Special Offers
Showing 26–50 of 285 results
AQA Study Guide: GCSE 9-1 The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
New combined revision and practice books for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to get you top marks in your GCSE English Literature essays. Introducing our brand new series of study guides written specifically for the AQA closed book GCSE ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 301
Arctic Star
Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea during the Second World War. Their ship is part of an Arctic Convoy sailing to Russia to deliver supplies to the Soviets. The convoys have to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 188
- MBE Code : 493
Armistice Runner
Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she's losing her gran to Alzheimer's. But then she discovers her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War. Could his incredible story of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 482
Asha And The Spirit Bird
Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home and her mother talks of leaving.
From her den in the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 672
Away With Words (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
Gala and her dad, Jordi, have just moved from home in Cataluña to a town in Scotland, to live with Jordi’s boyfriend Ryan. Gala doesn’t speak much English, and feels lost, lonely and unable to be her usual funny self. Until she befriends ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 585
Because Of You
Poppy's having a nightmare at home. Her parents have split up and her mum's new boyfriend is moving in. Dad is the one who's always been there for Poppy, but now he's drifting further and further away. It seems like things can't get any worse until ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 98
- MBE Code : 535
Becoming Dinah
Dinah’s whole world is upside down, dead things and angry men and cuts all over her head that are beginning to sting….
Seventeen-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 244
- MBE Code : 462
Birdsong
After a devastating car crash, Annie is unable to play her flute and retreats from the music she's always loved.
She exists in a world of angry silence – furious with her mum and furious she can't seem to play her beloved flute any more.
Then...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 104
- MBE Code : 665
Birthday
Meet Eric and Morgan. Born on the same day, at the same time, in the same place.They’ve always shared this one day together, but as they grow up they begin to grow apart. Everyone expects Eric to get a football scholarship, but no one knows he’s ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 312
- MBE Code : 463
Black And British: A Short Essential History
When did Africans first come to Britain?Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings?Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution?These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 442
Black Brother, Black Brother
Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at his school, he feels as if he is constantly swimming in whiteness. Most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbed the 'Black Brother', Donte's teachers and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 446
Blue Book Of Nebo (Yoto Carnegie Winner 2023)
Dylan was six when The End came, back in 2018: when the electricity went off for good, and the normal 21st-century world he knew disappeared. Now 14, he and his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 574
Bombs That Brought Us Together
Including the Fourteen-year-old boy, Charlie Law. Who has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all of his life.
He knows all of the rules: no going out after dark, no drinking, no litter and no fighting… Because you do not want ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 360
- MBE Code : 189
Bone Talk **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
The Philippines, 100 years ago. A boy called Samkad wants to become a man. He is desperate to be given his own shield, spear and axe. His best friend, Luki, wants to be a warrior too - but she is a girl and that is forbidden. Then a new boy arrives ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 248
- MBE Code : 226
Boy 87
Boy 87 is an original and beautifully written page-turner of a novel about love, survival and the strength that can be found in a hopeful human spirit' -- Sarah Crossan, Carnegie Medal Winner'Shif is an unforgettable character, and his story should ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 433
Boy Everywhere
This debut middle-grade novel 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 ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 648
Boy In The Tower
When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily as if they tip-toed into the world when we were all looking the other way.
Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 563
Boy Like Me
It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in UK schools. When a kind librarian leads Jamie to a disguised novel in the library that reflects his own confused feelings towards boys, Jamie sees that he's not the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 677
Brightstorm
Twins Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm receive word in Lontown that their famous explorer father has died in a failed attempt to reach the southernmost point in the world. Not only that, but he has been accused of stealing fuel before he died!
The ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 344
- MBE Code : 310
Brock
A bleakly poetic tale about one boy's determination to save a badger cub from the destructive hands of a local gang. When Nicky finds Jezbo and his gang digging up a badger set, there's not a lot he can do to save them. But one badger cub has escaped...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 72
- MBE Code : 694
Can You See Me?
With diary entries written by eleven-year-old Libby Scott, based on her own experiences of autism, this pioneering book, writtenin collaboration with esteemed author Rebecca Westcott, hasbeen widely praised for its realistic portrayal of autism.
...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 415
Cane Warriors (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
Nobody free till everybody free.Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 184
- MBE Code : 448
Coram Boy
Defined The Whitebread 2010 Book of the Year. Coram Boy is a haunting, yet captivating work of historical fiction for children. And will especially be loved towards fans of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and Goodnight Mr Tom. Plus, a great read for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 244
Crater Lake
Who is the mysterious bloodstained man who stops their coach? Why is no one around when Lance and the rest of Year Six arrive at the brand new Crater Lake activity centre? But this is just the beginning of the school trip from hell; a fight for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 252
- MBE Code : 630
Crossing The Line (2024 YOTO Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice)
'Do you feel safe?'
A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines.
Erik's life has been falling apart ever since his dad died. Homework and being good at school stop feeling important when you're the new man of the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 580