Featured Books for 9+ readers

Song Hunter
Sally Prue
Mica is different from the rest of her people. They are content simply to survive, but Mica wants something more, something extraordinary, something just out of reach ... At night she hears mysterious voices calling. Mica is determined to find...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2013
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Song Quest
Katherine Roberts
From the Isle of Echoes the forces of good and evil are held in harmony by those who hear and sing. When a mainlander's ship is wreeked and the Merlee half creatures are heard crying across the waves the lives...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2012
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Sophie and the Shadow Woods : The Goblin King
Linda Chapman, Lee Weatherly
Exciting new six book character-led series for 7+ girls who love adventure! Very few people ever enter the Shadow Woods, for these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is the Gateway to the Shadow Realm, a dark...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
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Soul Eater: Book 3 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Michelle Paver
Hugh (11) - Once I had picked up the book I could not put it down and I read till long past my bedtime and every morning. I was in Torak’s world all day and in my bed I go...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2006
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Soul Eater: Book 3 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Michelle Paver
Hugh (11): Once I had picked up the book I could not put it down and I read till long past my bedtime and every morning. I was in Torak’s world all day and in my bed I'd go over what...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 07/06/2007
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Soul Eater: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness 3 CD-Audio
Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Soul Eater.
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 07/09/2006
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Space Blasters
Philip Caveney
This action-packed adventure is perfect for all those who have imagined what space might be like. The launch party for a space adventure movie Space Blasters goes bizarrely wrong when Mr Lazarus, the mysterious man who has helped Kip and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Space: Insiders series

This impressive series uses state-of-the-art 3D illustrations that seem to rise before you with every turn of the page, to bring factual subjects to life, stimulating minds and imaginations. Packed with facts, presented in an easy-to-read text, fact panels, labels,...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Fascinating Facts
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2008
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Sparks
Ally Kennen
The best kind of headlong, page turning adventure, Sparks races along at breakneck speed as three children set abut the audacious task of fulfilling their grandfather’s dreams by giving him a Viking funeral! Hilariously funny and also full of deeply...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Spider Moon: Part of the DFC library
Kate Brown
The dramatic illustrations of this powerful graphic novel convey the tension of a world in which a prophesy looks horribly likely to come true. The fates have decreed that Bekka’s world will be destroyed by the falling sky which will...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me
Joanna Nadin
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Lovereading4kids comment: Billy Grimshaw thinks the world of his dad. He hasn’t seen him for ages, but Billy knows he’ll be home as soon as he can get away from his important...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/12/2010
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Spilled Water
Sally Grindley
One girl’s courage in the face of apparently insuperable odds, Spilled Water is an emotionally charged story which is both shocking and moving. Lu Si-Yan is only 11 when her father dies but it is to be the beginning of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2005
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Spirit Walker: Book 2 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Michelle Paver
This is a worthy second novel in the CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS trilogy, the first was Wolf Brother that we praised so highly earlier this year.  Non-stop action on every page dovetails beautifully with heart-stopping narrative and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2006
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Spirit Walker: Book 2 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Michelle Paver
Dazzling entertainment, seamless storytelling - the second adventure in Torak's quest to vanquish the terrifying Soul-Eaters.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2005
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Spirit Walker: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness 2 CD-Audio
Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Spirit Walker.
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 07/09/2005
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Spook School: Curse of the Rat-beast
Pete Johnson
In this the second in the series Charlie loves being a spook but his latest mission is his most baffling too because he must work out what a giant rat that’s haunting boys down on Earth is really up to....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Spook School: Horror from the Deep
Pete Johnson
In this, the third spook school, Charlie and Lewis have been so successful in their Spook Squad assignments that it’s earned them a holiday on Earth but when they get there they find themselves on the trail of a very mysterious ghost. This is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Spook School: Lair of the Mothman
Pete Johnson
A fantastically humorous series from a widely admired children’s author who really knows how to get readers hooked on reading. With black and white illustrations throughout the series can’t fail to inspire. Dare you join Charlie and his friend Lewis...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Spook School: Revenge of the Stink-Monster
Pete Johnson
Welcome to Spook School...where the pupils have bags of spirit! It's exam time at Spook School, and Charlie and Lewis's last exam is their toughest: they have to solve a baffling and very spooky mystery on Earth - in just...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/08/2010
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Spy Another Day
Philip Caveney
May 2012 Book of the Month.  The thrills and spills of Kip's movie adventure in Night on Terror Island were an experience of a lifetime but they have left their mark on him, unlike his friend Beth who despite also being shaken and stirred...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Spyology
Dugald Steer
Spying is a natural for an ‘ology’ approach. The story of Spencer Blake, a British spy working with Russian and American partners to track down a criminal gang, is a gripping one. The mission it covers involves travelling from Scotland...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 08/11/2008
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Starring Tracy Beaker
Jacqueline Wilson
New adventures for Tracy Beaker while she’s still in The Dumping Ground.  Tracy loves acting and is determined to get a part in the school Christmas play. Will they let her have a part despite her bad behavior? Amazingly, Tracy...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Sterling and the Canary
Andy Stanton
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. Prize-winning Andy Stanton injects his trademark humour into this hilarious story about a teenage love affair. From the first moment he sees new girl Lizzie Harris, Sterling Thaxton knows he must go out with her....
Featured in: 9+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2011
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Stick Dog
Tom Watson
January 2013 Debut of the Month  Originally self-published as an e-book, Stick Dog has been a bestseller in the US throughout 2011 and is now published in the UK. With hilarious illustrations and pitch-perfect humour which appeals to both child and adult,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2013
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Sticky Ends
Jeanne Willis
Age 7+. Twenty six fabulously funny modern cautionary tales are wittily illustrated by Tony Ross in this vivid and entertaining collection. The sticky ends of the title bring delightful surprises to verses about the truly disgusting nature of school dinners,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Stig Of The Dump (Puffin Modern Classics)
Clive King
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1960 - 1969 Published over 45 years ago and yet as relevant today as it was then. This is a book that will captivate the imagination of a 7 or 8 year old – in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Stitch Head
Guy Bass
If you liked Marcus Sedgwick's The Raven Mysteries, you'll love this ! Gruesome and scarily witty, this is the spooky story of Stitch Head, a lonely almost-human creature made by a mad professor in the sinister Castle Grotesque. Almost lost...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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Stitch Head and the Pirate's Eye
Guy Bass
If you love adventure, mystery and gothic stories complete with plenty of humour and wacky, sometimes frightening characters including monsters and a mad professor, then this is the book for you.  Add in Stitch Head, a little boy -...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
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Stoneheart
Charlie Fletcher
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007. What the judges’ said: Based on a brilliant idea of a parallel London.  The author has a pitch-perfect  way with dialogue, a real subtlety of depth of character and the reader...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 19/10/2006
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Stoneheart
Charlie Fletcher
When George furiously punches off the head of a stone dragon, he unleashes an ancient power that brings the statues of London to life. Pursued by a pterodactyl released from a frieze, George is hunted through a thrilling adventure full...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/09/2007
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