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Neighbours William and Stanley both have Down's Syndrome and get on brilliantly. After hearing about an endangered dolphin on the news, they decide they must do something...

Adam and Salim find themselves part of opposing armies in the Europe-wide Christian crusade against Sultan Saladin's Islamic empire.

Narinder Dhami has a light touch which girls in particular will enjoy.

This anthology about war and peace contains poems, short stories and illustrations from 135 contributors from around the world.

Andy Cope’s self-worth centres on his reputation as the hardest lad in Year 10 – a reputation he frequently has to fight to maintain

This is a moving novel about the realities of coping and living with CFS and its relentless hold on sufferers and their families.

In trouble with the law and facing prison, Matt Freeman opts for an experimental fostering programme.

Tracy lives in a children's home but constantly hopes that her absent, glamorous Mum will come and take her away.

Much to the disapproval of his parents, Baljit is mad on football and when he is invited to trials at Leicester City, he has to lie about his whereabouts.

A moving and powerful story about the struggle to escape racism and oppression in Apartheid South Africa

Ted likes the weather, he also likes statistics and routine but his life is thrown into disarray when his Aunt Gloria and cousin Salim arrive, like a hurricane, to stay in London en-route to a new life in New York.

Small Steps is the indirect sequel to Holes and follows the fortunes of its protagonist, Armpit, once he leaves Camp Green Lake and returns home.

As an adolescent, Halo is dragged from the love and security of her unconventional upbringing and sold as a slave.

There is no end to Grace's imagination! It is the school holidays and she and her friends spend their time playing at being everything from doctors to ghost-hunters.

In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of budding artist Junior, a 14-year-old Native American

Jack's mum is proud of Jack’s poems, however, his uncle is pompous and opinionated. We learn all this just by reading this book of ‘Jack’s’ poems.

Christophe arrives as a Rwandan refugee in an English primary school, and initially suffers bullying...

Frankie Ruggles has just moved to a new school. Not only does he have to cope with explaining his dyslexia, but he's also visited by the ghost of a Victorian boy.

Granny has always fiercely protected Donny and his profoundly deaf, dyslexic mum, Skye

Jason is 12 and on the autistic spectrum...

In this leftfield comic fantasy novel, 12-year-old Percy Jackson discovers that the Greek gods of Olympus are alive and living in modern-day New York.

Flash’s plane goes down in the desert, and he is discovered – injured and clutching an instant camera – by two children, Sutira and Olu, who take him back to their village.

After her previous Takeshita Demon-defying adventures, Miku hopes School Camp will be a picnic - but something's making her uneasy. And soon her suspicions are confirmed.

Another letter in Frances Lincoln’s World Alphabet series

Nick Sharratt's silhouettes perfectly reflect the mood of Jacqueline Wilson's first historical fiction, set in London's Foundling Hospital in the 1870s.

After a chance meeting with John on holiday in Florida, Annie realises that he sees her as a lifeline against the relentless bullying he suffers at school.

The combination of an Ancient Greek setting, together with a leading character who is a vain and cowardly talking pig, makes for an unusual tale.

While Shawn appears – to his father’s increasing distress – to be unconscious of the world around him, the author tells us that he is actually fully aware.

Jean, who has Cerebral Palsy, is about to spend ten days at Camp Courage (or ‘Crip Camp’ as her cabinmate Sara calls it), which is to prove an eye-opening experience.

Davy and his family have recently moved to Liverpool, where life is tough: Davy is being bullied by a gang of boys at school and his brother nearly kills himself trying to meet the bullies on their own terms.

After monsters infiltrate Percy Jackson's school and try to kill him, Percy, Annabeth and new schoolmate Tyson, who is not all he seems, rush to Camp Half-Blood which is under attack.

When the spoilt and bad-tempered Mary is orphaned at the age of ten, she is sent from India to live with her hunchback uncle on the Yorkshire Moors.

Paul Faustino is reluctantly drawn into investigating the disappearance of San Juan's teenage football prodigy El Brujito.

Jacob and his friends spend their summer playing in an old quarry pond, until one day, a boy is killed...

In these stories the Princes learn how to have self-control and wisdom, to be aware of treachery and to seek peace

Hannah has been best friends with Joey forever. But when the dynamics of their relationship begin to change, Hannah finds it hard to adjust.

Written in an inventive and engaging style, Stravaganza is an an extraordinarily exciting time-slip novel set in both sixteenth-century and contemporary Venice.

Told through the eyes of children, this moving collection of short stories focuses on the experiences of asylum seekers from all over the world.

Landman’s latest novel is much more than a mere account of the bloody encounter between the Aztecs and the invading Spanish Conquistadors.

Willie Beech, a lonely and deprived child, is evacuated to a tiny English village just before the  Second World War, and finds himself living with reclusive widower Thomas Oakley.

In the midst of the American War of Independence, a young, freed slave escapes his gaol and finds himself fighting with an underequipped American army.

Young Tom of Warwick is homesick when he is sent away to the castle to learn about knighthood.

Eva sets out from her hi-tech underground sanctuary to find others like her - but the marauder Besteel is already on their trail, and determined to capture Eva and her friends…

In this excellent football story, set in modern-day South America, a hackneyed football reporter sits down with El Gato (the Cat), a World Cup-winning goalkeeper, to look back on his amazing life and career.

A pilot marooned in the desert is visited by a little prince, and they become friends. This is a lovely book for children and adults alike to keep and revisit time and time again.

Adrian is ‘a child for whom life easily falls apart’, a nine-year-old who is afraid of almost everything and has never known his father.

This history of Kubla Khan is in itself fascinating: the illustrations then take this book to another level.

Tracy Beaker is back and this time she's been cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in her school play.