Diversity & Inclusion
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The Black Flamingo
Michael waits in the stage wings, wearing a pink wig, pink fluffy coat and black heels.One more step will see him illuminated by spotlight.He has been on a journey of bravery to get here, and he is almost ready to show himself to the world in bold ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 439
The Bone Sparrow
The Bone Sparrow is a beautiful, captivating and a deeply moving read that reflects upon a refugee boy, named Subhi. All he knows of the world is that he is at least 19 fence diamonds high and at night he dreams that the sea finds its way to his ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 163
The Boxer
Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A seventeen year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 280
- MBE Code : 501
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream.
He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up: delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his every hilarious word.
A tough career for anyone, but surely ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 360
- MBE Code : 444
The Color Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 460
The Day I Was Erased
The third read-in-one-sitting mystery from the author of unforgettable bestseller The Goldfish Boy.
Maxwell is always in trouble. He's a total menace to his teachers and big sister, but has a soft side, too: he rescued his dog, Monster, from being...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 417
The Door Of No Return (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 432
- MBE Code : 583
The Fault in Our Stars
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 401
The Goldfish Boy
A story about finding friendship when you're lonely - and hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 400
- MBE Code : 158
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 464
- MBE Code : 295
The Help
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...
There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 464
- MBE Code : 396
The Henna Wars
When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants – as long as she isn’t herself. Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to lose her family, but she also doesn’t want to hide who she is, which ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 388
- MBE Code : 474
The Light In Everything (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)
From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022, comes a life-affirming story about blended families and learning to find room in your heart for new life and new love.
Tom is still quiet and timid, even though his dad ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 318
- MBE Code : 522
The Love And Lies Of Rukhsana Ali
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that impossible to do. She rolls her eyes when they blatantly favour her brother and saves her crop tops and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 332
- MBE Code : 475
The Night Bus Hero
I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention.But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 435
The Outrage
"You know, when you live in a time of progress, it seems that progress is the only possible way. The idea that everything we'd gained, all of those hard-won rights, could be taken away from us, and that open minds could be closed again? But then the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 396
- MBE Code : 454
The Small Things
Anna’s anxious when she’s picked to befriend the new girl in her class. For a start, Ellie is ill and can’t come to school herself. So Anna has to communicate with her through a new kind of robot. But Anna is also worried that her life’s too ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 100
- MBE Code : 494
The Tattooist Of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. When Lale, given the job of tattooing the prisoners, saw Gita waiting in line, it was love at first sight. In that moment he ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 674
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lawyer Atticus Finch gives his advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel, where a black man was charged with the rape of a white girl.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 124
Unbecoming
Katie’s life is falling apart: her mum’s controlling, her dad’s run off, she’s in love with someone whose identity she can’t reveal and now her estranged grandmother’s turned up on the doorstep and Katie’s expected to take care of her. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 436
- MBE Code : 476
Ways To Be Me
Ten-year-old Tally had high hopes for Year 6.
Being in the top class at school means a whole host of privileges, but even better than that is the school production - and Tally is convinced she'll win the lead role.
But at home, things aren't ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 292
- MBE Code : 549
We Are All Made Of Molecules
Meet Stewart. He’s geeky, gifted and sees things a bit differently to most people. His mum has died and he misses her all the more now he and Dad have moved in with Ashley and her mum.
Meet Ashley. She’s popular, cool and sees ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 324
- MBE Code : 562
When I Was The Greatest
From Carnegie winning author, a coming-of-age novel about friendship and loyalty across neighbourhood lines - illustrated by award-winner, Akhran Girmay.
A lot of the stuff that gives my neighbourhood a bad name, I don't really mess with. The guns...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 246
- MBE Code : 545
When Shadows Fall (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)
Kai, Orla and Zak grew up together, their days spent on the patch of wilderness in between their homes, a small green space in a sprawling grey city. Music, laughter and friendship bind them together and they have big plans for their future – until...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 346
- MBE Code : 524
Windrush Child
Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it’s cold and even the Jamaican food doesn’t taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 441