I have given each of my recommendations for children an age suggestion. These are of course approximate. Please also have a look at younger or older categories.
When Billie sees a plane crash into a field, her adventures begin. Wonderfully joyful and adventurous!
Review date: 06.11.22
Age recommendation: 9+
A brilliant guide for young people to live their best lives.
Review date: 29.04.24
Age recommendation: 11+
A gripping and compelling drama touching on fostering and the criminal justice system, aimed at the early teen who is struggling with their reading.
Review date: 20.05.22
Age recommendation: 12+
A gripping read which is moving, uplifting and educational!
Review date: 28.02.16
Age recommendation: 8+
A wonderful, magical, uplifting tale of resourcefulness and courage. Fantastic!
Review date: 31.03.24
Age recommendation: 9+
The stunning companion novel to 'The Skylarks' War'. Wonderful characters and a gripping and moving story of courage, resilience and friendship.
Review date: 02.04.21
Age recommendation: 9+
A fabulous, thought-provoking page-turner set in an imagined future where one young girl challenges the offer of artificial intelligence.
Review date: 19.04.21
Age recommendation: 10+
Grace and Bee's parents have died suddenly and the two girls are dealing with their deaths very differently. A charming, beautiful and moving book, due to be published on 29 March 2018.
Review date: 07.02.18
Age recommendation: 9+
A beautiful, perfectly constructed, magical book about friendship and the importance of kindness.
Review date: 16.04.15
Age recommendation: 10+
An astonishing book exploring Alzheimer's and time travel!
Review date: 30.03.13
Age recommendation: 10+
A fabulous modern interpretation of the myth of Robin Hood.
Review date: 05.09.20
Age recommendation: 11+
Three boys living on a dumpsite make a discovery they have only dreamed about. But will it bring them a new and better life or destroy them? A stunning thriller.
Review date: 09.10.15
Age recommendation: 11+
When work experience goes out of control! A fantastic idea which has produced a gripping and ultimately uplifting thriller.
Review date: 06.10.15
Age recommendation: 11+
An imagined future where a huge swathe of Britain has been rewilded - and what happens to two sisters who are lost within it.
Review date: 14.03.25
Age recommendation: 9+
A nostalgic tale of three young women in 1896 returning to their very different lives after boarding school. Told in letters, with a modern slant.
Review date: 19.08.23
Age recommendation: 12+
Felix is great at general knowledge, but he can't invite friends round to watch his favourite quiz show - they can't know he lives in a van.
Review date: 02.05.25
Age recommendation: 11+
Felix wants to become a successful businessman, and he may just have found the way to do it, with some help from his friends.
Review date: 25.04.25
Age recommendation: 9+
This is a perfectly paced adventure, with great characters and topical issues, aimed at readers aged nine upwards.
Review date: 18.12.21
Age recommendation: 9+
Josh has learnt ways to cope with his worrying, but then he has to move schools. A page turner which handles issues with fun and a light touch.
Review date: 11.08.23
Age recommendation: 9+
Powerfully atmospheric of the American west in the late 1800s just before the Civil War. It's about ghosts and mystery, friendship, loyalty, courage and grief.
Review date: 16.01.23
Age recommendation: 11+
