Primary class sets

A picture book version of Coming to England, the biography of Baroness Floella Benjamin, focussing on her journey to England from Trinidad as a young girl.

A rhythmical rhyme in which an exuberant little kitten plays with it's favourite toy until it has an accident and is comforted by it's mother.

A girl despairs at a little organgutan who is making a mess of her bedroom, until the orangutan explains why it can't live in its rainforest home anymore.

A picture book story inspired by the environmental activism of Greta Thunberg in which a girl stops giants from ruining the world.

A simple, illustrated biography of naturalist, presenter and conservationist Sir David Attenborough.

A traveller boy worries that he has lost his homework book, but discovers that his busy weekend incorporated many different aspects of his school work.

A space-mad girl looks forward to seeing a meteorite shower in the park, but must distract her older brother from his phone to accompany her.

Malala Yousafzai recounts her life growing up in Pakistan and being aware of how lucky she was to be able to go to school, which led to her campaigning for the right for every child to be allowed an education.

A traditional Indian flood story in which a man saves all the animals and plants in a giant pumpkin which he hollows out so that they can all shelter there during a flood.

A little mouse decides that he wants to be more like brave Lion but discovers that even Lions are afraid of some things.

An allegorical story about death and bereavement in which a boy travels with his grandfather to a wonderful tropical island but journeys back by himself when his grandfather decides to stay.

A modern, multicultural take on the traditional story of the runaway pancake.

An African girl talks to the sky in the hope of saving her village from drought.

Explains the purpose of the tear thief's visits to young children.

Follows two male penguins given an egg to hatch taking care of it as a couple

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

Follows Bob's day as he works as a guide on the moon.

Recounts the events of the fire of London as experienced by a small boy

A young rabbit has an adventure in a human's garden

An alien is lost on earth and finds children friendly but adults less so.

A naughty boy becomes ruler in the land of monsters

The Brown family find a bear at Paddington Station and take him home with them.

A young girl inventor must go on a rescue mission when her older sister hijacks her time machine and gets trapped in the age of dinosaurs

Chaos ensues when 11-year-old boy accompanies his grandmother to an award ceremony, where she is due to collect a lifetime achievement award.

Ten-year-old Grace likes doughnuts and cakes as much as the next kid - but they are also her secret weapon. Grace is a monster hunter who owns a bakery - and everyone knows how much monsters LOVE any kind of sweet treat! Just don't tell them about the secret exploding baking powder inside the doughnuts and the cookies...

Two young children transport a family of Yetis to England when their guardian can no longer care for them.

Two young lads living on a space station try to discover the identity of the villain who's trying to crash the station into the Moon.

A young girl wants to prove herself worthy of being a crime fighter like the rest of her family but her first mission may prove too much for her.

A young boy who survived the Nazi concentration camps arrives in the Lake District, where hopes of a new life await.

Three stories about Tola, a young girl Nigerian who, though small, is very determined.

A sports loving boy with a leg caliper makes new friends when he moves to London from Nigeria.

A Stone Age boy ventures out into the wide world to find a stolen sacred spear that has been taken from his village of Skara Brae.

During the Crimean War, a flea and his rat friend get caught up in the events at a hospital when Florence Nightingale arrives.

When Aunty Bindi's husband-to-be is kidnapped the day before the wedding, it's up to niece and bridesmaid Anisha to solve the mystery and save the day.

Follows the daily tribulations of a young Muslim boy as he deals with his family, moving house and starting a new school.

A non-fiction picture book which depicts the journey of water around the world from the fresh water in a boy's fishing jar, to the plains of Africa, and back again to the stream.

Relates the story of Matthew Henson, an explorer who reached the North Pole.

A young girl faces danger and adventure in her quest to become a firework-maker like her father.

A young Viking boy must save his town from a giant wolf monster with the help of the Viking gods

A young boy is in for a shock when he picks some fruit from the tree at the bottom of his garden and finds himself with a pet dragon.

A girl discovers that a rock out at sea is actually a living creature and home to many animals, and must save it from being destroyed by the fishing community who think that it is dangerous.

A boy has to prove to his nemisis that he isn't afraid of ghosts after an unfortunate incident at the space museum leads to him wetting himself.

