Featured Books for 7+ readers

What Do You Call a One-eyed Dinosaur?
John Foster
Dinosaurs seem to be a never ending source of jokes – their extraordinary appearance, their complicated names, they outrageous habits and the fact that not everything about them is already known, make them absolutely ripe for some good humoured prods....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Wendy Quill is a Crocodile's Bottom
Wendy Meddour
May 2013 Debut of the Month  A new diary novel which will especially make girls laugh a lot! And it is illustrated by an 11 year old! Wendy tells the three stories about herself and her friends catching the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Welcome to Silver Street Farm
Nicola Davies
Humorously told and full of facts about animals, the ups and downs of the new city farm make a great story. Three children and an unusual selection of animals for a farm – including poodle puppies who have some very...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2011
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Weird Street: The Treasure Of Mr Tipp
Margaret Ryan
Weird Street is a terrific little four book series that will get 6-9 year old boys (in particular) and girls really reading and enjoying the experience.  Weird Street is on Johnny's paper round, a bizarre, scary and extremely unusual paper round, where...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2009
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Weird Street: The Riddle of Dr Sphinx
Margaret Ryan
Entertainingly spooky and delightfully peculiar, Jonny Smith recounts the problem he has on his round when it comes to delivering in Weird Street. He knows he shouldn’t really be frightened of the people who live there but trying even to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2009
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Weird Street: The Curse Of Captain Cross-eyed
Margaret Ryan
Weird Street is a terrific little four book series that will get 6-9 year old boys (in particular) and girls really reading and enjoying it.  Weird Street is on Johnny's paper round, a bizarre, scary and extremely unusual paper round, where he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2009
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We Want to be on the Telly: A Pocket Money Puffin
Jeremy Strong
Hilarious fun which will entertain all children who find their parents embarrassing. Heathrow (born in the Arrivals area at the famous airport) tells the story of struggling with parents who are determined to find fame and be on telly. Every...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Arthur Ransome
February 2011 Guest Editor Tim Bowler has chosen this book for the enduring appeal of Arthur Ransome adventures: "I loved all the Swallows and Amazons books as a boy. Ransome's genius is that he doesn't just give you the children's adventures...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2001
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We Are All Born Free
Amnesty International
Winner: Special Award, English Association 4-11 Award An arrestingly original way of informing children of their human rights, We Are All Born Free depicts each of the 30 Articles of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in wonderful illustrations by thirty best...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 09/10/2008
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Watch Out for Sprouts!
Simon Bartram
Every hectic spread is packed with doodles, poems and titbits of trivial advice and information. In both words and pictures it offers a feast of tantalising material which encourages speculation and enquiry. There are poems about Dad, Sausages and, perhaps...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2006
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Warewolf Teacher
Michael Broad
Jake Cake tells his three adventures in his own way, jotted down in words and pictures in his notebooks in his own quirky style. In these three, Jake’s adventures involve encounters with a werewolf, a monster and a real-life mummy...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/02/2007
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War Boy A Wartime Childhood
Michael Foreman
Brilliantly observed in words and pictures, War Boy is a first hand, eye-witness view of growing up in World War Two. Michael Foreman grew up in Lowestoft where bombing raids causing terrible damage were common as planes flew in over...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 28/10/2004
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Walter Tull's Scrapbook
Michaela Morgan
Born in Kent, Walter Tull (28 April 1888 - 25 March 1918) became one of Tottenham Hotspurs' top players. When he joined the Footballers' Battalion during the First World War, his leadership and courage won him a commission and a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Wallace And Gromit Grand Adventures And Glorious Inventions
Penny Worms
Suitable for discerning Wallace and Gromit fans, this all-singing, all-dancing book sets out as Wallace's secret invention scrapbook, with snippets of information and personal memorabilia about his cracking contraptions and his madcap capers with his dog, Gromit. With lots of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Waggit's Tale
Peter Howe
This is an absolutely delightful and heart-warming animal tale about a puppy that gets dumped in the park by its owner. As he learns to fend for himself with the help of other strays, his life becomes both exciting and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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Wag and the King
