Recommended reading books for primary and secondary aged children in the UK
Curated children’s book lists selected by genre and nonfiction subject for cross-curricular teaching. Are you looking for great books to support your primary KS1 or KS2 teaching areas?
Below are our recommended collections for cross-curricular projects. These book list suggestions aim to cover all curriculum subjects and themes and include a variety of genres, including poetry, reading for pleasure, fiction and narrative nonfiction. We’re adding new genres and nonfiction subjects every week, and we hope these lists of quality texts will help teachers and librarians to find useful books for classrooms and school libraries.
Genre and nonfiction books are a great way to encourage children to read for pleasure, delve into a subject on their own terms, investigate areas they are interested in for deeper home learning, and develop a personal attachment to a curriculum area. Books for cross-curricular teaching also allow pupils to appreciate how cultures, civilisations, movements and philosophies span disciplines in real life and are not limited to discrete areas of learning.
Not only that, but when a child reads a book about something they are enthusiastic about, suddenly it no longer seems like schoolwork. Using classroom displays of genre-books, and highlighting non-fiction corners of the library can help to motivate students to read independently and develop preferred literary interests.
The lists are updated and revised regularly to make sure books are up-to-date and relevant to the UK National Curriculum. Each recommended book includes a description and suggestions for classroom use. For each genre, there’s also a hand-picked selection of useful resources, links and free downloadables.
Our genre and cross-curricular booklists are created for UK teachers and school librarians who need reliable texts for topics, themes and classroom libraries, with contributions from subject specialists on our booklist curation panel. We add and refresh lists regularly to help schools find strong fiction, nonfiction, poetry and narrative nonfiction for teaching and reading for pleasure. For age-specific recommendations, start with KS2 reading lists or KS3 reading lists.
For more nonfiction and ideas, see our list of magazines for children and teens.
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History books for children and teens tailored for KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching and learning and school libraries.
Geography topic books for children in UK primary schools. Exciting nonfiction and fiction titles to enliven geography teaching.
PSHE (Personal, Social, Health, and Economic Education) topic books for children in UK primary and secondary schools.
Narrative nonfiction genre books – our list includes true life stories and literary nonfiction for KS2 and KS3 by authors including Dr Christle Nwora, David Long, Roma Agrawal, Stefan Milosavljevich, Alexandra Stewart, William Grill, Britta Teckentrup and Andy Seed.
Our recommended graphic novels for children aged 7-11 to appeal to reluctant and able readers alike. This list includes works by Ben Clanton, Gary Northfield, Shannon Watters, Deborah Ellis, Jeanne DuPrau and Alastair Humphreys.
Graphic novels for KS1 children aged 5-7 with titles by Dav Pilkey, Liz Pichon, Aaron Blabey, Jamie Smart, Daisy Meadows, Steve Cole, Luke Pearson, Laura Ellen Anderson, Mo O’Hara, and Swapna Reddy.
Adventure stories for children and teens, including modern and classic titles by Maz Evans, Cressida Cowell, Dom Conlon, Lucy Brandt, Sufiya Ahmed, Varsha Shah, A.F. Steadman, Wilbur Smith, Robert Muchamore, Robert Louis Stevenson and more.
Fantasy books for children and teens with titles by Katherine Rundell, B. B. Alston, A. F. Steadman, Tolá Okogwu, Frances Hardinge, Tomi Adeyemi, Tracy Deonn, R. F. Kuang, Samantha Shannon, and Katherine Arden.
Children’s books about resilience, perseverance, and grit, including titles suitable for KS1 and KS2 by David Long, Cece Bell, Matthew Syed, Julie Murphy, Esther Pia Cordova, and Barney Salzberg.
Grief and loss themed books for children and teens with titles by Britta Teckentrup, Samuel Langley-Swain, Judith Kerr, Harry Woodgate, Laura Dockrill, Oliver Jeffers, Kereen Getten, Michael Rosen and Joseph Coelho.
Ghost stories for children including titles by Michael Morpurgo, Jon Klassen, Penelope Lively, Jonathan Stroud, Tom Fletcher, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Flavia Z. Drago, Kenneth Oppel, Blessing Musariri, and Aiden Thomas.
