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Books on Resilience and Wellbeing for Teens
Be Resilient, Be You: The Teenage Guide Becky Goddard-Hill This positive and insightful guide gives you the tools to build your resilience, embrace mistakes, and cope with life's challenges. There are tons of ideas to try to help you recognise your strength, deal with...
Books on Understanding Teens
Things They Don't Want You to Know Ben Brooks Things They Don't Want You To Know is a look at modern life through the eyes of a teenager, by someone who recently graduated from that club. Along the way, Brooks takes readers on a tour of the websites that most...
Books on Autism and Neurodiversity for teens
Wish You Were Her Elle McNicoll Eighteen-year-old Allegra Brooks has skyrocketed to fame after starring in a hit television show, and she's the overnight success that everyone's talking about. They just don't know she's autistic. Now, all she wants is a normal teenage...
Books on Equality and Diversity for teens
This Book is Anti-Racist Tiffany Jewell and Aurélia Durand Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your...
Reading Well for Children
Reading Well for children provides quality-assured information, stories and advice to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. Books have been chosen and recommended by leading health professionals and co-produced with children and families. All these books...
Get Ready for School: Alphabet
Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.Albert ABC Ian Brown and Eoin Clarke Learn the alphabet with Albert and friends in this new board book. Ian Brown and Eoin Clarke's brilliant Albert the Tortoise takes young children aged 0-3 on a...
Get Ready for School: Colours
Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.Fletcher's Colours Julia Rawlinson and Tiphanie Beeke Learn about the different colours Fletcher and his friends encounter in the forest featuring the characters from the Fletcher picture books. Borrow...
Get Ready for School: Getting dressed
Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.Guess Who's Getting Dressed Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Marta Altés Guess who's getting dressed, is it you? Who's put on some stripy socks? Is it reindeer? No, it's Fox! Who's put on this spotty coat?...
Get Ready for School: Good behaviour
Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.The Elephant and the Bad Baby Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs Follow along with the adventures of a giant elephant and a mischievous baby in this timeless picture-book story. When an Elephant meets a...
Get Ready for School: Numbers
Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.My First Numbers: Let's Get Counting! Dawn Sirett Let's have fun counting to 10, then up to 20, recognizing numbers, and saying lots of words! 1 toy train, 2 little feet, 3 spotty ladybirds - it's time...
Get Ready for School: Shapes
Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.The Shape Badge Zahara Andrews and Danny Stack The Squirrels are practising their shape skills, but some shapes are more difficult than others. Will Duggee and the Squirrels be able to help the animals...
Get Ready for School: Opposites
Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.I Am Big, I Am Small Vicky Woodgate Meet a GIANT squid, and a teeny tiny seahorse. Did you know that a cheetah can run faster than a sports car, but a slow loris's top speed is 1 mile per hour? Have...