Featured Books for 9+ readers

A Year without Autumn
Liz Kessler
Jenni and Autumn have always been best friends, but a tragedy looms that will leave their friendship in tatters - unless Jenni can find a way to escape time and change the future.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Abela
Berlie Doherty
An eye-opening book, Abela is the touching and profound story of two girls who apparently have nothing in common. The two girls tell their own stories. Abela, growing up in Tanzania, is surrounded by suffering. Her father has already died...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Abominators and My Amazing Panty Wanty Woos
J. L. Smith
For fans of Wimpy Kid comes a side-splittingly funny new series following mischievous gang The Abominators and their unlikely sidekick, posh boy Cecil Trumpington-Potts.   A small number of our readers were lucky...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/01/2013
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About Zooming Time, Opal Moonbaby!
Maudie Smith
Opal Moonbaby is spending a year on Earth. A whole year! Martha can't wait to take her to school, to introduce her to her friends and to recreate all the fun they had during the summer. But things don't turn...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Absolutely Useless Lists for Absolutely Every Day of the Year
Philip Ardagh
From Public Enemies to St Paul’s Cathedral, every one’s fascination with lists will be satisfied once they’ve digested the 366 included in this attractive, chunky book.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2007
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Adam and the Arkonauts
Dominic Barker
A fantastic new hero, and equally brilliant villain, from the master of both is coupled with hilarious one-liners and dialogue.  Plenty of intrigue, a dastardly plot in which the evil professor Scabelax, seeking nothing less than world domination of not...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010
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Adventure Island 1 : The Mystery of the Whistling Caves
Helen Moss
Cracking adventures on the island of Castle Key are at the heart of this exciting series. Jack and his brother Scott are sure their holiday in this remote location in Cornwall will be dull. But, how wrong can they be?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Adventure Island 2 : The Mystery of the Midnight Ghost
Helen Moss
Cracking adventures on the island of Castle Key are at the heart of this exciting series. Jack and his brother Scott are sure their holiday in this remote location in Cornwall will be dull. But, how wrong can they be?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Adventure Island 8 : The Mystery of the Drowning Man
Helen Moss, Roy Knipe
Cracking adventures on the island of Castle Key are at the heart of this exciting series. Jack and his brother Scott are sure their holiday in this remote location in Cornwall will be dull. But, how wrong can they be?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Adventures Of Odysseus
Hugh Lupton, Daniel Morden
One of the world’s greatest adventures and adventurers is brought to life incredibly vividly for a younger generation to enjoy and draw inspiration from.  Children and adults will enjoy the shared experience of reading this wonderful retelling of one of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2006
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Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer seems to be unable to avoid trouble. Wherever he is, he seems to be doing something adults don't approve of. But Tom is smart: he knows better than most how to slide out of sight when the big...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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African Adventure
Willard Price
Matt Dickinson, our Guest Editor for January 2013 - Ah! It is probably just a teeny bit dated by now but (predictably given my later wanderings as a film maker) the Willard Price adventure series ticked all my twelve-year-old boxes for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/05/1993
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Airman
Eoin Colfer
A fabulous blood racing story that blends adventure, fantasy, history and science fiction and then dusts it with humour: Conor’s destiny is to fly but no one knew that all too soon he’d be flying for real – to save...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Aldo Moon and the Ghost at Gravewood Hall
Alex Woolf
Written in a wonderfully eloquent style, this is a ghost story full of scares and psychic phenomena. Aldo Moon is a foundling with a mysterious past and emerging psychic abilities. Together with his assistants, Lily Morelle, a science-mad practical girl and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2013
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Alex Rider The Gadgets
Anthony Horowitz
Contains fold-out blueprints of the gadgets used by the teen superspy in Anthony Horowitz's series. This work includes information from the first six books and technical specifications of the gadgets used in the series, as well as classified memos and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2006
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Alex Rider: Ark Angel (6)
Anthony Horowitz
Ever since Anthony Horowitz introduced his boy hero Alex Rider in Stormbreaker he has had a series of sure fire winners on his hands. With the panache of James Bond restrained only by his age, Alex Rider acting as a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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Alex Rider: Eagle Strike (4)
Anthony Horowitz
Reluctant teenage super sleuth Alex Rider fights clever and ingenious villains and meets plenty of pretty girls whilst trying to decode a secret operation of a madman named Gregorovich. Every chapter is left on a knife edge, perfect for reading...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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Alex Rider: Scorpia (5)
Anthony Horowitz
The fifth revelation-packed mission in the Alex Rider series. Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage MI6 superspy, Alex Rider, is determined to find out more. Travelling to Italy, he manages to infiltrate the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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Alex Rider: Skeleton Key (3)
Anthony Horowitz
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Best Book of the Decade. More edge of your seat thrilling action from one of the masters of suspense in children’s fiction.  Super spy Alex Rider is in deep water again as he is enlisted by...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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Alex Rider: Snakehead (7)
Anthony Horowitz
Undercover in a poisonous world, teen spy Alex Rider is back for another adrenalin rush adventure that will have all addicts of high-octane action and adventure clamouring for it. Guaranteed to enthral. Why not also check out the audio...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/04/2008
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Alex Rider: Stormbreaker (1)
Anthony Horowitz
A fabulous story that crackles with suspense and daring and shows that a bit of cheek will take you a very long way. Alex Rider is fourteen when his whole world is turned upside down. Already an orphan, his guardian...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Bookshelf Essentials | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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Alice in Wonderland (Book of the Film)

From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes a magical re-imagining of one of the most beloved stories of all time. Mia Wasikowska stars as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
How Alice falls down the rabbit hole and the extraordinary world where nothing is quite as it at first seems, is a classic children’s book whose influence has been felt for over a century. This unabridged edition is beautifully produced...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The story of Alice's fall down the rabbit hole and the extraordinary experiences she has there is one of the best known of all the classics. Everything is Wonderland is curious and different; there's the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Illustrated by Robert Ingpen)
Lewis Carroll
The classic story of how Alice falls down the rabbit hole and enters a strange topsy-turvy world in which nothing it quite what it seems to be is given a dreamy, soft focus in Robert Ingpen’s illustrations. What Alice finds...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2009
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (with an Introduction by Chris Riddell)
Lewis Carroll
A book that’s chock full of great conversations between Alice and some extraordinary animals, ranging from the pipe-smoking caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, to the March Hare and the sneezing Duchess.  For Chris Riddell, who has written the Introduction...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2008
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Alien Schoolboy's Z-A Guide to Earthlings
Ros Asquith
November 2012 Book of the Month & Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, this hilarious series goes from strength to strength. In this forth title, The Aliens exploration of earthlings’ speech reveals the foibles of the English language - capturing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Alien Storm
A.G. Taylor
A gripping science-fiction adventure pits a group of kids with super powers against a mysterious Russian billionaire. Infected by an extraordinary virus from a meteor storm, Sarah, Robert and the younger children in their charge are now at risk from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2010
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Alien Timebomb
David Donohue
Walter Speazlebud, the ordinary boy with extraordinary powers who can spell backwards and travel back in time, returns for a new adventure! It’s a cconspiracy theory with a twist: the aliens want to save us from ourselves!  It’s sure to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Alienography Or: How to Spot an Alien Invasion and What to Do About it
Chris Riddell
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011:  Most Fun Story with Pictures* Prize-winning illustrator/ author Chris Riddell has created a fabulous cast of strange creatures and the unusual antics they get up to in a brilliantly imagined and conceived world....
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2010
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