Featured Books for 7+ readers

I, Coriander (Audio CD)
Sally Gardner
This is the audio CD version of Sally Gardner's classic tale set in the 17th Century. Sally Gardner is a formidable talent as she manages so successfully to entrance, engage and grip the reader in a historical setting and in the originality...
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Format: Cd-audio - Released: 04/08/2005
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I Was A Rat!
Philip Pullman
Acclaimed author Philip Pullman turns his hand to a stunning and original story for younger readers. Who is Roger? He says he was a rat - and some of the time he behaves like a rat. But, he is also...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/11/2004
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I Believe in Unicorns
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo pulls on the heart strings in a short book into which he has packed a number of strands, richly woven together. Tomas lives for the outdoors: he hates books, reading and stories. But one day, his mother forces...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2006
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I am Still Not a Loser
Barry Loser, Jim Smith
Barry Loser perfectly combines the random inner thoughts and outer goofiness of a schoolboy set on being the ‘keelest’ kid in school, but thwarted by friends, enemies and his gran.  Full of crazy cartoons, chaotic situations and hare-brained schemes, this...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2013
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I am Cat
Jackie Morris
In bold pictures and a simple text, Jackie Morris brings alive Cat who, when asleep in the day, dreams of being all kinds of other cats. Sometimes she’s a lion lounging in the heat of the day; sometimes she’s a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2012
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Hunted by the Insect Army
Rex Stone
No. 24 in the Dinosaur Cove series. When Jamie, Tom and Wanna decide to hunt for prehistoric minibeasts they get more than they bargained for. There are no such things as minibeasts in the Permian - just megabeasts! As the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Humphrey's Book of Fun-fun-fun
Betty G. Birney
Humphrey the hamster loves the adventures he has as the classroom pet in Room 26 Longfellow  School. And he loves puzzles and riddles, too. Here are all kinds of fun activities from riddles through spelling quizzes to join the dots...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Hugo Pepper
Chris, Stewart, Paul Riddell
Be spellbound by the magical fantasy world of Hugo Pepper as he takes off on an amazing adventure. Hugo’s life has always been full of surprises. Raised by reindeer herders after his parents were eaten by polar bears, he sets...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Huckleberry Finn - retold by Anna Kirwan
Mark Twain
Huckleberry may have got himself rich following his escapades with Tom sawyer but now with Jim, a runaway slave Huck must figure out the difference between wrong and right as his life and his freedom are at stake.   This is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2009
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How We Make Stuff
Christiane Dorian
Winner of The English Association 2013 Prize (Non-Fiction 7-11) Do you ever wonder where your clothes come from? Or how we make chocolate? This interactive guide is filled with pop ups, pull-tabs and booklets to explain exactly how we make stuff!...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2012
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How to Write Really Badly
Anne Fine
This is a classic, prize-winning story from one of our best-loved authors. Chester Howard can see Joe's project 'How to Write Neatly' can only be a disaster. Joe makes a terrible mess of his work, jumbling letters and numbers up...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2007
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How to Twist a Dragon's Tale
Cressida Cowell
The Isle of Berk is under threat. Hiccup’s latest challenge is to stop the volcano from exploding …To do so he must rescue the Fire Egg which has been stolen and return it to the Volcano and outwit the sword-claws...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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How To Survive Summer Camp
Jacqueline Wilson
Dumped by her parents at Evergreen Summer Camp, Stella is sure she is going to have a miserable time. But, despite herself, she finds she not only makes great new friends but also starts to really enjoy herself. A funny...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2007
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How To Survive Summer Camp
Jacqueline Wilson
Special Anniversary Edition. Bestselling Jacqueline Wilson’s classic How to Survive Summer Camp is out in a brand new edition for a new generation of readers.  It brilliantly and hilariously captures the dramatic intensity of  living 24/7 with your peers. Stella...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/06/2010
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How To Survive Summer Camp
Jacqueline Wilson
Bestselling Jacqueline Wilson’s classic How to Survive Summer Camp is out in a brand new edition for a new generation of readers.  It brilliantly and hilariously captures the dramatic intensity of  living 24/7 with your peers. Stella is dreading going...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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How To Speak Dragonese
Cressida Cowell
Hiccup the great Viking hero was not always such a star. He makes a mistake in his first Boarding an Enemy Ship Lesson by tackling a Roman Dragon Rustling ship with the fearsome Alvin the Treacherous on board. When Toothless,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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How to Ride a Dragon's Storm
Cressida Cowell
Hiccup has a new set of challenges. This time he has to get back to Berk from America in record time, battle against the deadly Polarserpents and win the Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race – which is not so friendly after...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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How to Make a Universe from 92 Ingredients
Adrian Dingle
This book takes its title from the fact that there are 92 chemical elements of the periodic table and therefore on that premise that’s all you need to make a universe.  Quite right too and this book tells you how...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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How to Get What You Want by Peony Pinker
Jenny Alexander
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Peony wants a lot of things. She wants a dog, she wants her dad to stop being an agony aunt and she really wants to get rid of her sister's horrible...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2011
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How to Get the Family You Want by Peony Pinker
Jenny Alexander
Peony Pinker feels she has a disaster for a family and because they're always busy she never gets to get what she wants.  But how to change that or will she have to change and learn to live with the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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How to Cook Children
Martin Howard
A witch’s cookbook, this is not surprisingly full of gruesome humour for those with strong stomachs. Esmelia Sniff is a world renowned witch and she knows a thing or two about the very best ways of cooking children. Follow her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/09/2011
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How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
Cressida Cowell
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Hiccup the Hero is back with a new adventure. This time the Venomous Vorpent is his enemy and it has already struck Fishlegs with the deadly Vorpentitis. Hiccup must find a way of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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How to Break a Dragon's Heart
Cressida Cowell
The hilarious world of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock 111, a Viking hero with a difference! Armed with his sword the ‘Endeavour’, Hiccup sets out to complete yet another impossible task. (This is his eighth quest and they’ve all been full of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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How to Break a Dragon's Heart
Cressida Cowell
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock 111, master of all things Heroic, has a load of new challenges to complete…Now he must complete the Impossible Task, save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast to and discover the secret of the Lost Throne....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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How To Be A Pirate
Cressida Cowell
This is side-splittingly funny, wonderfully written and sure to appeal to children from about 8 upwards.  It’s pirates with a big twist that includes a toothless dragon and a raft of peculiar people.  Enough said, it’s a laugh on every...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/07/2004
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How to be a Pirate
Cressida Cowell
Hiccup, the Viking hero in the world of entertaining and unusual adventures, is back for a new set of adventures on the Pirate Training Programme. Still being trained by Gobbler the Belch, Hiccup learns new skills to help as he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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How to be a Detective
Dan Waddell
A guide to becoming a detective. It contains what you need to know to examine a crime scene, collect evidence, identify suspects and solve the most confounding crimes - just like Sherlock Holmes.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2012
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How the World Works
Christiane Dorion
Winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Click here to see How the Weather Works by the same author. A fully interactive guide to different aspects of the workings of the world. The story of the water cycle pops up in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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How the Weather Works
Christiane Dorion
When will it next snow? This hands-on guide with opening flaps and pop-ups gives masses of information about how different weather conditions come about. Where does rain come from? Why does the wind blow? What is a climate?  Answers to...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/01/2011
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How Nearly Everything Was Invented
Roger Bridgman
This is a fantastic who, when, why and where book devoted to the exciting world of inventors and inventions through time.  Successful inventions as well as failures are featured but best of all it’s a brilliant potted history on those...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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