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This, as the title suggests, is Samim’s story. Samim is thirteen and the book begins with him in an adult detention centre – because he is tall. He has been travelling since he was nine years old and left Afghanistan following the death of his family. His journey has taken him from Afghanistan to Iran […]
Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and BookTrust have released the Children’s Laureate’s inaugural ‘Reading Rights’ Report. The Reading Rights: Books Build a Brighter Future Interim Report calls on national and local leaders in early years, health, education and culture to come together to make reading a part of daily life for every child in the […]
Twelve-year-old Clem, short for Clementina, is the daughter of master criminal Jimmy, and delights in helping her dad and his team, the Spiders, as she is small enough to wriggle into tight holes, and also very good at picking locks. The setting is London, in 1951, and the gang are trying to steal a famous […]
I first encountered Darren Chetty’s work through The Good Immigrant. His chapter, You Can’t Do That! Stories have to be about white people!, took me straight back to primary school. I’d brought in a book to share with the class — the cover showed a girl in a hijab praying, backlit in golden light. Another […]
This delightful and engrossing debut fantasy takes recognizable elements of much-loved favourites like The Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings and weaves them into a tale which creates a fantastical world inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here the descendants of Titania and Oberon, in the kingdoms of Silvanland and Penumbra respectively, are […]
In this non- fiction guide written by an author with Acondraplasia or Dwarfism, Cathy Reay writes the book that her younger self would have benefited from. Reay’s talent as a writer is that she manages to help the young reader who probably identifies as disabled, to navigate some very complex topics such as managing bullies, […]
Take a trip back to Elizabethan times with this illustrated story about a young actor in Shakespeare’s London. The story tells the tale of how Jack, a young starving orphan boy, is snatched after singing in the street one day near London bridge and his life is changed forever. He’s taken by men from Blackfriars […]
This short, accessible read is a love-letter to female bravery. It tells the story of Grace Darling, a young girl whose family lived and worked in lighthouses near Bamburgh on the coast of Northumberland in the early-19th Century. Her determination and daring on one fateful evening led to the rescue of survivors from a shipwreck […]
Puffin Lau (Chinese Dad, Portuguese Mum) has been feeling that her Mum has been too busy for her, and she spends a lot of time, by arrangement, with Grandad Moe, who is her friend Lance’s grandfather. She is disappointed when her class, 5C, is visiting the Pokko Science and Research Museum, her Mum’s workplace, and […]
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