Featured Books for 11+ readers

Scarlett
Cathy Cassidy
Scarlett's not red like a sunset, she's red with rage. She cannot believe her mum's sunk so low as to pack her off to Ireland to stay with the dad who left them. Surely he's the reason for everything going...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Scared To Death
Alan Gibbons
A compelling new series from a master storyteller combining urban menace, ancient horror and an ongoing quest for good against evil and set in modern east London against a backdrop of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders. Gibbons is at...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Saved
Eleanor Updale
Interest Age 14+ Reading Age 8+.  A thrilling story with big issues at the heart of it, Saved tells how Luke makes a choice between life and death when he bravely defies his parents’ beliefs after witnessing the terrible...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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Savannah Grey: A Horror Story
Cliff Mcnish
If you're looking for a real page-turner that will have you gasping for breath then this is it. It's a horror story and a love story intertwined and 15 year old Savannah Grey is possibly the only person who can...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Sara's Face
Melvin Burgess
This is young adult fiction at its challenging and thrilling best - and Melvin Burgess has yet again struck a chord with a teenager’s world.  The issue of cosmetic surgery is brought sharply into focus and in such a way that the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Sara's Face
Melvin Burgess
As ever, Melvin Burgess makes readers think. Sara signs up for a face transplant but is it her who wants it or, is she being pushed into doing it against her will by the scarred pop-star who wants her face?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2008
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Samurai
Ian Beck
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. This is a beautifully written retelling of a traditional Japanese myth, brought vividly to life by some stunning graphic novel-style illustrations by the award-winning Ian Beck.  This series - Reloaded - from Barrington Stoke...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2010
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Samphire Song
Jill Hucklesby
A warm-hearted story that captures how a girl’s love for a beautiful, proud but troubled horse helps her to manage her own sadness after the death of her father. Jodie lives for horses and when her mum says she can...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2011
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Sam and Ruby's Olympic Adventure
Tony Bradman
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. An exciting time-travel story which gives special insight into the background story of the Olympics. Both badly behaved at school, Sam and Ruby hate work and do their best to avoid it. When they are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/02/2012
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Saffy's Angel
Hilary Mckay
Our March 2012 Guest Editor Sally Nicholls: "I've never written a fan letter to an author, but I came closest after finishing Saffy's Angel. I read it while I was first trying to be a writer myself, and I decided...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Running On The Cracks
Julia Donaldson
A thrilling corkscrew of a novel that twists and turns weaving several strands of story into one compelling narrative, and the first novel from an established and bestselling picture book author for younger readers. Orphaned after the death of her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Running in Heels
Helen Bailey
One family’s headlong fall from riches to rags is entertainingly chronicled by fourteen year old Daisy Davenport. Rich, gorgeous and with a lovely boyfriend in tow, Daisy seems to have it all. But, when her father is charged with corruption,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Running From The Rainbow
Karen Mccombie
Rosie Roberts has a secret. So when she moves to a new school, she's desperate not to draw too much attention to herself. But things aren't so easy when your mum is the popular new teacher everyone is talking about. From...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2012
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Runemarks
Joanne Harris
A huge and dramatic, soap opera of a novel full of old world magic and larger than life characters. Maddy knows that she is different from everyone else in her village: she was born with a ‘rune’ – a special...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Runemarks
Joanne Harris
Full of old magic and rich in atmosphere, Runemarks takes readers into the heart of Norse mythology. Born with a rusty coloured rune on her hand, Maddy Smith has always known that she has the gift of magic. While many...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Run Wild ! Outdoor Games and Adventures
Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
Inspirational! Full of tempting, action packed photos, this introduction to having fun in the outdoors should get parents and their children out there as soon as possible. The range of activities is huge from boisterous outdoor games for big groups...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Ruler Of The Realm
Herbie Brennan
The third thilling visit to the vividly imagined Fairie Realm that began with Fairie Wars is a dramatic adventure where the protagonists find themselves in the midst of a furious battle to protect the future of the world and secure...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2008
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Ruby Red
Linzi Glass
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie Medal. A touching love story set against the turbulence and danger of a world divided by apartheid. Brought up to stand against everything that divides the society in which she lives, Ruby finds herself...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Rowan The Strange
Julie Hearn
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 A powerful and compelling story of life in a mental asylum at the start of the Second World War.  Rowan may be strange but he's not dangerous so when he is sent behind...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Rowan The Strange
Julie Hearn
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010. A powerful and compelling story of life in a mental asylum at the start of the Second World War.  Rowan may be strange but he's not dangerous so when he is sent...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Round Behind the Ice-house
Anne Fine
Cass has always been there for Tom, her twin - racing off to laugh with him in the old, abandoned ice house or planning how to foil Jamieson, the farm's creepy pest-killer. But now Cass is a teenager, she is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Rose of No Man's Land (A Timepiece Novel)
Anne Perry
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. Second in a brand new time travel series by an award-winning author (the first was Tudor Rose). Will Rosie cope as a nurse in a WW1 Red Cross Hospital?  Struggling with her inability...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/09/2011
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Romeo and Juliet (Classics Illustrated)
William Shakespeare
The most famous of Shakespeare's plays is brought to life in glorious technicolour through comic strips.  Brilliant for younger and older readers.   A message from the publisher: Classics Illustrated - A wonderful History - We're delighted to re-introduce these marvellous...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2009
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Rome (Infinity Series)

The splendours of the Roman world are explored in words and pictures in this excellent reconstruction of the mighty civilization. The book opens with a pop-out map which shows just the full extent the Roman Empire as it stretched out...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2010
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Rocks and Minerals: A gem of a read!
Dan Green, Simon Basher
An essential tool particularly for those kids who find science boring rather than explosive.  Designed to make learning easier and a whole lot more fun, this fact-filled book will show you rocks, minerals and fossils as you’ve never seen them...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Robin Hood (Classics Illustrated)
Howard Pyle
Recounts, in comic strip style in full colour, the legend of Robin Hood who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.   A message from the publisher: Classics Illustrated - A wonderful...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/10/2008
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Road Rage
Jane A. C. West, Roger Hurn
The road builder Kong Kreet wants to build a freeway through an Indian Reservation! It will take all Tribe's skills to get there in time to save the day.  
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/03/2011
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River Boy
Tim Bowler
Grandpa refuses to stay in hospital, as he is determined to finish his painting, 'River Boy', before he goes. At first Jess can't understand his refusal, but then she too becomes involved in the painting. And when she meets the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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Rise of the Blood Moon
Alan Gibbons
A sweeping epic of breathtaking power that's full of gargantuan battles, betrayals, broken promises and allegiances, and finally, secrets revealed.  It's all mixed with a vividly-imagined cast of shape-shifters and demons from the award-winning author of the Legendeer Trilogy.  A...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/07/2006
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2010
Robert Le Roy Ripley
Following hot on the heels of last year's best-selling edition, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2010 offers a whole new feast of bizarre facts, fiends and freaks - all guaranteed to fascinate, surprise and amaze. Marvel at the ice man, who survived Everest's 'Death...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
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