Ann Storer, is an appealing young character; a brave young girl who is prepared to defy the traditions of her time in order to concoct her health-restoring tinctures to help the people of her village, a skill inherited from her grandmother.
It is 1989 and Reza, an Iranian boy, has just moved to New York City with his mother to live with his wealthy new stepfather and stepbrother. It is the height of the AIDS crisis, and Reza is terrified that someone will discover his truth – that he likes boys. The truth becomes harder to hide as he grows closer to Art, the only out and proud student at school, and realises he has feelings for him.
A heartwarming picturebook that explores the sensitive topic of memory loss from a child's perspective in a gentle, yet powerful way to help young readers understand the changing dynamics of a relationship when a loved one begins to forget things.
Told from the child’s perspective, readers are introduced us to grandad as a young boy. We get to see him become a talented astronomer, who shares his knowledge and passion for the stars with his young granddaughter, becoming an influential presence in her life – so much so, that she wants to be just like him when she grows up!
Self-deprecating Orla is a giver, forever the sidekick, who neglects her own dreams, sacrificing herself to the needs of her demanding family, until her semi-sib Roks encourages her to apply for a drama course that changes her life. Structured like a cross between a diary and a script, the story follows Orla’s emotional journey over the space of a fortnight in December.
After finally receiving the heart transplant she’s waited years for, Sydney struggles to understand how to truly live her life with her new heart and all its restrictions. She decides to learn as much as she can about her presumed donor, Mia. Plunging deep into Mia’s world, she even finds herself befriending Mia’s best friend, Clayton.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, and best exemplified with Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories, that an ideal way to get young people excited about the past is to focus on the gross-out humour angle, and then to slide in engaging facts and context along the way. In this gorgeously illustrated book we’re exploring the history of medicine, looking at how healers across the world and across the ages have dealt with diseases, sanitation, and ideas about the human body.
Children are guaranteed to be entertained by this book. It has it all – dinosaurs, rhymes, humour, illustrations and a built-in first aid kit to boot!
Maya Bright, our 12-year-old protagonist, is not going to let the loss of her leg stop her from living her best life. Returning to school after a life-changing accident, Maya is determined to cross everything off her life goals list before she turns thirteen. These goals include getting her ears double pierced, having a silent disco, and learning how to roller-skate. This might be more difficult with her prosthesis, but her friends Vita and Miles are there to help and to cheer her on at every turn.
In the arresting opening chapter of this unputdownable novel, 17-year-old Amber cycles home from school, not realising – until she meets her horrified mother – that she had been killed in a hit-and-run road accident seven years previously. What follows is a tour de force, blending an element of ‘who-done-it’ with the overarching philosophical question of the interactions between the living and the dead.
