Featured Books for 9+ readers

The Dollmaker of Krakow
R. M. Romero
September 2018 Debut of the Month | In a Nutshell: An enchantingly heartrending conjuration that weaves folklore magic with the darkness of Nazi-occupied Poland | Karolina is a living doll who's been transported from the Land of the Dolls on... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback / softback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers
Anna James
September 2018 Debut of the Month | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | Tilly loves stories and has firm favourites among their characters. She can so easily imagine conversations with Anne from Anne of Green Gables... Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 18/09/2018 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

The Skylarks' War
Hilary Mckay
The Skylarks' War is an evocative and heart breaking story of love, loss, family and friendship set in the golden years before the war and in the horrors of the trenches. Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 20/09/2018 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

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

City of Ghosts
Victoria Schwab
In a Nutshell: Ghostly goings-on | Epic adventure | Cool characters | “Ghosts are everywhere...Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.” So claims Cass, the awesomely amiable heroine of this atmospheric treat for pre-teen readers. But, in Cass's... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ 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

You've Got A Friend
Judi Curtin
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | The fantastic follow-up to Time After Time and Stand By Me. Lovereading Comment to follow. Julia Eccleshare's Picks for September: The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure by... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 31/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

My Secret Dragon
Debbie Thomas
In a nutshell: a rollicking mix of sci-fi, fantasy and mythology | Lively and cannily told, this rollicking adventure mixes sci-fi, fantasy and ancient mythology. Aidan and his mum have a secret, a very unusual one: she is part dragon,... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 20/09/2018 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

The Black Amulet
J.R. Wallis
In a nutshell: exciting, original magical adventures | In the second of the Badlands adventures, J.R. Wallis creates another tense, exciting story, underpinned by thoughtful questions about courage, free will and the temptations of power. Our three central characters, Ed/Jones,... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Atlantis United
Gerard Siggins
In a nutshell: spy story adventure and sporting action in one exciting package | A submarine ingeniously disguised as a floating island, and a state of the art training programme designed to turn five ordinary kids into sporting superstars –... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 17/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Girl with the Dragon Heart
Stephanie Burgis
In a nutshell: delicious mix of intrigue, dragons, fairies – and chocolate! | Like the first adventure in this series, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, this is a clever and inventive fantasy, with characters readers will love. This... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 09/08/2018 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

Mucking About
John Chambers
In a nutshell: Charming, funny adventure stories set in Ireland, a long time ago | Manchán is the kind of boy who loves mucking about with his best friend, regularly gets into scrapes, and is horrified at the career path... Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | 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

Johnny and the Bomb
Terry Pratchett
Rib-tickling, thought-provoking, wonderful fun with a little history thrown in for good measure. Johnny returns, with his quirky gang of friends, this time hurtling into the past on board a slightly dysfunctional time travelling shopping trolley. First published in 1996,... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/08/2018 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

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

Armistice Runner
Tom Palmer
Interest Age 8-10 Reading Age 8 | Tom Palmer celebrates the unsung athletic heroes of the Armistice in a powerful intergenerational tale of the fell-running messengers on the front-line of war. Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | 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

A Dangerous Game
Malorie Blackman
Interest Age 8+ Reading Age 8 | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month October 2018 | Former Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman tells a gripping adventure story of a school trip that goes horribly wrong. Sam longs to go on... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 15/09/2018 Info Extract Buy