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Meet Wellington - the little elephant with BIG ideas - in this irresistible story about family and growing up from acclaimed picture book creator, ...

A moving and inspiring memoir of growing up in rural, Zimbabwe written by the Global Head of the UN's HeForShe gender equality movement.Publisher: ...

Publisher: Phoenix International Publications, IncorporatedAuthor(s): Pi KidsNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 178 x 197 x 14Cov...

SHADES OF SCARLET is a deeply insightful, sharply funny book by bestselling author Anne Fine, about how growing up means coming to terms with your ...

Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would fall.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAut...

Publisher: Y LolfaAuthor(s): Jos SimonNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescope...

Frank is a young lad growing up in pre-Second World War Manchester. He is called up and serves in the last months of the war. What he experiences a...

Our paramount task as parents or loved ones is to teach our children about our Heavenly Father. What better way to do this than to encourage our ch...

A reassuring, fact-packed book for girls on what to expect when growing up. From Dr Emily MacDonagh, OK! magazine's popular Health and Parenting Co...

Publisher: Penguin USAAuthor(s): Margarita LongoriaNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Geoff Norcott's colourful memoir of growing up Labour, but now voting Tory.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Geoff NorcottNumber of pag...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Marek NowinaNumber of pages: 156Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 204 x 15Cover type: Paperback / sof...

* A beautifully written memoir of growing up Catholic in Northern IrelandPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Polly DevlinNumber of pages:...

The true story of Black activist Opal Lee and her vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone will inspire children to be brave and make a diffe...

A reassuring, fact-packed book for boys on what to expect when growing up. From Dr Emily MacDonogh, OK! magazine's popular Health and Parenting Col...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Selma BlairIllustration(s): 30-40 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

A powerful and gripping novel about love, loyalty and obsession set during WWI and the Irish War of Independence. Annie, Francie and Archie were in...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Celia Louise ParisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 88Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 233 ...

A Russian cult hit by rising filmmaker and author Nataliya Meshchaninova, Stories of a Life is a fierce and tender memoir-novel of one young woman'...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Pacifique IrankundaNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 200 x 28Cover type: Hardba...

Frank is a young lad growing up in pre-Second World War Manchester. He is called up and serves in the last months of the war. What he experiences a...

The Independent Hostel Guide 2022 is the comprehensive reference to the independent bunkhouses and hostels of the UK. The guide has been revised an...

Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, this is a portrait of a young woman finding herself in a modern world full of c...

Girl in the Mirror chronicles the life of Muriel: A giddy kipper of a girl who craves the spotlight of a movie star, an ordinary girl with extraord...

Our paramount task as parents or loved ones is to teach our children about our Heavenly Father. What better way to do this than to encourage our ch...

A novel of enormous achievement, Monkey Boy tells the tale of Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer who grapples with his heritage, career, and ...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Derek OwusuNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 504 x 215 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations and stereotypes of gr...

This forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman's coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago. What, what, am I t...

A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Tim...

It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of boys growing up and playing football in the Suffolk countryside. Far away, in a place called Saraj...

Sharon shares her incredible story of growing up in Guyana in the fifties before going off to a boarding school in England where she was the only d...

Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn't always an indicator of what's to come.Publisher: HarperCollins Publ...

Based on Elizabeth Laird's own childhood growing up in post-war Britain, The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown is a warm, witty and beautiful comi...

A novel about youth, the ghosts of friendship, and growing up as a mixed-race person in a small but fiercely proud nation, the story spans India an...

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... But what happens to the people who grow up there?Publisher: UnboundAuthor(s): Timothy O'GradyNumber of pag...

With a heroine you will root for from page one, Flying Solo is about growing up, coming home, and learning to make a life for yourself on your own ...

Based on the true story of a childhood growing up in a home for abandoned and unwanted children, The Homes is a beautiful and haunting thriller.Pub...

A unique guide to growing up perfectly weird and perfectly happy, by Dr Camilla Pang who was diagnosed with autism age 8 and was the youngest perso...

The classic story of a boy growing up in a small town on the Mississippi. An abridged edition for young readers, with full-colour illustrations.Pub...

This memoir tells the story of the first twenty-one years of my life, growing up and coming of age in the working class Dublin Corporation housing ...

An uplifting play about the experience of growing up neurodivergent and queer in early 2000s Britain, based on real events from the perspective of ...

'I was 11 years old. I witnessed the mindless cruelty of human beings. The only peace was when I was surrounded by the dead.'Publisher: The History...

In this essential guide, Rosemary Richings shares her tips, advice and insights on growing up and thriving with dyspraxia. She describes being diag...

A sharp and authentic love story about 16-year-old Cynthia, who finds herself caught between two brothers: one who is Black and the other who is wh...

See the funny side of ageing with this collection of amusing observations, silly suggestions and humorous illustrationsSo you're a little bit older...

Froman Observer columnist and Twitter sensation, the story of a boy growing up in a family bonded by loss, love and mockery, set against the backdr...

All Day is a Long Time is a spectacular, raw account of growing up and managing, against the odds, to carve out a place for hope.Publisher: Hodder ...

A beautiful memoir of unexpected pregnancy, of growing things and caring for plants, and how they return the favour.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoA...

Travel back in time and join four young Dino friends on their ROARsome adventures growing up in the cretaceous period. Packed full of playful puzzl...

Hilarious and heart-warming and utterly compelling, Hidden Lessons lets you in on the life secrets all teachers knowPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton G...

Life in the 1950s Midlands town still reflects the austerity of the immediate post-war period. But amid the greyness there's the promise of better ...

Publisher: Phoenix International Publications, IncorporatedAuthor(s): PI KidsNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 195 x 197 x 13Cov...

This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place the...

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.Publishe...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Brenna HassettNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 37Cover type: Hardba...

And isn't growing up for everyone a more or less successful attempt to overcome their conditioning and see clearly, with their own eyes?' Matt Rowl...

A Westerner leaves a Dungeons and Dragons book in a North Korean hotel, which ends up in the hands of a 10-year-old boy growing up during the Arduo...

'Alluring, shocking, welcome and wonderful' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women From the author of Your Voice in My Head and Royals comes a beautifu...

Whether you love growing, love creating, or just want to liven up your outdoor space, a container garden is just the answer.Publisher: Octopus Publ...

In 1754, renowned maker of clocks and automata Abel Cloudesley must raise his new-born son Zachary when his wife dies in childbirth. Growing up amo...

A coming of age story against a backdrop of life on the Moon, a Philip K. Dick award-winning novel.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): John M....

An engaging and gently humourous personal account of growing up mixed race in the UK which will examine questions of identity.Publisher: Simon & Sc...

A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi, by the award-winning conceptual artist...

Reducere. *This superb anthology of short stories, comics, and poems is fresh, funny, and full of authentic YA voices revealing what it means to be Mexican A...

The book is about me being born in Tottenham to working class parents and subsequently growing up in the Tottenham area and the schools I went to a...

The demand for cybersecurity expertise is growing phenomenally; enhancing cybersecurity project skills will boost technology professionals' careers...

Imagine being nineyears old and walking to the market with your mother while tripping over the debris from WWII bombing. And then suddenly seeing a...

Park Wan-suh's Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a t...

From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the '50s an...