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Out of the Rubble by Sally Nicholls
Category: Young Adult | Series: Rollercoasters Ser.
It's early 1945, the War is nearly over and across the country, evacuees are returning home.Judy is excited to be back in London, reunited with her mum. But when she arrives, she finds everything has changed. Her house has been destroyed, her mum seems distant, and her dad is still away with the army. A ...Show more
Press the Button (HB) by Sally Nicholls; Bethan Woollvin
Category: Picture Books
t's a book full of buttons. What do they do?There's only one way to find out: press them all!A fun and interactive book for infants learning colours and language.
Season of Secrets by Sally Nicholls
Category: Children's Fiction
On a wild and stormy night Molly runs away from her grandparents' house. Her dad has sent her to live there until he Sorts Things Out at home now her mother has passed away. In the howling darkness, Molly sees a desperate figure running for his life from a terrifying midnight hunt. But who is he? Why ha ...Show more
Shadow Girl by Sally Nicholls
Category: Education
A poignant story about an unwanted child with an ultimately uplifting message and a supernatural twist. From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever...
The Great Telephone Mix-Up by Sally Nicholls
Category: Education | Series: Little Gems
When the village wires get crossed after a storm, there's a lot of confusion and plenty of missed connections. Margaret can't run her summer fair, Jai can't speak to Aditi, and Will is rather happy because no one can tell his mum how much trouble he's in! Can the villagers learn to love their neighbours ...Show more
The Knight's Kiss by Sally Nicholls
Category: Children's Fiction
An arranged marriage interferes with star-crossed love in this sweeping medieval romance from Sally Nicholls - perfectly pitched for struggling teen readers.
The Nose, Toes and Tummy Book by Sally Nicholls
Category: Children's Fiction
A diversely illustrated and interactive book from award-winning Sally Nicholls that invites families to play along, beeping noses, sniffing sweet-smelling baby toes and gobbling up bellies! This is your nose. What happens when we press it? BEEP! From fingers that tickle to bellies that need to be gobble ...Show more
The Silent Stars Go By by Sally Nicholls
Category: Children's Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Margot Allan was a respectable vicar's daughter and madly in love with her fiancé Harry. But when Harry was reported Missing in Action from the Western Front, and Margot realised she was expecting his child, there was only one solution she and her family could think of in order to kee ...Show more
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
Category: Young Adult
Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to univer ...Show more
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
Category: Children's Fiction
My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead.Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants t ...Show more
Who Makes a Forest? by Sally Nicholls
Category: Picture Books
Find out how a forest is made in this beautiful picture book written by Waterstones award-winning Sally Nicholls and illustrated by rising star Carolina Rabei. Who makes a forest? A wizard, a giant, an emperor? Come on a walk with Grandpa to discover how a forest is made, and see how a thousand tiny thi ...Show more
Who Makes a Forest? by Sally Nicholls; Carolina Rabei (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Poetically written by award-winning Sally Nicholls and beautifully illustrated by Carolina Rabei, this gorgeous book features a non-fiction section about the different types of forests around the world, their importance to our ecosystem and the impact of deforestation on our planet.