Edie is an eleven-year-old girl with Cerebral palsy, who is beginning secondary school. She and her best friend Oscar are inseparable until they find out they have been put in different classes. Now Edie must figure out how to make new friends, navigate a new school, and figure out where she fits into this new life.
Erin, her parents, and her younger sister Lena go on a camping holiday in Wales. They’re going to visit their grandfather and see where their mother and deceased aunt grew up. When Erin meets Bess she is both fascinated and repelled by Bess’s abrasive manners but ends up going into the nearby forest with her. There, Erin discovers her love of birds and nature when a bird she names Fable befriends her.
On Your Marks, Get Set … Gold! is a lively and informative introduction to both Olympic and Paralympic sport. Aimed at young readers, the book uses humour, dynamic visuals, and fast-paced facts to make a wide range of sporting events accessible and exciting. From basketball to boccia to windsurfing, each discipline is given its own space and personality, helping readers appreciate the variety and energy of international competition.
This non-fiction book provides young readers who experience anxiety with information and strategies to better support themselves in their daily teenage life, as well as into adulthood. In sharing her own experiences with anxiety, the author creates a compassionate environment that imparts no judgement or criticism on an individual’s feelings.
Three teen detectives try to discover who is sabotaging a cycling race in this third instalment in the Gold Medal Mysteries series. The story begins with our heroes Hannah, Maria, Seb and their adult chaperone Lucas, attending the Grand Prix in Monaco before travelling to London and on to France to follow the Grand Euro Cycle. Their interest is quickly piqued when a suspicious series of misfortunes befall the Team BB group of cyclists.
Did you know sharks never stop growing, they’re older than trees, and Greenland sharks can live to be 500 years old? Neither did I, and now I can’t un-know it! But this is more than a ‘Did you know?’ book. The author takes a much-feared animal and make it likeable, even accessible. The facts are plentiful: conveyed through child-friendly descriptions and quirky and relatable shark characters, including the Irish basking shark.
Nina Peanut is a confident and funny young girl living in a quiet small town called Dozyville. Excitement ensues when a new boy joins her class, although Nina is not the only one who has noticed him and suddenly, she is competing with lots of her classmates for his attention. The situation becomes even more dramatic when Nina’s teacher announces that they are going to be staging the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet! Nina and the other girls in class must face up to whether they are staying true to themselves or trying to be someone else for the new boy’s attention.
Hercules Braver (modern-day son of Zeus) returns in the fourth instalment of Vaughan’s quick-paced, light-hearted tales of a young boy struggling to live a normal life and being the son of a Greek god at the same time.
The third bugtastic adventure following adopted brothers, Dribble the snail and Dash the firefly sees the duo on a seaside trip to collect seaweed with their friends when they find themselves facing a pirate calamity and an appearance from the baddies, the Dung Heap Gang.
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