After the tragic death of his mother, eleven year old Will is sent to temporarily stay with his uncle in the mountains.

Follows 12-year-old Nyla who lives in a multi-generational family and is best friends with her paternal grandmother, Farida.

Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside.

When a mysterious jinn appears at his doorstep, offering clues to his mother's whereabouts, Amir is compelled to follow Shamsa into the realm of the jinn—a world rife with deceit, challenges, and mirages.

Three friends turn their hands to amateur detective work when a neighbour is found dead after her surprise birthday party

A prehistoric girl meets a neanderthal boy which expands her world but she soon sees the prejudices of her own tribe and their inability to accept anyone who is different from them.

A girl ventures from the island she is forbidden to leave on a quest to find her friend who has gone missing.

A teenage boy who aspires to be a famous rapper finds new motivation to pursue his dreams when his family are in danger of being evicted

The story of two teenagers a generation apart, connected across time by one bullet about to devastate both of their lives.

A girl makes friends with a boy who has lived in a detention centre for refugees all his life.

A very funny, warm, engaging verse novel full of heart and emotion following Ferran through secondary school.

Classroom edition with supporting introduction and glossary for GCSE students.

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887.

A life affirming story of rehabilitation and hope after prison.

From familiar fairy tales and legends - "Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast", vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

An eleven-year-old girl's world is turned upside-down when she has to go and live with her mother in the city after her father, with whom she lives in the woods, is seriously injured in an accident.

Is Marcus's fate decided by his family? Or can he stand up for himself to become the person he really wants to be?

A trip to the cinema will never be the same when 5 friends experience 4Di films for the first time and become the characters in the films.

After the tragic death of his mother, eleven year old Will is sent to temporarily stay with his uncle in the mountains.

After the death of his grandfather, 11-year-old JJ, who has a talent for running, tries to look after his parents who have learning difficulties.

In a future world where giant mechanical animals called Constructs fight and are driven by human crews, a young teenage boy is separated from his Wolf Construct and must survive with a new crew of similarly lost youngsters

Set in Jakarta, Indonesia, a boy who dreams of being a professional football player is caught up in the criminal underworld

After Grandma Ba's passing, Priya begins to wear a magical bangle passed on to her by Ba, which renders her incapable of telling lies.

When Danny and Dom have to bail, Jay is left facing the long holiday alone, until he meets his new mysterious neighbour.

Follows the story of a young boy going into year 6, dealing with a failing friendship, an ill younger brother and his own mental demons.

Despite attending his best friend Finn's funeral, Eric starts receiving letters from him, which leads him on a madcap scavenger hunt

An autistic girl learns to be herself instead of trying to hide her condition from people around her.

Boy, Everywhere chronicles the harrowing journey taken by Sami and his family from privilege to poverty, across countries and continents, from a comfortable life in Damascus, via a smuggler's den in Turkey, to a prison in Manchester.

A boy discovers a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament while on a journey to London to try and save his father from the hangman's noose.

Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle. But when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.

When the Maharajah decides to go to England to ask Queen Victoria for help, Nush stows away on her father’s ship.

An evacuated boy builds a relationship with the gorilla at the zoo owned by the woman with whom he's been billeted.

When a mysterious jinn appears at his doorstep, offering clues to his mother's whereabouts, Amir is compelled to follow Shamsa into the realm of the jinn—a world rife with deceit, challenges, and mirages.

When Lena's beloved older brother goes missing at the end of summer camp, the bottom drops out of Lena's world.

When one of the Swift family tries to murder Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, someone has to work out who is the culprit.

Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure

Ross Molloy just wants to be normal. He doesn't want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don't know what to say to 'the cancer kid'. But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, simply blending in is no longer an option. Ross - and his friends and his family - all need to work out how to deal with this devastating challenge that Life has thrown down. Maybe Batpig can come to the rescue?

A shy and reserved girl finds she has a talent for running and represents her school at athletics but then struggles with the attention this brings her

A guide for children to help them develop their potential to the full, from Manchester United and England footballer and campaigner to end child food poverty Marcus Rashford.

A schoolboy has to flee his home when soldiers come to recruit children to join their army, and makes a perilous journey to try and find safety in England.

