Featured Books for 11+ readers

Stravaganza: City of Secrets
Mary Hoffman
A breathtaking and thrilling part contemporary, part historical novel set in England and in Italy that’s full of intrigue, adventure, magic and excitement. The plot is poignant and touching and the characters richly hewed and the vivid and suspenseful time...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Stravaganza: City of Ships
Mary Hoffman
This is a breathtaking time-travel story to a parallel world that’s packed with non-stop action, pirates and drama.  It’s the fifth in the Stravaganza sequence and it will electrify and delight. Intrigue, adventure, magic and excitement are the trademark ingredients...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Stravaganza: City Of Stars
Mary Hoffman
Beautifully written this is the second in the Stravaganza Sequence. In the dangerous world that the heroine of the story is transported to in the 16th century, her hand is forced and she’s given a terrifying role to play and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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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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Street Runners
Matthew Whyman
Thrilling action in an epic adventure set in underground London. Yoshi is in great danger. With nowhere to turn, he ducks himself out of sight into the subterranean network of tunnels lying below his feet. Here he fulfils his role...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2008
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Striker 1: Sudden Death
Nick Hale
Football and international espionage fuse brilliantly together in this tense and action packed story. When Jake’s father, England team coach Steve Bastin moves to Russia to train a top price, top quality team, he is suddenly at the centre of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Style Sisters
Liz Elwes
Shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex 'New Writers' Award. Please don’t read too much into the pink and glittery cover! This book is well written, sharply funny somewhere between Carrie Fisher and Sophie Kinsella. I really enjoyed it and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/03/2006
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Sugarcoated
Catherine Forde
A gripping read about the power and danger of a new relationship. This hard hitting teen novel charts the roller coaster ride of a new and powerful love affair. Claudia finds the boy of her dreams; she'll do anything for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2008
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Summer of Secrets
Rosie Rushton
This is a fabulous read and its inspiration is taken from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. The heroine has always craved excitement and now she has it having won an art scholarship where she can rub shoulders with a host of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2007
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Sundae Girl
Cathy Cassidy
All Jude wants is a simple, hassle-free life. But, with their endless broken promises, her family seem to create nothing but problems. Maybe the boy from school on his shiny new rollerblades will provide the answer…A thoughtful and tender story...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/04/2007
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Susanna Loves London
Mary Hogan
Susanna, New York reporter extraordinaire is given the opportunity of scoring an international scoop for the London edition of Teen Scene magazine.  Hilarious, heart-warming and utterly fabulous, no self-respecting teenager will be able to put this down and even more...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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Susanna Sees Stars
Mary Hogan
When Susanna lands herself a plum work experience placement in the world of journalism she’s thrilled but she then discovers that doing work experience is not all it’s cracked up until that is she gets the scoop of the summer.  ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2006
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Sweet Hearts Strictly Friends?
Jo Cotterill
The second title in this gorgeous new series for fans of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson is set in the glamourous world of ballroom dancing. Megan can't believe she's had to move 200 miles away from her home. What about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Swimming Against The Tide
Helen Bailey
In the authentic voice of a teenager, Electra charts the ups and all too often downs of her life. All her friends have hooked hunks who they love to discuss and show off. Why can’t she get one too? Electra’s...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Sylvie and the Songman
Tim Binding
By turns thrilling adventure and enchanting fantasy, this novel brims with music and magic as Sylvie tries to understand why her dog has lost its bark, the birds have stopped singing and her music-making father has disappeared.  As she sets...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Takedown
Graham Marks
One teenage boy, seven days to change the world.  A terrific story of intrigue and time travel written in short, sharp chapters each of which are roller-coaster rides of suspense and adrenalin pumping action.  Dachron Amok has had half his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2007
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2006
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Tales From Outer Suburbia
Shaun Tan
This beautifully illustrated book takes a quirky look at some of the mysteries of urban life. Once you start reading it's very hard to stop reading more of these short stories filled with darkness and delight.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Tales Of Beauty And Cruelty
Kate, Castle, Caroline Petty
There’s some chilling stuff in the ten pithy stories in this collection. Thoroughly modern in their telling, they take their themes from Hans Christian Andersen’s classic stories. Love, hate, pity, jealousy – emotions which underpin Andersen’s so-called nursery classics, figure...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2005
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Tales of Terror 3: from the Tunnel's Mouth
Chris Priestley
A spine chilling collection of short stories each of  which will horrify but also delight readers with its creepy characters and unexpected occurrences. Robert starts back to school on the train alone but, when the train stops right in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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Tales Of Terror From The Black Ship
Chris Priestley
This is seriously spine-tingling stuff and not for the faint-hearted - it’s a novel packed with chills, thrills, nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping revelations. Join Ethan and Cathy and steel yourself against the blood-curdling terror that lies ahead as you realise...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2008
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Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
Chris Priestley
This is seriously spine-tingling stuff and not for the faint-hearted - it’s a novel packed with chills, thrills, nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping revelations. Join Ethan and Cathy and steel yourself against the blood-curdling terror that lies ahead as you realise that whatever horrors the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
Chris Priestley
A spine chilling collection of short stories each of  which will horrify but also delight readers with its creepy characters and unexpected occurrences. Robert starts back to school on the train alone but, when the train stops right in the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and in tears the next as the author explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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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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Tamar
Mal Peet
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2006. What the judges said: This is an enthralling and multi-layered novel that traces the story of two men caught up in secret operations in World War Two. It looks at the negative...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Tamburlaine's Elephants
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is a genius in her ability to draw the reader in to a part of history that might not immediately spring to mind as being of interest and yet she makes you hungry for more.  Here she draws...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/09/2008
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Tapas and Tears
Chris Higgins
A must read for anyone thinking of going on a school exchange… Jamie is shy so, of course, she dreads going on the school’s exchange trip to Spain. Coerced into it, all the things she thinks will go wrong do...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Teenage Kicks: 101 things to do before you're 16
Clive Gifford
An absolute must for every early teenager.  Fun, interesting and useful the author has compiled a great list of things to be sure to do before those early care free days – the childish wonder of innocence – are over...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/03/2008
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Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan
August 2011 Guest Editor Julie Hearn: It is with a mixture of respect and delight that I greet any book capable of blasting an entire genre out of the water with its audacity and grace. Tender Morsels is such a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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