Dermot O’Leary - Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape
Fiction 7+
175 pages
Toto the cat and her brother Silver live footloose and fancy-free in a townhouse in London. Toto is almost totally blind, and learned to trust her senses from a ninja cat-master who taught her back in Italy where they were born. By day, Toto and Silver seem to be ordinary cats, but by night, they love to have adventures.
One evening, news reaches Toto that a king cobra has escaped from London Zoo. Together with help from a very posh rat and two hungry tigers, Toto and Silver must investigate. Can they find the giant snake, before it's too late?
RJ Palacio - Wonder
Fiction 9+
341 pages
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary 10-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside.
But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school. All he wants is to be accepted.
But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Tom Palmer - Over the Line
Fiction 9+
163 pages
It's 1914 and Jack is making his debut as a pro footballer. But his first match is marred by a demonstration demanding that the teams sign up to do their duty in France.
Word of the Footballer's Battalion and a cup in Flanders provides a glimmer of hope that Jack can keep his dream of playing for England alive. But as the war drags on, Jack is thrown into a nightmare world he will be lucky to survive.
Tom Palmer - After the War
Fiction 9+
188 pages
Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Ben and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they've finally reached a place of safety and peace, where they can hopefully begin to recover.
But Yossi is haunted by thoughts of his missing father and disturbed by terrible nightmares.
Tom Palmer - Rocky of the Rovers
Fiction 9+
157 pages
She's the best footballer in her year - easily better than the boys. She's funny, she's full of herself, and she's a force to be reckoned with. But Rocky Race is also the most famous footballer in Melchester's little sister, and at the moment, that's all anyone seems to care about.
Oh, and she's started having panic attacks out of nowhere. It's not ideal. With GCSEs round the corner, footy matches to be won and a decisions to be made about her future, it's time for Rocky Race to find out exactly what she's made of - on and off the pitch.