Featured Books for 9+ readers

The Vampire of Croglin
Terry Deary
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+.  A comical mystery from one of the UK’s best known novelists, Terry Deary. Be prepared however, for fear will also run through your veins in a plot so sinister and frightening that you will...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 22/05/2008
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The Victory Dogs
Megan Rix
April 2013 Book of the Month London in the Blitz is not a place for dogs! With bombs dropping and building collapsing, nowhere is safe. But Bark and Howl, two puppies born on the London underground know little else. Lost...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events 7)
Lemony Snicket
This bestselling series (in fact in the top five of bestsellers of the last decade), now at long last available in paperback. More terrifying than a mob, and almost as ill-tempered, this is the seventh in the series.  The miserable lives...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C. S. Lewis
This delightful book is a celebration of the first edition, with original beautiful artworks, a real treasure for any Narnia fan! A King and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Film tie-in edition
C. S. Lewis
This year sees the launch of the most exciting Chronicles of Narnia film yet and HarperCollins have published a beautiful tie-in edition of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The intrepid Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia -- with their...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2010
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The War of the Worlds
H G Wells - retold by Eric Brown
With the original first published over 100 years ago this retelling of The War of the Worlds will once you've read it make you realise how fragile a world we live in and the threat to extinction hangs over us...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2009
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The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett
First published in 2003, The Wee Free Men is the second story in the Discworld series for young readers. The Queen of the Elves has another attempt at invading the Discworld, by stealing children and infesting dreams. However 9-year-old Tiffany...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2004
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The Well Between the Worlds
Sam Llewellyn
From the pen of a very talented author whose writing is of the highest quality comes a book that is full of magic and intrigue, myth and environmentalism in a land that was once green and pleasant but whose land...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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The What on Earth? Wallbook : From the Big Bang to the Present Day
Christopher Lloyd
With more than 1,000 pictures and captions depicting millions of years of evolution, the rise and fall of civilisations, the top 100 battles and on the reverse, the story of planet, life and people from the Big Bang to the...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Fascinating Facts
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2011
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The What on Earth? Wallbook of Natural History From the Dawn of Life to the Present Day
Christopher Lloyd
With more than 1000 pictures and captions depicting millions of years of evolution, the rise and fall of civilisations, the top 100 battles and on the reverse, the story of the planet, life and people from the Big Bang to...
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Format: Novelty book - Released: 20/10/2011
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The What on Earth? Wallbook of Sport : From the Ancient Olympics to the Present Day
Christopher Lloyd
Everything you want to know about all sports from the original Olympics to the present day is crammed into the attractively busy pages of this vast wall chart. Fun to browse but also hugely informative, this chart deserves a place...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/05/2012
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The White Giraffe
Lauren St John
The White Giraffe is Lauren St John’s stunning debut novel about a young English orphan, Martine, sent to live on a South African game reserve with a grandmother she never knew existed.  Rich with the scents, sounds and intoxicating magic...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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The White Horse Of Zennor
Michael Morpurgo
From former Children's Laureate and award-winning author Michael Morpurgo comes "The White Horse of Zennor", reissued with a beautiful new cover.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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The White Wand
Martin Howard
9 +. Esmelia Sniff and her much more talented apprentice Sam are back in the second volume of the much-praised Witches at War! series. Armed with the Black Wand, evil Diabolica Nightshade is creating an army of witches to take...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 18/10/2010
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The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop
Kate Saunders
A bewitching, bewildering, hilarious and absolutely irresistible magical adventure. A wonderful new life begins for Oz and Lily when their father inherits the family chocolate factory from a long lost uncle. Moving into their new home, Lily knows at once...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The Wickedest Witch in the World
Kaye Umansky
Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ This wonderfully witchy story from best-selling author Kaye Umansky gives a new gloss to the story of Hansel and Gretel. This time, it is told by the witch herself.Having just won the Wickedest Witch Contest,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
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The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events 3)
Lemony Snicket
More destructive than a hurricane, and almost as damp.  The third in this bestselling series (in fact in the top five of bestsellers of the last decade), sees the Baudelaire children moved to their third guardian, Aunt Josephine, who lives...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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The Wild Weather Book Loads of Things to Do Outdoors in Rain, Wind and Snow
Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield
A celebration of the outdoors and all the fun things you can do in it in all kinds of unpropitious weather! There’s practical advice about how to build a shelter and make a fire so that you don’t get too...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Out and About
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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The Willoughbys
Lois Lowry
A really quirky and completely original tale of villains, benefactors, abandoned infants, winsome orphans and diabolical plans.  The kids in the Willoughby household – four of them, plot how best to become orphans, for their parents are not what they’d...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2009
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The Willoughbys
Lois Lowry
A really quirky and completely original tale of villains, benefactors, abandoned infants, winsome orphans and diabolical plans.  The kids in the Willoughby household – four of them, plot how best to become orphans, for their parents are not what they’d hoped for; at...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Friendship, hospitality and having fun propel the adventures of these four animals as they go about their lives against the watery landscape in this classic tale.Life on the riverbank with close-friends Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger is mostly peaceful. There...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The classic story of Ratty, Toad and Badger – three friends who live on the riverbank – is full of adventure, excitement and wonderful characters. David Roberts’ illustrations bring a touch of sophistication to the familiar story and capture perfectly...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2012
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The Wind in the Willows (Illustrated by Robert Ingpen)
Kenneth Grahame
This timeless tale has never been out of print and remains one of the best loved children’s titles in English literature.  Grahame’s wonderful imagination and quiet humour continue to charm children and adults alike and this edition is beautifully complemented...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Children's Classics
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2007
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The Wind Singer
William Nicholson
The first book in the Wind On Fire Trilogy. A richly imagined fantasy trilogy set in a world with strong and rigid conditions which are about to be crushed! Once Kestrel has learnt the secret of the Wind Singer she...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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The Wish-Bringer
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Award-winning Geraldine McCaughrean tells more heart-warming stories as she brings to life the charming but impish little character Montecello, an orphan who haunts the streets of his birthplace Naples, sometimes bringing joy and sometimes playing tricks, according to his mood...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2012
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The Witch's Boy
Michael Gruber
Abandoned in the forest as a baby, Lump is adopted by a witch and grows up knowing nothing but love. He is nursed by a bear, waited on by a djinn and has only a cat to talk to. The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2006
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The Wizard of Crescent Moon Mountain Elven Resurrection
Oldman Brook
Inspired by the a number of authors including Tolkien and Pullman the author, Oldman Brook has created a highly original story that will captivate readers aged 10+. It's the story of Elven boys, Finn and Beezle who enter a time...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/07/2012
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The Wizard Of Earthsea
Ursula K Le Guin
This tale of wizards and dragons features the character of Sparrowhawk. Tempted by pride to try spells beyond his powers, Sparrowhawk lets loose an evil shadow-beast. Only he can destroy it and so he begins a quest which leads him...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/1971
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The Wizard Of Oz (with an Introduction by Cornelia Funke)
L Frank Baum
Follow the yellow brick road with Dorothy and her dog Toto into a magical world that unfurls before you. A classic with more magic on every page than almost any other book and appropriately enough the contemporary author who comes...
Featured in: 9+ readers | Children's Classics
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2008
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The Wolf Princess
Cathryn Constable
Shortlisted for the National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year 2012 and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Exciting, atmospheric, romantic and stylish, The Wolf Princess marks a welcome return to the comfort of traditional storytelling.  Steeped in history and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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