Peters Books for Schools

A female student at an elite boarding school gradually begins to suspect the truth about who is controlling the education of her and her classmates

A grandfather shows his grandchildren all the tricks he did when he joined the circus

Explains the emotional and physical functions of crying, and how the nasolacrimal system works.

A princess travelling to meet her new husband in a foreign kingdom finds her destiny completely altered when during their journey a sorceress appears and she switches her body with that of a conniving servant girl

Lyrical text celebrates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A group of Year 6 children get far more than they bargained for on a school trip to an activity centre deep in the woods at Crater Lake.

Companion book to the BBC program presented by Brian Cox.

Learning loads of facts is boring, right?

A simple and reassuring introduction to body changes for boys

Young boy Alfie Fleet and Professor Bowell-Mouvement return for more adventures on strange planets as Alfie prepares the last few notes for his Guide to the Universe.

Follows the eccentric residents of a small town, including an obnoxious old man who tries to poison a popular dog.

Follows the life of a school boy, his rock band, DogZombies, and his battles with his teachers and his grumpy older sister

A family find themselves the owners of stolen cash, which is about to become worthless with the introduction of the Euro.

Raps, rhymes and performance poetry by Zephaniah.

A re-working of the Cinderella story from the point of view of the rat, come boy

The Edwardian classic of a London family who go to live by a railway in the Yorkshire countryside when their father is imprisoned for a political scandal he did not commit.

The dad of a bear family struggles to sleep because of various noises in the house

An orphaned piglet is adopted by a sheep-dog and discovers that he is a natural at herding sheep

The story of Max, the hedgehog who becomes a hodgeheg, who becomes a hero!

Dinah finds that the headmaster at her new school is hypnotising pupils.

Bill has to wear a dress to school and discovers it has its good points

A young girl and her pet ghost mouse decide to investigate when The gamekeeper at their stately home begins acting suspiciously

Four children and their dog follow a treasure map on a small island and encounter other gold hunters

A rabbit reads about wolves in a library book while being followed by a real wolf who ends up eating him.

An 11-year-old adopted boy decides to search for his birth mother.

A 13-year-old girl enters the dangerous underworld of Victorian London when her father goes missing

Four short stories about Winnie the Witch and her cat Wilbur

The classic stories featuring a young boy's adventures with his favourite bear

An ordinary schoolboy is mistaken for a secret agent by the secret service and must save the world from an evil supervillain.

When her sister goes into labour, a young girl has to brave the dangerous marshes during a storm to fetch the local doctor but encounters a mysterious stranger who helps her find her way.

A clever little mouse outwits the creatures of the deep dark wood

Shen and Sika take part in a race to the Arctic with a sledge pulled by 66 pug dogs.

The story of a married couple who are horrible to everyone and are taught a lesson by some clever animals.

A young genius girl develops psychic powers and uses them to get revenge on her parents and terrifying headteacher

Charlie wins a golden ticket and gets to visit Willy Wonka's chocolate factory

A boy investigates the connection between his missing scientist father and some unusually intelligent beetles next door

A humorous look at life during the reign of the Tudor royal family

Describes the nocturnal life of the pipistrelle bats.

A boy enters a parallel universe to find his deceased mother who is alive in the alternative world.

A boy is sent to a boarding school where he encounters some very strange teachers and practices

An 11-year-old boy helps his 13-year-old super-powered brother stop an obsessed business man as well as an asteroid from destroying Earth

Follows the diary of a 14-year-old teenager when she moves to a new school.

Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure

Follows the fortunes of an migrant, in a wordless graphic novel

When a frog decides that he doesn't want to sit on a log, a cat teaches that all animals have their special places to sit!

Six original fairy tales with a magical element

A boy finds himself kidnapped by aliens and then unwittingly becomes the captain of a space ship.

A boy enrols at a Wizard school and has amazing adventures.

A self-styled "Dangerologist" gives tips on how to avoid danger in everyday life.

Barney meets a cave boy who seems to be living in his local rubbish dump.

A deprived and physically abused boy from London flourishes under the care of an old man when he is evacuated to the countryside during World War II.

The classic story of a spider saving a pig from its usual fate

Kipper abandons his smelly old basket in search of a better sleeping place.

Relates a father's tale to his children as to why it took him so long to get a pint of milk from the shops, involving spaceships, pirates and police dinosaurs.

A boy gets a series of letters from his crayons after they quit their jobs asking for better treatment.

The story of a girl's emigration to South America to meet her strange family and adventures on the Amazon river

Jasper worries that his bean that he planted will not grow, but after a patient wait discovers that it has grown into a bean plant.

A baby barn owl is afraid of the dark until some exciting nocturnal adventures help him to overcome his fear

An abridged edition for younger readers of Anne Frank's diary during her family's time in hiding during the Nazi occupation in Holland.

A boy nurses an orphaned bear cub back to health and becomes determined to free it from the bear farm where he works and return it to the wild.

New cover reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways

Classic tale about a young boy taken on a magical journey by a snowman who comes to life

Follows the adventures of a willing but accident-prone young girl at a witch's academy

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

Hairy Maclary goes off for a walk with a few of his friends and comes up against something that gives them all a nasty surprise

An American teenager discovers he is half human, half Greek god, and sets about trying to avert a war among the Olympians

Recounts the thoughts and hopes of ten-year-old Tracy who lives in a children's home, but dreams of having a real family one day.

Three children are in danger from their uncle who wants their inheritance after their parents die

Classic tale of a unlikely and unassuming hero who becomes caught up in a perilous quest to steal a dragon's hoard and while doing so finds a magical ring.

A girl is invited to have tea with the Queen and finds out how down-to-earth she really is.

A lively rhyme showing the chaos a zany cat brings to a household.

A twelve-year-old boy plans to steal all the fairies' gold, but his plan is thwarted by the fairies of the crack LEPrecon Unit.

Poet Michael Rosen writes about his sadness following the death of his son.

A gang of pirates go to find treasure on an island guarded by the pirate-cruncher

A lonely girl makes friends with a tramp who gives her the confidence to believe in her talent for creative writing

A story in rhyme about an eccentric man who plays the trumpet and keeps parakeet

A young not-so-heroic Viking becomes a hero when he saves his tribe from a gigantic sea dragon.

Four children discover a fantasy world when they walk through a magical wardrobe

Retellings of seven of the plays of English playwright William Shakespeare.

Set in Victorian London a young boy struggles to find a happy life for himself outside the workhouse

A boy feels neglected when his baby sister is ill, but he makes two new friends - a confident home-educated neighbour and a strange creature that lives in the shed.

A young boy is upset at the loss of his favourite toy.

Follows an American boy through a school year of activities, friendships and family life

Once upon a time there lived a sister and brother who were not at all alike. They fought and argued all the time.

A young Jewish girl must escape Germany with her family when Nazis persecute all Jews and war breaks out

There's a rumble in the jungle

Charlie helps his fussy little sister try new foods

Grace discovers that, with the support of her mother and grandmother, she can do anything she wants to do.

Introduces the character of Elmer the multi-coloured elephant and his sense of fun.

Horrid Henry is a favourite with children everywhere.

Retelling of eight Greek myths in cartoon style format

Follows Handa, a young African girl living in a Kenyan tribe, as she goes about her everyday life, delivering fruit to her village and hunting for her Grandma's black hen with her friend, Akeyo.

Recounts the experiences of Joey the horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War One.

Jack discovers that he can write poetry and enjoys it and while he is writing about some very important feelings of his own, he is also reading other people's poems, as well as learning about all the wonderful things poetry can do.

Three baby owls anxiously wait for their mother to return

Three children with their father explore the countryside

A delightful postbag of real letters for you to open and read

A classic tale about a boy and a robot defending Earth from a creature in outer space.

Although Sam bullys Davey in front of his friends, when he gets to know him, he realizes he likes him, but won't let his friends know, until a joke endangers Davey's life.

Some school friends discover a seemingly haunted hotel room.

The longest of the stories in this book is short, and the shortest is just one sentence long.

Trevor has to train his dog by the end of the school holidays or his parents will get rid of her.

Follows a young boy as he escapes from a convent orphanage in the mountains of Nazi occupied Poland in search of his parents

Follows a caterpillar's strange diet as it metamorphoses into a butterfly.

This is the first Funnybones in the series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton.

A collection of stories that you won't find in any Fairy Tale book. The stories here are most Fairy Tales, but not quite. They are Fairly Stupid Tales with touches of familiarity, but definitely not familiar endings.

A pet cat is in trouble for killing other animals

Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to, but something has to be done about Hamish Bigmore, the class nuisance, and so he uses a little magic to turn him into a frog.

A naughty boy becomes ruler in the land of monsters

Follows what happens when a tiger unexpectedly visits and eats everything in the house

A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his wings as a drag artist, The Black Flamingo.

Two young people find themselves thrown together as they struggle to survive in the middle of the ocean after separately surviving shipwrecks.

A Filipino-American teenager heads to the Philippines to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

A conscientious objector suffering from delusions due to a head injury searches Blitz era London for his estranged brother, who is missing after a bombing.

The daughter of a lighthouse keeper discovers a magical world when she is sent to work as a maid at the big house.

Nicky and Kenny find themselves in danger when they get lost on the Yorkshire Moors in a snowstorm.

A teenage girl battles the Alaskan wilderness to save a crashlanded alien from authorities who are trying to capture him.

Teenager Bri wants to pursue her dream of being a rap star but her family troubles keep getting in the way