Our 20 great children’s books for Christmas – spectacular picture books to surprise, bewitch and survive longer than one holiday season.
Romantasy books for teens including titles by Sarah J. Maas, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Marissa Meyer, Sue Lynn Tan, Kerri Maniscalco, Gabriela Romero Lacruz, Amie Kaufman, Patrice Caldwell, and Erin A. Craig.
Ancient Greece children’s books for KS2 with titles by Sue and Steve Weatherill, Chae Strathie, James Davies, Dominic Sandbrook, Maz Evans, Saviour Pirotta, Caroline Lawrence, Marcia Williams and more.
Manga for children including titles by Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, Haruichi Furudate, Kamome Shirahama, Konami Kanata, Keisuke Sato, Kristen Mai Giang, CLAMP, Yumi Hotta, and Hidenori Kusaka.
Gymnastics books for children and teens with titles by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Sue Fliess, Laurie Hernandez, Eloise Smith, Elfi Schlegel, Simon Mugford, Ray Nadine, Sarah Henning, and Aly Raisman.
Swimming books for children and teens with titles by Lucy Cousins, Jean Adamson, Claire Cashmore, David Almond, Johnnie Christmas, Ellie Simmonds, Charli Howard, Nat Luurtsema, Yusra Mardini, and Katie Ledecky.
Mountain books for children and teens with titles by Jess Butterworth, Eva Ibbotson, David Long, Alexandra Stewart, Matt Dickinson, Jeanne Willis, David McKee, Steve Small, Jessi Kirby, and Jordan Romero.
Houses and homes books for children with titles by Joseph Coelho, Sophie Anderson, Mary Norton, Joe Todd-Stanton, Carson Ellis, Goldie Hawk, George Clarke, Jonny Lambert, Amy Sparkes, and Richard O’Neill.
Shopping books for children and teens with titles by Atinuke, Meera Sriram, Eric Hill, Kate Milner, Pat Hutchins, Kes Gray, Jacqueline Davies, Dana Thomas, Naomi Klein, and Michael J. Sandel
Mindfulness Colouring Books for Children and Teens with titles by Johanna Basford, Millie Marotta, Marion Deuchars, Lize Meddings, Emma Farrarons, Tanja Sharpe, Abigail Wheatley, Caren Sacks, Holly Macdonald, and Alice James.
Engineering books for children and teens with titles by Andrea Beaty, Pip Jones, Shini Somara, Roma Agrawal, Kate Peridot, Alexene Farol Follmuth, Sandhya Menon, Brittney Morris, Mark Miodownik, and Simon Winchester.
Shakespeare books for children and teens with titles by William Shakespeare, Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman, Michael Rosen, Marcia Williams, Susan Cooper, Chloe Gong, Maggie O’Farrell, Emma Smith, and Judi Dench.
Wordless Picture Books for Children and Teens with titles by Raymond Briggs, Quentin Blake, David Wiesner, Shaun Tan, Aaron Becker, Jeannie Baker, Jerry Pinkney, Sophie Burrows, Frans Masereel, and Lynd Ward.
Life cycle books for children and teens with titles by Eric Carle, Julia Donaldson, Yuval Zommer, Jen Green, Benji Davies, Lesley Sims, Ben Martynoga, Hannah Witton, Lindsay Turnbull, and Barbara Taylor.
Eid and Ramadan books for children and teens with titles by Sufiya Ahmed, Hiba Noor Khan, Na’ima B. Robert, Zanib Mian, Hena Khan, Adiba Jaigirdar, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Randa Abdel-Fattah, S. K. Ali, and Aya Khalil.
Books About Bullying for Children and Teens with titles by Jeanne Willis, Giles Andreae, R J Palacio, Onjali Q. Raúf, Elle McNicoll, Tamsin Winter, Holly Smale, Sophie Kinsella, Alice Oseman, and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Books about sight loss for children and teens including titles by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Marcus Sedgwick, Lucy Edwards, Katy Birchall, Kody Keplinger, April Henry, Penny Joelson, Beth O’Brien, Jen Bryant, and Paola Peretti.
Picture books for KS2 including titles by Anthony Browne, Michael Rosen, Nicola Davies, Oliver Jeffers, David Almond, Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, David Wiesner, David Litchfield, Joe Todd-Stanton, and Frenci Sanna.
