Featured Books for 7+ readers

Taff in the WAAF
Mick Manning, Brita Granstrom
Winner of The English Association 4-11 Book Awards - Key Stage 2 Non-Fiction A companion to the successful and innovative Tail-End Charlie, about Mick's father's life in the RAF in World War II, Taff in the WAAF tells his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Tagus the Horse-man
Adam Blade
Includes free collector cards! Don't miss the other Beast Quest Books:  Ferno the Fire Dragon, Sepron the Sea Serpent, Arcta the Mountain Giant, Nanook the Snow Monster and Epos the Flame Bird.  
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Tail-end Charlie
Mick Manning, Brita Granstrom
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2010. As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father's hair-raising tales about life as an RAF airgunner during the Second World War. Now, years...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/09/2009
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Takeshita Demons
Cristy Burne
Winner of the inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award 2009 A thrilling contemporary adventure wittily shot through with the powerful fantasy stories of the old demons from the Japanese past. Miku knows about the demons from growing up in Japan where...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Takeshita Demons 2 : The Filth Licker
Cristy Burne
The Filth Licker is the eagerly awaited sequel to Takeshita Demons, winner of the inaugural Diverse Voices Children's Book Award.  Cristy Burne's gripping story of Miku, a feisty young Japanese girl living in England, and her fight against the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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Tales from Schwartzgarte: Osbert the Avenger
Christopher William Hill
Macabre and gruesome and wickedly funny, this is dark story of one boy’s determined quest to destroy those who have hurt him and his family. When Osbert wins a coveted place at the prestigious Institute he uncovers every kind of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Illustrated Edition
Hans Christian Andersen
The best-loved tales by master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen are elegantly retold in this beautifully illustrated edition. Hans Christian Andersen’s stories encompass a wide range of emotions from the pathos of stories such as The Ugly Duckling and The Little...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
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Teach Your Granny To Text And Other Ways To Change The World
We Are What We Do
Teach Your Granny to Text is a book that will inspire children to use their everyday actions to change the world. If lots of people make small changes then big changes can occur. It's not rocket science but it does...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Team Trouble
Sophie Smiley
For football mad families this is essential reading as are the previous two stories featuring Charlie and his little brother Bobby. Their mum is so footie mad that she gives yellow cards instead of a ticking off when her children...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Ted Ted and the Dhobi Ghats
Alexandra Carey
A beautiful hardback book suitable for children aged 5 to 10. Ted Ted and the Dhobi Ghats follows the adventures (and misadventures) of a much-loved English teddy bear in Mumbai, India's biggest city. Ted Ted, his friend Tilly and the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 26/10/2010
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Terry Deary's Knights' Tales: The Knight of Silk and Steel
Terry Deary
A wittily told and unusual story about the chivalrous world of knights, squires, damsels and challenges. When a stranger comes into the tavern claiming that he is a knight but wearing a long dress the villagers don’t know what to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Terry Deary's Knights' Tales: The Knight of Spurs and Spirits
Terry Deary
A sad story of cruelty in high places gives a chilling history lesson about the power of the rich over the life and death of the poor. Sir Robert is a bad tempered master who lashes out at his servants...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Terry Deary's Knights' Tales: The Knight of Sticks and Straw
Terry Deary, Helen Flook
A brilliantly exciting series from the pen of the master of books that are funny as well as based on historical events.  Terry Deary has no equal in his ability to make history fun, whether it’s through his Horrible History...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Terry Deary's Knights' Tales: The Knight of Swords and Spooks
Terry Deary
A brilliantly exciting series from the pen of the master of books that are funny as well as based on historical events.  Terry Deary has no equal in his ability to make history fun, whether it’s through his Horrible History...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Terry Deary's Terribly True Spy Stories
Terry Deary
Sometimes fact can be stranger than fiction.... Author of the brilliant Horrible Histories series has collected some amazing real life spy stories. So, forget James Bond and Ethan Hawk and start reading about the escapades of real spies from Persia in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2006
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That's So Gross! Animals
Mitchell Symons
