Featured Books for 11+ readers

The Periodic Table Elements with Style!
Adrian Dingle
A brilliantly creative blend of science and manga, make learning the dreaded elements that make up the periodic table really fun and, believe it or not, exciting! There are a number of other explosive science titles in this series, each...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Fascinating Facts
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2007
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The Perfect Rebel
Deborah Chancellor
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. This is a great book for children who want a book that's shorter with fewer words on the page than your typical book for this age range whilst at the same time getting a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2010
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The Penalty (Audio CD)
Mal Peet
This is the audio CD version of the novel The Penalty from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully told and the author’s passion...
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Format: Cd-audio - Released: 05/05/2008
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The Penalty
Mal Peet
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully written and the author’s passion...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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The Pasta Detectives
Andreas Steinhofel
Shortlisted for the 2011 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. This is a funny and original mystery starring two unlikely boy detectives, the mildly autistic Rico and the brainy but anxiety-ridden Oscar.  The story of The Pasta Detectives explores the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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The Passionflower Massacre
Nicola Morgan
The vulnerability of adolescents who want to belong is sharply captured in this scary story of Matilda’s terrifying encounter with a dangerous cult. Working on a fruit farm, Matilda feels she’s found a way of life that allows her to...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 13/10/2005
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The Pale Assassin - Pimpernelles 1
Patricia Elliott
The vibrant spirit of the French Revolution propels this dramatic romantic thriller in which a young girl must flee to save her own life. Eugénie has always been protected from dangers by her wealth but now it is her wealth...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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The Pain Merchants (The Healing Wars)
Janice Hardy
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 Part one of a powerful historical fantasy full of politics, magic and enchantment. The Healing Wars tells of the unusual powers of fifteen year old orphan, Naya. In a world where many have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Pain Merchants (The Healing Wars)
Janice Hardy
Part one of a powerful historical fantasy full of politics, magic and enchantment. The Healing Wars tells of the unusual powers of fifteen year old orphan, Naya. In a world where many have special power, Naya stands out from the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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The Outlaw
Stephen Davies
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Action packed, fast paced and peppered with up to date technology, this is a gripping thriller which raises interesting undercurrents of social conscience. Jake’s love of adventure mean that rules have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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The Other Book
Philip Womack
An inventive, dark and lyrically-told fantasy thriller by first-time novelist Philip Womack.  Truly compelling, I was utterly transfixed at the story of Edward, a 12 year old boy who, through an ancient book shrouded in a brooding curse that is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
The Bravo Two Zero mission is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival. Of the eight members involved in an SAS patrol during the Gulf War in 1991, only one escaped capture - Chris Ryan. This is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/11/2010
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The One Dollar Horse
Lauren St.John
Blue Peter prize-winner Lauren St John tells a thrilling rags-to-riches story in this gripping story of one girl and her dream. Horse-mad Casey has only one dream: to ride a winner in the Badminton Horse trials. But Casey lives in...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month | Pony Mad
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Obsidian Dagger: Being the Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle
Catherine Webb
Odd things to us seem like the norm for Horatio Lyle for he’s so familiar with strange goings on around him.  Together with his erstwhile companions Tess (the thief) and Thomas (the toff) and hound (Tate) they get up to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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The Number 7 Shirt
Alan Gibbons
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. Perfect for reluctant or struggling readers. This is an action-packed story involving a boy who dreams of being a football pro. Because fiction and non-fiction are interwoven together, it’s likely to attract less keen...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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The Name of this Book is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch
Quirky, original and hugely entertaining, this is a debut novel of fantastical proportions. The first in a secretive series, The Name of this Book is SECRET is accompanied by a website, part of which is in code so important information...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/05/2008
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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 pond earlier this year. Here you will meet four very unusual children each with three things in common – all orphans, all incredibly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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The Moonstone Legacy
Diana De Gunzburg, Tony Wild
Beginning where Wilkie Collins’ classic left off, it’s hard to believe The Moonstone Legacy is a debut  for the quality of the writing is exceptional and has a real timeless quality about it.  The story itself is a terrific mix...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 31/05/2010
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The Midnight Zoo
Sonya Hartnett
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal. The judges said: With its stunning descriptions and small parables which illustrate the inhumanity of war, and the havoc it wreaks on both people and animals, this is a profoundly moving novel. Unbearably sad in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2011
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The Messenger Bird
Ruth Eastham
May 2012 Book of the Month. Cleverly interweaving a modern day storyline with one from the 1940s, it's the story of Nathan who must find out what the link is between his father's recent disappearance and that of Lily, an ex-Bletchley Park employee, before it's too late...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The Merrybegot
Julie Hearn
Gripping and lyrical, this is a multi-layered novel with a strong historical background of the witch hunting that took place during the English Civil War crossed with a story of the fairy world and the different kind of magic that...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Medusa Project: The Set-Up
Sophie Mckenzie
This is not science fiction. Within the lifetime of children now the human race will have created new improved humans through genetic manipulation. Frightening but true. Here in the first of a thrilling roller-coaster adventure series you can join four teenagers, each...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
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The Medusa Project: The Rescue
Sophie Mckenzie
This is the third in this hi-octane thriller featuring four teenagers, each of whom have different psychic powers, which together can defeat almost anything.  The problem is that government agents want them to help to infiltrate the criminal underworld but...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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The Medusa Project: Hunted
Sophie Mckenzie
The fourth in this hi-octane series featuring four teenagers, each of whom have different psychic powers, who together can defeat almost anything. One of them Dylan has her hands chock full as she tries to discover the truth behind his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Medusa Project : The Hostage
Sophie Mckenzie
A breathtaking, headlong thriller that grips from the very first moment - this sequel to The Set-Up tells how Nico, Ketty, Ed and Dylan, recent recruits into the undercover crime-fighting force called The Medusa Project, tackle their next major mission....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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The Medusa Project : Hit Squad
Sophie Mckenzie
The sixth and final Medusa Project thriller about four teenagers with psychic abilities brings the bestselling series from Red House award-winning author, Sophie McKenzie to an explosive end. Click here to visit Sophie McKenzie's website, packed with information and extras.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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The Medusa Project : Double-Cross
Sophie Mckenzie
Sophie McKenzie’s sure touch is brilliantly on display in this thrilling new adventure about her four teenagers transformed by the Medusa gene. This time the four, all of whom have special mind powers, are in serious danger; their mentor has...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2011
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The Medici Seal
Theresa Breslin
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. An epic adventure, full of intrigue, murder, revenge and betrayal, set in Leonardo da Vinci's Italy. Gloriously rich and authentic it provides a wonderful glimpse into the world of da Vinci through a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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The Maze Runner
James Dashner
A cracking sci-fi post-apocalyptic adventure thriller for 11+ year olds that has already taken the US by storm and is set to achieve similar success globally. When Thomas wakes up, walks out of the lift he’s in he finds himself...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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The Master Of The Fallen Chairs
Henry Porter
A rip roaring read of adventure, mystery and fantasy. Orphaned Kim is sent to Skirl, the ramshackle house of his ancestors where all kinds of unlikely, often alarming and always surprising things happen including the arrival of a possible long...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/01/2008
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