A new father welcomes his baby to the world and explains what our planet, the Earth, is, where it is in space, and about the people and creatures that inhabit it.

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

Follows the adventures of Stanley, when he becomes only half an inch thick.

Noah's wife makes a special garment in which she keeps all the mythological creatures safe from the flood until she can place them back safely on the Earth.

A young boy does his part to try and save the city of London when a fire starts out in his father's bakery.

Looks at all of the layers of our planet through a concertina fold-up format

Gives brief facts about pet animals from the everyday to the weird and wonderful.

Gives facts and information about some of the many sports popular in the United Kingdom.

A dog becomes an internet celebrity due to his counting ability, but becomes in danger when an unscrupulous couple kidnap him.

Two children rely on their combined knowledge of nature and survival skills when they are stranded on an island with a TV actor.

A young Traveller girl makes her own musical instrument and the music she makes with it tames a fierce ogre

Follows the journey of a pebble from volcano to the ground

A Mayan folktale about the origins of chocolate.

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

A chariot-mad Roman boy gets the chance to compete in a race when his favourite charioteer goes missing.

A young girl steals an old lady's handbag but discovers acorns inside which she promises to plant around the city

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

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

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

An old man tidies up thrown away rubbish and transforms a junkyard into a wonderland

The wilderness and wildlife are disappearing until one character reintroduces a plant.

A young girl uses faith and trust in the spirits of the ancestors to lead her village to safety from the slavers

Leon takes his younger siblings to a magic show and ends up becoming part of the act.

A modern day boy visits the stone age and learns about prehistoric life.

A witch steals the happy endings from bedtime stories

Islanders cut themselves off from the world after failing to relate to a newcomer

Shows how two children escape from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii.

A simplified retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth for Key Stage 2-4.

A re-working of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Four stories involving a little girl living in Africa with all her family.

A simplified version of Phileas Fogg's adventurous travels around the world.

A girl and her friends rescue her father, who has been kidnapped for his inventions

In the Amazon rain forest, a man is chopping down a great Kapok tree. Exhausted from his labours, he puts down he axe and rests. As he sleeps, the animals who live in the tree plead with him not to destroy their world.

A pet cat is in trouble for killing other animals

A traditional Cinderella story from 6th century BC ancient Egypt in which a slave girl is chosen by the pharaoh to be his queen.

High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child.

During the second World War, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with flying lies to join the ATA in order to learn how to be a pilot.

An eleven-year-old girl's world is turned upside-down when she has to go and live with her mother in the city after her father, with whom she lives in the woods, is seriously injured in an accident.

In 1920's Paris, a newly orphaned little boy and his friends set out to investigate the mystery of his parents' deaths and the sinister actions of a pair of author brothers.

A young girl finds herself in a supernatural world when she tries to find her missing older brother.

Two children discover nesting osprey's in the forest near where they live.

A nine-year-old boy doesn't want to become responsible when his sister gets married and leaves home, so he decides that he will spoil her wedding to stop that happening.

A twelve-year-old boy with a heart condition gets caught up in an adventure with a girl from the stone age and her pet wolf.

An eleven-year-old boy of Chinese parents finally gets to do what he really wants to do, through the unexpected influence of his aged grandmother who comes to live with the family.

A Year 8 boy gets a chance to be a famous stand-up comic but realises that the the price of getting there is one he's not willing to pay.

A young boy investigates the bizarre weather that's affecting the village he and his family have recently moved to.

A girl and her friends with magical powers set out to stop the moon magic overpowering the sun magic and so save the Earth from eternal darkness.

Floella Benjamin recalls her early life in Trinidad, and later when her family moved to England

Somehow nine-year-old Cookie falls out with her real friends, becomes friends with the intensely annoying Suzie and must find a way to put things right.

A girl raised with wolf companions joins rebellious villagers against an oppressive general to rescue her mother from prison

A young Jamaican boy arriving in Britain with his parents in the late 1940's tries to make the best of things despite of the racism he encounters.

Boy, Everywhere chronicles the harrowing journey taken by Sami and his family from privilege to poverty, across countries and continents, from a comfortable life in Damascus, via a smuggler's den in Turkey, to a prison in Manchester.

