Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Emily Lloyd-Jones is an American author of young adult and middle grade fiction. She holds a BA in English from Western Oregon University and an MA in publishing from Rosemont College.
Her published young adult novels include Illusive, Deceptive, The Hearts We Sold, The Bone Houses, The Drowned Woods, and The Wild Huntress. Her middle grade books include Unseen Magic and Unspoken Magic.
The Bone Houses was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 2019. The Drowned Woods followed in 2022, and The Wild Huntress was published in 2024.
Her later books also include Augusta Pine Does Not Exist and Murder on the Disoriented Express.
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.
Season 1, Episode 44 of the School Reading List podcast. New book post, 30 great books for August 2026 and Reading for Pleasure Without Ranking.
July 2026’s book club includes titles by Angie Morgan, David Litchfield, Alex Milway, Andy Shepherd, Valerie Bloom, Pamela Butchart, Radhika Sanghani, Christopher Edge, Melinda Salisbury, E. Kennedy, and Amber Hamilton.
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.
Augusta Pine Does Not Exist is a dystopian YA thriller that pulls readers into Augusta’s complex life, sketchy past and high-stakes danger, with AI, surveillance and climate change opening debate.
Here’s our selection of top new titles coming out in Summer 2026. These reading recommendations include picture books, poetry, early and middle-grade fiction; young adult novels and non-fiction.
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