Featured Books for 7+ readers

Greatest Magical Stories, chosen by Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo
Cinderella, Rumpelstilstskin, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk: these stories are in our DNA, says Michael Morpurgo in his introduction to this gorgeous new collection. They are told by some of our best authors for children and each story is... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback / softback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Elvis the Squirrel: A Bloomsbury Young Reader
Tony Bradman
Tony Bradman packs a great deal of adventure and humour into this little book, all presented in a way to make it ideal for new readers. Elvis is an impetuous young squirrel, and persuades his friend Chuck to leap onto... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Music Legends Meet 40 pop and rock stars
Herve Guilleminot
The greatest hits... The most iconic sounds... The top 40 black musicians of all time are here! Featured in: 11+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 25/07/2018 Info Extract Buy

Greek Gods and Heroes Meet 40 mythical immortals
Sylvie Baussier
Angry gods... Divine goddesses... Mere mortals in peril... The top 40 Greek gods and heroes of all time are here! Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 25/07/2018 Info Extract Buy

The People Awards
Lily Murray
Celebrate equality with this beautiful book of biographies, illustrated by Ana Albero. Fifty historical figures are awarded prizes to celebrate their famous (and less-well-known) achievements. Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 25/07/2018 Info Extract Buy

Sportopedia
Adam Skinner
Sportopedia is your ultimate guide to the diverse world of sport. From the best known to the most obscure, this guide showcases team sports, target sports, as well as track and field, aquatic sports and much more. Featured in: 11+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 29/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Plastic Pollution on Land and in the Oceans Let's Investigate
Ruth Owen
Plastic pollution is one of the most damaging environmental issues that we face today. And no one is more passionate about solving this problem and protecting our world than kids! This new tile in the best selling Fundamental Science series... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 30/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World
Alex Bellos, Ben Lyttleton
These books hit the back of the net every time as far as I'm concerned. Packed full of facts, information and insight on a range of school topics, but all of them explained through football. Subjects covered include biology, via... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

I Went Trick-or-Treating
Paul Howard
As much a game as a book, this is lots of fun to read, and lots of fun to look at too. Two little children, a boy and a girl, are all dressed up and ready to go trick or... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Wish for a Witch
Kaye Umansky
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | Kaye Umansky, the creator of the much-loved Pongwiffy stories follows up Witch for a Week with a new adventure about Magenta Sharp, a rather muddled local witch, and Elsie Pickles,... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Electronic book text | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Bolds in Trouble
Julian Clary
In a nutshell: another charming, joke-filled adventure for everyone's favourite hyena family The Bolds, for those who don't know, are a family of hyenas living disguised as humans in a quiet street in Teddington. They wear clothes and hats to... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Into the Jungle
Katherine Rundell
In a nutshell: gleaming new Jungle Book stories for today's readers | Award-winner Katherine Rundell has already taken readers on thrilling journeys over rooftops, across the Russian steppes and of course deep into the forest. She understands absolutely children's longing... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 20/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Night of the Living Ted
Barry Hutchison
In a nutshell: vampire teddies on the rampage | Always look a gift-horse in the mouth could be the message of this highly entertaining, very funny new book from master of the madcap adventure Barry Hutchinson. Lisa-Marie and her step-brother... Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
In a nutshell: princesses can be masked avengers too! | Princess Magnolia is neat, polite and very, very sweet, but when she gets a call on her monster-alarm she changes in an instant to become the Princess in Black, more... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/07/2017 Info Extract Buy

Royal Rabbits of London: The Great Diamond Chase
Santa Montefiore, Simon Sebag Montefiore
In a nutshell: daring rabbit heroes sally forth from under Buckingham Palace | Tales of the rabbit secret service that loyally serves her majesty from burrows beneath Buckingham Palace, this charming series is going from strength to strength. Someone... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 20/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Athena: The Story of a Goddess
Isabel Greenberg
Sisters Imogen and Isabel Greenberg make brilliant use of the comic book/graphic novel format to tell stories of Athena, probably the most appealing of all the Greek goddesses, weaving different myths into one coherent adventure. It starts as Athena springs... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 09/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

First Prize for the Worst Witch
Jill Murphy
In a nutshell: delightful new magical adventures for everyone's favourite trainee witch | It's over forty years since publication of Jill Murphy's first Worst Witch story but you'd never know it from reading the books; certainly this new story... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Pirate Blunderbeard: Worst. Movie. Ever.
Amy Sparkes
Set sail with the funniest pirate on the seven seas in this hilarious adventure for readers of 7+ with brilliant pictures throughout from Aliens Love Underpants illustrator Ben Cort. Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/10/2018 Info Extract Buy