Poetry for KS3 including titles by Michael Rosen, Joseph Coelho, Matt Goodfellow, Sarah Crossan, Kwame Alexander, Chris Riddell, John Agard, Valerie Bloom, Manjeet Mann, and Dean Atta.
Suffragette books for children and teens with titles by Sally Nicholls, Bali Rai, Sufiya Ahmed, Linda Newbery, Holly Webb, Iszi Lawrence, David Roberts, Anna Carey, Tonya Bolden, and Cat Winters.
Detective stories for children and teens with titles by Julia Donaldson, Malorie Blackman, Sharna Jackson, Beth Lincoln, Janice Hallett, Karen M. McManus, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Joelle Wellington, and Cynthia Murphy.
Folk tales for children and teens with titles by Julia Donaldson, Hugh Lupton, Narinder Dhami, Mac Barnett, Sophie Anderson, Liz Flanagan, Kalynn Bayron, Marissa Meyer, Elizabeth Lim, and Erin A. Craig.
Diwali books for children with titles by Eric Carle, Chitra Soundar, Sonali Shah, Malachy Doyle, Daisy Meadows, Dev Kothari, Sital Gorasia Chapman, Swapna Haddow, Raakhee Mirchandani, and Katie Sahota.
Oracy books for children and teens with titles by Joseph Coelho, Elizabeth Acevedo, Angie Thomas, Dean Atta, Manjeet Mann, Helen Rutter, Laurie Halse Anderson, Matt Goodfellow, Ben Brooks, and Jennifer Mathieu.
Cycling books for children and teens, including titles by Shirley Hughes, Chris Hoy, Sarah Dessen, Haifaa Al Mansour, Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, Clementine Beauvais, Simon Mole, Gabrielle Kent, and Laurie Ann Thompson.
KS2 crime and punishment books with titles by Malorie Blackman, Louis Sachar, Terry Deary, Jon Scieszka, Elle McNicoll, M. G. Leonard, Sam Sedgman, Sharna Jackson, Serena Patel, and Philip Ardagh.
Explore 15 Amelia Earhart books for children and teens, from illustrated biographies and picture books to aviation history and YA fiction, with reading ideas and teaching resources for schools.
Self help books for children and teens covering confidence, anxiety, resilience, friendships, puberty, stress and mental health, with practical guides for ages 5-12 and teenagers aged 13-18.
Discover unicorn books for children aged 3-12, including magical picture books, funny read-alouds, early chapter books, fantasy adventures and creative activity titles for school and home.
Explore 21 Loch Ness Monster books for children and teens, from Nessie picture books and Scottish adventures to mysterious investigations, graphic novels and older teen crossover reading.
Dark academia books for teens and sixth-formers, featuring YA boarding-school mysteries, Gothic campus fiction, secret societies, magical colleges and compelling adult crossover novels.
Teen romance books with titles by Jenny Han, Jason Reynolds, Marissa Meyer, Casey McQuiston, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Axie Oh, Lex Croucher, L. C. Rosen, Abdi Nazemian, and Christine Pillainayagam.
True Crime Books for Teens with titles by Dashka Slater, Bryan Stevenson, Karen M. McManus, Holly Jackson, Ravena Guron, Maureen Johnson, Kate Weston, Kara Thomas, and Sue Wallman.
Choose Your Own Adventure Books with titles by Tom Fletcher, Pippa Goodhart, Mo Willems, R.A. Montgomery, Scott Cawthon, Helen Rutter, Hervé Tullet, Mac Barnett, Sarah Coyle, and Andy Prentice.
Our list of books to encourage children’s critical and creative thinking skills through reading. Featuring specifically selected fiction and nonfiction texts by authors including Oliver Jeffers, Alice James, Alex Frith, Petr Horáček, Hannah Peck, John Condon, Leo Timmers and The School of Life.
Biographies and autobiographies for children with titles by Mick Manning, Brita Granström, Michael Rosen, Vashti Harrison, Floella Benjamin, John Agard, Jacqueline Wilson, Alastair Humphreys, Malala Yousafzai, David Long, William Grill and Linda Sue Park.
