Featured Books for 11+ readers

What You Need to Know Now: The World in Facts, Stats and Graphics

Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Best Book with Facts. Stuffed full of completely up-to-date statistics, graphics and facts, this is a bumper information book about what is going on in our planet and why. Masses of information about...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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The Uniform
Tommy Donbavand
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. This is a gripping horror story that interweaves themes of bullying and about fitting in. STOP PRESS ! The votes are in....and Hackney pupils have declared The Uniform winner of the 2011 Hackney Short Novel...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 16/06/2010
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Samurai
Ian Beck
Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. This is a beautifully written retelling of a traditional Japanese myth, brought vividly to life by some stunning graphic novel-style illustrations by the award-winning Ian Beck.  This series - Reloaded - from Barrington Stoke...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2010
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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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Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears (8)
Anthony Horowitz
As exciting as ever with even more action and suspense, boy hero Alex Rider is back for his eighth spectacular adventure.  When Alex finds himself in great danger he turns to MI6 for protection. They are willing to help –...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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The Battle of the Sun
Jeanette Winterson
A rollercoaster of a seventeenth century adventure begins with Jack’s dramatic kidnapping on his twelfth birthday. Jack’s been selected as the Radiant Boy and the evil Magus needs to get his hands on him so that he can turn London into a city...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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Bitter Chocolate
Sally Grindley
Pascal's life is like any other boy's as he worries about his English classes and his football skills - until the day rebels come to his village and everything changes. On the run with friends, Pascal finds himself at the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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Gullstruck Island
Frances Hardinge
A hugely imaginative and inventive fantasy, Gullstruck Island is the wonderful creation of a whole new world in which some of the strangest things happen. Arilou is a Lost, a special child who has the ability to mind-fly with the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Kisses for Lula
Samantha Mackintosh
A hilarious, hectic, full-on diary saga as Tallulah Bird, aka Lula, faces up to turning sixteen in just five days without ever having been kissed! And it is not for lack of trying. Lula seems to be jinxed. At least,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Missing, Believed Crazy
Terence Blacker
Fun to read, this is a cleverly constructed narrative of different voices all telling their version of the same story. Students at Cathcart College, an exclusive boarding school, plan a novel way of raising money for charity. The kidnapping is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Striker 1: Sudden Death
Nick Hale
Football and international espionage fuse brilliantly together in this tense and action packed story. When Jake’s father, England team coach Steve Bastin moves to Russia to train a top price, top quality team, he is suddenly at the centre of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud
Andrew Lane
MEGA BOOK OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2010.  Two dead bodies. One unforgettable hero.  The beginning of a legend.  Followers of the young James Bond and junior spy Alex Rider will enjoy the adventures of school boy Sherlock Holmes who...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud Audio CD
Andrew Lane
Followers of the young James Bond and junior spy Alex Rider will enjoy the adventures of school boy Sherlock Holmes who already shows many of the trademark skills that later make him a world renowned detective. Sent to live with chilly relatives in...
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 04/06/2010
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Airhead: Runaway
Meg Cabot
From the author of the hugely successful Princess Diaries, this trilogy for 11+ year olds featuring two girls, one of whom finds herself inside the body of the other and doing things she could never imagine doing.  Now Em,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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The Enemy (The Enemy series 1)
Charlie Higson
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010.  A thrilling story of survival against the odds in a world in which adults have been killed or brain-crazed leaving only children under fourteen and with no one to look after them.  How...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Artemis Fowl: Book 1 (Puffin Modern Classics)
Eoin Colfer
Winner of the Puffin of Puffins. Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 2000 - 2009. Although only twelve years old, Artemis Fowl is already famous as a criminal master-mind. But, when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechaun...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles
Rosemary Sutcliff
A welcome return of a classic story of loyalty and bravery at the time of the Romans. Brought up the stories of his father’s heroism and speculation about how he and his 5,000 soldiers disappeared without trace, Marcus sets out...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Day of Deliverance (A Jack Christie Adventure 2)
Johnny O'Brien
The exciting second installment of the Jack Christie adventures (following Day of the Assassins) sees time-travelling Jack and Angus back in the fray of history – this time they must save Queen Elizabeth I from an early death!
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Format: Board book - Released: 01/06/2010
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Off Road to Everywhere
Philip Gross
Age 9+. Winner of the CLPE Poetry Award 2011 , which honours excellence in poetry written for children. Reviewed and selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin: Already an established poet and winner of the T. S. Eliot prize, Philip Gross...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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The Moonstone Legacy
Diana De Gunzburg, Tony Wild
Beginning where Wilkie Collins’ classic left off, it’s hard to believe The Moonstone Legacy is a debut  for the quality of the writing is exceptional and has a real timeless quality about it.  The story itself is a terrific mix...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 31/05/2010
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Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Nominated for a prestigious Nebula Award 2010 - the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. This is an incredibly original and thought provoking novel. Think Europe 1914 -...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Operation Ocean Emerald
Ilkka Remes
A tense, action-packed thriller, this will grab the reader’s attention from the first moment and hold them spell bound as the dramatic action unravels. Luke is hoping for a small reward when he boards the luxury cruise ship Ocean Emerald...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Secrets at St Jude's 4: Rebel Girl
Carmen Reid
The four feisty friends from St Jude’s are back for a new term of dramas. These girls have glamorous homes and loads of money but it doesn’t protect them from the ups and downs of new relationships, the ubiquitous desire...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and in tears the next as the author explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Mr Stink
David Walliams
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Best Book of the Decade. A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010. Galaxy Children's Book Award shortlist 2010.The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Spook's Nightmare (Wardstone Chronicles 7)
Joseph Delaney
This is the terrifying seventh title in the Wardstone Chronicles about a young 13 year old boy training to be an exorcist. Ideal for readers who have outgrown Harry Potter, but be prepared the titles are very scary so for...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Vampire Blog (The Vampire series Book 1)
Pete Johnson
On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus Howlett is faced with a bombshell. His parents are half-vampire. And, although he hates the thought of it, he is about to become one too. But, as he secretly blogs about the horrors of his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Calling a Dead Man
Gillian Cross
A tense thriller set against a frozen background of Siberia. Two girls set out to uncover the mystery surrounding the apparent death of John Cox. Finding his mobile, they begin a deadly dangerous mission to find their missing friend.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Conspiracy 365: May
Gabrielle Lord
A terrific series of 12 books, published one a month during 2010, this is the fifth title in a page turning adventure which began when 15 year old Callum was hunted down by a crazed man carrying a deadly warning.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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The Glass Swallow
Julia Golding
Two strong minded young people battle against the prejudices of their countries in this gripping adventure set in a strongly realised imaginary world. Rain is the talented daughter of a glass maker. Her father uses her skills to create his...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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