Featured Books for 11+ readers

The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
This is a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller that we’ve been raving about since it went stratospheric across the water earlier this year. Here you will meet four very unusual children each with three things in common – all...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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The Sleepwalker. Part of the Cherub Series
Robert Muchamore
Cherub No.9: An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345 people dead. Crash investigators suspect terrorism, but they’re getting nowhere. Time for the Cherub agents to get under the skin of the perpetrators. It’s not essential to read these thrillers...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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'...then he ate my boy entrancers'
Louise Rennison
It is impossible not to be entertained by the diaries of the teenage Georgia Nicolson. Since she started to reveal the secrets of her life in Angus, thongs and full frontal Snogging (a title more shocking than it’s content) she...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/04/2005
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Julia Eccleshare & Quentin Blake
Fall down the rabbit hole, take flight into Neverland, or follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City; we all remember what it was like to disappear into the imaginary worlds of the most magical and fantastic type of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2009
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32c, That's Me
Chris Higgins
A terrific story by a hugely talented debut author who is spot on with the teenage psyche. 32c that’s me portrays a girl that appears to have it all and her life is going just where she wants it, until...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006
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A Brush with the Past 1900-1950
Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes’s beautiful illustrations full of carefully researched period detail, go right to the heart of the social changes that took place in the first half of the century. Different fashions, different foods, different working practices, different dances – all...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2005
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A Child's History Of England
Charles Dickens
History is boring?  Well think again.  This piece of history and literature by Charles Dickens provides a fast-paced, relevant, exciting history with witty observations and compelling narrative, which will capture a child’s (and parents) imagination.  It’s an absolutely fascinating treasure...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens - retold by Gill Tavner
Can somebody so selfish, so harsh and so horribly lonely ever change his ways? In one terrifying night, poor Scrooge is haunted by four ghosts. Will he change his ways? Weep and laugh as you read this much-loved Christmas story....
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/11/2007
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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A Christmas Carol with A Christmas Tree (illustrated by Robert Ingpen)
Charles Dickens
A favourite of Michael Morpurgo: "The first few pages were so engaging, Marley's ghostly face on the knocker of Scrooge's door still gives me the shivers." This gorgeous and sumptuously illustrated new edition of the completely unabridged A Christmas Carol is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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A Darkling Plain
Philip Reeve
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2006. By Hugh (10) - It is a brilliant mix of action, suspense and emotion.  I love how you can really understand the character's feelings. Hester isn't just Hester, but a sad...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/03/2006
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A Darkling Plain: Mortal Engines Quartet, book 4
Philip Reeve
New Edition. All the stories are brought together in a breathtaking climax. Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2006. By Hugh - It is a brilliant mix of action, suspense and emotion.  I love how you can really understand the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2009
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A Girl Called Dog
Nicola Davies
Dog wasn't really a dog, she was a human girl. But she was called Dog because that is what Uncle had always called her. Dog has never been outside of nasty Uncle's pet shop. She sleeps in a box on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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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...
Format: Hardback - 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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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A Little Love Song
Michelle Magorian
A tender love story and coming of age novel set against a backdrop of wartime uncertainty and it tells how the war effects the sleepy town that Rosie lives in and especially how it effect her and her search for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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A Million Angels
Kate Maryon
This is the third novel from Kate Maryon - a sparkling new voice for tween girls.  Jemima has a wonderfully close relationship with her dad so when he's posted off to Afghanistan how will she cope and who will look...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2011
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A Most Improper Magick
Stephanie Burgis
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. The first of the ‘Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson’, a funny, feisty 12 year old heroine that readers will really identify with. A Most Improper Magick mixes Regency England (a la...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2010
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A Perfect Ten
Chris Higgins
Winner of the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.  Chris Higgins’ writing rivals the likes of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson.  She’s an author truly in tune with the teen psyche.  This is her fourth novel and she gets better and better with each...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/10/2008
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A Ravelled Flag
Julia Jones
The story of 14 year old Donny and his new found friends that began in The Salt-Stained Book continues in this gripping sequel.  Donny's long lost great Aunt has arrived from China on a boat and rescued him and his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/11/2011
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A Really Short History Of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Full of extraordinary discoveries and wonder at the world we live in, this is a thrilling scientific journey through history. It raises and answers many of the questions young readers ask about how the greatest scientific discoveries were made and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008
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A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard, OUPOrphan Tree-ear lives under a bridge with Crane-man who has looked after him ever since he was a baby. Tree-ear has nothing; but he has a dream. His dream is to be like the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2006
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A Spoonful Of Jam
Michelle Magorian
A scholarship girl at the grammar school, Elsie has a lot of prove as she stands up for herself against school bullies and her father. Be sure to check out Just Henry, A Spoonful of Jam, A...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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A Swift Pure Cry
Siobhan Dowd
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2007. A superb first novel, beautifully written, deeply moving and full of heartbreak. When Shell Talent’s mother dies everything around her begins to fall to pieces. Tired of looking after her younger brother and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2007
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A Tangle of Magicks
Stephanie Burgis
Unruly Kat Stephenson, the delightful heroine of A Most Improper Magick is back for a second feisty adventure. The family are now in Bath where Elissa, Kat’s far more proper sister, is all set to be married. But Kat has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2007
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A Trick of the Dark
B R Collins
Prize winning B.R Collins' A Trick of the Dark is a gripping supernatural thriller which explores the darker sides of adolescence. Annis sees her older brother Zach crushed and broken when the walls of a ruined house fall on to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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A Trick of the Dark
B R Collins
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Prize winning B.R Collins' A Trick of the Dark is a gripping supernatural thriller which explores the darker sides of adolescence. Annis sees her older brother Zach crushed and broken when the walls...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2010
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A World Away
Pauline Francis
A bold and beguiling tale of love and separation, set against the tragedy of the first settlers in the New World. It tells the story of both Tom, a young blacksmith in Plymouth and of Nadie, a child slave brought...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/08/2008
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