9+. What’s the worst thing you can think of about an animal? How about “Toads only eat prey that moves” or “Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different.” Even the nicest animals...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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That's So Gross! Creepy Crawlies
Mitchell Symons
Loads of facts about about all manner of creepy crawlies -an ant with Dracula fangs, spiders eating their own webs, musclebound caterpillars and why fleas would be champions at the high jump.  The science that underpins it is good making...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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That's So Gross! History
Mitchell Symons
Life in the past was very grim according to this introduction to some of its grosser aspects. Mediaeval habits of sewing children into their clothes for the entire winter or the Chinese practice of breaking baby girls’ feet so they...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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That's So Gross!: Human Body
Mitchell Symons
Loads of facts about every part of the body are crammed into this highly illustrated book. And many of them certainly are gross! No sensibilities are spared in this guide to the smells, sights, sounds and look of many different...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2011
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Thawing Frozen Frogs
Brian Patten
Age 7+. A wonderful collection of witty and thought provoking poems on every subject you can think of. Ever thought Why Toads Look Much More Serious Than Frogs? Probably not. But, after reading Brian Patten’s poem you may look at...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The 39 Clues 1: The Maze Of Bones
Rick Riordan
Want to get your kids reading, well here’s a spellbinding adventure that we think kids of 8 upwards will really pick up on for it’s something more than a book as it integrates books, games, a website, cards and prizes...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 09/09/2008
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The 39 Clues 2: One False Note
Gordon Korman
Want to get your kids reading, well here’s a spellbinding adventure that we think kids of 8 upwards will really pick up on for it’s something more than a book as it integrates books, games, a website, cards and prizes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2008
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The Abominables
Eva Ibbotson
Award-winning Eva Ibbotson’s charming fantasy about the rescue of an entertaining  family group of Yeti and their transportation from the Himalayan Mountains to England in a frozen food lorry is touching, tender and very funny. It also carries a strong...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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The Abominators and the Forces of Evil: The Revenge of My Panty Wanty Woos
J. L. Smith
The third book in this side-splittingly funny new series which follows the mischievous gang - The Abominators - and their unlikely sidekick, posh boy Cecil Trumpington-Potts.  Complete with witty illustrations from Sam Hearn, this is a great choice for fans...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2013
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The Abominators in the Wild My Panty Wanty Woos Save the Day
J. L. Smith
The second book in this hilarious new series following mischievous gang The Abominators and their unlikely sidekick, posh boy Cecil Trumpington-Potts. We asked a few lucky readers to review the first in the Abominators series - click here to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey
George and Harold create the greatest super-hero in their school's history and now they're about to bring him to life. Meet Captain Underpants. His identity is so secret, even he doesn't know who he is. The novel introduces "flip-o-rama" -...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/03/2000
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
A classic action-packed adventure story with one thrilling episode after another as Huckleberry Finn accompanied by Jim, a runaway slave, escape from their everyday lives on a raft floating down the Mississippi river. Freshly told by Huckleberry Finn whose love...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
A classic action-packed adventure story with one thrilling episode after another as Huckleberry Finn accompanied by Jim, a runaway slave, escape from their everyday lives on a raft floating down the Mississippi river. Freshly told by Huckleberry Finn whose love...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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The Adventures of Mrs Pepperpot
Alf Proysen
Mrs Pepperpot has a problem - a huge problem - she shrinks! And when she shrinks she finds herself in all sorts of trouble...Mrs Pepperpot is determined to practise her swimming, so when all the village children go for a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-fu Cavemen from the Future
Dav Pilkey
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 From the creators of the massively successful Captain Underpants series comes a terrific blend of past and future featuring Flintstone style cavemen but set in the future.  The characters Ook and Gluk are...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 11/08/2010
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