New books Issue 45 May 2015



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Psychology

Byron, Tanya. The skeleton cupboard: the making of a clinical psychologist. 2014.


'The Skeleton Cupboard' is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her final years of training as a clinical psychologist. Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced younger self, Tanya shares the remarkable cases of key patients and their treatment.

5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24990003



True crime

Knight, Michelle. Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed. 2014.


Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. Her escape on 6 May 2013, made headlines around the world.

4v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25101203.



Children and young adult fiction

Suggested reading age 0-4




Cousins, Lucy. Peck peck peck. 2014.


Little woodpecker has just learnt how to peck and - yippee! - what fun it is! Off he goes, on his first big pecking adventure, and he peck peck pecks his little heart out.

1v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25098103



Davies, Benji. The storm whale. 2013.


Noi and his father live in a house by the sea. Noi's father works hard as a fisherman, and Noi often has only their six cats for company. So when, one day, he finds a baby whale washed up on the beach after a storm, Noi is excited and takes it home to care for it.

1v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25097903



Docherty, Helen. The Snatchabook. 2013.


In every house, in every bed, a bedtime book was being read. But then, one night, all the animals' bedtime story books start disappearing. Is there a book thief? And who could it be? One brave little rabbit sets out to solve the mystery.

1v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25097803



Sparkes, Amy. Do not enter the monster zoo. 2013.


What would you do if you received an invitation to run a zoo full of huge, scary monsters? The brave little boy in this story leaps at the chance, and although the monsters seem scary at first, he soon has them eating out of the palm of his hand.

1v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 25098203.



Suggested reading age 9+

Riddell, Chris. Goth Girl and the ghost of a mouse. 2013.


Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. One day William and Emily Cabbage come to stay at the house, and together with a ghostly mouse called Ishmael they and Ada begin to unravel a dastardly plot that Maltravers, the mysterious indoor gamekeeper, is hatching.

UEB. 2v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24986403.


Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods. 2014. Fantasy.


Who could tell the original stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? In this whirlwind tour of Greek mythology, Percy Jackson gives his personal take on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and reveals the truth about how they came to rule the world.

UEB. 1v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25017403.



Suggested reading age 13+

Green, Sally. Half bad. 2014.


'Half Bad' is about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate white witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were 14. All you've got to do is escape and find the black witch who eats boys.

UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24928203



Patterson, James. Nevermore. 2013.


Maximum Ride; book 8. One last incredible explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no-one could have seen coming.

UEB. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24986103.



Skuse, C. J. Dead romantic. 2013. Fantasy.


Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-stylee. But can she make him love her?

UEB. 5v. Price: 7.99. Order No: 25080003.



Suggested reading age 15+

Haig, Matt. Echo boy. 2014. Science fiction.


Daniel is an echo, an android- but he's not like the others. He feels a connection with Audrey; a feeling Daniel knows he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Audrey is placed in terrible danger, he's determined to save her.

7v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24944403.



Children and young adult non-fiction




Suggested reading age 7+

Hibbert, Clare. Stone Age to Iron Age. 2014.


The first Britons were hunter-gatherers who came from mainland Europe to settle in England. They bought wooden spears, flint hand axes and animals with them and were a nomadic people. 'Stone Age to Iron Age' tells the story of how these people settled and began farming the land.

UEB. 1v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25134409

Also available in uncontracted UEB. Order No: 25134405

Moses, Brian. School report: very funny poems about school! 2014.


Find out what goes on behind the staffroom door, join in at playtime, see what is in the mysterious lost -property box, go on the school trip, and discover what teachers do in their spare time - and that's just the beginning of the school adventure in this collection of poems.

UEB. 2v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 25095405.

Also available in uncontracted UEB. Order No: 25095403

Suggested reading age 11+

Dahl, Roald. Boy: tales of childhood. 2008.


'Boy' is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood, including tales of sweet -shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a great mouse plot – the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in the years to come.

UEB. 3v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 22982204.






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