Featured Books for 9+ readers

Billy Bones: A Tale from the Secrets Closet
Christopher Lincoln
This is an exquisite debut novel from an author who clearly has a great talent. The Bones family are a family of skeletons who all live, rather appropriately, in a closet inside a great mansion. Little Billy Bones longs to...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2008
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Billy Bones: A Tale from the Secrets Closet
Christopher Lincoln
This is an exquisite debut novel from an author who clearly has a great talent. The Bones family are a family of skeletons who all live, rather appropriately, in a closet inside a great mansion. Little Billy Bones longs to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2009
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Bitter Chocolate
Sally Grindley
Pascal's life is like any other boy's as he worries about his English classes and his football skills - until the day rebels come to his village and everything changes. On the run with friends, Pascal finds himself at the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
A truly timeless adventure of a horse with an unbreakable spirit and a bond that eventually goes almost full circle. Animal lovers will love the story of Black Beauty even though the tears will be almost as frequent as the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/1994
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
A classic for all horse lovers. From his simple beginnings as a foal in a meadow through the ups and downs of his life including being a riding horse on a country estate and a cab horse on the busy...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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Black Beauty (with an Introduction by Meg Rosoff)
Anna Sewell
What a ride. No child can fail to laugh and cry in equal measure as they jump on for the ride of a lifetime with Black Beauty. His unbreakable spirit, strong will and determination to survive in spite of all...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2008
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Black Heart Of Jamaica (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Spirited Cat Royal, a girl with ambition and courage, is back for a fifth adventure. This time she’s on the high seas and gets caught up with pirates and a slave revolt. As ever, Cat overcomes her fears as the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2008
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Black Heart Of Jamaica (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Spirited Cat Royal, a girl with ambition and courage, is back for a fifth adventure. This time she’s on the high seas and gets caught up with pirates and a slave revolt. As ever, Cat overcomes her fears as the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2009
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Black Hearts in Battersea
Joan Aiken
A favourite book chosen by Philip Pullman: "If Ransome was Mozart, Aiken was Rossini. Unforced effervescence."
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2004
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Black Hearts in Battersea
Joan Aitken
Set in an imaginary England when King James 111 is on the throne and wolves still roam the country, this is a fabulous adventure full of imagination and surprise. Having travelled to London to become a painter, Simon finds...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2012
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Black Tide
Caroline Clough
Set in a disturbing dystopian future boys and girls alike will love this story of friendship and family ties set in a post-apocalyptic Scotland.  A young boy Toby must find his kidnapped father and sister.  His mission takes the reader...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
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Blade Of Fire
Stuart Hill
The second in the Icemark Chronicles picking up 20 years after The Cry of the Icemark with new generations of allies and enemies taking on unfinished battles for the Icemark. This very original and at times quirky novel of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2007
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Blart
Dominic Barker
Humour and madcap action by the bucket load.  You can’t fail to get the most reluctant of readers enthused about reading once they’ve been introduced to Blart, the far from average boy.  You’re in for a treat.   This is the first...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/02/2006
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Blart 2
Dominic Barker
A second story about Blart, a fifteen year old who has already saved the world from the evil Zoltab. Now Blart embarks on a second set of hair-raising adventures which he is tricked into having lost a game of Muggins...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2007
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Blart 3: The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Dominic Barker
Hilarious adventures of a reluctant hero. Blart is back for a new set of adventures. This time he is on a deadly mission to save Princess Lois – and he doesn’t even like her! Sailing across the treacherous sea he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens - retold by Gill Tavner
A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty and secrets threaten to destroy Esther’s world. Are the walls of Bleak House strong enough to protect her and her new friends from such powerful forces? Caught up in an unfolding mystery that's...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 16/11/2007
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Blood Beast
Darren Shan
Be prepared to be chilled to the bone by the latest instalment in the story of the Demonata. Grubbs Grady has managed to cheat his fate but can he keep out of its clutches forever or, will his werewolf fate...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2008
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Blood Oath (Gladiator School)
Dan Scott
March 2013 Debut of the Month Introducing Gladiator School, a series of novels set in a rich and textured world of dusty arenas, heated battles, fierce loyalty and fiercer rivalry. Follow young Lucius as his privileged life is suddenly turned...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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Bloodline
Katy Moran
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Go back in time to Dark Age Britain for this powerful story about loyalty and survival in another time. Abandoned by his father, Essa makes a new life for himself among...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2008
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Blue Flame
Katie Grant
Set long, long ago, this is an epic historical novel empassing love, war and religion. When Richard the Lionheart attacks the Occitanians they have little hope of survival. But, for any hope in the future, they must preserve the Blue...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/04/2008
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Blue Flame - Book 1 in the Perfect Fire trilogy
Katie Grant
Set long, long ago, this is an epic historical novel empassing love, war and religion. When Richard the Lionheart attacks the Occitanians they have little hope of survival. But, for any hope in the future, they must preserve the Blue...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Body
Robert Winston
Big, bold and very red – Robert Winston’s introduction to the body takes a look under the skin at all the remarkable things that happen out of sight. Blood, bones, skin, hair, lungs and the digestive system are just some...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2005
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Boom!
Mark Haddon
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Everything about this deliciously improbable adventure is almost completely daft – and that’s the fun of it all. When Charlie sets up his walkie-talkie in the staff room he doesn’t hear gossip about...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Brotherband: The Outcasts Book One
John Flanagan
This is the first in a fast-paced action adventure series that grips from the very first page.  Set on the high seas teams of boys must triumph over adversity if they are going to win the ultimate race of becoming...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Bumper Book of Nature
Moss, Stephen
This is the book that will get you and your child out of the house (away from the computer games and the TV) and into the great outdoors seeking out all sorts of exciting things to do during Spring and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Burglar Boy
Jackie Martin
We loved this book.  Perfect for keen readers and reluctant ones, in particular those aged 7 and up. Dean does what he's told by his older brother even when it involves crime, until he meets someone during a break-in who...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/05/2011
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Butter-Finger
Bob Cattell, John Agard
Cricket! Riccardo Small is mad about the game. He may not be a great player – he’s only played twice for his local team, the Calypso Cricket Club – but he knows all the facts and figures, especially about the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2006
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Butterfly Summer
Anne-Marie Conway
A gripping story which catches the importance of friendship – even when there are dark, dark secrets. When Becky and her mum return to where her mum grew up she uncovers an old photo which reveals something about her family...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2012
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Cabin Fever
Jeff Kinney
The sixth adventure. The best-selling Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley has written a new diary for all his fans. With a giant snow storm raging outside, the Heffley family is trapped inside their small holiday cabin. How can the Wimpy Kid...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2013
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Caddy Ever After
Hilary Mckay
Written in a light and witty style the ongoing sagas of the Casson family remain a must for that nearly teenage market and this one sees Caddy falling in love and getting married but not to the person everyone thinks. ...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 21/09/2006
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