A girl runs away with her guardian to Paris in search of her mother who she initially thought died in the shipwreck that she was rescued from as a baby.

A young lad determines to change his ways when the consequences of his bullying prank on a homeless man are laid bare.

A thirteen-year-old boy in remission from cancer moves to a new town. When he gets some chips for lunch, he gives the soup his mother had made to a homeless man and so sets in motion a growing trend of acts of kindness.

Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle. But when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.

On the island of Papua New Guinea, where tradition and modernity clash, a young girl strives to become a shark caller to avenge the death of her parents, while helping a newcomer overcome the grief of losing her own mother to cancer

A young boy timeslips to the Stone Age where he has a coming-of-age adventure with another boy from the era

A brief look at the lives and achievements of 30 people with disabilities, from artists to activists, from history and the present day.

Potted biographies of 36 significant women and their achievements in world history.

A young girl campaigns for historic wrongs to be righted, whilst also dealing with her autism.

There's a storm raging in Eerie-on-Sea. Has the mighty Gargantis come back from the deep...?

Ten-year-old Pip gets the fright of his life when he meets an escaped convict in a spooky graveyard. And that's just the beginning of an adventure that will lead him to a house full of secrets, a strange old lady and a journey to the big city to seek his fortune. But Pip is in for a BIG surprise . . .

Eleven-year-old Harrison, helped by his new friend Lenny Singh, solves the mystery of a jewel thief on while on a steam train trip with his uncle.

A young thief is drawn into a revolution when she has to flee her village after steal jewels from the Queen's bedroom.

In a world destroyed by floods, a young inventor sets to prove the innocence of a mysterious boy washed up by the sea who citizens believe to be the embodiment of a destructive god.

Follows the home journey of four middle school friends as they walk back home after a day at school.

11-year-old twins, Arthur and Rose, discover the make-believe world they used to play games about when they were little is real when their grandfather disappears.

When her mum falls into a coma, a young teenager uses key objects from her mother's childhood in Kuwait to magically experience key moments from her past that help strengthen their fragile relationship.

An autistic girl learns to be herself instead of trying to hide her condition from people around her.

A Mozambique girl and her mother living in Tudor London travel to Southampton when they hear of a shipwreck that has been discovered with the possibility of sunken treasure aboard.

A girl runs away from her foster home to get to the Royal Observatory of London to try and name a newly discovered star after her mother who was murdered by her father.

A girl finds comfort in ballet lessons as she adjusts to life in Britain after fleeing Syria with her family.

Herbert Lemon and Violet Parma are caught up in an adventure concerning a legendary sea-monster when they try to find out what happened to Violet's missing parents.

A boy from a rough background is given a chance to turn his life around when the Run Club coach recognises his talent for running.

Two sisters take it upon themselves to investigate the murder of one of the fellow residents of their housing estate

When she is picked up by the Impossible Postal Service train one night in her hallway, a young girl helps save the Impossible Places from the wicked plans of Lord Meridian.

A boy dreams of becoming a famous rapper but has to stop his plans being thwarted by a group of meddlesome aunties.

An 11 year old pretends to be a father in order to join a space mission.

Brings together 52 black icons from the past and present and celebrates their inspirational achievements.

A girl travels across the Himalaya Mountains guided by a bird she believes to be the spirit of her grandmother as she ventures from her rural home to the city to find her missing father.

An edition of Malala Yousafzai's autobiography for young readers.

Gothic tale featuring a clockwork maker, a knight and a prince

A 12-year-old boy struggles to break the bonds of his slavery when he bought over to England from Jamaica with his master.

Three friends embark upon an adventure in Egypt when 13-year-old Lillian receives a mysterious package linked to the hidden tomb of an ancient Egyptian king.

A boy befriends a refugee who has started in his class at school and helps him settle into his new life in the UK.

Four children endeavour to survive after the light aircraft they were aboard crashes in the heart of the Amazon jungle.

Based on true events, two interlinked stories tell of a boy who flees violence in 1980's Sudan and a girl whose life revolves around fetching water from a pond which takes her eight hours a day.

