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Children's Fiction

The Coral Island

RM Ballantyne

Madeline

Ludwig Bemelmans

My Forever Family: from fostering to adoption

Nicky Brookes

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

The BFG (book)

Roald Dahl

Great Expectations (adapted)

Charles Dickens

Coram Boy

Jamila Gavin

Who Am I? The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937

Anita Heiss

Home For a While (4-8 years)

Lauren Kerstein

Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Ross Lindgren et al.

Goodnight Mister Tom

Michelle Magorian

Saffy's Angel

Hilary McKay

Lucky Button

Sir Michael Foreman Morpurgo et al.

Henderson's Boys

Robert Muchamore

Close Your Pretty Eyes (11-13 years)

Sally Nicholls

Fablehouse

E.L. Norry

The Ruby In The Smoke: 1 (A Sally Lockhart Mystery)

Philip Pullman

The Star Outside My Window (8-11 years)

Onjali Q. Rauf

Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone

J K Rowling

The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Lemony Snicket

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

Fosterboy

Rhian Taylor

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Home Girl

Alex Wheatle

The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries

J.T. Williams

Dustbin Baby

Jacqueline Sharratt Wilson et al.

Hetty Feather (novel)

Jacqueline Wilson

Peter Pan in Kensington Garden

J M Barrie

The Ghosts and Jamal

Bridget Blankley

An Angel for May

Melvin Burgess

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Wanderer

Sharon Diaz Creech et al.

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

Understood Betsy

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Pictures of Hollis Wood

Patricia Reilly

Strong and Tough

Rico Hinson-King and Nick Sharratt

What Mummies Are Made Of by Stephanie Hutton

Storgy Kids

The Willoughbys

Lois Lowry

Delly Duck (4-8 years)

Holly Marlow

Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles (4-8 years)

Michelle Meadows

Alone On A Wide Wide Sea

Michael Morpurgo

We Are Wolves

Katrina Nannestad

The Sound of Everything

Rebecca Normal

Pollyanna

Eleanor H Porter

I was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers

Philip Pullman

The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself (4-9 years)

Ali Redford

Dennis and the Big Decisions (2-5 years)

Paul Sambrooks

The Leftovers

Eleanor Spence

Extraordinary Birds (8-12 years)

Sandy Stark-McGinnis

The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime

Hana Tooke (Author), Ayesha L. Rubio (Illustrator)

Homecoming: Volume 1

Cynthia Voight

My Bright Shining Star

Fatima Whitbread (Author), Rhian Wright (Illustrator)

Midnight

Jacqueline Sharratt Wilson et al.

The Illustrated Mum

Jacqueline Lawrence Wilson et al.

Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things

Matilda Woods

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L Frank Baum

Paddington

Michael. Bond

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Boxcar Children Mysteries

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Tell me again about the night i was born

Jamie Lee Curtis

Oliver Twist (adapted)

Charles Dickens

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

A Walz Through the Hills

G.M. Glaskin

The Invisible String (3-6 years)

Patrice Karst

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Back Home

Michelle Magorian

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables (adapted)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Cherub Series

Robert Muchamore

The Cat Who Saved Books

Sosuke Natsukawa (Author), Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)

Runaways

E.L. Norry

Escape from Cockatoo Island

Yvette Poshoglian

Mostly Mary

Gwynedd Vulliamy Rae et al.

When Marnie was There

Joan G Robinson

Don't Ask The Dragon

Lemn Sissay (Author) Greg Stobbs (Illustrator)

Jamberoo Road

Eleanor Roberts Spence et al.

Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Uprising

Alex Wheatle

Tales of the Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful

Sophie Willan

My Mum Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Sharratt Wilson et al.

We Are The Beaker Girls

Jacqueline Wilson

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah

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