Interest age: from c 12 years

Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned Noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her fa...

From the cruel common cold to shocking smallpox, see what happens when your body is attacked by germs! Find out which brave nurse drank diarrhoea, which scientist used eyeballs as food for bacteria, why deadly cholera makes your skin turn blue and how munching maggots can cure flesh diseases! Wit...

An empowering introduction to money and finance that every young person needs right now, from Dragons' Den investor and entrepreneur Deborah Meaden.

Just this once. Please let me get away with it just this once. Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just th...

Everybody knows that Elizabeth I had lots of admirers, refused to marry and that her army beat the Spanish Armada. But did you also know that: Liz liked to lock up her ladies for getting married? That her reputation was nearly ruined when her boyfriend's wife was found dead at the bottom of the s...

Discover more about this football superstar's stratospheric rise from a young boy figuring out the tricks of the football trade in rural Norway to becoming a record-breaking goal scorer on the international stage.

'Evolve or Die' includes some weird and wonderful facts about survival and extinction. It covers the time when bacteria and slime ruled the earth, it explains why mutating mosquitos are man's worst enemy, and why rabbits eat their own poo.

Exams are stressful and most people don't love them. This book can't remove all your exam nerves and, anyway, a certain level of stress can help you perform well. Instead this book aims to help you avoid bad stress and have the greatest chance of doing your best when exams arrive. It will give yo...

Ever wonder how fireflies light up the sky? And why those sticky plant seeds are so hard to get off your clothes? 'The Firefly's Light' is a mind-boggling non-fiction book about biomimicry - how humans have been inspired by observing the amazing innovations of the natural world. With illustration...

'The Frightful First World War' presents the dire details of a war that affected almost everyone - from peace-loving protesters to the suffering soldiers in the muddy trenches.