A Present for Paul

Pleasure wants to buy her baby brother a present but when she lets go of her dad's hand in the busy market, suddenly she can't see him anywhere. Where has her dad gone?

Ashley, Bernard

Harpercollins

Donovan Croft is sent to be fostered by Keith Chapman's family when Donovan's mother has to return to the West Indies. But the trauma of leaving his parents is too much for Donovan, and he becomes mute. He won't talk to Keith or his family, and he won't talk to the teachers at school. The combination of Donovan's silence, and the racist attitudes of both pupils and teachers at school means trouble, and it's the growing bond between Donovan and Keith which helps them all find a way to resolution.

Trouble With Donovan Croft

Literature & Fiction

Puffin

All my Men (Puffin Books)

Teen & Young Adult

Kind Of Wild Justice

Simon Leighton is sent to an assessment centre because he is unable to cope with school due to problems in his life - his mother is dead and his father cannot overcome his grief. However Simon determines to leave the centre to live with his father and is helped by Rose, an ally at the center.

Dodgem (Puffin Books)

British & Irish

Puffin UK

Two books in one: Dinner Ladies Don't Count and Linda's Life. Both are school stories - in the first, Jason has to prove that he didn't take Donna's birthday cards; in the second, Linda tells a lie about why she can't go on the school outing. Fun and easy to read, these are popular school stories for the 7 - 9 age group.

Dinner Ladies Dont Count: Dont Count Lindas Lie

Running Scared

Children's Books

In London during the blitz, Johnnie just wants to survive and keep from being sent back to reform school, until he takes responsibility for Shirley Mae Lewis, a lost toddler, and must travel through the countryside, where the two are persecuted as Gypsies, to return her to her family.During the blitz, Johnnie just wants to survive and avoid reform school, until he takes on a lost toddler, and the two are mistaken for Gypsies as he returns her to her family.

Johnnies Blitz

A suspenseful and probing novel about the difficulties of growing up explores a young runaway girl's frequently turbulent relationship with her mother, stepfather, and younger brother

Break in the Sun

Oxford University Press

A young boy's involvement with a street gang and its leader progresses from fear to sympathy and loyalty as he participates in the gang's activities and moves closer to a confrontation with the police and the courts

Terry on the Fence (Archway S.)

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