Contemporary fiction for children and teens with titles by Jacqueline Wilson, Alice Oseman, Angie Thomas, R. J. Palacio, Onjali Q. Raúf, Elizabeth Acevedo, Patrice Lawrence, Juno Dawson, Benjamin Dean, and Dean Atta.
Children’s, young adult and teen books about Halloween, trick or treating, ghosts, unexplained events, and dark spooky nights. With books by Oliver Jeffers, Julia Donaldson, Eric Carle, Harriet Muncaster, Roald Dahl, Susan Hill, Neil Gaiman, Rainbow Rowell and more.
Myths for children, featuring books by Michael Morpurgo, Roger Lancelyn Green, John Agard, Joe Todd-Stanton, Chitra Soundar, Liz Kessler, Efua Traoré, Wendy Shearer, Louie Stowell, and Pamela Butchart.
Crime fiction for teens including titles by Tia Fisher, Robert Muchamore, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Maureen Johnson, Ben Oliver, Karen M. McManus, Cynthia Murphy and Holly Jackson.
Natural history books for children and teens with titles by Chris Packham, Ed Yong, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Steve Brusatte, Mya-Rose Craig, Peter Wohlleben, Gillian Burke, Isabella Tree, Dara McAnulty, and Helen Scales.
Witches books for children with titles by Roald Dahl, C. S. Lewis, Jill Murphy, Cressida Cowell, Diana Wynne Jones, Eiko Kadono, Kelly Barnhill, V. E. Schwab, Elle McNicoll, and Ciannon Smart.
Children’s poetry for 7-11-year-olds with collections and anthologies by Michael Rosen, Joseph Coelho, Carol Ann Duffy, Brian Moses, Benjamin Zephaniah, Zaro Weil, Kate Wakeling, Neal Zetter, John Agard, T.S Eliot, Maya Angelou, Kaye Webb and more.
Books about making money children and teens with titles by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Pamela Butchart, Patrice Lawrence, Tom Palmer, Robert Muchamore, Deborah Meaden, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Adiba Jaigirdar, Emmanuel Asuquo, and Sara Davies.
Football books for children with titles by Michael Rosen, Tom Palmer, Mal Peet, Michaela Morgan, Priscilla Mante, Alex Wheatle, Dan Freedman, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Bali Rai and Michelle Robinson.
Our recommended graphic novels for teens and young adults aged 12-16 to appeal to reluctant readers and able readers alike. This list includes works by Tony Medina, Stephen Collins, Terri Libenson, Raina Telgemeier, Meg-John Barker and Neil Gaiman.
Verse novels for children and teens with titles by Sarah Crossan, Kwame Alexander, Manjeet Mann, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, Sharon Creech, Dean Atta, Jacqueline Woodson, Joseph Coelho, and Ibi Zoboi.
Harvest festival books for children with titles by Jill Barklem, Aleksei Tolstoy, Gerda Muller, Sean Taylor, Eva Wong Nava, Dawn Casey, Felicita Sala, Tony Hillery, Àlàbá Ònájìn, and David Benedictus.
Books about the Middle Ages for children and teens with titles by Terry Deary, Michael Morpurgo, Linda Sue Park, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sally Nicholls, Philippa Gregory, Umberto Eco, Tariq Ali, Janina Ramirez, and Lauren Groff.
Titanic books for children with titles by Michael Morpurgo, Lauren Tarshis, Claudia Gray, Kate Messner, Stacey Lee, Adiba Jaigirdar, Hazel Gaynor, Alma Katsu, Walter Lord, and Tony Bradman.
Seaside themed stories for EYFS, KS1, KS2 and KS3 with titles by Michael Rosen, Mairi Hedderwick, Shirley Hughes, Sam Usher, Atinuke, Richard Pickard, Michael Morpurgo, Lauren St John, Liz Kessler and more.
Codes, puzzles, secrets and spies books for children with titles by Martin Handford, Soledad Romero, Ben Sanders, Clotilde Perrin, Gareth Moore, Maz Evans, Paul Westmoreland, Paige Towler, Christopher Edge, Sam Fern and more.
Fairy tales for children and teens with books by books by Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Isabel Otter, Michael Rosen, Sophie Anderson, Sally Gardner, Konnie Huq, Richard Ayoade, Radiya Hafiza, and Trish Cooke.
