Item category 2: Smore Reading for Mental Health

There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it. He's nine years old (just like me), but he's very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn't like sweets - not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite! But the truth is, Ahmet r...

This title in the Demon Headmaster saga finds everyone at the school trying to win the computer game, Octopus Dare. Dinah is the only one good enough to beat the computer but she forgets who she is when she looks into the eyes of the octopus.

Emily loves animals. But she comes from a big family and there's no room for any pets. So she decides to help at the local animal rescue centre instead. When the rescue centre comes under threat, can Emily and her friends make sure all the animals don't end up homeless?

Who is the new controller at the Artificial Intelligence Unit? There is something horribly familiar about him. The Unit has a computer with superhuman intelligence that's powerful enough to control the world. In the wrong hands it could spell disaster. But Dinah and her friends know the Demon Hea...

Purple is the best club ever. Everyone loves DJ Pardonman, but why does he wear a mask? What's really beneath it? The clues to the mystery point to the Demon Headmaster. Can Dinah and her friends stop him this time, or will the Demon Headmaster triumph with his most threatening plan yet?

Frank doesn't know how to feel when Nick Underbridge rescues her from bullies one afternoon. No one likes Nick. He's big, he's weird and he smells - or so everyone in Frank's class thinks. And yet, there's something nice about Nick's house. There's strange music playing there, and it feels light ...

A funny and touching story about nine-year-old Cymbeline Igloo who turns detective to discover the family secret that has led to his mother's breakdown.

The mental of health of children and teenagers hits the headlines on a regular basis, with more and more young people reporting mental health difficulties. This book provides a gentle guide to good mental health, with input from experts in both psychology and psychiatry.

Izzy and Asha need a space to call their own, away from difficult families, the Skull brothers and the trouble they bring. But the derelict building site where they stake their claim already belongs to something else, a wilderness they never expected and an injured wolf that desperately needs the...

12-year old Nat is a slave, sent to England. Life in London is tough and Nat seizes the first opportunity to escape. He hears the story of The Zong, a ship where the crew murdered 133 slaves. Will the world continue to turn a blind eye to the horrors of slavery? And can Nat really evade his maste...