For fans of WALL-E & Toy Story, comes a heart-warming, humorous adventure about a young robot trying to find its way home. ...

Making friends doesn&8217;t come easily to Zoë. She&8217;s always been the outsider, watching the &8216;in&8217; crowd from afar. So when beautiful, popular Laura Harrell notices her, Zoë is desperate to impress. Soon Laura lets Zoë into a secret. In the woods behind her house is a hidden doorway to another world: a world Laura & her brother Alex treat as their playground. But Zoë quickly realizes that what&8217;s going on in the city of Shattershard is no game. War is about to break out &8211; & Alex is supplying weaponry from their own world. Forced to question Laura&8217;s true reasons for bringing her to Shattershard, Zoë no longer knows where her loyalties lie. As her old life slips further away, she is starting to see that getting into Shattershard was easy &8211; but getting out may be impossible. ...

A champion greyhound races through life, moving from owner to owner – & from joy to heartbreak. When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he keeps a special one: Best Mate. Best Mate can run like a speeding bullet. But what will happen when he can’t run any more? ...

A glorious rhyme to inspire lots of giggles among grown-ups & toddlers alike! Our toddler hero is not happy & wants to protest – if animals don’t wear pants, then why should we? After all, do piglets wear panties? Or puppies or bears? Do fox cubs wear boxers? No, nobody cares! Combining hilarious animal characters with rollicking, rumbustious rhyme, this is another cheeky hit from award-winning author Jeanne Willis. ...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 5 Scholastic Set 9 Focus: oa/ o (go); /igh/ i (tiger); /ai/ a (paper); /ee/ e (he); /ai/ a-e (snake); /igh/ i-e (time); /oa/ o-e (home); /oo/ /yoo/ u-e (rude, cute); /ee/ e-e (these); /oo/ /yoo/ ew (chew, new); /ee/ ie (shield); /or/ aw (claw) Book Band: Green This title is part of a brand new set of phonically decodable reading books perfect for very early readers. These expertly levelled stories are engaging, & are exactly matched to Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised, used in schools across the UK. The series

Includes:: a wide selection of diverse & inclusive stories, accompanied by bright, contemporary & humorous illustrations that will engage & inspire young readers with a ‘find the character’ feature on each spread. The artwork is detailed so as not to provide picture cues & prompting. Each book also contains parent’s notes & a ‘retell the story’ task to support children’s oracy, vocabulary & comprehension skills. Thirteen sets of books covering groups of sounds to allow for progression. The stories in this set focus on the sounds found in Scholastic Set 9 & revise the sounds found in previous sets. There are thirteen sets in total, covering: Phase 2 Set 1: s a t p i n m d Phase 2 Set 2: g oC k ck e u r h b f l Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz Phase 2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk Phase 3 Set 5: ai ee igh oa oo Phase 3 Set 6: ar or ur ow oi ear air er Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels Phase 5 Set 9: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn) Phase 5 Set 10: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw) Phase 5 Set 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup) Phase 5 Set 12: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor) Phase 5 Set 13: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more) Have you got them all?

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New from a giant of fiction! A vivid tale of a castaway Afghan refugee child, inspired by Gulliver’s Travels. ...

A stunning new story of hope, humanity & high-seas adventure for children & adults everywhere from Sir Michael Morpurgo, ...

From the acclaimed author of Sade & her Shadow Beasts comes Rachel Faturoti’s brand new story – about a boy & his dad dealing with the threat of eviction & a boy from the past who might be able to help … perfect for fans of A Kind of Spark. ...

A surreal dystopian fable by a compelling new voice: think The Day of the Triffids in a modern tower block. sum-18-ie mortal-engines-reading-list ...

It’s 1994 & thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a school librarian leads Jamie to a disguised novel in the library that reflects his own confused feelings towards boys, he sees he’s not the only one who has checked the book out. In the margins of the pages, Jamie learns that he’s not alone. ...