What's the good in keeping secrets? Secret Friends is a heartbreaking story about friendship and bullying from the multi-award-winning Elizabeth Laird. Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her 'Earwig', until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like she is. Lucy loves keeping her own secret friend, until tragedy strikes and secrets can't be kept any longer. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award and reissued with gorgeous illustrations, more than twenty years after first publication, Elizabeth Laird's moving and unflinching novella brings home the crucial importance of cultivating empathy in young people. '[A] humane and honest story. It conveys so much, so simply and so well' Scotsman '[A] fine weepy with a moral, about the dangers of playground cliquishness and cruelty' The Sunday Times

The discovery of a body in Boston harbor has crime scene investigator Darby McCormick looking into related cases: two dead female students wash up, both abducted months earlier, each carrying a Virgin Mary figurine

Do you believe in magic? Lexi and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventures unfolds in this new chapter book from the Star Friends series featuring black and white illustrations throughout. Lexi and her star animal, a squirrel named Juniper, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. The Star Friends fear that more dark magic is brewing. And now the friends themselves are arguing! Will their Star Animals be able to convince them to work together again? In the Star Friends chapter book series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends -- they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals show the girls how to use their unique magic abilities to do good. A whole world of magical adventures awaits!

How do you feel when you are outside in nature? Listening to the sounds of bird song or the rustling leaves in the breeze... a babbling brook, or the sea rushing onto the shore? Can you taste the salty sea spray or smell the scents of a woodland glen? In Secret Friends join Ankara on her amazing adventures exploring nature; a fascinating conversation with the Rose Flower faerie, a night time visit from an elf, a magical encounter with a dolphin, and discover how Ben becomes a true friend. You will be amazed what can happen when you make friends with nature. In Secret Friends you will enter the wonder of the living world and be immersed in magic!

This book has been written in an effort to help young people to understand that the differences in human beings lies not in the color of their skin but the moral state of their hearts and mind. Life will never be perfect but if we take the time to go beyond outward appearances maybe many injustices in life can be avoided.

Ten-year-old Jessica loses her best friend, and in struggling to win her back finds out some important things about friendship.

Psh! Me, James Montgomery, the half-Italian stud-muffin fall in love? Never gonna happen. Why? Because I've got rules. Rule #1: Family comes first. Rule #2: Never take anything too seriously. Rule #3: Carpe diem.