Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

A beautifully illustrated and reassuring picture book that explores the issue of the death of a pet in a simple but realistic way.

This reassuring picture book explains what autism is in simple terms, helping children with siblings or classmates with autism understand what everyday life feels like from a child with autism's perspective.

This title explores what an amazing thing the human body is.

This book spells out in simple terms why people may feel threatened by racial differences, what it feels like to be bullied because your skin is a different colour and why it hurts everyone to judge people by their skin or culture.

This reassuring picture book explores questions and concerns about angry feelings and why people fight in a simple and accessible way.

Discover the stories of 68 brave and brilliant womenCurious, provocative, engaging, brave, and funny - women who change the world are diverse, intriguing and brilliant.

Discover the fascinating history of the Asian community in Britain, from the first settlers to the 21st Century.

Discover the fascinating history of African and Caribbean communities in Britain, from pre-Roman times to the 21st Century.

The superb A First Look At series consists of a number of reassuring picturebooks that give advice and promote interaction between children, parents, and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues.

For the quiz-loving child - Go Quiz Yourself is great for learning science independently from home!

Masculinity is being discussed more than ever before, in a range of contexts.

Every day we make decisions that are underpinned by our ideas of what is right and wrong.

A highly topical look at the role of art and the importance of creativity in our lives and the wider world.

This sensitively written picture book for young children explains what poverty is and looks at the reasons why some people have less than others.

Learning loads of facts is boring, right?

An important and timely book on race and racism, encouraging children to think for themselves about the issues involved.

In simple and reassuring terms, this entertaining book explores for young children aged approximately 3-6 what it is like to start school and how the reader might feel about it.

Aimed at children inspired by Major Tim Peake's adventures in space, this 32-page book looks at the history-making career of the man who, in 2016, became the first British astronaut to live and work on the International Space Station.

Celebrate the Queen's remarkable life with this colourful and charming picture book by historian Kate Williams, taking young readers on an amazing journey through Queen Elizabeth II's seven decades on the throne.

You might say that an annoying person is called "e;a bad apple,"e; but Venezuelans would call them "e;a pineapple under the arm.

After being recently orphaned Rose must live with her aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ‘Little Women’.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ‘Little Women’.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ‘Little Women’.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ‘Little Women’.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ‘Little Women’.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel ‘Little Women’.

'Chronicles of Avonlea' is a collection of short stories by L.

After Emily Star’s father died, making her an orphan, Emily was shipped off to New Moon Farm, owned by her mother’s snobbish relatives.

Here is A Christmas Treasury for all ages.

A fun read for Alcott fans, ‘Comic Tragedies’ is five plays written and performed by the Alcott sisters, collected for publication by Anna Alcott Pratt after the death of her sister, Louisa May Alcott.

See the times as they were: the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened.

This is a collection of seven short stories by Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known as author of the novel ''Little Women.

After failing to tempt him to their own vices, Santa is kidnapped from the Laughing Valley by the five Daemons of the Caves (Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance) on Christmas Eve.

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Much of the novel is written from the view-point of his canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans.

Uncle Tom''s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

Two friends and their chaperone travel through Europe and learn some valuable life lessons in this old-fashioned light comedy by one of America’s greatest children’s writers.

Collected here are ten wonderful traditional Indian stories as told by Rabindranath Tagore.

I believe that King Arthur was the most honorable, gentle Knight who ever lived in all the world.

Wherefore if it will please you to read that which is hereinafter set forth, you will be told of how Sir Launcelot slew the great Worm of Corbin; of the madness that afterward fell upon him, and of how a most noble, gentle, and beautiful lady, hight the Lady Elaine the Fair, lent him aid and succor at a time of utmost affliction to him, and so brought him back to health again.

IN this volume there follows the fourth and last series of those histories relating to the life and to the kingship of Arthur, King of England.

In this delightful tale an unnamed boy discovers that there is a dragon living in the downs above his house.

Pollyanna Whittier, is a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern Aunt Polly.

The Princess and Curdie are back in this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin.

The Princess and the Goblin is beloved children''s classic written by George MacDonald.

The Bears of Blue River follows the adventures of a young boy named Balser Brent.

Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover, eighteen-year-old Jack Martin, and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island.

Black Beauty is the autobiography of a horse.