Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage)
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Adnan
£7.99Adnan
Adnan is a stunning story about a boy refugee, his mother, and the power of creativity.
SKU: 9780711267077 Category: C Picture Books Tags: Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's / Teenage), Picture storybooks, Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage)£7.99 -
As long as the lemon trees grow
£8.99As long as the lemon trees grow
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country if she doesn’t? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khawf, and he haunts her nights with hallucinations of everything she has lost. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, when she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy she was supposed to meet on that fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are.
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Cane Warriors
£7.99Cane Warriors
Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking, and the day of the uprising approaches.
SKU: 9781839131127 Category: C Fiction Teen Tags: Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's / Teenage), Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage), True stories (Children's / Teenage)£7.99 -
Feast of the Evernight
£7.99Feast of the Evernight
The Evernight has been defeated and the sun has returned, thanks to Larabelle Fox and her friends Joe and Double Eight. White Witches have their souls back and Mrs Hester is no more. It should be a time of celebration and relief. But a new threat is emerging from the mists of the Veil, the dangerous forest that surrounds the Silver Kingdom’s southern lands. Mysterious killings are taking place, and Double Eight is the suspect. Lara and Joe journey to Lake End to discover what’s really happening, all the while trying to stay one step ahead of the secret police.
SKU: 9781839130472 Category: C Fiction Fantasy 9+ Tags: Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Mysteries, the supernatural, monsters & mythological beings (Children?s/Teenage), Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage), Witches & ghosts (Children's / Teenage)£7.99 -
Lenny Henry
£9.99Lenny Henry
For each book sold 50p will be paid to Comic Relief. Published in partnership with Comic Relief, Lenny Henry tells the inspiring story of the talented British comedian determined to make the world laugh.Â
SKU: 9780711285408 Category: C Biography Tags: Drama & performing (Children's / Teenage), Social issues (Children's / Teenage), Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage)£9.99 -
Maya and Her Friends
£12.99Maya and Her Friends
Nine year old Maya has 16 classmates all with different home backgrounds. Petro is a Roma, Hristina lives with her grandmother because her parents work abroad, Sofia’s father has disappeared during a war with Russia and Rais is a Crimean Tatar whose family had to leave his homeland. This story describes the lives of ordinary Ukrainian children living through hard times.
SKU: 9781800784147 Category: C Biography Tags: Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Picture books, Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage)£12.99 -
My brother Plato
£7.99My brother Plato
Potone lives in Athens with her mum, her stepdad and her incredibly annoying brother, Plato. The city is at war with the ferocious Spartans. When Potone is not arguing with Plato, she is often overcome by her anxiety. Her stepbrother, Demos, a young man with fire in his heart and a thirst for battle, brings his war cries to the streets of Athens and the heart of their home. But Potone and Plato’s constant bickering has set them both up to be very good at debating. Can she overcome her fears and find a way to bring peace to her home and her city?
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The Book Thief
£8.99The Book Thief
Narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day, the wail of the sirens comes too late.
SKU: 9781909531611 Category: Fiction A-z Tags: Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage)£8.99 -
The Little Island
£6.99The Little Island
There was once a farm where all the animals were friends. Together they looked after the farm and each other. It wasn’t perfect and they didn’t always agree (animals almost never do). But they liked it. One day the geese begin to gossip. Before long they hatch a plan to leave the farm. Will life be perfect now? ‘The Little Island’ is a powerful modern-day fable for our times told with humour and warmth, and most importantly, hope.
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The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
£7.99The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies. Enter May Wong: courageous, smart, stubborn – and desperate to do whatever she can to help end the war, so she can go home to Hong Kong. May knows that there is no one more perfect to become a spy than a child. A child can go places, see things and listen in on conversations in a way that no adult ever can. When May and her friend, Eric, are turned away by the Ministry, they take matters into their own hands. Masquerading as evacuees, May and Eric arrive at Elysium Hall. It soon becomes clear that one of the family is passing information to Germany. May and Eric know if they can gather enough evidence on their suspect, the Ministry will have to take them on. But there are more secrets at the Hall than May or Eric could ever have imagined. Then, someone is murdered!
SKU: 9780241429877 Category: C Fiction 9-12 Tags: Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage), Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's / Teenage), Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage)£7.99 -
The prisoner of Bhopal
£7.99The prisoner of Bhopal
Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, where he lives. Instead, on his tenth birthday, he is torn from his family and taken to work for Mr Kumar and his cruel son, Jalesh, in their dilapidated printing factory. There, hidden in a trunk, he finds a secret First World War journal. As its pages come to life, they reveal not only why Amil is there, but that he and the journal’s author – his great-grandfather, Sanjiv – share a magical gift: they can read the wind. Its purpose remains a mystery until, one terrible night, the pesticide plant leaks poison gas into the air above Bhopal.
SKU: 9781839133732 Category: C Fiction 9-12 Tags: History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Mysteries, the supernatural, monsters & mythological beings (Children?s/Teenage), Social issues: religious issues (Children's / Teenage), Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage)£7.99 -
To the other side
£8.99To the other side
A young boy and his older sister have left home to play a game. To win, she tells him, they must travel across endless lands together and make it to the finish line. Children they meet along the way imagine what might be waiting for them across the border: A spotted dog? Ice cream! Or maybe a new school. But the journey is difficult, and the monsters are more real than they imagined. And when it no longer feels like a game, the two children must still find a way to forge ahead, and reach the other side. This is a symbolic and emotionally rich picture book about the spirit and strength it takes to leave your home behind.
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To the other side
£14.99To the other side
A young boy and his older sister have left home to play a game. To win, she tells him, they must travel across endless lands together and make it to the finish line. Children they meet along the way imagine what might be waiting for them across the border: A spotted dog? Ice cream! Or maybe a new school. But the journey is difficult, and the monsters are more real than they imagined. And when it no longer feels like a game, the two children must still find a way to forge ahead, and reach the other side. This is a symbolic and emotionally rich picture book about the spirit and strength it takes to leave your home behind.
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