Secondary Class Set Books
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I Am Malala
Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 346
I Am The Minotaur (Super-Readable Rollercoasters)
Matthew is 14 and is struggling to fit in - something that's extra hard when you're taking care of your mum, being bullied at school, and have earned the nickname Stinky Mog because of your poor personal hygiene. On top of all that, he wants to catch...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 136
- MBE Code : 686
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the her talents and resilience.. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 374
I Must Betray You
Trapped by an evil dictatorship, will Cristian be forced to betray his family or will he risk everything he loves to resist? A bestselling YA thriller based on real events, from a prizewinning author.
Cristian has lived his entire life in the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 523
I Spy: A Bletchley Park Mystery
Twelve-year-old Robyn has grown up in Bletchley Park, where her father works as a driver. When she’s not at school, there’s nothing she likes more than helping her dad in the garages.
Then the war begins and everything at Bletchley changes....
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 735
I’m The King Of The Castle
‘I didn’t want you to come here.’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 226
- MBE Code : 131
If My Words Had Wings
When fifteen-year-old Tyrell Forrester gets caught up in a high-profile armed robbery, he's sentenced to eighteen months in a young offenders’ prison. Now he’s getting out, and he’s determined to turn his life around. Despite his release, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 747
Impossible Creatures
There's a place where all the wildest stories began . From Katherine Rundell, the British Book Awards Author of the Year, comes the paperback release of the first novel in the critically acclaimed, award winning, best-selling Impossible ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 710
In the Sea there are Crocodiles
One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs or weapons, don't cheat, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone at the border of Pakistan...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 395
It’s Trevor Noah: Born A Crime
Trevor Noah, host ofThe Daily Show, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa, with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child like him to exist. But he did ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 294
- MBE Code : 769
Jane Eyre (Classic Retelling)
Orphaned as a child, tormented by her guardian and cast out to a harsh boarding school, Jane Eyre has been raised in the shadow of cruelty and isolation. But when she takes a job as governess in Thornfield Hall, where secrets lurk in the attic and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 116
- MBE Code : 753
Jodie
Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in this eerily atmospheric ghost story from multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay.
Jodie never wanted to come on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 98
- MBE Code : 555
Journey to Jo’burg
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid.
Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 385
Journey’s End
Journey’s End is an unflinching vision of life, which is dedicated around the surrounding trenches towards the end of the First World War.
Concerned around a group of British officers, who are faced upon the front line in a dugout in the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 171
Julius Caesar: Oxford School Shakespeare
The most famous of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies, which uncovers a man who discovers that the consequences of a single act of violence cannot be either envisaged or controlled.
The Oxford School Shakespeare of Julius Cesar is an acclaimed ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 218
Keedie
As Keedie and her twin Nina approach their fourteenth birthday, they seem to only be growing further apart. Keedie instead feels drawn to, and fiercely protective of, their quiet younger sister Addie – who on the surface is the opposite of loud and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 615
Kensukes Kingdom
A captivating text that is sure to be loved by every drama-lover out there. The story of Kensuke's Kingdom includes beautiful new colour illustrations and tells the story of a young boy named Michael, who finds himself in the deathly struggle of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 228
Kick
Budi's plan is simple. He's going to be a star.
Budi's going to play for the greatest team on earth, instead of sweating over each stitch he sews, each football boot he makes.
But one unlucky kick brings Budi's world crashing down. Now he owes ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 296
- MBE Code : 650
Kicked Out: A Boy Everywhere Story
Kicked Out finds Ali and Sami living their dream, playing football for the school team and hanging out in their friend Mark's new luxury pool. But money goes missing and racism rears its ugly head when their friend Aadam is accused of the theft. Can...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 649
Kindertransport
Kindertransport is a modern classic which reflects one woman’s struggle to come to terms with the haunting memories of her past.
Savagely separated from her German-Jewish parents, nine-year-old Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 111
King Lear: Oxford School Shakespeare
Acclaimed to be one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, this story is opened in ancient Britain, where the elderly man, King Lear, has decided to give up his power and divide his realm amongst his three daughters Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril....
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 239
King Of Nothing (Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice 2025)
ANTON AND HIS FRIENDS ARE THE KINGS OF YEAR 9.
They're used to ruling the school and Anton wears the crown. The other kids run away when he's about but that's the way he wants it - he's got a reputation to live up to after all.
So when he gets ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 310
- MBE Code : 719
King Of Shadows
I lay very still, with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad. The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries . . .Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 224
Lark (Carnegie Medal Winner)
Carnegie winner 2020
The shattering climax to the sequence that started with Brock. Nicky and Kenny have saved all sorts of animals. But will they be able to save themselves? Things are tense at home for the brothers. Their mum’s coming to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 110
- MBE Code : 424
Leave Taking
In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn't want to be at home; staying out late - 3 p.m.-the-next-day late - is more her thing. Viv scours her schoolbooks trying to find a trace of herself between their lines.
When Enid takes her ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 520