Primary Class Sets
For over 30 years, MBE has been the trusted supplier for secondary schools, offering a comprehensive ‘one-stop book shop’ service tailored to meet all class set requirements. We are proud to have expanded our services to now support Primary Schools as well, providing a wide range of titles for both educational levels.
We hold stock of a huge variety of books, ensuring that we can offer quick, next-day delivery on all orders. Each of our books is fitted with a protective plastic jacket to help extend their life, and all orders are supplied in one delivery with one invoice for your convenience.
If you need a specific title, we can supply any book in print. Simply reach out to us at books@mbebooks.com for a free, no-obligation quote.
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A Wrinkle In Time
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
When Charles and Meg Murry go searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for their lost father, they find themselves on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 671
Aarti And The Blue Gods
Like the weather, Aunt rules her world with rare warmth. Aarti's only comforts are a book of Indian myths full of blue gods, a fox's friendship, and a toy rabbit she finds in a locked room.
Then, she learns Aunt has been feeding her lies. Fate ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 657
Ajay And The Jaipur Moon
Ajay's wish has come true at last - he's a news reporter! He and his friends even have their own newspaper: The Mumbai Sun.
But living on the Mumbai railways means that money is tight. They need a big story - and when a meteor crashes to Earth, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 658
Ajay And The Mumbai Sun
Abandoned on the Mumbai railways, Ajay has grown up with nothing but a burning wish to be a journalist.
Finding an abandoned printing press, he and his friends Saif, Vinod, Yasmin and Jai create their own newspaper: The Mumbai Sun.
As they hunt...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 659
Angel Of Grasmere
Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer.
July 1940 – as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 653
Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl
'In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart ...'
A deeply moving and unforgettable portrait of an ordinary and yet an extraordinary teenage girl.
First published over sixty years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 676
Arctic Star
Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea during the Second World War. Their ship is part of an Arctic Convoy sailing to Russia to deliver supplies to the Soviets. The convoys have to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 188
- MBE Code : 493
Armistice Runner
Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she's losing her gran to Alzheimer's. But then she discovers her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War. Could his incredible story of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 482
Artemis Fowl
AT JUST TWELVE YEARS OLD, ARTEMIS FOWL IS A CRIMINAL GENIUS.
No scheme is too dastardly, no plot too devious. And he's just discovered that fairies are real.
Poor fairies.
But these are not the cuddly creatures of bedtime stories. They are ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 278
- MBE Code : 217
Asha And The Spirit Bird
Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home and her mother talks of leaving.
From her den in the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 672
Away With Words (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
Gala and her dad, Jordi, have just moved from home in Cataluña to a town in Scotland, to live with Jordi’s boyfriend Ryan. Gala doesn’t speak much English, and feels lost, lonely and unable to be her usual funny self. Until she befriends ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 585
Birdsong
After a devastating car crash, Annie is unable to play her flute and retreats from the music she's always loved.
She exists in a world of angry silence – furious with her mum and furious she can't seem to play her beloved flute any more.
Then...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 104
- MBE Code : 665
Black Hole Cinema Club
When Lucas meets his friends at the local cinema - nicknamed 'The Black Hole' - they're excited about the movie marathon ahead. Non-stop action, blockbuster special effects and all the snacks they can eat. But as the lights go down, Lucas, Ash, Maya,...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 738
Boy Everywhere
This debut middle-grade novel chronicles the harrowing journey taken by Sami and his family from privilege to poverty, across countries and continents, from a comfortable life in Damascus, via a smuggler's den in Turkey, to a prison in Manchester. A ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 648
Boy In The Tower
When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily as if they tip-toed into the world when we were all looking the other way.
Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 563
Brightstorm
Twins Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm receive word in Lontown that their famous explorer father has died in a failed attempt to reach the southernmost point in the world. Not only that, but he has been accused of stealing fuel before he died!
The ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 344
- MBE Code : 310
Can You See Me?
With diary entries written by eleven-year-old Libby Scott, based on her own experiences of autism, this pioneering book, writtenin collaboration with esteemed author Rebecca Westcott, hasbeen widely praised for its realistic portrayal of autism.
...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 415
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
You MUST have heard of Mr Willy Wonka! He's the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. But do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero of this book.
The other children in our story are nasty little beasts, called:
...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 180
- MBE Code : 219
Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
WHOOSH! Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory.
They can see the whole world below them, but they're not alone. The American Space Hotel has also just ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 644
Charlotte’s Web
Wilbur the pig's life has already been saved by Fern, but when he is sold to her uncle, he realises his life is in even more danger.
Enter Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider. Charlotte is determined to keep Wilbur from the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 400
Code Name Kingfisher
When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother’s childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time story of bravery, betrayal and daring defiance. A story that will change Liv and her family forever…
Holland, 1942. The world is at war and as...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 318
- MBE Code : 734
Coming To England
When she was ten years old, Floella Benjamin, along with her older sister and two younger brothers, set sail from Trinidad to London, to be reunited with the rest of their family. Alone on a huge ship for two weeks, then tumbled into a cold and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 32
- MBE Code : 591
Coraline
There is something strange about Coraline's new home.
It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house -...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 723
Crater Lake
Who is the mysterious bloodstained man who stops their coach? Why is no one around when Lance and the rest of Year Six arrive at the brand new Crater Lake activity centre? But this is just the beginning of the school trip from hell; a fight for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 252
- MBE Code : 630
Crook Haven: The School For Thieves
“So this is really a school for criminals.” It was meant as a question, though it came out more as an accusation.
“We are so much more than that,” Caspian said, sitting in a plush leather chair and gesturing for Gabriel to sit in a similar...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 324
- MBE Code : 739