Featured Books for 11+ readers

Mortal Engines: Fever Crumb
Philip Reeve
This is one of the most eagerly anticipated novels of 2009 from the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling author of the Mortal Engines Quartet. Reeves' post-apocalyptic world where mobile cities fight for survival has brought many a child into the world of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve
New Edition. Winner of the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. Prize-winning author Philip Reeve gives a brilliant new take on the legend of King Arthur. Myrddin rides with Arthur spinning tales for and about him but what is the truth and can...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Resistance
Gemma Malley
This is a powerful, absolutely chilling sequel to Gemma Malley’s acclaimed debut, The Declaration. With a dark and sinister vision of the future, it is set in 2140, The Resistance is an incredibly thought-provoking read. We raved about her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Freefall: Tunnels book 3
Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
More spine-tingling and menacing adventure from the authors of Tunnels and Deeper will once again take you way beneath the earth, in a subterranean world that’s almost too frightening to imagine and yet it will pull you into the story...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Free? Stories Celebrating Human Rights
Amnesty International
Top children’s writers have each contributed a powerful story to this collection for Amnesty International.  In fourteen different ways Jamila Gavin, David Almond, Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman, Eoin Colfer and others have written about an aspect of freedom thereby drawing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Declaration (audio CD)
Gemma Malley
CD Audio.  A powerful, gripping and tense futuristic novel about a world which has gone mad, a world where life is forever except for the likes of Peter and Anna (who shouldn’t be there at all according to the declaration) who are struggling to...
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Format: Cd-audio - Released: 04/05/2009
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Skim
Mariko Tamaki
Stunningly drawn, this graphic novel brilliantly charts the deep and sometimes desperate conflicts and moods that prevail in teen years. Teenage witch Skim keeps a diary in which she records all her thoughts, hopes and fears. There’s the grief and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Pickle King
Rebecca Promitzer
A hugely entertaining adventure story tinged with enough horror to delight but not really to terrify. Bored during a wet holiday, Bea and her friend Sam go exploring and come across the body of a dead man. What’s the story? Bea...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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Power of Five: Necropolis
Anthony Horowitz
Yet again Anthony Horowitz has come up trumps with an edge-of-the-seat thriller with some brilliantly spun twists that will keep you guessing right up to the very end. The female protagonist is brilliantly portrayed - the first time, we think...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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The Witching Hour
Elizabeth Laird
Treachery and intrigue provide a sombre background for the story of spirited Maggie and her determination to survive the cruel persecution of the church. After her granny is falsely accused of being a witch, Maggie has to flee and to...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/05/2009
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Julius Caesar - retold by Michael Ford
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s gripping tragedy of Ancient Rome – the assassination and the turmoil that followed - is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format.  It is part of a series of illustrated literary classics retold for young readers, which is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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Lost Riders
Elizabeth Laird
A gripping and heart stopping story, Lost Riders uncovers the shocking story of child slavery today. Rashid is eight when his uncle sells him and his younger brother to a man who promises him a new life in Dubai. But the promises are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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The Silver Blade
Sally Gardner
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the French Revolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The Red Necklace are moved on a stage in this equally vivid and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 23/04/2009
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Go Wild! 101 Things to Do Outdoors Before You Grow Up
Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
Great title and this book does exactly what it says – Go Wild outdoors before you grow up!  There are so many activities within the pages to tempt young people outside and to undertake a range of outdoor adventures.  Whether...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/2009
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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....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Girl Meets Cake
Susie Day
A darkly comic romance about love, friendship, lies and gingerbread men! Heidi's mad online life collides hysterically with her real one in a laugh-out-loud, über-cool teen novel.  Georgia Nicolson fans will adore this hilarious headlong teen-blog.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Septimus Heap 4: Queste
Angie Sage
Utterly spellbinding, fast-paced and brilliantly plotted, this is the fourth in the Septimus Heap series, the fantastical adventure that is gripping the nation. Septimus faces yet another fantastical quest to rescue friends trapped back in time. We asked a number of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Crossing the Line
Gillian Philip
Shortlisted for the Scottish Book Award 2010. Incredibly readable, this is a sympathetic and hard-hitting novel that looks squarely at how teenager Nick Geddes copes with the various complications of his life. To say things are not going well for Nick...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Dragonfly Pool
Eva Ibbotson
A wonderful, magical adventure spins out of a school story with a difference. Tally doesn’t want to leave her father and her aunts and go away to boarding school. But Delderton Hall is a very special school with interesting staff and pupils and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2009
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Beyond The Barricade
Deborah Ellis
Fact written as fiction this is a fast moving, gripping and thought-provoking story of the dilemmas faced by Diego, a young boy in Bolivia who having escaped the ruthless drug thugs in the jungle is taken in by a family,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Creature of the Night
Kate Thompson
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009 and shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award.   From multi-award winning author Kate Thompson comes another absorbing read, blazing an enthralling path between the stark realities of modern-day society and the fantasy for which...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Skulduggery Pleasant 3: The Faceless Ones
Derek Landy
Prize winning Skulduggery Pleasant is back for a third thrilling adventure. Along with his side-kick Stephanie, Skulduggery, the skeleton detective, must stand up to the Faceless Ones in a typically dramatic, dangerous and funny new adventure. The world of Skulduggery...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Follow Me Down
Julie Hearn
This is a new edition of Julie Hearn's stunning debut novel that takes the reader on a dramatic trip into a strange and original world, republished to coincide with the publication of her brand new novel in hardback Rowan...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Beautiful Dead: Jonas
Eden Maguire
This is the first of a proposed 4 book series in the increasingly popular area of paranormal romance.  Fans of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series will love the intrigue, the excellent writing style, compelling characters coupled with a powerful...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Flightsend
Linda Newbery
Thoughtful and touching, Flightsend delicately traces the complex emotions that surround 16 year old Charlie. Linda Newbery is especially good at capturing the heightened intensity of teenager’s feelings as Charlie sifts through what she feels about her mother’s former boyfriend,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Blade: Running Scared
Tim Bowler
From the prize-winning author of the prestigious Carnegie Medal comes the fourth title to feature the enormously engaging central character, Blade.  Pacy, gripping and very cool and contemporary this series will engage even the most reluctant reader.  A roller-coaster ride...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Rowan The Strange
Julie Hearn
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 A powerful and compelling story of life in a mental asylum at the start of the Second World War.  Rowan may be strange but he's not dangerous so when he is sent behind...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Kiss of Death
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick returns with a heart-stopping, beautifully crafted novel featuring Peter from My Swordhand is Singing, set many years later but still on the trail of the Shadow Queen. Venice, the fabled city with its lapping waterways, crumbling magnificence, and dark twisting alleyways...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox: Book 6
Eoin Colfer
This is the jaw-dropping, eagerly anticipated sixth book in multi-award-winning blockbuster Artemis Fowl series. Artemis finds himself travelling back in time to fight his younger self and save his mother from a dangerous illness. Fast, funny and as usual completely...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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White Heat - Book 2 in the Perfect Fire Trilogy
Katie Grant
Love, divided loyalty and the struggles of France's proud South intensifies in this the second book of a thrilling trilogy.  More twists and turns in this adventure set in 13th century France that involves bandits, renegade knights, broken promises but also fierce love and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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