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Fallout
Is Marcus's fate decided by his family? Or can he stand up for himself to become the person he really wants to be?
Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal for Writing 2025
Marcus has one brother in a youth offender centre and the other is working ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 326
- MBE Code : 805
Fight Back
Aaliyah is an ordinary thirteen-year-old living in the Midlands - she's into her books, shoes, K-pop and she is a Muslim. She has always felt at home where she lives ... until a terrorist attack in her area changes everything.
As racial tensions ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 370
- MBE Code : 543
Finn Jones Was Here
A funny, heartbreaking story about life and loss, and making every second count.
Eric's best friend, Finn Jones, was the world's biggest prankster. Now Eric can't believe Finn's not here anymore. ...Or is he?
Eric seems to be getting messages ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 654
Foxlight
Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge of the wildlands. Fen is loud and fierce and free. She feels a connection to foxes and a calling from the wild that she's desperate to return to. Rey is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 666
Funniest Boy In The World
Billy Plimpton took to the stage and captivated the crowd at the triumphant ending to The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh, and in the sequel, he’s going to go viral.
Celebrity comedian Leo Leggett takes Billy under his wing, as his new sidekick: ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 292
- MBE Code : 737
Furthermoor
The real world is a hostile place for twelve-year-old Bren, his schooldays stalked by vicious bully, Shaun, and his family life fractured at home. Ever since his sister Evie died in an accident, Bren's only safe space is Furthermoor, an imagined ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 859
Ghostlines (Shortlisted For Carnegie Medal 2026)
On the Island of Ayrie, everybody knows everyone. They know each other's stories as they know every road, every hill and the coming of the tide. In the summer, there are bonfires to celebrate the migration of the puffins. Everything is familiar, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 252
- MBE Code : 772
Go Big
Secondary school can seem scary. Corridors are wide, older students look terrifying and there's homework, messy friendships and stressful exams to deal with.
But, whether you're about to land at secondary school or you're still settling in, Mr ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 566
I Am Rebel
“I’m Tom’s dog, and he’s my human. We belong to each other.” Rebel is a good dog, and he loves his simple, perfect life on the farm with his owner Tom – until one day the war comes too close… Now Tom is determined to join the rebellion...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 837
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
If The Invader Comes
With the spectre of a Nazi invasion looming over Britain, three children are forced into an unlikely allyship in this gripping wartime tale from multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer.
June 1940 – after the devastating defeat of the British ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 817
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
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
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
Leila And The Blue Fox
She was very tired.
She lay down, her soft head on her soft paws.
The sunset licked her face.
The snow covered her like a blanket.
Fox wakes, and begins to walk. She crosses ice and snow, over mountains and across frozen oceans, encountering ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 647
Moving Up
THE title to have for kids transitioning from primary to secondary school.
Moving up from primary to secondary school can be scary. Going from being the bosses of the benches, to the youngest in a massive playground is hard.
The classrooms are ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 612
Mud Sweat and Tears Junior Edition
This is the thrilling story of everyone's favourite real-life action man - from secret childhood missions to climb the town's school buildings and steeples, to starring in his own global TV series and becoming Chief Scout to the Scouting Association....
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 342
New You Forever: Times Children’s Book Of The Week
Can you save the world by living for ever? Anders uncovers the sinister truth about Pleekas in this gripping dystopian thriller from award-winning author Steve Cole.
The year is 2070, and the New You Foundation claim to have found the ultimate ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 136
- MBE Code : 844
No Worries: Your Guide To Starting Secondary School
No Worries is the ultimate secondary school survival guide, with tips, quizzes and jokes to help children prepare.
What if I've got the wrong stuff? What if I don't fit in? What if the older kids are horrible to me?
Starting secondary school ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 649
People Like Stars
Three 13-year-old strangers are connected by one big secret. Nervous Ayrton was stolen away from his mum as a baby. He was returned safely, but now Mum won't let him out of her sight. Curious Stanley has a Forbidden Grandmother. His mum won't even ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 294
- MBE Code : 771
Popcorn (Shortlisted For Carnegie Medal 2026)
A heartfelt and laugh-out-loud-funny story about letting go of control and accepting help, interspersed with Rob Harrell's amazing spot art and comic panels that depict the real, difficult feelings of anxiety and OCD, as well as real tips for coping....
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 813
Reggie Houser Has The Power
Reggie Houser has ADHD and struggles to make friends at school, plus his mum and teachers seem constantly weary about his erratic, high-energy ways.
But when he sees a hypnotist perform on stage at the holiday park he visits, Reggie ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 276
- MBE Code : 736
Safiyyah’s War (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah’s life changes for ever.
Her best friend’s family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 582
Scavengers
Landfill has lived his whole life as a scavenger, running with wooflings, swimming with turtles and feasting on whatever he can catch.
Old Babagoo has always looked after him, on one condition. Follow Babagoo's rules. And the most important rule ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 858