Featured Books for 11+ readers

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony: Book 5
Eoin Colfer
Best-selling Artemis Fowl is back with a new adventure. This time the teenage criminal mastermind must save the fairies from being discovered by the human world. As ever, he fights a fast and furious campaign with all the power –...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 03/05/2007
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Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony: Book 5
Eoin Colfer
Best-selling Artemis Fowl is back with a new adventure. This time the teenage criminal mastermind must save the fairies from being discovered by the human world. As ever, he fights a fast and furious campaign with all the power –...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception: Book 4
Eoin Colfer
The fourth rip roaring story about Artemis Fowl and the unique fairy world in which he operates. Here, the evil pixie Opal Koboi is back. Now she wants power over humans as well as fairies and she’ll stop at nothing...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/04/2006
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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: Hardback - Released: 07/08/2008
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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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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: 07/04/2011
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Artemis Fowl: Book 1
Eoin Colfer
Best-selling Artemis Fowl has enchanted and delighted readers for a decade. Half hero, half villain and wholly brainy, although still only a boy, Artemis is a criminal mastermind who has a very daring scheme in mind. Can he steal what...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Artemis Fowl: Book 1 (Puffin Modern Classics)
Eoin Colfer
Winner of the Puffin of Puffins. Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 2000 - 2009. Although only twelve years old, Artemis Fowl is already famous as a criminal master-mind. But, when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechaun unit in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Artichoke Hearts
Sita Brahmachari
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 A welter of emotions engulf Mira in this touching pre-teen story about secrets and how to keep them and share them. Strongly set in a busy family, Mira’s life is full of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2011
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Ask Me Anything

Fascinating, funny and frighteningly addictive trivia, this is a book that will provide every fact you ever wanted to know.  Organised into key sections covering such things as Space, the Human Body, Culture, the book presents a huge array of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Astronomy: Out of this world!
Dan Green
Discover the secrets of astronomy, from the objects that make up our solar system to the strange bodies at the very edges of the known universe; unlock the mysteries of the stars and discover what information telescopes are beaming back...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2009
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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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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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Back Home
Michelle Magorian
It's 1945. World War II has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Back to Life
Joanna Nadin
More hilarious exploits from the angst ridden teen diarist Rachel Riley.  Fans of Louise Rennison’s character Georgia Nicolson will love this as will all those who have enjoyed the ups and down and ups again of Rachel’s life to date....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Bad Day
Graham Marks
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. This exciting adventure captures the intensity of a first meeting – with a difference. Tessa is Rob’s online friend but now, they have made a plan to meet. Anxiously, Rob prepares himself for everything...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/08/2011
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Bartimaeus 1: The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud
This is the first in an unforgettable fantasy sequence called Bartimaeus, every one of which is full of magical intrigue, murder and rebellion.  When Bartimaeus is packed off against his will by Nathaniel, a young magician’s apprentice to steal the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Bartimaeus 2: The Golem's Eye
Jonathan Stroud
Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. But his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises. A dangerous golem makes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Bartimaeus 3: Ptolemy's Gate
Jonathan Stroud
Three years on from the events in The Golem's Eye, the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is largely controlled by two advisers, one of whom is 17-year-old...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
Jonathan Stroud
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Magic and wit make perfect partners in this highly entertaining new story - a prequel to the author's Bartimaeus trilogy - about an unusually quick-witted djinni who has an uncanny...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
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Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
Jonathan Stroud
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. Magic and wit make perfect partners in this highly entertaining new story - a prequel to the author's Bartimaeus trilogy - about an unusually quick-witted djinni who has an uncanny...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Beast
Ally Kennen
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Admired hugely its spare prose and confident storytelling’ Teenagers, particularly boys will empathise completely with the hero in Beast even though he may not be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/06/2006
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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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Bec
Darren Shan
If you know someone who enjoys the feeling of fear and terror whilst reading then there is no one doing it better than Darren Shan.  Bec  continues the successful Demonata series but the book also stands up as a title...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2006
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Bedlam
Ally Kennen
Ally Kennen's observations of teenage life, along with the themes of dysfunctional families and the people who fall between the gaps in society, are what define her as one of the best authors writing for young people. In Bedlam Ally...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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Being a Girl
Kim Cattrall
An absolute must for every teenager.  Kim Cattrall (aka Samantha Jones in Sex in the City) has created the perfect teen survival guide that even parents might approve of.  Totally honest about teenage life and how to survive it from...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/2006
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Beowulf (Graphic Novel)
Gareth Hinds
A dramatic graphic novel adaptation of the epic Anglo-Saxon legend. Beowulf, the King of heroic epics gets a superb and lavish visual interpretation in this full-colour mixed-media gem. A story that has been told over the generations for more than...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2007
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Between Two Seas
Marie-Louise Jensen
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Marianne promises her dying mother that she’ll seek a better life and especially that she’ll try to find her father. Leaving Grimsby, Marianne sets off on a long and dangerous voyage...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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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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Big Questions
Matthew Morrison
The sequel to the hugely acclaimed Big Numbers, Big Questions brings the most challenging issues about life, the universe and everything to 10–13 year olds. Big Questions is full of entertaining and challenging questions about the world around us...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2007
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