Featured Books for 11+ readers

The Chimera's Curse
Julia Golding
This is the dramatic conclusion to the incredible Companions Quartet that began with Secret of the Sirens, continued in The Gorgon’s Gaze and Mines of the Minotaur. The final showdown has begun between brave Connie, the world’s only...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Gatty's Tale
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. A gripping historical adventure that is dramatic, touching and compelling. Servant girl Gatty has an unusually beautiful voice which leads her to being swept up in a Crusade to the Holy Land. Her courage...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy
Joint winner of the Richard and Judy 9+ "Confident" category. A hugely original and funny fantasy, this tells of the magician Skulduggery who is urbane, sophisticated, well dressed and, as you might guess from his name, dead. Skulduggery has a youthful helper,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Finding Violet Park
Jenny Valentine
Highly commended in Branford Boase 2008 Award. Told with a delightfully light touch, this thoughtful and introspective novel for teens tells how hearing the story of Violet Park, leads Lucas on a moving and thought provoking mission that helps him...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Wilderness
Roddy Doyle
This is a stunning piece of writing for young teenagers. Part-action, part family drama the plot cleverly interweaves two stories. The first is of two brothers who with their mother are on a trip of a lifetime in the frozen...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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The Declaration
Gemma Malley
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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Seeker
William Nicholson
The first book of the Noble Warriors Trilogy. A specatular adventure fantasy in which individuals must prove their courage if they are to save their people. The Noble Warriors have mysterious powers that enable them to remain undefeated in combat....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Noman
William Nicholson
The third book of The Noble Warriors Trilogy. A specatular epic adventure fantasy of far-reaching significance in which individuals must prove their courage if they are to save their people. The Noble Warriors have mysterious powers that enable them to...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2007
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The Looking Glass Wars 2: Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
Return to the dazzling world of The Looking Glass Wars as Wonderland is fantastically brought to life again by acclaimed Hollywood producer, Frank Beddor. Alyss of Wonderland's rule has only just begun, but the Queendom and her White Imagination are already under threat. Someone...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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The Tar Man
Linda Buckley-Archer
At Lovereading we were incredibly impressed with Buckley-Archer’s enormously well written debut Gideon the Cutpurse, a time slip novel with parallel storylines, which was 'highly commneded, in the prestigious debut novel award, the Branford Boase. So, when The Tar...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2007
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A Traveller in Time
Alison Uttley
One of the first, and finest, of all time-slip stories that travels between the 16th century and pre-war 20th century Britain.  It is alive with the sounds and the smells of both centuries making it an incredibly mysterious yet compelling...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2007
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Jango
William Nicholson
The second instalment to the The Noble Warriors Trilogy. A specatular adventure fantasy in which individuals must prove their courage if they are to save their people. The Noble Warriors have mysterious powers that enable them to remain undefeated in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/08/2007
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Time Runners : Rewind Assassin
Justin Richards
Justin Richards’ Freeze Framed, the first in the Time Runners series was a big hit with many Lovereading members and Rewind Assassin is just as gripping.  Hardly a surprise that this time-travel adventure is as good as it is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Zoo
Graham Marks
Graham Marks’ novels are a terrific blend of contemporary life and magical realism.  Heaven knows where he gets his ideas from but the important thing is that all his novels are fantastic adventures that hold the reader on the edge...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Omega Place
Graham Marks
Omega Place if full of intrigue and adventure and set against a gritty urban landscape.  It’s an action-packed teen drama that’s full of clues right down to the final, gripping denouement.Graham Marks’ novels are a terrific blend of contemporary life...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Radio Radio
Graham Marks
Written as a screen play, this is a vivid picture of a group of teenagers who are determined to keep their pirate radio station up and running. It’s all about being heard. But being heard also gets you noticed –...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Friend or Foe
Michael Morpurgo
March 2010 Guest Editor Michael Foreman: "Towards the end of WWII enemy prisoners of War were brought to our village to help bring in the harvest.  We boys played football with them, the enemy, during their break times.  Children face-to-face with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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War Horse
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: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Northern Lights - Filmed As The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
The film tie-in version. Part one of Philip Pullman’s magnificent trilogy. His ‘Dark Materials’, is the story of Lyra, a young girl with an exceptional destiny. Brought up in Jordan College, Oxford Lyra uncovers a secret about her mysterious guardian...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
Film tie-in version. The third in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. His ‘Dark Materials’, is the story of Lyra, a young girl with an exceptional destiny. Brought up in Jordan College, Oxford Lyra uncovers a secret about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
Film tie-in version. The second in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. His ‘Dark Materials’, is the story of Lyra, a young girl with an exceptional destiny. Brought up in Jordan College, Oxford Lyra uncovers a secret about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Flambards
K M Peyton
Christina is sent to stay with her terrifying uncle and her cousins at Flambards, a rambling house in the country where riding and hunting are the most prized activities. Everything about the countryside - and her relatives -...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Runemarks
Joanne Harris
A huge and dramatic, soap opera of a novel full of old world magic and larger than life characters. Maddy knows that she is different from everyone else in her village: she was born with a ‘rune’ – a special...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
February 2010 Guest Editor Tim Bowler: "Another stunning thriller. I read this when I was twelve and it was my first Sherlock Holmes story. I've been a massive fan ever since. It's not just the double act of Holmes and Watson...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Flambards
K M Peyton
Christina is sent to stay with her terrifying uncle and her cousins at Flambards, a rambling house in the country where riding and hunting are the most prized activities. Everything about the countryside - and her relatives - is new...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is a much-loved favourite classic. Here are the thoughts of three favourite authors:  Michael Morpurgo: 'A terrifically exciting tale of a dead man’s map, mutinous pirates, skulduggery and buried treasure that will be thoroughly enjoyed by a child...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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The Talent Thief
Alex Williams
A fast-paced, thrilling first novel by BAFTA award winner Alex Williams. Packed with thrills, spills, daring high-speed chases and compelling characters, The Talent Thief is an extraordinary tale of peril and adventure from a far-from-ordinary new talent in children's books. Why...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2007
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The Nightmare Game -The Lost Trilogy book 3
Gillian Cross
The Lost trilogy concludes with a powerful drama in the real world that has serious repercussions in the miniature world which Rob also inhabits. Rob has to work hard to keep everyone while also trying to work out why the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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The Black Room - The Lost Trilogy book 2
Gillian Cross
This, the second part of the Lost trilogy tells how Rob moves between his old, full-size life and his new tiny one. Both are full of dangers and Rob has to show great courage in both in two stories with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Burn My Heart
Beverley Naidoo
Internationally acclaimed and award-winning author Beverley Naidoo explores new territory in this beautifully realized and moving story set in Britain's colonial past. It's Kenya in the 1950s - a time when colonial rule vies for supremacy over the Mau Mau....
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/07/2007
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