Farming themed books for children with titles by Michael Morpurgo, Mary Hoffman, Elwyn Brooks White, Stella Gibbons, John Lewis-Stempel, James Rebanks, Sarah Crossan, Sita Brahmachari, Linda Newbery, and Adam Henson.
International Transgender Day of Visibility books for children and teens with titles by Juno Dawson, Virginia Woolf, Kacen Callender, Alex Gino, Kyle Lukoff, Aiden Thomas, Andrew Joseph White, Anna-Marie McLemore, Meredith Russo, and Dashka Slater.
Starting school books for children with titles by Mo Willems, Lauren Child, Allan Ahlberg, Ian Whybrow, Rosie Jones, Katie Kirby, Zanib Mian, Matt Goodfellow, Anna Llenas, and Helen Rutter.
Mystery stories for children and teens with titles by Julia Donaldson, Richard Osman, Marcus Rashford, Marissa Meyer, David Wiesner, Abiola Bello, Patrice Lawrence, Konnie Huq, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, and Maureen Johnson.
Funny books for children and teens with titles by Michael Rosen, Cressida Cowell, Lauren Child, Nick Sharratt, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nadia Shireen, Nathanael Lessore, Sonora Reyes, John Patrick Green, and Lex Croucher.
Comics for children and teens with titles by Jamie Smart, Adam Murphy, Charles Soule, Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Will Sliney, Dan Watters, Daniel Warren Johnson, and Kelly Thompson.
Historical fiction for children and teens with titles by Ian McEwan, Tom Palmer, Satoshi Kitamura, Kieran Larwood, Ruta Sepetys, Malinda Lo, Yaa Gyasi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Min Jin Lee, and Andrea Levy.
Horror for children and teens with titles by Julia Donaldson, Jon Klassen, Oliver Jeffers, Tom Fletcher, Shirley Jackson, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, Tananarive Due, Kalynn Bayron, and Helen Oyeyemi.
Rocks, soil, minerals and fossils books for children with titles by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Laurence Anholt, Charlotte Guillain, John Farndon, Dianna Hutts Aston, Dean Lomax, Peter Riley, Maya Wei-Haas, Ben Lerwill, and Moira Rose Donohue.
School stories including titles by Allan Ahlberg, Mo Willems, Lisa Thompson, Pamela Butchart, Matt Goodfellow, Onjali Rauf, Elle McNicoll, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Alice Oseman, and Holly Bourne.
Books about AI and AI ethics for children and teens with titles by Malorie Blackman, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Peter Brown, Neal Shusterman, Philip K. Dick, Marie Lu, Hannah Fry, Cathy O’Neil, Laura Bates, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Deafness and hearing loss books for children and teens with titles by Ann M. Martin, Frances Hardinge, Cece Bell, Raymond Antrobus, Erin Entrada Kelly, Ross Montgomery, Yoshitoki Oima, Kacen Callender, Adib Khorram, and Sara Barnard.
Gunpowder Plot and Bonfire Night books for children and teens with titles by Philip Pullman, Terry Deary, Alan Moore, Antonia Fraser, Michael Robotham, Jill Tomlinson, Helen Peters, Cath Howe, Nadine Brandes, and Olly Smith.
20 pirate books for children interested in life on the high seas and primary schools looking for pirate books for cross curricular topics. Authors include James Davies, Celia Rees, Neil Gaiman, Lindsay Eagar, Derek Keilty, Cornelia Funke, and Philip Ardagh.
Refugees and migration books for children and teens, featuring books by Erika Meza, Na’ima B. Robert, Brian Bilston, Eoin Colfer, Onjali Q. Raúf, Sita Brahmachari, Armin Greder, Michael Rosen, Ele Fountain and Malcolm Duffy.
Gypsy Roma, Traveller, Showman and Boater books for children and teens with titles by Kevin Brooks, Elizabeth Wein, Siobhan Dowd, Rumer Godden, Richard O’Neill, Oein DeBhairduin, Annie Murray, and Mikey Walsh.
Space books for children and teens with titles by Tim Peake, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chris Hadfield, Margot Lee Shetterly, Pippa Goodhart, Louie Stowell, Isabel Thomas, Katie Mack, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
Islam books for children and teens with titles by Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hiba Noor Khan, Zanib Mian, Adiba Jaigirdar, S. K. Ali, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Muhammad Khan, Samira Ahmed, Tahereh Mafi, and Sabaa Tahir.
