Books - Families
Filter:
-
The Circle Breakers
- Patience Agbabi
- Canongate Books
- ISBN13: 9781838855796
- Published: 19-01-2023
Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a not-to-be-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, face-to-face with criminal mastermind, The Grandfather! To Elle's surprise, he needs her help. Someone has threatened...
-
Fritz and Kurt
- Jeremy Dronfield, illus David Ziggy Greene
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780241565742
- Published: 19-01-2023
When everything is taken away from you, love and courage are all you have left. In 1938, the Nazis come to Vienna. They hate anyone who is different, especially Jewish people. Fritz and Kurt's family are Jewish, and that puts them in terrible danger. Fritz, along with his father, is taken t...
-
The Storm Swimmer
- Clare Weze
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781526622211
- Published: 19-01-2023
The author of THE LIGHTNING CATCHER is back with an exciting, imaginative and heartfelt middle grade novel, perfect for fans of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant and The Shark Caller. Summer was supposed to be Ginika's time for fun, friends and fairs. But instead she's been sent to live at...
-
The Light in Everything: from the winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022
- Katya Balen, illus Sydney Smith
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781526622983
- Published: 19-01-2023
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 h...
-
A Ticket to Kalamazoo!: Zippy Poems To Read Out Loud
- James Carter, illus Neal Layton
- Otter-Barry Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781913074104
- Published: 19-01-2023
All aboard for Kalamazoo! One ticket will let you... ride on an elephant, stay in a bug hotel, travel by train boat and plane, mingle with bears and minibeasts - and even meet an alien! All this and more, in 19 zippy poems to read aloud. This is a fantastic and eagerly awaited poetry c...
-
Selfies With Komodos: Poems by by Brian Moses
- Brian Moses, Ed Boxall
- Otter-Barry Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781913074098
- Published: 19-01-2023
Oh, Komodo, no, Komodo, if what I hear is true, nothing but another Komodo should risk getting close to you! Every day is an adventure in this brilliant, eagerly awaited collection from one of the UK's best loved poets. Find cats,...
-
The No-Dig Children's Gardening Book
- Charles Dowding
- Welbeck Publishing Group
- ISBN13: 9781783128686
- Published: 19-01-2023
Don't like endless digging and weeding? Don't let that stop you from getting into gardening! The simple and achievable gardening projects in this book are perfect for parents and young children to do together. All are based on Charles Dowding's trademark no-dig technique, which perfectly lends...
-
There's Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
- Tom Nicoll, Ross Collins
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN13: 9781529060553
- Published: 19-01-2023
Buckle up for There's Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah. A laugh-out-loud funny picture book with vehicles and animals!Three, two, one . . . the race has begun and the animals are off!Rhinos on roller-skates, foxes in fire engines, lions in lorries, penguins on pogo sticks . . .<...
