Featured Books for 11+ readers

When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011, this is a brilliantly fresh and original story with a puzzle at its heart. When Miranda’s best...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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When The Snow Fell
Henning Mankell
Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.    A touching story of growing up and discovering what really matters. Joel makes three New Year’s resolutions: To see a naked lady, to toughen himself up so that he can live...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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What You Need to Know Now: The World in Facts, Stats and Graphics

Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Best Book with Facts. Stuffed full of completely up-to-date statistics, graphics and facts, this is a bumper information book about what is going on in our planet and why. Masses of information about...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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What I Was
Meg Rosoff
Haunting, intense and with an incredible twist in the tale this is unlike anything you will have read before. It’s a story of friendship, love and secrets but also of tragedy and loss. It will almost certainly move you to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Wereworld : Shadow of the Hawk
Curtis Jobling
This title is book three in the Wereworld fantasy-adventure series from Curtis Jobling, the award-winning designer of Bob the Builder. Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf was shortlisted for the 2011 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. It is perfect for fans...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Wereworld : Rage of Lions
Curtis Jobling
When the air is clear, sixteen year-old Drew Ferran can pick up the scent of a predator. When the moon breaks through the clouds, a terrifying fever grips him. His flesh tears, his fingers become claws, and Drew transforms ....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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We Can be Heroes
Catherine Bruton
An astonishing debut.  Moving. Funny. Explosive. And most of all, unexpected...As powerful as Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions. A Piece of Passion from Ali Dougal, Catherine's Editor at Egmont Books: We Can Be Heroes is the sort of book that I dreamt of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award. Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008. Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008. Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year. Sympathetic, touching,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Sympathetic, touching, and surprisingly funny, Ways To Live Forever is a fantastic debut from Sally Nicholls. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Sympathetic, touching, and surprisingly funny, Ways To Live Forever is a fantastic debut from Sally Nicholls. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Waterslain Angels
Kevin Crossley-Holland
A tense, fast-paced detective story set in the 1950s in the haunting north Norfolk salt marshes where a dark secret has lain hidden, but suddenly there’s more than just Annie and Sandy trying to solve the case of the missing...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 16/10/2008
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
Stunning and compulsive are two words that for me best describe the story of Fiver, of Hazel and the rabbit warren full of family and friends.  Rejected by most publishers before eventually being snapped up by Rex Collings in  the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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War of the Worlds (Classics Illustrated)
H G Wells
One of a range of marvellous comic books created in the '50s and '60s, now with artwork re-coloured and covers digitally enhanced for a new generation. Perfectly bound at a terrifically good value price.    “I would certainly recommend any parent hoping...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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War of the Witches
Maite Carranza
This is the perfect read for fans of Buffy, Charmed and W.I.T.C.H.  Evocative, timeless storytelling that delves deep into the bond between mothers and daughters and the mysteries of growing up.  For all those magic and astrology obsessed teenagers this...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2009
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War Horse Special Colour Edition
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo’s tender story of Joey, a brave hearted farm horse who finds himself caught up in the horrors of war, cleverly conveys both the violence and the occasional compassion, which occurs during conflict. A classic story of animal courage...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2010
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War Horse Film tie-in Edition
Michael Morpurgo
Best-selling War Horse, a magnificent First World War story of human and animal courage on the battle field in the face of deadly danger will shortly be a film following its sell-out adaptation as a play. This film tie-in edition...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/11/2011
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War Horse
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo’s tender story of Joey, a brave hearted farm horse who finds himself caught up in the horrors of war, cleverly conveys both the violence and the occasional compassion, which occurs during conflict. A classic story of animal courage...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Voyager
Jan Mark
This is the exciting sequel to Riding Tycho and the story begins as Demetria is rescued from the sea having been sun-scorched and dangerously dehydrated during her escape from High Island. But the life ahead is by no means easy....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2007
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Virtual Kombat: A Pocket Money Puffin
Chris Bradford
Gripping action from start to finish in this tightly told futuristic story about a world in which the power of a game reaches far off the screen and into real life. After the virus has wiped out all the adults,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Viola in Reel Life
Adriana Trigiani
Full of a zest, this captures how a newcomer to Prefect Academy learns to enjoy the boarding school environment she thought she would hate. Viola provides a hugely entertaining account of Perfect and the people in it initially using her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Villain.net: Dark Hunter
Andy Briggs
If you’re looking for a book that is exploding with gadgets, gizmos, adrenaline, exotic landscapes and fun then look no further than this anti-series, of which this is the second, which is published alongside its antithesis, Hero.com.  There’s even some...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Villain.net: Council Of Evil
Andy Briggs
A hurtling adventure begins at the click of a computer. Ordinary schoolboy Jake Hunter finds himself a global fugitive wanted for blackmail, theft and kidnapping after he enters a tempting looking website. The stakes are high in the race for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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VIII
H. M. Castor
Chosen by April 2012 Guest Editor, Charlie Higson: "The 60s and early 70s, when I was growing up, was a golden age for children’s historical fiction, with the likes of Henry Treece, Geoffrey Trease, Rosemary Sutcliff and Mary...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
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Velvet
Mary Hooper
A richly atmospheric novel set in the Victorian period and perfect for fans of the hugely popular Fallen Grace. Teens will love this romantic, thrilling and exciting new novel from the acclaimed and much loved historical novelist.  It's also...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2011
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Vampireology
Nick Holt
Tapping into the current zeitgeist of all things vampire the subject is tackled with originality and flair. It's a terrific book that will be pored over by younger children in the family who are too young to read the plethora of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Vampire Handbook An Essential Guide To Vampires
Dr. Robert Curran
If vampire fever is driving you mad in your house and you've got children who are too young to read Stephenie Meyer's series or the huge array of Twilight look-alikes then perhaps this is the book for them? What do...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Vamoose! A Pocket Money Puffin
Meg Rosoff
Prize-winning author Meg Rosoff’s Vamoose!, a brilliant black comedy on the ups and downs of having any new baby but especially one who is different, is a gem. When a teen mum gives birth to a moose she and her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Up on Cloud Nine
Anne Fine
Award-winning Anne Fine has a rare gift for understanding teenagers and a sharp ear for capturing their dialogue. As Stolly lies wired up on the hospital bed his best friend touchingly charts the years of their friendship revealing both the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Unleashed 1: A Life and Death Job
Ali Sparkes
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Prize winning Ali Sparkes has created a fresh new series about a group of children with special powers. In stories brimming with adventure and danger, the kids live together using all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Unique
Alison Allen-Gray
This debut novel, published back in 2004 has only just hit our radar screen at Lovereading4kids with the publication of her second novel Lifegame. We've been so blown away by the brilliance of Unique that we just had to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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