Featured Books for 11+ readers

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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Zombie!
Tommy Donbavand
Reading age 8, interest age 11+. Fast-paced and fun, it will have you quaking in your boots quicker than you can say knife.  Chaos ensues when Jake discovers that a zombie likes to party and my goodness, this one seriously...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2009
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Zoe And Chloe: Out To Lunch
Sue Limb
Loads of fun, farce and teen romance provide a delightful background for Chloe and Zoe as they make and break their plans for a summer holiday to remember. Falling in and out of love, making up their stories for their...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Zoe And Chloe: On The Prowl
Sue Limb
Zoe and Chloe have always been best friends. But, then there are the boys….Can Zoe extricate Chloe from ‘the beast’? And can Zoe get her dream boy Oliver Wyatt to notice her? Will either or both get anyone to take...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2007
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Zero Moment (The Joshua Files book 3)
M. G. Harris
Explosive and compelling, this is the third part of the bestselling Joshua Files sequence in which an ancient prophecy is predicting the end of the world in 2012. Don’t feel it’s essential to read the first two titles to enjoy...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
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Zelah Green, Queen Of Clean
Vanessa Curtis
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award 2010 Told in an upbeat, teenage first person narrative, this is a moving and insightful story about coping with a compulsive disorder. Zelah Green describes herself as a Cleanaholic. She spends her life...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2009
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Z for Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien
January 2011 Guest Editor Jenny Downham on a classic of apocalyptic science fiction: "Written as a documentary novel, Z for Zachariah explores the nightmare situation faced by two people who believe they are the last humans left on earth. This was...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/02/1998
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Yummy Stuff: Ros Asquith's Teen Cookbook
Ros Asquith
This no-worries guide to cooking is both chatty and informative in style and will be loved by teens.  There are helpful survival recipes alongside recipes that are just plain fun interspersed by some great cartoon-style imagery.  With over 120 recipes...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/2009
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Young Wizards
Michael Lawrence
Perfect for a reluctant or struggling reader of 8+ but with an interest age of 8-12. This is non-stop comedy involving twin boys who discover that when they reach 12 and a half they have the most extraordinary talents, but using...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm
Andrew Lane
Young Sherlock Holmes is back for his fourth exciting adventure. A mysterious fire, a friend who has vanished and a man who claims to raise the dead make this a case all the more baffling for the Young Sherlock Holmes.  Sherlock...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud Audio CD
Andrew Lane
Followers of the young James Bond and junior spy Alex Rider will enjoy the adventures of school boy Sherlock Holmes who already shows many of the trademark skills that later make him a world renowned detective. Sent to live with chilly relatives in...
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 04/06/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud
Andrew Lane
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2010.  Two dead bodies. One unforgettable hero.  The beginning of a legend.  Followers of the young James Bond and junior spy Alex Rider will enjoy the adventures of school boy Sherlock Holmes who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice
Andrew Lane
The world’s favourite detective was already showing signs of his future exceptional talent for investigation as a child. Ignoring the obvious when he comes across his brother holding a knife and with a dead body in front of him, the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2011
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Young Sherlock Holmes 2: Red Leech CD-Audio
Andrew Lane
The CD-Audio version of the novel. Anyone with a sense of adventure and an enquiring mind will enjoy the puzzles and questions that the likeable young Sherlock Holmes sets out to resolve. Young Sherlock determines to get to the bottom...
Format: Audiobook On Cd - Released: 05/11/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes 2: Red Leech
Andrew Lane
Anyone with a sense of adventure and an enquiring mind will enjoy the puzzles and questions that the likeable young Sherlock Holmes sets out to resolve. Young Sherlock determines to get to the bottom of the secrets that the adults...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2010
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Wuthering Heights - retold by Gill Tavner
Emily Bronte
This famous story of Heathcliff and Catherine will thrill you and chill you to the bone.  Real Reads bring this and Jane Eyre to a new audience.  Both of these retellings have been checked for accuracy to the originals by the Collections...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/07/2009
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Wuthering Heights (Classics Illustrated)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. This edition provides a wonderful short introduction to one of the classics of all time and despite its...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Wuthering Hearts
Kay Woodward
The school play has long been known as the best place for romance…Emily’s ambition is to star in the school play and to fall in love so everything should be going fine. However, Emily’s outburst against the choice of Wuthering...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Wreckers
Julie Hearn
Brilliantly told in contrasting teenage voices, this is a powerful story set in a dystopian future in which much of what we know about is destroyed in ‘the attack’. Trespassing  in a ruined house, a group of teenagers come across...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Would You Rather?
Chris Higgins
This author has once again clicked into the zeitgeist that is a tween/teen girl.  Poignant, moving and honest about relationships, this story revolves around the life-altering choices a teenager called Flick must make in the light of a long, lost...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Worse Than Boys
Cathy Macphail
Hannah loves being part of the Lip Gloss Girls. They operate as a gang – mostly challenging the Hell Cats and always standing up for each other. But, when Hannah’s accused of betraying the Lip Gloss Girls, she soon finds...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2007
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Words in the Dust
Trent Reedy
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 11+. A touching and thought-provoking story set in contemporary Afghanistan, Words in the Dust uncovers how the lives of women and girls are changing. Zulaikha, a younger sister born with a disfiguring cleft...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick
Beautifully produced, this is a fabulous addition to the best-selling The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Like its predecessor it is told equally through illustrations and words; Ben’s story is in words and the story from a previous time is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 14/09/2011
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Wonder
R. J. Palacio
Frank, powerful, warm and often heart-breaking, Wonder is a book you'll read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page. This is a wonderful debut from a storyteller with a great future if this...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Wolf Girl
Theresa Tomlinson
Wulfrun is a brave girl who must set out on a dangerous mission to save her mother from death after she’s been accused of stealing a valuable necklace. But trying to get help proves almost impossible as Wulfrun finds herself...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 02/02/2006
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Wolf Cry
Julia Golding
A dramatic and moving story of an unlikely alliance between a young Viking girl and the African slave her father has given her. Left alone after her village is destroyed and her brother captured by raiding pirates, Freydis survives until...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness 1
Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Wolf Brother.
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 16/09/2004
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Wizardology
Dugald Steer
Much, much more than a book, this is an unforgettable experience in everything anyone could possibly dream up about wizards and their world. Inventive in every dimension from the basic idea of being ‘a true account of wizards, their ways...
Format: Hardback - Released: 15/09/2005
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Without Looking Back
Tabitha Suzuma
Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2009.  A beautifully written and thought-provoking novel on the effects on a family involved in a custody battle.  When Louis and his sister are removed unexpectedly from school for a holiday in England by their father...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Withering Tights
Louise Rennison
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection.  Laugh out loud at this launch title of a brilliant new series by Queen of Teen author Louise Rennison. Tallulah Casey, cousin of the irrepressible Georgia Nicholson, signs up for an...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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