A girl learns she is an Indian demi-god when she accidentaly releases a demon from a cursed lamp, and sets out on a quest to prevent the End of Time

A Wizard boy and a Warrior girl meant to be enemies join together to defeat the new threat from Witches

The granddaughter of Baba Yaga yearns to change her destiny which ties her to her grandmother's enchanted house which moves from place to place at will.

Twin brother and sister, Arthur and Maudie set off to find their explorer father who is reputed to have died trying to reach South Polaris.

A robot awakens on a remote island with no knowledge of her past, or how she got to the island.

A girl born under an unlucky sign and destined to die on her 11th birthday is given a chance to join a secret magical society which would save her from her fate.

Set in Jakarta, Indonesia, a boy who dreams of being a professional football player is caught up in the criminal underworld

A boy discovers his cat is a time traveller when he follows the mysterious feline back to Ancient Egypt.

A 12-year-old refugee is forced to flee war-torn Syria with his family and find refuge in neighbouring Jordan.

Two boys in competition for a part in the school play are challenged by an urban myth creature.

Set in 1995, a Nigerian girl and her brother smuggled to London are abandoned and they must cope with the police, social services and school bullies.

Poems about growing up and living in cities and urban environments.

Set in World War 2, a 12-year-old girl evacuated from London to Cornwall discovers a connection between the village and her missing sister

A girl fights to find a way back to her island home, and her mother, when a new government official bans anyone without leprosy from living there.

Follows the bloody events leading up to and including 1066 through the eyes of the son of Harold Godwinson, lord of the Southern Saxons.

Two boys, one of whom has been bullying the other, are forced to spend the summer cooperating together in the building of a raft.

A boy with OCD turns detective when he is the last person to see a neighbour's young son before he goes missing.

Two children investigate when their cousin goes missing

Elliot teams up with Olympian gods when he and the zodiac Virgo accidentally released the sleep daemon from his prison.

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

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

A girl ventures from the island she is forbidden to leave on a quest to find her friend who has gone missing.

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

A girl investigates the disappearance of chocolate after the arrival of a new chocolate shop to her hometown

Ten-year-old Ayesha risks death to make a lifesaving dash through war-torn Lebanon to try and find medicine for her sick grandmother.

Follows the experiences of a china rabbit

When strange plant spores begin destroying buildings and killing people, a young boy and others strive to survive in their tower block in south London.

A boy is employed by a magician to work in his shop and helps him defeat an evil sorcerer by using the power of imagination

A boy finds a secret world while staying at a relative's house

Six original fairy tales with a magical element

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

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.

A family of water voles search for a new home when their riverside burrow becomes too dangerous to stay in.

A cat learns about an ancient martial art from a mysterious ancestor when he is forced out of his home and made to survive in the city

An 11-year-old Ethiopian boy hopes to realise his dream of becoming an athlete when he joins his grandfather on a trip to the capital city of Addis Ababa.

A diary account of a Greek girl's experience of life as a slave in Rome

An illustrated re-telling of Ernest Shackleton's landmark expedition crossing the Antarctic from one pole to the other.

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

The epic Anglo-Saxon legend is brilliantly recreated by an award-winning author/illustrator team.

A young boy living in a world where animals are apparently extinct finds himself on a quest to save a few lone species who ask for his help

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

A young Viking boy plans to take his revenge on the Wolf Men that raided his home village

An old man recounts his experience as a young soldier at the front during World War I

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 classic story set in the ancient Stone Age village of Skara Brae on Orkney.

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.

Will Gaveston is a page boy at the court of Henry VIII, and has to try and clear his father's name after he is accused of treason and thrown into prison

Recounts the adventures of Odysseus from Greek mythology

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

Two children travel to different lands by ways of magical rings, ultimately to Narnia where they meet the magical lion Aslan

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

A girl survives on an island after a catastrophic flood separates her from her family

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

When Father goes away one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, They soon come to love the railway near their cottage and all associated with it.

A young warrior teams up with a wolf cub and Renn of the Raven clan to defeat a demon that has taken the form of a monstrous bear.

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

A boy marooned on a Pacific island befriends an Old Japanese man who has lived there since the Second World War

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

A boy must make a radical medical decision.

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.

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

Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid.