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Books to look out for in 2021

January 7th 2021

Now that we've entered another lockdown, you may be looking for new books to recommend to your pupils, or perhaps you’re creating your own TBR pile to see you through the coming weeks!

Our team share some of the titles they’re most looking forward to reading over the next few months, ranging from picture books through to adult novels.

EYFS/Key Stage 1

Key Stage 2

Key Stage 3

Key Stage 4

Key Stage 5

 

EYFS/Key Stage 1

Let's Play Monsters by Lucy Cousins

Out now

 

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book by Lucy Rowland and Ben Mantle (illustrator)

Out now

 

Maybe by Chris Haughton

Coming March 2021

 

The Boys by Lauren Ace and Jenny Lovlie

Coming April 2021

 

The Whale Who Wanted More by Rachel Bright and Jim Field

Coming April 2021

 

Key Stage 2

 

Amari and The Night Brothers by BB Alston

Coming January 2021

 

When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler

Coming January 2021

 

The Shark Caller by Zilla Bethel

Coming February 2021

 

The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant and Paola Escobar (illustrator) 

Coming February 2021

 

The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by Helen Rutter

Coming February 2021

 

Licence to Chill by Maz Evans

Coming February 2021

 

The Last Bear by Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold (illustrator)

Coming February 2021

 

The Wild Before by Piers Torday

Coming March 2021

 

Nature Trail by Benjamin Zephaniah and Nila Aye (illustrator)

Coming March 2021

 

Skin Taker by Michelle Paver

Coming April 2021

 

Shaping the World: 40 Historical Heroes in Verse

Coming April 2021

 

 

Key Stage 3

 

Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson

Coming February 2021

 

The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean

Coming April 2021

 

Bone Music by David Almond and David Litchfield (illustrator)

Coming April 2021

 

 

Key Stage 4

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

Coming January 2021

 

The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe

Coming February 2021

 

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

Coming March 2021

 

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

Coming April 2021

 

The Last Girl by Goldy Moldavsky

Coming April 2021

 

 

Key Stage 5 and adult

The Push by Ashley Audrain

Out now

 

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas

Coming January 2021

 

Hall of Smoke by H M Long

Coming January 2021

 

The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox

Coming February 2021

 

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Coming March 2021

 

The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith

Coming March 2021

 

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Coming April 2021