Summer themed books for children with books by Sam McBratney, Sam Usher, Julia Donaldson, Gabby Dawnay, Jeffrey Boakye, Yuval Zommer and more.
K-pop books for children and teens with titles by Jessica Jung, Axie Oh, Maurene Goo, Kat Cho, Lyla Lee, Luan Goldie, Catherine Saunders, Stephan Lee, Malcolm Croft, and Adrian Besley.
Plants, trees and forests books for children and teens with titles by Julia Donaldson, Peter Wohlleben, Nicola Davies, Yuval Zommer, Jonathan Drori, Katya Balen, Timothée de Fombelle, Holly Black, Joseph Coelho, and Frances Hardinge.
Children’s books to combat hatred including titles by Michael Rosen, Malorie Blackman, Benjamin Zephaniah, Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, David Olusoga, R. J. Palacio, Lois Lowry, Elle McNicoll, and Nicola Davies.
The Great Fire of London books with titles by Gillian Clements, Nick Hunter, Anna Fargher, Pippa Goodhart, Megan Rix, Lindsay Galvin, Catherine Randall and Tom & Tony Bradman.
Rainforest books for children with titles by Bear Grylls, Kay Barnham, Simon Chapman, Kate Messner, Lynne Cherry, Sarah Ridley, Sarah Dellow, Sally Spray, Holly Duhig, John Wood, Kathryn Jewitt, Fiametta Dogi, Mike Clark and Mari Schuh.
British Black history books for children and teens including titles by Floella Benjamin, David Olusoga, Atinuke, Benjamin Zephaniah, Alison Hammond, Jeffrey Boakye, Catherine Johnson, Michaela Morgan, David Lammy and Troy Deeney.
Books for children about politicians, big egos and influencers with titles by Michael Rosen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, Beverley Naidoo, Elle McNicoll, Yomi Adegoke, Rebecca F. Kuang, Naomi Klein, Jon Ronson, and Maria Ressa.
Science fiction and STEM topic books for Key Stage 1,2 & 3, including fiction and nonfiction titles by Amy Bond, Christopher Edge, David Wiesner, Jane Wilsher, Ross Welford, SF Said and Margaret Wild.
LGBTQIA+ themed books for secondary schools, featuring titles by Simon James Green, Alice Oseman, David Levithan, Phil Stamper, Rainbow Rowell, Dean Atta, Meg Grehan, Juno Dawson, Kalynn Bayron, William Hussey and Erin Ekins.
Gardening topic books – our list includes nonfiction practical guides, picture books, garden-related stories and illustrated reference books with titles by authors including Melanie Brown, Lizzy Stewart, Abigail Wheatley, A.M. Howell, Gilles Clement and Émilie Vast.
Teen thrillers with titles by Holly Jackson, Karen M. McManus, E. Lockhart, Robert Muchamore, Sophie McKenzie, Maureen Johnson, Kody Keplinger, Rory Power, Ravena Guron, and William Hussey.
Environment, climate change and eco topic books for EYFS, KS1, KS2 & KS3 with titles by Emma Shevah, Neal Layton, Jess French, Karen Swann, Piers Torday, Gemma Fowler, Isabel Thomas & Zillah Bethell.
Ancient Egyptian topic books for Key Stage 2, including titles by David Long, Emma Carroll, Emily Bone, David Weitzman, Marcia Williams, Joe Todd-Stanton, Laura Wood and Terry Deary.
Children’s books about families and adoption for children aged 2-11 in EYFS, KS1 & KS2 – including stories by Samuel Langley-Swain, Jamie Lee-Curtis, Todd Parr, Phoebe Koehler, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Justin Richardson.
Children’s and YA stories set in Cornwall with titles by Michael Morpurgo, Rosemary Manning, Daphne Du Maurier, Tom Palmer, P. D. James, Liz Kessler, Susan Cooper, Helen Dunmore, Lauren St John, and Winston Graham.
Dystopian books for children and teens with titles by George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins, Stephen King, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ray Bradbury, Jordan Ifueko, Yoko Ogawa, and Patrick Ness.
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