True Stories (Children's/Teenage)

Explore friendship, love, revenge, life and death in the pages of From Hereabout Hill. A spell-binding collection of short stories fro...

A matter of life and death – and the Throne of England Companion volume to Mary, Bloody Mary. Set in the 16th Century, this tells of the ...

This is the true story of the unique friendship between Harry Goodridge and Andre, the harbor seal who was as comfortable in Goodridge’s home as he...

An utterly amazing, true, first-person account of one girl's experience in wartime. Irene Gut Opdyke was a Catholic Polish nursing student when WW...

In Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! Glenn Murphy shows us that it is OK to be scared and that there are very good reasons why we are able to feel ...

Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his famil...

The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as...

Push, pull and slide the scenes and discover the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin, from Trinidad to London and the House of Lords,...

An amazing tale of heroism and ingenuity, this dramatic picture book tells the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's incredible adventure in the heroic ...

"A light-hearted approach to the problem of beached whales, Humphrey's story allows librarians to give a happy 'yes' to that often-asked question, ...

Two brothers face cruelty, hardship, and hope, on the ultimate journey in search of freedom. Eleven-year-old Tenzin hasn't seen his older brother, ...

A medieval tragedy and tale of retribution – The Dungeon is a powerful story from a writer of great skill and potency. The setting is med...

"I was not born into money or status. I was born to a teenage mom in Hawaii, and my dad left us when I was two. But my family gave me love, they ga...

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act, this collection of eleven stories follows the lives of slaves of every...

A baseball player who ran the bases backwards, an indoor hockey game cut short due to fog, a basketball player who scored for both teams in the sam...

The dramatic final volume in the Wheel of Surya trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author of Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin MBE. In 1947 India i...

Transform your literacy outcomes and engage your whole school in reading. Inspire and delight your children with contemporary, diverse ...

  A gripping football-filled adventure based in the Romani community of 19th-century Sheffield.“The superb Voices series takes un...

  A new illustrated story celebrating the poppy's history. Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman have teamed up with the Royal...