A young girl helps in the resistance work by members of the Grand Mosque in Paris whose bravery saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II.

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial abnormality attempts mainstream school for the first time

When Chompa's home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Chompa, born with powerful magic travels to the smoky, bustling streets of East London in search of her.

Three friends turn their hands to amateur detective work when a neighbour is found dead after her surprise birthday party

When twelve-year-old Eli's grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money to buy a magical ruby that will heal her.

A prehistoric girl meets a neanderthal boy which expands her world but she soon sees the prejudices of her own tribe and their inability to accept anyone who is different from them.

When a devastating meteor strike destroys their base, Luna is left stranded alone on the moon.

Gayla becomes trapped when floodwater pours into her bedroom in a residential centre for kids with disabilities.

Follows Kai, a young boy who blames himself for something that tore his family apart.

Zelie and Jules face a deadly race to solve a family mystery and a vicious crime that stretches from the jungles of Calcutta to the sewers of Paris.

When his father is kidnapped by people hoping to get their hands on the dangerous technology he was working on, Arun and his friends set off on a mission to save both his dad and the world.

Genetically-modified teens try to bring down the organisation that made them.

Two young teens - same donor father, different mothers who are in a relationship - strive to understand themselves and their relationships with friends and family.

A young girl picks up a book at a second hand shop and becomes drawn into the mystery behind the disappearance of its previous owner

A family find themselves the owners of stolen cash, which is about to become worthless with the introduction of the Euro.

A boy is enrolled for the task of becoming the new Giver, the person in his community who collects all the feelings and memories that they are brought up not to have.

A teenage boy who aspires to be a famous rapper finds new motivation to pursue his dreams when his family are in danger of being evicted

A collection of poems that focus on one week in a secondary school.

A bullied fourteen-year-old boy tries to get the attention of a girl in school by finding her stolen bicycle.

A girl ventures from the island she is forbidden to leave on a quest to find her friend who has gone missing.

Adult cover edition of the story about a teen girl chosen to take part in a reality show where participants must kill their competitors to win.

A 13-year-old boy in denial about his mother's terminal illness imagines sharing stories with a yew tree

A boy who lives and works on a rubbish mountain, finds a bag with money and a map, which the police are very keen to get their hands on

A German boy befriends a Jew in a concentration camp, without realising the significance of the facility

Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

An adopted girl attempts to trace her biological parents in America and establish whether she was stolen and bought as a child

A boy tries to help his friend get through his grief after the death of his father.

A 12-year-old boy's ghost watches his family in the aftermath of his death after being shot dead by a policeman.

Four women try to pull off a heist on the Titanic.

Mira blossoms to her full potential during an important rite of passage.

14-year-old Milo unexpectedly finds himself to be the new ferryman that takes the lingering Dead across the dark sea to the Island of the Broken Tower, where they can finally move on.

Fifteen-year-old Viggo becomes involved in a Viking fantasy world when his brother goes missing in Shetland.

When a terrorist attack fuels racist hatred in her area, Aaliyah begins wearing a hijab to school and decides she needs to organise a positive response to racism

Follows a girl with Autism navigating her way through life - friendship, school and family dynamics

Under threat, Tyrese and his friends set out on a terrifying journey across the island to try and uncover the Shadow Man's sinister history.

When Erik's bad behaviour attracts the wrong crowd, he's sucked into a terrifying new world of drug dealing, trap houses and violence

A sixteen-year-old girl is offered a choice between being executed for being a demon or leaving everything she knows to being a new life as a secret warrior.

Three teen boys of colour must investigate their principal's murder to clear their own names.

A boy suffering from amnesia finds himself in an encampment surrounded by wall where half robot creatures hunt the people that live there

A forensic crime thriller set in eighteenth century London.

First in an epic trilogy of verse novels set in 19th century Ghana, following a boy who is sold into slavery

The story of two teenagers a generation apart, connected across time by one bullet about to devastate both of their lives.

In a town where all the adults turn into werewolves once a month, three teenagers discover the sinister reality behind the change and set out to save their town

A 16-year-old refugee is found near to collapse and recounts her story to a kind adult, explaining how a totalitarian government in London ripped her family apart.