The 104-Storey Treehouse
Andy Griffiths
In a nutshell: Nutty cartoon strip style comic adventures and unbeatable fun The higher Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's treehouse grows, the better. There are few books that reach such levels of absurd comedy and adventure, and the authors'... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Once Upon a Wild Wood
Chris Riddell
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | Former Children's Laureate Chris Riddell weaves a wonderful fantasy adventure around some of the best loved fairy story characters in this hugely attractive and thoroughly entertaining picture story book. Little... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 23/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Real Boat
Marina Aromshtam
Highly Commended, 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize | There are absolutely beautiful illustrations within the book, some of them exquisitely good, and the judges are excited to see what Semyinka will do next. They particularly admire the skilful change of scale... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 05/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

Curiosity The Story of a Mars Rover
Markus Motum
Shortlisted for the 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize | Motum is definitely an illustrator to watch. Though this is an information book, you feel there is a story being told, with pace and animation. His work reminded the Klaus Flugge judges... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

My Name is Not Refugee
Kate Milner
Winner of the 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize | Longlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award June 2017 Book of the Month Simple enough for the youngest child to understand and certain to prompt feelings of empathy in readers of all... Featured in: 7+ readers | 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Frights and Bites Fangs! Scream! Zombie!
Alan MacDonald
A Dirty Bertie collection to delight his legions of fans who revel in his revolting ways! Featuring nine stories from Fangs!, Scream! and Zombie! A review for Fangs! - Disgusting Dirty Bertie is back for a new set of mucky... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback / softback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Horrible Christmas
Terry Deary
The complete horrible history of Christmas tells tales from the dark days when the Puritans tried to abolish Christmas, to Christmas in the trenches when the British and Germans traded bullets for footballs. Plus dreadful jokes, rotten recipes, and a... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/10/2018 Info Extract Buy

AL's Awesome Science: Splash Down
Jane Clarke
Al's experiments have the most unexpected and messy consequences. Al is experimenting to find out what kind of covering his time machine will need to survive its Splash Down! back to Earth. Water experiments have a habit of making things... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 17/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

Martha Mayhem and the Barmy Birthday
Joanne Owen
Hilarity and magic on Martha's birthday in the third book in this young series by Carnegie and Branford Boase long-listed author Joanne Owen. Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 12/07/2018 Info Extract Buy

Once Upon a Raindrop The Story of Water
James Carter
Via simple but elegant illustrations, and a gentle sometimes playful rhyming text, this picture book passes on all sorts of information about water and its importance, while never losing the sense of the beauty of this essential element. Words and... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Race to the Frozen North The Matthew Henson Story
Catherine Johnson
Catherine Johnson celebrates a hero of Arctic discovery whose story had been forgotten for many years largely because of the colour of his skin in this exciting telling of an important true story. Matthew Henson's life at home was so... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 15/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Lost Diary of Sami Star
Karen Mccombie
Interest Age 8+ Reading Age 8 | In a nutshell: super-readable story of family, friends and fitting-in | Karen McCombie tells a big story in a short extent in this new book for dyslexia specialists Barrington Stoke, and it's one that... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 15/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Awesome Book of Space
Adam Frost
Find out hilarious, intriguing and ridiculous facts with this awesome book! Are you ready for another EPIC book from the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 (Best Book with Facts)? Ready, set, BLAST OFF! Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

People of Peace Meet 40 amazing activists
Sandrine Mirza
Dreamers... Leaders... And fighters for our rights. The top 40 people of peace are here! From Martin Luther King's dream to Gandhi's protest to Nelson Mandela's struggle, discover how each of these people dedicated their lives to making the world... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 24/04/2018 Info Extract Buy

Anty Hero
Barry Hutchison
Interest Age 8+ Reading Age 8 | In a nutshell: super-readable super-heroics | Kids who like sci-fi, a bit of super-hero action, and to laugh will really enjoy this new book. There's clearly something odd about Ant, aka Bug Boy,... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World
Alex Bellos, Ben Lyttleton
These books hit the back of the net every time as far as I'm concerned. Packed full of facts, information and insight on a range of school topics, but all of them explained through football. Subjects covered include biology, via... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Electronic book text | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Fiendish Revenge of Leroy Jones
Vivian French
Interest Age 8+ Reading Age 8 | In a nutshell: jolly and entertaining school story As ambassadors for their school Leroy Jones and Amy Strundle are getting to spend three days helping the infants with their production of Noah's Flood.... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Fantastically Great Women Who Made History Activity Book
Kate Pankhurst
August 2018 Book of the Month | Kate Pankhurst inspires thousands of young readers with her books about the fantastically great women who made history. This book reunites us with those women, including astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, dancer Josephine Baker, and code... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 09/08/2018 Info Extract Buy