Summer 2019 – best new children’s and YA books – our picks
Here’s our selection of top new titles coming out in summer 2019. These reading recommendations include picture books, early and middle-grade fiction; young adult novels and non-fiction.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Faye Bird writes fiction for young adults. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a literary agent representing screenwriters in film and television. She studied Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University.
Her books include My Second Life, a young adult mystery thriller about Ana, a teenage girl who remembers a previous life as Emma and tries to uncover the truth about Catherine. My Second Life was published in 2014.
What I Couldn’t Tell You was published on 1 May 2016. The novel follows Tessie, a selectively mute teenager, after her sister Laura is left in a coma and Laura’s boyfriend Joe disappears.
My Secret Lies With You was published on 1 June 2019. The story centres on Cait, Alys and two summers shaped by Alys’s disappearance and Cait’s search for the truth.

Here’s our selection of top new titles coming out in summer 2019. These reading recommendations include picture books, early and middle-grade fiction; young adult novels and non-fiction.
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