Follows best friends Elk and Mab as they face the fallout of an event that will change them both forever.

When Rory and Marshall find a refuge in the ruins of an old bomb shelter, a place for fun but also a respite from a tense home life, their friendship is tested after a betrayal of trust

A girl makes friends with a boy who has lived in a detention centre for refugees all his life.

Autobiography of a teenage Pakistani school pupil and education activist who survived an assassination attempt

A teenager living in the repressive regime of 1989 Romania faces the choice whether to inform on his family to save their lives.

After being killed in a car accident, a girl finds herself in a Heaven like world, where she gets younger and younger, until being re-born again as a baby

A young woman is guided by a ghost only she can see on a road trip across Zimbabwe.

The younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes determines to solve the mystery of their missing mother without the help of her two brilliant brothers.

Aspiring comedian Ibrahim is struggling with anxiety, but a new friendship with a strange girl may be the key to his troubles.

A survivor of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 shares his feelings of guilt with his granddaughter after telling her the story of what happened on that day, and subsequent days and years

A young girl travels to the capital city to compete in a competition to find the next royal tea-maker, and try to save her sister.

The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones - he's drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolutionary plans, the animals are convinced they can thrive on their own once the despot Jones is overthrown. But as the pigs vie for power, they begin to bear an uncanny resemblance to the tyrants they have overthrown...

Twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.

A twist on the Medusa myth, which tells of the ill-fated love between the cursed Medusa and mysterious Perseus.

Follows the life of an 11-year-old Ghanaian boy living in inner city London and his ill-fated mission to find the person who knifed a boy from his school.

Escaping war is only half the battle as the Kovalenko family swap Ukrainian dangers for life with a British family.

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887.

Study edition of the classic play in which a police inspector questions the members of a family about the suicide of a young woman.

'What doctor know about our illness? Just give you pills to sick you stomach and a doctor certificate. What they know about a black woman soul?'

Two sisters, who have only just learned of each other's existence, become friends when their father dies

A scholarship pupil at boarding school finds herself under suspicion when one of her fellow pupils is murdered using her short story as inspiration

A very funny, warm, engaging verse novel full of heart and emotion following Ferran through secondary school.

A collection of poems to help heal from your first breakup, to finding your family, to understand first love & to express your anger and your joy.

Sixteen-year-old Faith uses the powers of a mysterious tree that thrives on lies to uncover the suspicious circumstances of her archaeologist father's death.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

A sixteen-year-old German teenager discovers a link between his grandfather and an old man he befriends who tells him about his experiences in a youth group who resisted the Nazi regime in Germany.

A 16-year-old girl is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of her unarmed friend

A lawyer who visits a remote village on business finds the house he is staying in is haunted by a ghost.

A 17-year-old boy is thrust into fatherhood when an ex-girlfriend dumps her baby daughter on him, as well as having to resolve various issues with his dysfunctional family

Recounts the life of a young German girl in Germany during World War II.

A homeless teen boy must evade a serial killer after other homeless kids start disappearing from the streets

When Winston begins a secret relationship with his colleague Julia, he soon realises it's virtually impossible to escape the watchful eye of Big Brother

The story of 15-year old Kambili's life growing up in Nigeria during a military coup.

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives.

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels.

#Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.

Still a teenager Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage to a man twenty years older. Moved away from her childhood village, Nazneen is moved to London, not knowing a word of english and confined to her flat. This title exlpores the role of fate in our lives and traces the transformation of an Asian girl.

Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. Nella Larsen's intense, taut and psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of America's Harlem Renaissance.

From familiar fairy tales and legends - "Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast", vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

The classic, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name

Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told. I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more...

A psychiatrist struggles with his moral code against his duty while treating wounded soldiers during the First World War

Fitzgerald's classic tale of jazz-era New York and the mysterious, party-throwing millionaire Jay Gatsby.

Classroom edition including introduction and glossary for students.

Text of this classic Williams play

First published in 1953, this is Bradbury's prophetic dystopian vision of a weird but too distant future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force.

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