Featured Books for 9+ readers

The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
This is a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller that we’ve been raving about since it went stratospheric across the water earlier this year. Here you will meet four very unusual children each with three things in common – all...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet
Anna Claybourne
This fascinating ultimate survival handbook will teach you how to survive the world's most dangerous situations ranging from plane crashes and avalanches to jelly fish stings and snake bites. It even gives a top tip on how best to survive each of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2008
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100 Most Disgusting Things on the Planet
Anna Claybourne
This riveting book tells you everything you need to know about the most disgusting things on the planet.  With a yuck factor rating you’re told quite how disgusting something is.  Great information to share with friends.  But there’s also an...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2010
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100 Yummy Things to Eat
Rebecca Gilpin, Fiona Watt
Mouth-watering recipes will tempt young cooks into creating delicious savoury and sweet treats from coconut chicken curry to chocolate-dipped fruit. The instructions are easy to follow and the illustrations make all the creations look good to eat!
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2012
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Julia Eccleshare & Quentin Blake
Fall down the rabbit hole, take flight into Neverland, or follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City; we all remember what it was like to disappear into the imaginary worlds of the most magical and fantastic type of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2009
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101 Things You Need To Know and Some You Don't
Richard Horne, Tracey Turner
A fun and brilliantly compiled reference tool that answers all those niggly little questions that children put to adults all the time and often parents can’t answer.  This really is a one-stop shop for a child to absorb...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2006
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101 Things You Wish You'd Invented And Some You Wish No One Had
Richard Horne, Tracey Turner
Expand your knowledge of man’s accomplishments in the most compelling and irreverent way possible. Discover about some of the most important inventions the world has ever known! Masses of facts about the everyday things we take for granted are packed...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2008
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39 Clues, Card Pack 1
Rick Riordan
There are some 350 cards to collect between now and the publication of the 10th 39 Clues title in 2010.  This is the first card pack and the cards therein will help reveal the clues to help you solve the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 09/09/2008
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50 French Phrases
Susan Martineau
A great book to give every child a confident and positive head start in  learning a new language.  A fun and easy way to learn 50 important phrases. A simple, colourful game or activity practises two or three phrases at...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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50 French Phrases
Susan Martineau
From publisher B Small:  A great book to give every child a confident and positive head start in  learning a new language.  A fun and easy way to learn 50 important phrases. A simple, colourful game or activity practises two or...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/04/2009
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A Boy Called M.O.U.S.E.
Penny Dolan
An evocative and thrilling tale, set in a richly colourful Dickensian world, featuring a small boy, Mouse, whose parents are lost at sea, and whose life is threatened by the claims of his money-grabbing and debt-ridden Uncle and he is...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2010
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A Brush with the Past 1900-1950
Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes’s beautiful illustrations full of carefully researched period detail, go right to the heart of the social changes that took place in the first half of the century. Different fashions, different foods, different working practices, different dances – all...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2005
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Originally published well over 150 years ago this classic from Charles Dickens remains as important in the world of children’s literature as ever. It has captured the hearts and minds of children everywhere over generations and this marvellous new edition complete...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2006
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens - retold by Gill Tavner
Can somebody so selfish, so harsh and so horribly lonely ever change his ways? In one terrifying night, poor Scrooge is haunted by four ghosts. Will he change his ways? Weep and laugh as you read this much-loved Christmas story....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/11/2007
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
From Michael Morpurgo: "The first few pages were so engaging, Marley's ghostly face on the knocker of Scrooge's door still gives me the shivers."
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/02/2008
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge is famous for hating Christmas. He hates the celebration and the feasting, regarding it all as humbug! But then he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, as well as the ghost of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2012
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A Christmas Carol (Classics Illustrated)
Charles Dickens
The Lovereading comment: This edition of The Christmas Carol is 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. Perfect bound at a terrifically...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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A Christmas Carol (with an introduction by Anthony Horowitz)
Charles Dickens
Christmas: everyone loves Christmas except for Ebenezer Scrooge whose name has become synonymous with a miserly outlook on life. Hating Christmas as usual and doing all he can to spoil everyone else’s fun, Scrooge is visited by three ghosts one...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge is famous for hating Christmas. He hates the celebration and the feasting regarding it all as humbug! But then he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come as well as the ghost...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2012
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A Christmas Carol: The Graphic Novel (Original Text)
Charles Dickens
The original Christmas tale is brought to life in this colourful graphic novel adaptation. It is the second Charles Dickens title from Classical Comics and probably his best-loved story. Set in Victorian England and highlighting the social injustice of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 13/10/2008
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A Christmas Carol: The Graphic Novel (Quick Text)
Charles Dickens
This is the full story in quick modern English for a fast-paced read. The original Christmas tale is brought to life in this colourful graphic novel adaptation. It is the second Charles Dickens title from Classical Comics and probably his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 13/10/2008
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A Country Child
Alison Uttley
Alison Uttley has drawn on her own youth to produce these vivid and nostalgic memories of a girl growing up in the English countryside.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2000
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A Cupcake Conundrum
Kate Pankhurst
Mariella Mystery is back for a second adventure when things begin to go very wrong indeed in the finals of the Bake or Break junior competition. In her files, Mariella records all the skullduggery of the competition and her quest...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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A Darkling Plain
Philip Reeve
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2006. By Hugh (10) - It is a brilliant mix of action, suspense and emotion.  I love how you can really understand the character's feelings. Hester isn't just Hester, but a sad...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 20/03/2006
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A Dinosaur Ate My Socks
Eric Brown
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. Space fantasy, dinosaurs and a trip back in time are the elements in this dramatic story about some homework that goes a bit wild. Millie and Mouse disagree about their homework on dinosaurs: Millie...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2009
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A Girl Called Dog
Nicola Davies
Dog wasn't really a dog, she was a human girl. But she was called Dog because that is what Uncle had always called her. Dog has never been outside of nasty Uncle's pet shop. She sleeps in a box on...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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A Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH. Best-selling Roddy Doyle has written a wonderful, funny and warm-hearted family story about the dying of a granny which weaves together the lives of four generations and a little bit of ghostly mystery too. Mary’s relationship...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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A Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH. Best-selling Roddy Doyle has written a wonderful, funny and warm-hearted family story about the dying of a granny which weaves together the lives of four generations and a little bit of ghostly mystery too. Mary’s relationship...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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A Guide to Wizards Of The World
Dugald Steer
What a great way to discover the lore of wizards from the four corners of the Earth, from the knowledge of ancient European masters to the wisdom of mysterious Arabian sages, with the redoubtable Merlin as your guide. You can...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/01/2007
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A Hen in the Wardrobe
Wendy Meddour
Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2013 and one of Julia Eccleshare’s Stand-out Children’s Book of the Year 2012 Witty and warm-hearted, this is a delightful family story spiced with adventure. Everything is distinctly not normal in Ramzi’s house....
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Branford Boase Award
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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