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e. 12 + years

Books recommended for pre-teen readers including longer novels and subjects of particular interest to this age group.

Note: Write Away does not advocate age banding of books. These categories are intended to help parents, teachers and librarians locate books but we also advise extending your search to include books that have been included in older and younger age categories. We also recognise that many books defy easy classification and so the same book will frequently appear in more than one age category.



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Fury Fury New! Featured

Synopsis: The Furies are hunters. They punish people for the crimes of their parents. And now they're coming for Melanie. They've slipped into her thoughts, into her dreams and under her skin. Her only hope is to find out the dark secrets of her mother's past - before the Furies get their revenge.

Review: Kay herself says that she was inspired to write this boo ...

Briggsy Briggsy New! Featured

Synopsis: Minnie thinks it's going to be a boring summer...then Briggsy arrives with the travelling fair. he's not like anyone she's ever met. He lives life, takes risks, and Minnie is hooked...

Review: Isla Dewar has written novels across the audience spectrum, from adults to to children. With this slim novel, originally published in 2003 as Walking with R ...

House of Many Ways House of Many Ways New! Featured

Synopsis: Charmain Baker is a thoroughly respectable girl; so respectable, in fact, as to be almost entirely useless in any practical capacity. When she is sent to look after her sick uncle’s house, disaster threatens, especially as Great Uncle William is the Royal Wizard Norland, his house is roomier and more convoluted than a London police box and there is a plot afoot to bring ...

Zenith Zenith New! Featured

The sequel to 'Exodus', this book continues Mara's story as she flees the cruelty of the sky cities to find a new homeland for the refugees of earth, in the now melting ice-lands in the north. With a growing band of friends and supporters, but also a heart-rending list of lost companions, Mara's struggle is every bit as absorbing in this second book as it was in the fi ...

Superior Saturday Superior Saturday New! Featured

Synopsis: Elton John once said that Saturday Night’s Alright for Fightin’, but Saturday Night is just one of the many things that Arthur Penhaligon would rather not fight, with Saturday herself, Superior Sorcerer of the House, topping the list. He has five of the seven keys and five parts of the Architect’s Will have been released, but it is Saturday’s machinatio ...

A Beautiful Place for a Murder A Beautiful Place for a Murder New! Featured

Synopsis: Shaun Parker is a suspect in a murder at a lonely cottage near his house – only Caroline, his girlfriend, believes in his innocence. Can they find the real murderer before the police charge Shaun?

Review: This is not just any old murder story! I must admit that crime is not usually my genre but this book was brilliantly written and I found it incredibly har ...

Death's Shadow Death's Shadow New! Featured

Synopsis: The seventh book in the DEMONATA series. The second book to focus on Bec ,where the demon hunters search for the mysterious Shadow demon.

Please note this review contains spoilers.

Review: This is the second book to focus on the female character. Bec. She is left alone with the depressed and morbid Dervish while Grubbs and Kernel go with Be ...

The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World New! Featured

Synopsis Amedeo Kaplin longs to discover something; he also wants to find a true friend. William Wilcox is an unlikely candidate, but the two boys find themselves working together on a house sale for Amdedeo's eccentric neighbour, Mrs Zender. Ever item in Mrs Zender's mansion has its own story, The boys become caught up in one particular story about a picture, a young boy, an ol ...

Exodus Exodus New!

It is 2099, and the polar ice-caps have melted, drowning most of the landmasses of Earth, and leaving only a few isolated islands of dry land remaining. But even these few islands are being eaten away by the sea and for Mara time is running out. She must persuade her fellow islanders that the rumours of vast sky cities built to survive the floods are true, and that their only hope lies in find ...

Alligator New!

Jono has a problem. He's just got himself an alligator. His mother is going to kill him. Unless the alligator gets there first.

 In this story Jono is conned into taking an alligator for a pet from a man at a car boot sale. When he takes the creature it is drugged, so sleeping quietly but when it wakes and eats all the food he has just bought from the take-away, he realises the ...


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