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KS4 - That Asian Kid - WARNING: CONTAINS OLDER THEMES

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KS4 - That Asian Kid - WARNING: CONTAINS OLDER THEMES

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THEMES - RACISM - SOCIAL MEDIA - MORALS

Despite his hard work and brains, Jeevan, is doing badly in his GCSE English literature class.

His teacher, Mrs Greaves, dislikes him intensely and Jeevan is convinced that he is the victim of racial prejudice.

Can he stand up for what's right? When he comes upon her in the woods outside school in a compromising situation with another teacher, Jeevan can't help but film the scene on his phone. With this secret new ammunition at his fingertips - dare he upload it to social media? Should he?

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THEMES - RACISM - SOCIAL INJUSTICE

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give.

One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrified 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 it? With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.

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KS4 - And The Stars Were Burning Brightly - WARNING: CONTAINS OLDER THEMES

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KS4 - And The Stars Were Burning Brightly - WARNING: CONTAINS OLDER THEMES

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THEMES - CYBERBULLYING - SUICIDE - RELATIONSHIPS

An extraordinary novel about loss, understanding and the importance of speaking up when all you want to do is shut down.

When fifteen-year-old Nathan discovers that his older brother Al, has taken his own life, his whole world is torn apart. Al was special. Al was talented. Al had so many dreams ... so why did he do it? Convinced that his brother was in trouble, Nathan decides to retrace Al's footsteps.

As he does, he meets Megan, Al's former classmate, who is as determined as Nathan to keep Al's memory alive. Together they start seeking answers, but will either of them be able to handle the truth about Al's death when they eventually discover what happened?

Warning - this novel contains themes that some readers may find upsetting, including suicide and intense bullying

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KS3 - Black and British - A Short Essential History

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KS3 - Black and British - A Short Essential History

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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 children's version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History is illustrated with maps, photos and portraits.

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THEMES - HOLOCAUST - PTSD - RELATIONSHIPS

The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District.

Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they've finally reached a place of safety and peace, where they can hopefully begin to recover. But Yossi is haunted by thoughts of his missing father and disturbed by terrible nightmares.

As he waits desperately for news from home, he fears that Mordecai and Leo - the closest thing to family he has left - will move on without him.

Will life by the beautiful Lake Windermere be enough to bring hope back into all their lives?

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THEMES - RELATIONSHIPS - SURVIVAL

A British boy narrowly survives the sinking of his yacht in a huge storm off the coast of Morocco.

After days alone at sea in a tiny rowing boat Bill rescues a girl clinging for her life to a barrel. Aya, from the nomadic Berber tribe, was escaping to Europe when her migrant ship was destroyed in the same storm.

Through endless days and star-spangled nights, they drift - mere specks on the vast, empty ocean - weakened by fear, hunger, and burned by the unforgiving sun. Aya tells Bill about The Arabian Nights, and Shahrazad, who told 1001 stories to save her life.

As hope of rescue begins to fade, they find strength in these tales of magic, brave heroes, wily thieves, greedy sultans, and courageous girls. When they land on a desert island, they're surprised to be confronted by a stranger who is not what he seems... and back out on the waves once more in the dark deep, a shadow follows...

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THEMES - WAR - PTSD - GUILT - RELATIONSHIPS

A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something.

He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is. We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hiro.

Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

What follows is a searing account of the blinding flash, the harrowing search for family and the devastation both human and physical.

There is also the very moving and human story as the two teenage boys with great bravery search for and find Keiko, Hiro's five-year-old sister.

But then Keiko is lost when Mizuki's grandfather has no option but to leave her in a safe place while he goes for help...

Despite a desperate search in the aftermath of the bomb, where he leaves origami folded paper cranes for Keiko with his address on everywhere a survivor could be, he cannot find her...

A powerful novel that, despite its harrowing subject matter, has hope at its heart

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THEMES - THRILLER - SUSPENSE

The detective duo everyone is dying to meet! Summer in London is hot, the hottest on record, and there's been a murder in THE TRI: the high-rise home to residentknow-it-alls, Nik and Norva.

Who better to solve the case? Armed with curiosity, home-turf knowledge and unlimited time - until the end of the summer holidays anyway.

The first whodunnit in a new mystery series by Sharna Jackson

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KS4 - The Black Flamingo - WARNING: CONTAINS OLDER THEMES

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KS4 - The Black Flamingo - WARNING: CONTAINS OLDER THEMES

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THEMES - LGBTQ+ - SELF-DISCOVERY - RELATIONSHIPS

This is not about being ready, it's not even about being fierce, or fearless, IT'S ABOUT BEING FREE. 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 colours ...

Can he emerge as The Black Flamingo?

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THEMES - HORROR - SUSPENSE

It's an old-fashioned puppet. The details are hard to make out in the dim light, but it looks like the puppet's neck is broken. It's a sad-looking thing, trapped there in its cage.Maybe I should let it out...

Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker - she thinks nothing can scare her. But when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she's swiftly packed off to live with a grandmother she's never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father's most iconic horror movie was shot. The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map - and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away. And there's someone - or something - stalking Lola's every move. The more she discovers about the town, the more terrifying it becomes. Because Lola's got secrets of her own. And if she can't find a way out of Harrow Lake, they might just be the death of her...