Featured Books for 11+ readers

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/09/2011
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Wonder
R. J. Palacio
Chosen by Stylist magazine as one of the Cult Books of 2012. 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...
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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...
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness 1 CD-Audio
Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Wolf Brother.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Withering Tights
Louise Rennison
Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 (Funniest Book for Children aged Seven to Fourteen). Laugh out loud at this launch title of a brilliant new series by Queen of Teen author Louise Rennison. Tallulah Casey, cousin of the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Witchfinder 3: The Last Nightfall
William Hussey
This finale in the Witchfinder series is eagerly awaited and the series itself has been universally acknowledged by both authors and reviewers as something special.  The fear unleashed by the author throughout the trilogy is breathtaking but not to be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Witch Hill
Marcus Sedgwick
A brilliant, dark and compelling read that cleverly interweaves the story of a 17th century witch into the life of a boy whose world is forever haunted by fire, for his family home was destroyed by it as was his...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/07/2005
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Witch Child
Celia Rees
When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hung for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. She is taken in a boat to Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 04/06/2001
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Wings Over Delft
Aubrey Flegg
Winner of the Bisto Book of the Year Award 2004 and Reading Association of Ireland Award 2005 and published by a hugely admired small family publisher in Ireland called O’Brien Books. This is a wonderful story, the quality of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2004
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Wildwood
Colin Meloy
March 2012 Debut of the Month. This delightful book isn’t easy to categorise. Written and illustrated by a Husband and Wife team this surreal, fairytale-like story is full of adventure and excitement – beginning with the abduction of a one...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Wilderness
Roddy Doyle
This is a stunning piece of writing for young teenagers. Part-action, part family drama the plot cleverly interweaves two stories. The first is of two brothers who with their mother are on a trip of a lifetime in the frozen arctic north. The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Wilderness
Roddy Doyle
This is a stunning piece of writing for young teenagers. Part-action, part family drama the plot cleverly interweaves two stories. The first is of two brothers who with their mother are on a trip of a lifetime in the frozen...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Wickedness
Deborah White
This is a stunning debut from an exciting new voice in teenage fiction, author Deborah White. It is a thrilling adventure that combines history, fantasy and romance and is refreshingly original.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Who's in Charge?

Packed full of useful information and very clearly explained, this is a timely book for the forthcoming election. All aspects of who makes the rules under which people live, how different governments rule in different ways and how and why...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
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White Heat - Book 2 in the Perfect Fire Trilogy
Katie Grant
Love, divided loyalty and the struggles of France's proud South intensifies in this the second book of a thrilling trilogy.  More twists and turns in this adventure set in 13th century France that involves bandits, renegade knights, broken promises but also fierce love and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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White Heat - Book 2 in the Perfect Fire Trilogy
Katie Grant
Love, divided loyalty and the struggles of France's proud South intensifies in this the second book of a thrilling trilogy.  More twists and turns in this adventure set in 13th century France that involves bandits, renegade knights, broken promises but...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008
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White Dolphin
Gill Lewis
May 2012 Book of the Month. Bestselling Gill Lewis’s new story tells of the amazing, life-affirming powers of dolphins.  Kara’s life is in a mess; her mum has disappeared, she is in trouble at school and her father is about to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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White Crow
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic thriller in which nothing can quite be taken for granted. Rebecca is forced to abandon her bustling life in London for the unfamiliar...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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White Crow
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic thriller in which nothing can quite be taken for granted. Rebecca is forced to abandon her bustling life in London for the unfamiliar...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Whitaker's World of Facts 2011
Russell Ash
An inveterate collector of facts and figures, Russell Ash has been a renowned author of popular reference titles, including the best-selling Top Ten of Everything and related titles until his sad death earlier this year. Whitaker's World of Facts 2011...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 13/09/2010
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Where I Belong
Gillian Cross
Prize-winning author Gillian Cross tells a nail biting and fascinating story that’ll make readers think hard about how the lives of individuals connect and the wide ranging impacts they can have. Told in the voices of three teenagers who become inextricably...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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