Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 288

Reading Age: 8-10  Interest Level: 9-12

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.4  Interest Level MY

Book Band Dark Red

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

Follows the story of a young boy going into year 6 who has to deal with a failing friendship, an ill younger brother and his own mental demons. Nate is often left on his own to look after his brother.

Winner - Children's Book Award (Older Readers) 2024 &  CLiPPA Poetry Award 2024.

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Description

Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) picture book

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 32

Reading Age: 6-8  Interest Level: 3-6

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

Words have the power to make a difference. Can one little bee use words to make people understand that the bees need their help?

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Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 256

Reading Age: 8-10  Interest Level: 8-12

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.8  Interest Level MY

Book Band Dark Blue

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

A mystery/adventure story that weaves Victorian child labour, aquariums & finding your own independence, with a few heartrending moments. A gripping, natural history mystery with a beautiful cover.

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Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 256

Reading Age: 8-10  Interest Level: 8-12

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.5  Interest Level MY

Book Band Dark Red

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

A nine-year-old girl comes to terms with the fact that her failing eyesight means that she will eventually go blind. Translated from Italian.

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Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 365

Reading Age: 10-12  Interest Level: 9-13

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.6  Interest Level MY

Book Band Dark Red

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

An autistic girl learns to be herself instead of trying to hide her condition from people around her. Based on the authors own experiences.

IBBY 2021 collection of outstanding books for young people with disabilities.

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Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 356

Reading Age: 10-12  Interest Level: 9-13

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.7  Interest Level MY

Book Band Dark Red

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

A boy who cannot see colour discovers the secret that his deceased uncle was searching for a cure for the very same condition. Can Auden unravel the mystery and change his life, and the future of the world, forever?

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The Bubble Boy by Stewart Foster (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)

Code: SC4019

Type: Book

Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 318

Reading Age: 10-12  Interest Level: 11-16

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 3.6  Interest Level MY

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

An eleven-year-old boy is permanently confined to an isolation unit due to an immune system disorder, but conspires with his new nurse to have an adventure outside.

Branford Boase Shortlist 2017

Younger Teen novel

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A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)

Code: SC4020

Type: Book

Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 194

Reading Age: 10-12  Interest Level: 9-13

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.3  Interest Level MY

Book Band Dark Blue

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

A young girl campaigns for historic wrongs against women accused of witchcraft to be righted, whilst she tries to challenge the way that her small town see her.

Blue Peter Book Awards Winner 2021, Empathy Lab 2021 - Primary List.

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Description

Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 244

Reading Age: 10-12  Interest Level: 11-14

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.3  Interest Level MY

Book Band Dark Red

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

Two girls live on a rundown Glaswegian estate, each dealing with their own trauma. They bond when they find an injured fox and her cubs.

Younger Teen Fiction

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Description

Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 208

Reading Age: 6-8  Interest Level: 6-9

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5  Interest Level YAD

Book Band Brown

Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.

Leonora Bolt is a secret inventor and in this instalment of her tales, she must use her eco-engineering imagination to save both her parents and the environment.

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