Featured Books for 11+ readers

The Prince Who Walked With Lions
Elizabeth Laird
Award-winning Elizabeth Laird has an exceptional gift for telling stories that bring both other times and other countries to life. Son of a warmongering Abyssinian King, Alamayu grows up watching his father spilling the blood of his own people and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Great and Dangerous
Chris Westwood
This is the brilliant follow-up to the highly acclaimed Ministry of Pandemonium by Chris Westwood so if you've not yet read the first one then you must.  Meet Ben and Becky whose job it is to guide the souls...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Twilight Robbery
Frances Hardinge
March 2012 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Award winning Frances Hardinge’s first novel Fly By Night starred Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent. Now they are back for a thrilling new adventure in the city...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
Stunning and compulsive are two words that for me best describe the story of Fiver, of Hazel and the rabbit warren full of family and friends.  Rejected by most publishers before eventually being snapped up by Rex Collings in  the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles book 2)
Rick Riordan
From the author of the phenomenally successful Percy Jackson novels comes a terrific series set in Ancient Egypt rather than in Ancient Greece.  Rick really has his finger on the pulse when it comes to delivering what 9+ kids...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Young Inferno
John Agard
Age 9+. Winner of The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education's Poetry Award for 2009 and nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Brilliantly original, John Agard’s poetic reworking of Dante’s Inferno for a young, modern audience is a thrilling journey of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Everything's Amazing (Sort Of) : Tom Gates 3
Liz Pichon
March 2012 Book of the Month.  From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize comes the third amazing instalment of this brilliant series. This again takes the form of Tom's battered homework diary - crammed with his scribbles and stories. Totally accessible for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Under the Weather: Stories About Climate Change
Tony Bradman
Perfectly pitched for younger readers, this is a timely collection of stories about an urgent matter that will affect everyone’s future. The stories have a global perspective with different authors tackling the different consequences of the world warming up. Crucially,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Young Samurai: The Ring of Wind
Chris Bradford
With fast-paced action and non-stop adventure from page one no reader can fail to be hooked in to this terrific series set on the high seas in and around 17th century Japan.  The series will captivate young readers including the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Wildwood
Colin Meloy
March 2012 Debut of the Month. This delightful book isn’t easy to categorise. Written and illustrated by a Husband and Wife team this surreal, fairytale-like story is full of adventure and excitement – beginning with the abduction of a one...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable novel from the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award. Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008. Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008. Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year. Sympathetic, touching,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Oxford Children's Classics)
Jules Verne
Join Phileas Fogg on his epic adventure as he attempts to travel around the world in eighty days. If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told....
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Format: Hardback - Released: 29/02/2012
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Sam and Ruby's Olympic Adventure
Tony Bradman
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. An exciting time-travel story which gives special insight into the background story of the Olympics. Both badly behaved at school, Sam and Ruby hate work and do their best to avoid it. When they are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/02/2012
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The Stepsisters' Story
Kaye Umansky
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. A romping comedy of catastrophes, this version of the Cinderella story comes straight from the mouths of the step sisters. They make no apology for their terrible behaviour as they greedily pursue their own...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/02/2012
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Ghosting
Keith Gray
Interest Age Teen Reading Age 8+. A chilling and brilliant horror story, Ghosting tells how the make-believe of contacting the spirit world becomes horribly real for Sandy and her brother Nat. Taught by their Mum how to ‘talk’ to the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/02/2012
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Fox Friend
Michael Morpurgo
Interest Age 7-12 Reading Age 8+. This is a wonderfully touching and beautifully crafted story about growing up and learning about real life from an author who is widely considered to be the best teller of stories for children.  He's...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/02/2012
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Alligator: The Play
Theresa Breslin
A gripping story which catches the roller-coaster that Sam is on when he finds he has acquired an alligator as a pet! How on earth is Sam going to manage such a ferocious and hungry creature? The only place he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 14/02/2012
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After the Snow
S. D. Crockett
Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2013 A bone-freezingly brilliant and gripping novel introducing an astounding, prizeworthy new voice in YA fiction. Macmillan Children's Books Fiction Editor Emma Young said: "Everyone here at Macmillan Children's Books felt that Willo's extraordinary and endlessly...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2012
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Socks Are Not Enough
Mark Lowery
Shortlisted for the 2013 Leeds Book Award - Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012. A piece of Passion from the Publisher: We at Scholastic Children’s Books are very proud to be publishing Socks Are Not Enough by Mark Lowery. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Blade 1: Enemies
Tim Bowler
This is part one of an unmissable series.  Previously published in two parts as Blade: Playing Dead and Blade: Closing In, this is a stunning new package for this groundbreaking series. Narrated by Blade himself, be prepared to enter his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Breaking the Circle
S. M. Hall
Breaking the Circle is a highly-charged adventure which unflinchingly captures the dangers of the shadowy world of illegal immigration and drug dealing. When Maya is mugged on the way home from school she finds herself inextricably involved with her muggers...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Burning Issy
Melvin Burgess
Carnegie-prize winning Melvin Burgess brings the past to life in this atmospheric story of witchcraft in seventeenth-century England. Haunted by terrible dreams Issy has to find out about her past and about her true nature. Brought up infused with the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Gladiator 2 : Street Fighter
Simon Scarrow
A second thrilling adventure for young Marcus, now perfecting his gladiatorial skills with further training in the palace of Julius Caesar himself. Marcus’s fighting skills have gained him the role of body guard of the Emperor’s niece Portia. And still...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Gregor and the Marks of Secret
Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Marks of Secret by Suzanne Collins - the author of the blockbusting Hunger Games – is the story of a perilous fantasy adventure for young Gregor and his talkative little sister Boots, in their bid to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The Hunger Games Official Illustrated Movie Companion

Go behind the scenes of the making of 'THE HUNGER GAMES' with exclusive images and interviews. From the screenwriting process to the casting decisions to the elaborate sets and costumes to the actors' performances and director's vision, this is the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The Hunger Games (Film Tie-In Edition)
Suzanne Collins
The astonishing bestseller is now a fantastic movie. Here is the original novel with new movie artwork on the cover. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. In a dark vision of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Gates of Rome (Time Riders Book 5)
Alex Scarrow
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Keeper of the Realms: Crow's Revenge (book 1)
Marcus Alexander
This is Book one in a great new fantasy adventure series that was picked up by Puffin after it became a self publishing sensation. For Keeper of the Realms, think Lemony Snicket meets The Wizard of Oz! Charlie Keeper has been...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Mortal Chaos
Matt Dickinson
'The Butterfly Effect' - otherwise known as the scientific theory that a single occurrence, no matter how small, can change the course of the universe forever - is the central premise of this stunning debut. This heart-stopping adventure by writer,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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