This Christmas, fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga are in for a festive treat with the release of mouth-watering new editions of the four books in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/10/2010
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Breaking Dawn Limited Edition
Stephenie Meyer
First published in August 2008, Breaking Dawn is only the eighth book to have sold one million copies in hardback in the UK since TCM began in 2001. Winner of the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year 2009.   The Twilight Saga by...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/10/2010
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