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  • Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body

    Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body

    Name: Maria faithorn
    26 May 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body is the perfect book to share with developing youngsters as they navigate and learn their way through puberty and their changing bodies. Simple and clear page layouts, personal and reassuring messages for the read...

  • The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    25 May 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    Clem is part of a mudlarking club along with her friends Ash and Zara, looking for treasure on the banks of the Thames. Everything the club finds gets taken to the museum, where the slightly mysterious Oswald keeps a museum of finds. One day, the Thames starts behaving oddly and the water begi...

  • Just Like Everyone Else

    Just Like Everyone Else

    Name: Sam
    24 May 2023;

    Genre: LBGTQ+

    Most teenagers work hard to 'fit in', knowing that there is nothing worse than becoming an obvious target for the group of boys or girls in school who like nothing more than making your life difficult. Coming from a big family, who are well known not just to your school but also the local comm...

  • The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    The Thames and Tide Club

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    22 May 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    Clem and her best friends Ash and Zara are mudlarkers. Along with the other members of the Thames and Tide Club, they spend their weekends searching the river banks for lost objects that have been washed ashore. They meet at the mudlarking museum, run by Oswald, where many of the unusual thing...

  • Until the Road Ends

    Until the Road Ends

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    22 May 2023;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Until the Road Ends is the story of Beau, a dog from the streets, who is saved by a girl called Peggy. When war breaks out, the two are separated, but when tragedy strikes, Beau has to find Peggy. Travelling across war-torn England, Beau and his companions, Mabel the cat and B...

  • Every Word A Lie

    Every Word A Lie

    Name: Clair Bossons
    22 May 2023;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Every Word A Lie is a murder mystery that is full of twists and turns. It is fast-paced and really builds the tension. It is also a bit of a cautionary tale on internet safety, but this is done in a way that is not condescending. The message is clear - Every Word could be A Li...

  • How to be a Detective and Other Crime-Fighting Jobs

    How to be a Detective and Other Crime Fighting Jobs

    Name: Lauren Maidman
    21 May 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    How to be a Detective and Other Crime Fighting Jobs is from a new series of books all about amazing and incredible jobs. The book is set out clearly and is jam packed full of information from the basics of what a detective actually is, through to the history and also other job...

  • Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins

    Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins

    Name: Maria faithorn
    19 May 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins is the perfect resource to use in supporting children with their learning of 'Making a Baby'.  In the ever developing world, with increased and changing medical advances, and the wide range of family set-ups, this bo...

  • This Is The Way The World Ends

    This is the Way the World Ends

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    19 May 2023;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Attending prestigious Webber Academy in New York, scholarship student Waverly is used to keeping a low profile and fitting in. Academic but with parents in a different financial sphere from her wealthy peers, she works hard and subsidises herself by tutoring. When this brings her into the hall...

  • Serpent of the Sands

    Serpent of the Sands (A Brightstorm Adventure)

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    18 May 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Gan - Princess Ganzorig - has a real taste for adventure and when one of her beloved uncles, King Temur, falls dangerously ill, she sets off in her sky-ship, the Sky-archer, with Slink, a sapient gerbil who has taken a fancy to her and Thorn, a boy who's escaped from the slums of Lontown in se...