Joan Lennon
How to keep his human out of trouble is the job of Wag, the old dog who tells this delightfully quirky story. His human is Tom, a boy who has been apprenticed to the Court’s minstrel. And that would all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2009
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Vulgar the Viking and the Rock Cake Raiders
Odin Redbeard
Revolting – in the very best way – this is a rollickingly good adventure. Vulgar the Viking finds his home life in the town of Blubber exceptionally boring. If only things were like they used to be in the good...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Vulgar the Viking and the Great Gulp Games
Odin Redbeard
This is the second book in the Vulgar the Viking series, whose publication in June happily coincides with a similar-sounding sporting event taking place later on in the Summer. Vulgar is determined that this year, the village of Blubber...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Viper's Nest
Gary Murray
In this thrilling series for 11+ year olds, the reader will join Major Jack Strong, who is the Global Intelligence Organisation’s top secret agent working deep undercover.  The evil Stealth is preparing to take over the world so there’s no...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Violet Mackerel's Remarkable Recovery
Anna Branford, Sam Wilson
Violet Mackerel has a big issue to deal in this story; she is facing up to having an operation to have her tonsils taken out. Violet is quite frightened of the operation and is determined to make a perfect recovery...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot
Anna Branford
This is a new character series for 6-9s featuring the funny, quirky Violet Mackerel - a girl with a mission to think outside the box. She has her own philosophies on life, and she's ready to put them into practice. Living with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Valentina De La Frou
Emerald Everhart
The last in the five beautiful and enchanting books each starring one Ballerina-in-Training, so take a trip to a miniature magical kingdom, the Kingdom of the Frosty Mountains that’s to be found inside a frosted bottle of perfume and you’ll...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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Uugghh!
Claudia Boldt
Striking illustrations cleverly carry the message about what is beautiful in this story that is also about a special friendship. When Spider finds that the reason Slug is crying is because he says everyone thinks he is so ugly, he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/02/2011
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Utterly Me, Clarice Bean (audio CD)
Lauren Child
Moving beyond her family but using all her witty powers of observation,  Clarice Bean fills her first novel with an account of her life outside home and especially inside school. She describes her teacher and classmates, including her UTTERLY best friend Betty Moody. How...
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Format: Cd-audio - Released: 02/07/2009
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Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
Lauren Child, Lauren Child
An utterly special 10th anniversary edition beautifully designed in hardback with a full colour cloth binding of the very first Clarice Bean novel complete with stunning slipcase. A package to truly treasure. Moving beyond her family but using all her witty...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
Lauren Child
Moving beyond her family but using all her witty powers of observation,  Clarice Bean fills her first novel with an account of her life outside home and especially inside school. She describes her teacher and classmates, including her UTTERLY best...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2003
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Usborne Christmas Baking for Children
Abigail Wheatley, Fiona Patchett
A feast for Christmas with loads of delicious easy to make recipes topped with special festive decorations. Christmas cookies, mince pies, gingerbread houses and much more are all temptingly illustrated. The instructions are clear and there’s useful additional guidance about...
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Format: Spiral bound - Released: 28/08/2009
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Usborne Big Book Of Science: Things To Make And Do
Rebecca Gilpin and Leonie Pratt
Here are over fifty fantastically fun projects for children to enjoy doing with or without an adult that use easy-to-find everyday materials.  Make things that fly, fling, spin, swim, whoosh, zoom and ooze, and discover the surprising science behind them. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2007
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Ursula Of-the-boughs
Emerald Everhart
Number four in the five beautiful and enchanting books each starring one Ballerina-in-Training, so take a trip to a miniature magical kingdom, the Kingdom of the Frosty Mountains that’s to be found inside a frosted bottle of perfume and you’ll...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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Urgum The Axeman
Kjartan Poskitt
The first in a terrific new series likely to appeal to the 7 plus market. The storyline and the characters are wacky and witty and there are some terrific pictures by Philip Reeve. The characters are not to be missed....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2007
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