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Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A picturesque small town, a cosy community garden, a facade of tolerance and acceptance - but when three women with wildly different loyalties come together, what secrets and lies will be revealed? Tara Hooper is at breaking point. With two young children, a business in a town struggling under an unexpected crime wave and her husband more interested in his cricket team than their marriage, life is a juggling act. Then, when new neighbours arrive and...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian?s Wall right up to the present day. This new children's version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History...
4) Flawed
Author
Series
Flawed volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Good-girl Celestine has always agreed with the system but following an act of kindness towards one of the Flawed is herself excluded and soon she is fighting for her own survival - and for love. Hugely accessible, emotionally resonant and with a character who will seize the hearts of anyone who meets her, this is the ideal book for anyone who has ever felt the pressure to be perfect.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ?Boys just being boys? turns out to be true only when those boys are white.��Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid?s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn?t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to�the�refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Bloods are in control and they?re desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see - right, white, Christian supremist. Anyone who they call abnormal is a target. Amidst the chaos of civil war the country is on the move as small militia groups fight each other and a sea of refugees escapes the cities and the pursuing Bloods. When her home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Marti must strike out on a mission of her own - to save her father...
Author
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the Tonight Show Summer Reads with Jimmy Fallon. Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut Children of Blood and Bone. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Z�lie remembers when the soil of Or�sha hummed with magic. When different clans ruled - Burners igniting flames, Tiders beckoning waves, and Z�lie?s Reaper mother summoning...
Author
Series
Little People Big Dreams volume 36
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling�Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Evonne Goolagong, the inspiring indigenous Australian tennis player. Evonne grew up on a hot, dusty farm in Australia. She was the third of eight children, and descendant of the Wirundjuri people, who have lived on the land for more than 60,000 years. Her talent for tennis was discovered at a local tennis club, and before...
9) Maya Angelou
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of Maya...
Author
Series
The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Farshore
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second book in the thrilling middle grade mystery series, perfect for fans of Robin Steven?s Murder Most Unladylike. Set in eighteenth-century London, with all the fun and zest of Hamilton and inspired by real Black British historical figures. The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger has been shortlisted for the Waterstones 2023 Children?s Book Prize! Agents of history. Partners in Mystery. Sisters in solving crime. Twelve-year-olds Lizzie...
11) The raging quiet
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Widowed just two days after her unwilling marriage to a man twice her age, Marnie finds herself an outsider in the remote seaside village of Torcurra. Spurned by the townsfolk who suspect her involvement in her husband's death, she has only two friends - the local priest and the madman known as Raver, even more of an outcast than Marnie herself. Then Marnie makes a remarkable discovery about Raver, whom she dubs Raven, and the two forge a deep bond...
12) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Anne Frank tells the inspiring story of the writer whose diary captured the hearts of the public.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic, powerful story from Lia Levi is adapted for young readers, with beautiful black-and-white illustrations, a family photo album, and a powerful author?s note to readers. 1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice-until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children...
14) Jesse Owens
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Jesse Owens�tells the inspiring story of this track and field legend.
15) Wilma Rudolph
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the�life of Wilma Rudolph, the remarkable sprinter and Olympic champion. Wilma was born into a family with 22 brothers and sisters, in the segregated South. She contracted polio in her early years and her doctors said she would never walk again. But Wilma persisted with treatment, and she recovered her strength by the age of 12....
17) Kamala Harris
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Kamala Harris tells the incredible story of the�first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American to be elected vice president of the USA.
18) The red ribbon
Author
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood. For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker,...
19) Josephine Baker
Author
Series
Little People Big Dreams volume 16
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series,�Josephine Baker�tells the�incredible story of the world-famous entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent.
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