Featured Books for 11+ readers

Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking to an orphanage in Warsaw. But...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Girl Nearly 16: Absolute Torture
Sue Limb
Sue Limb’s writing is firmly on the pulse of teens today with the agony and ecstasy of being a teenager brought vividly to life. Every manner of emotion is revealed as both Jess and Fred get to know each other but also how...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Hunger
Michael Grant
Hunger, like it’s prequel Gone was unputdownable. It's an excellent follow-up to an original idea. More children are developing powers and the world inside the FAYZ is spinning out of control. New leaders emerge and the tensions rise. As...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Shortlisted for the CLIP Carnegie Medal 2010. With a rare and compelling voice, this haunting novel tells not only the story of a remarkable girl and her incredible strength, but also of a time and place in which slavery was the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Flyaway
Lucy Christopher
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010 and Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010. Tender and touching, this is a delicate story about facing up to difficulties...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Quicksilver
Samira Osman
Told at a cracking pace this modern fantasy tells how three children from different countries are brought together by the force of the mysterious Ley lines to fulfil an ancient prophecy. Working together, they must unlock a treasure with unimagined...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Auslander
Paul Dowswell
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 By turns exhilarating and terrifying this is an unforgettable story of defiance and courage starring an irrepressible heroine who can fly. Piper McCloud can fly but that makes friends and family afraid of her. She...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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FLIPS: Artemis Fowl (Nintendo DS)
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer’s terrific series featuring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has been acclaimed as ‘Die Hard with fairies’!  Now that his father has disappeared Artemis must take charge and rebuild his family fortune. Full of lots of interactivity this...
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Format: - Released: 04/12/2009
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FLIPS: Cathy Cassidy (Nintendo DS)
Cathy Cassidy
Friends and relationships are the hallmarks of Cathy’s stories as she portrays her characters and their friendships particularly well.  The plot lines are easy to get into and there’s often a subliminal message too within the story. They’re cracking, fast-paced...
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Format: - Released: 04/12/2009
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A Christmas Carol (Classics Illustrated)
Charles Dickens
The Lovereading comment: This edition of The Christmas Carol is one of a range of marvellous comic books created in the '50s and '60s now with artwork re-coloured and covers digitally enhanced for a new generation. Perfect bound at a terrifically...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Yummy Stuff: Ros Asquith's Teen Cookbook
Ros Asquith
This no-worries guide to cooking is both chatty and informative in style and will be loved by teens.  There are helpful survival recipes alongside recipes that are just plain fun interspersed by some great cartoon-style imagery.  With over 120 recipes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/2009
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Alex Rider : Crocodile Tears (8)
Anthony Horowitz
As exciting as ever with even more action and suspense, boy hero Alex Rider is back for his eighth spectacular adventure.  When Alex finds himself in great danger he turns to MI6 for protection. They are willing to help –...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 12/11/2009
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Jane Airhead
Kay Woodward
This entertaining story tells how copying fiction may not always work well in life…After Charlotte has read Jane Eyre she falls in love with Mr Rochester and is determined to find a modern day Mr Rochester as a new partner...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2009
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Under the Weather: Stories About Climate Change
Tony Bradman
Perfectly pitched for younger readers, this is a timely collection of stories about an urgent matter that will affect everyone’s future. The stories have a global perspective with different authors tackling the different consequences of the world warming up. Crucially,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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The Unfinished Angel
Sharon Creech
Prize-winning author Sharon Creech tells a magical story that's truly original, touching and funny of an unusual friendship between an unusual angel and Zola who find themselves sharing a tower high in the Swiss Alps. The story is told by Angel...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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The Dragon Book: Magical Tales
Jack Dann
In this unmissable collection, the biggest names in children's literature reignite the fire of these legendary beasts with stories that will consume your imagination. Magical! The Dragon Book has stories from Garth Nix, Tad Williams, Jonathan Stroud, Tamora Pierce, Diana Wynne Jones,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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The Dragon Book: Magical Tales
Jack Dann
In this unmissable collection, the biggest names in children's literature reignite the fire of these legendary beasts with stories that will consume your imagination. Magical! The Dragon Book has stories from Garth Nix, Tad Williams, Jonathan Stroud, Tamora Pierce, Diana Wynne Jones,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2009
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Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore
Al Gore’s powerful contribution to the climate change debate is presented here in an accessible format for younger readers. His proposals are both simple and radical. He believes that climate change affects every part of our lives and that everyone...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2009
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Gaia Warriors
Nicola Davies
This is a book about climate change like no other - a collaboration between the inventor of Gaia Theory and an award-winning non-fiction writer for children - that explains the science and answers the commonly-asked questions about global warming. The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/11/2009
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The Battle of the Sun
Jeanette Winterson
A rollercoaster of a seventeenth century adventure begins with Jack’s dramatic kidnapping on his twelfth birthday. Jack’s been selected as the Radiant Boy and the evil Magus needs to get his hands on him so that he can turn London...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/11/2009
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Desperate Measures
Laura Summers
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 A compelling and heart-warming adventure featuring teenage twins Vicky and Rhianna. These twins couldn't be more different, but their foster parents can’t cope and it looks as if they and their younger brother will...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/11/2009
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The Time Machine (Classics Illustrated)
H.G. Wells
The Lovereading comment: A retelling of a classic story featuring the heroic deeds of King Arthur and the knights of the round table. This edition of The Time Machine is one of a range of marvellous comic books created in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2009
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Brisingr (Deluxe Edition)
Christopher Paolini
Oaths are sworn, loyalties tested and forces collide in this unmissable fantasy epic.   Brisingr means fire and was the first word that came out of the mouth of the dragon. Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 22/10/2009
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And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Audio CD)
Eoin Colfer
An Audio version of this long awaited sequel. And Another Thing, the 6th book in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy, or rather ‘double trilogy’ as it has now become, has been written by the brilliantly funny Eoin Colfer, international number-one bestselling author of the Artemis...
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 11/10/2009
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Nation
Terry Pratchett
Hugely entertaining, this is a fully envisaged fantasy adventure, which makes serious points about the importance of the past from the master storyteller and author of the hugely popular Discworld series.  Survival! Mau’s world is bowled over and swept away...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2009
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The Great Death
John E. Smelcer
Two sisters bravery in the face of extreme physical adversity is lyrically and touchingly told in this story of survival in the Alaskan wilderness long, long ago.  When a stranger comes to Millie and Maura’s small community he warns of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2009
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Chris Riddell)
Neil Gaiman
11+. Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 2010, shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2010, winner of Best Novel at the Hugo Awards 2009 and of the prestigious Newbery Medal. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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The Graveyard Book (illustrated by Dave McKean)
Neil Gaiman
Winner of the CLIP Carnegie Medal 2010. Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life in the graveyard. When Baby Bod escapes a murderer intent on killing his whole family, he is taken in by the graveyard ghosts....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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