BRUCE, L
Double trouble
Paperback
Orchard, 1997 £3.99
ISBN: 1 860 393 403
KS 2

BRUCE, L
Muddle trouble
Paperback
Orchard, 1997 £3.99
ISBN: 1 860 393 42X
KS 2

BRUCE, L
School trouble
Paperback
Orchard, 1997 £3.99
ISBN: 1 860 393 411
KS 2

BRUCE, L
Sister of the bride
Heinemann, 1995 £4.99
ISBN: 0 434 972 118
KS 2

BRUCE, L
Nani's holiday
Paperback
Mammoth, 1997 £3.99
ISBN: 0 749 723 319
KS 2

DE GROEN, E
No Roof in Bosnia
Spindlewood, 1997 £10.95
ISBN 0 907349 73 0
Five teenagers from four communities - Muslim, Serb, Croat and Romany - hide out in the mountains to escape guerrilla warfare.
KS3

DESAI, A
The peacock garden
Paperback
Mammoth, 1991 £3.99
ISBN: 0 749 705 922
KS 2

FARMER, N
Do you know me
Paperback
J. Macrae, 1990, £1.99
ISBN 0 862 034 485
KS 2/3

FISHER STAPLES, J
Storm
Red Fox, 1998
ISBN 0 09 925292 9
This is a brilliant contemporary variation on a Romeo and Juliet theme, executed in a style in which anger and compassion are unforgettably combined.
KS3

GIBBONS, A
Whose Side Are You On
Orion Dolphin, 1991 £4.99
ISBN 1 85881 0531 1
Mattie is torn when an Asian boy at school is picked on by racist bullies - he knows it is wrong but he doesn’t want to get involved.
KS3

GAVIN, J
Grandpa Chatterji
Paperback
Mammoth, 1994 £2.99
ISBN: 0 749 717 165
KS 2

 

 

JAFFREY, M
Seasons of splendour: tales,
myths and legends of India
Paperback
Puffin, 1992 £5.99
ISBN: 0 140 346 996
KS 2/3

JOHNSON, C
Other Colours
Women’s Press ‘Livewire’, 1997 £4.99
ISBN 0 7043 4945 0
Louise, the book’s central character, lived happily in metropolitan Paris with her Caribbean father and
Welsh mother until the tragic death of her father. She eventually decides to run away to London and though this proves a futile gesture, her eyes are nonetheless opened to the possibilities of a fulfilling life in a multi-cultural environment in which she can be socially and politically engaged and in which she can be more intimately I touch with her
true artistic and creative self.
KS3

KEMP, G
The Hairy Hands
Puffin, 1999 £4.99
ISBN 0 14 130278 X
Exploring the theme of racism, mixed race partnerships, and tensions created between potential stepbrothers and sisters, Kemp serves up a feast of a book. The story is set against the background of a west country legend, yet the relationships which develop
between the characters are as gripping as the ghostly hands from which the books gets it title.
KS3

KESSLER, C
Muhamad's desert night
Gollancz, 1996 £8.99
ISBN: 0 575 062 916
Paperback
Puffin, 1997 £4.99
ISBN: 0 140 563 369
KS 2

LINGARD, J
Dark Shadows
Hamish Hamilton, 1998 £4.99
ISBN 0 241 13774 8
Like much of the young adult
fiction dealing with the Ulster ‘troubles’ this novel chooses to focus on a representative from each side of the conflict and, through a series of events, to take them closer to mutual understanding. The novelty here is that the protagonists are girl cousins, long separated by a family feud but now brought together by a chance meeting and a shared involvement in music.
KS3

McKAY, H
The magic in the mirror
Paperback
Hodder, 1998 £3.50
ISBN: 0 340 722 894
KS 2

SMITH, W
Imranís secret
Walker, 1992, £2.99
ISBN 0 862 034 385
KS 2

SHROUDER, A
Minty
Hamish Hamilton, 1996, £12.99
ISBN 0 241 136 903
KS 2

SMALLS, I
Louise's gift
Little Brown, 1996 £9.99
ISBN: 0 316 798 770
KS 2

STRACHAN, I
Journey of 1000 miles
Mammoth, 1984 £3.99
ISBN 0 7497 0656 2
This is a moving novel about the Vietnamese boat people. Writing a book for children about such an emotive issue is an extremely difficult task, but the author has done it with great sensitivity, necessarily avoiding some of the harsher political issues, but managing to show the reality of the situation faced by so many people.
KS3

SWINDELLIS, R
Smash!
Puffin, 1998 £4.99
ISBN 0 14 038280 1
As the millennium approaches, the town council of Shadderton decide to commemorate it with a development dedicated to racial harmony in the town. But as the project involves the relocation of Asian families to a white council estate, the local fascists mobilise to exploit the potential for confrontation. At the same time members of the Muslim community, enraged by a racist attack on a child, begin to organise a direct retaliation
KS3

TAYLOR, M, D
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 ISBN 0 14 037174 5
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
1981 ISBN 0 14 037290 3
The Road to Memphis
1987, ISBN 0 14 037356 X
£4.99 each
Black experience in the Mississippi of the 1930s to the 1950s is the historical background to the novels which from this powerful family saga based on Taylor’s own family history. It starts during the Depression when black nine-year-old Cassie Logan begins to question the everyday injustices she comes up against - not getting to ride on the school bus with the white children, for example.
KS3

THOMAS, R
The Runaways
Red Fox, 1987 £3.50
ISBN 0 09 959660 1
The story is a realistic account of two young children’s survival and their growing respect for a reliance on each other.
KS3