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  • This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work: Volume 1

    This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work: Volume 1

    • Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand
    • Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9780711245204
    • Published: 07-01-2020

    Recommended by Oprah's Book Club, The Guardian, TIME, Evening Standard, Grazia, The Telegraph, Express and The SunWho are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resista...

  • A Double Detectives Medical Mystery: The Cure for a Crime

    A Double Detectives Medical Mystery: The Cure for a Crime

    • Roopa Farooki
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192773593
    • Published: 02-01-2020

    Twins Ali and Tulip have grown up with a surgeon mother and so have picked up lots of knowledge of first aid, medicine, and the ways of the hospital-they even know where the secret biscuit drawer in A&E is. When their mother becomes unnaturally sleepy and forgetful, they become suspicious...

  • The Girl Who Stole an Elephant

    The Girl Who Stole an Elephant

    • Nizrana Farook
    • Nosy Crow Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781788006347
    • Published: 02-01-2020

    Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen's jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang? 'The...

  • When Sadness Comes to Call

    When Sadness Comes to Call

    • Eva Eland
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781783447954
    • Published: 02-01-2020

    Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize 2020 and the V&A Book Cover Award 2020!When Sadness arrives, try not to be afraid: give it a name, listen to it and spend some time together. Maybe all it wants is to know that it's welcome. This beautiful debut by author-illustrator talent Eva Eland takes...

  • The Mask of Aribella

    The Mask of Aribella

    • Anna Hoghton
    • Chicken House Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781912626106
    • Published: 02-01-2020

    Perfect for fans of The Thief Lord!Aribella lives in Venice, the daughter of an impoverished lace-maker. But she has a deadly secret: when angered, sparks shoot from her fingertips. Unable to keep her power hidden, she flees - but when dark spectres rise from the lagoon, the fire in her hands...

  • The Boy Who Fooled the World

    The Boy Who Fooled the World

    • Lisa Thompson
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407185132
    • Published: 02-01-2020

    Telling a little white lie now and then is harmless, right? But what if it leads to you being a household name and international celebrity? Cole is the boy who fooled the world and finds himself trapped in a huge web of lies... can he break free? The brand new, read-in-one-sitting mystery from...

  • The Proudest Blue

    The Proudest Blue

    • Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hatem Aly, S. K. Ali
    • Andersen Press Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781783449712
    • Published: 02-01-2020

    'A ground-breaking picture book about religion, sisterhood and identity' Waterstones Best Picture Books of 2020 Asiya's hijab is like the ocean and the sky, no line between them, saying hello with a loud wave. It's Faizah's first day of school, and her older sister Asiya's first day of...

  • Tutankhamun's Tomb

    Tutankhamun's Tomb

    • Sue Reid
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407197876
    • Published: 02-01-2020

    I Was There... is a perfect introduction for younger readers into stories from the past, allowing children to imagine that they were really there. I Was There... Tutankhamun's Tomb tells the thrilling story of a young Egyptian boy assisting Howard Carter's team of archaeologists in 1922 as the...