Featured Books for 9+ readers

Faultline
Graham Marks
One teenage boy stands between civilization and outright chaos. If you enjoy reading Anthony Horowitz or Andy McNab you’ll love the fast-paced, page-turning action of Graham Marks’ thrillers.
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 30/06/2007
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Fever Crumb : A Web of Air
Philip Reeve
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Favourite Story* Philip Reeve’s epic Mortal Engines series has set the imagination of many a child completely wild since it first began.  This is the 6th novel to be set in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Fever Crumb : Mortal Engines Prequel
Philip Reeve
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010. Reeves' post-apocalyptic world where mobile cities fight for survival has brought many a child into the world of reading for fun.  Now Fever Crumb, the stand-alone prequel to the quartet and set many generations before...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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Fever Crumb : Scrivener's Moon
Philip Reeve
The next awe-inspiring adventure in the Mortal Engines series by a superb, award-winning writer at the height of his powers.  A fabulous new adventure to add to his best-selling Mortal Engines fantasy sequence. Fever Crumb, heroine of previous adventures, comes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2011
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Fever Crumb: A Web of Air
Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve’s epic Mortal Engines series has set the imagination of many a child completely wild since it first began.  This is the 6th novel to be set in the awesome world of Mortal Engines and the sequel to Fever...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Field Guide To Dragons
Dugald Steer
This is a must-have reference guide for any keen Dragonologist. It’s a book that will provide hours of pleasure and entertainment between parent and child as the evenings draw in. Templar is a small publisher with big ideas and this addition to their...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2007
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Fight Game
Kate Wild
Fans of Alex Ryder will love this new all-action hero, Freedom Smith created by debut novelist Kate Wild. Believe me, this is high-octane, mind-bending, fast-paced action adventure that will have you biting your nails and screaming for breath. The plot...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2007
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Fighting Fantasy 1: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Steve, Livingstone, Ian Jackson
The First Book in the Fighting Fantasy game book series by Ian Livingston and Steve Jackson Addictive and impossible to put down would be the quickest way to describe this series of books. Part fantasy story and part strategy...
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Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 03/06/2002
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Find Chaffy
Jamie Smart
Join in the search for the missing Chaffies! Ten loveable Chaffies have wandered off into the world and someone needs to set out and find where they are hiding! Join in the search for these delightful creatures among a graveyard...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Finding Fortune
Pippa Goodhart
This is a gripping story of a young girl's adventure following her mother's death, as she travels with her grandfather in pursuit of gold from Victorian England in 1898 to the gold rush in Klondike, north west Canada.   Combining...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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Fire Spell
Laura Amy Schlitz
A brilliant and bewitching magical adventure that's creepy with fabulous gothic storytelling. The writing is sublime, and the characters are worthy of Dickens. You could say it's Oliver Twist meets Susannah Clarke, (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell) and you...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 13/09/2012
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Fire Star
Chris d'Lacey
A research trip to the Arctic and a new book - life can't get much better for David Rain. As soon as David finds himself in the icy climes, he starts to write his story of bears, dragons and the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/02/2006
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Fire World
Chris d'Lacey
Chris d'Lacey's wonderful storytelling takes us on a journey with familiar characters - in an unfamiliar place. Evil Aunts, intriguing firebirds and a dangerous universe await in another action-packed, compelling story.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Firefight
Kate Wild
A nail-biting, fast-paced thriller and the sequel to the action-packed Fight Game featuring the dare-devil gypsy boy, Freedom Smith. An engaging character, Freedom must, without time on side infiltrate a sinister underworld where kids are disappearing. A real electrifying...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2008
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Firesong
William Nicholson
The third and final 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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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First Roman Mysteries Quiz Book
Caroline Lawrence
Caroline Lawrence’s Roman Mysteries series has been a major hit within the 9-12 market as the titles are full of humour and make history through fiction much more interesting.  Now, the author has come up with a quiz book for...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 15/03/2007
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Five Children and it
E. Nesbit
Magic and adventure are beautifully combined in this wonderful story about wishes and what ifs? Arriving at the White House for their holiday, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother set about looking for adventure by digging in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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Five Children and It (with an Introduction by Quentin Blake)
E. Nesbit
Chosen by Quentin Blake. Magic and adventure are beautifully combined in this wonderful story about wishes and what ifs? Arriving at the White House for their holiday, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother set about looking for adventure...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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Fizzlebert Stump and the Bearded Boy
A. F. Harrold
March 2013 Book of the Month  Fizzlebert Stump’s  Circus is back for a  second riotous show during which everything can – and does – go terribly wrong. The new act features the very, very hairy Barboozul family which includes Wystan,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2013
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Fizzlebert Stump The Boy Who Ran Away from the Circus (and Joined the Library)
A. F. Harrold
July 2012 Debut of the Month.  A hero with a difference! Fizzlebert Stump wants to make changes to his life. Bored with life in the circus, he is determined to run away and join…the Library! How Fizzlebert sets out to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Flambards
K M Peyton
Christina is sent to stay with her terrifying uncle and her cousins at Flambards, a rambling house in the country where riding and hunting are the most prized activities. Everything about the countryside - and her relatives -...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Flambards
K M Peyton
Christina is sent to stay with her terrifying uncle and her cousins at Flambards, a rambling house in the country where riding and hunting are the most prized activities. Everything about the countryside - and her relatives - is new...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Bookshelf Essentials | Pony Mad
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Flax the Feral Fairy
Tiffany Mandrake
A subversive story about fairies with a difference! Although Flax Lilykicker attends the Academy of Sweetness she is not cut out for life there. Not at all! While earning the Seal of Sweetness is the ambition of most of her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2009
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Fletcher Smith: Dangerous Games
Jonathan Harlen
When a cricketer can’t score runs he soon fall out of favour. Dropped from the Australian national side and all other prestigious teams, Tom Baker calls on Fletcher Smith to help him find his lucky pig’s foot. The search is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Fletcher Smith: Playing With Fire
Jonathan Harlen
A violent kidnapping needs an explanation and sports private investigator Fletcher is the man for the job. Fletcher needs to find out who would kidnap the Australian rugby coach and why? Does the danger come from another team who are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Flight of the Fire Thief
Terry Deary
If you’ve not yet introduced yourself to Deary's Fire Thief series then you must – a series that reinvents, in a more contemporary setting, the myth of Prometheus. The Fire Thief was published to much acclaim earlier this year...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 18/09/2006
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Flight Of The Fire Thief
Terry Deary
If you’ve not yet introduced yourself to Deary's Fire Thief series then you must – a series that reinvents, in a more contemporary setting, the myth of Prometheus. The Fire Thief was published to much acclaim earlier this year and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Flight to Dragon Isle
Lucinda Hare
Battles and adventures aplenty in this second book in the Dragonsdome Chronicles series which began with The Dragon Whisper and is followed by Dragon Lords Rising.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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FLIPS: Artemis Fowl (Nintendo DS)
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer’s terrific series featuring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has been acclaimed as ‘Die Hard with fairies’!  Now that his father has disappeared Artemis must take charge and rebuild his family fortune. Full of lots of interactivity this...
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Format: - Released: 04/12/2009
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FLIPS: Cathy Cassidy (Nintendo DS)
Cathy Cassidy
Friends and relationships are the hallmarks of Cathy’s stories as she portrays her characters and their friendships particularly well.  The plot lines are easy to get into and there’s often a subliminal message too within the story. They’re cracking, fast-paced...
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Format: - Released: 04/12/2009
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