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Top 40

Have you ever wondered what books and resources other schools are buying for their children?

Here’s a sneak preview to our top 40 bestselling titles from the last 3 months:

1
The Double Life Of Ted Amos

The Double Life Of Ted Amos

A heart-warming and hilarious story about one boy who wants to fit in, the friends he meets along the way, and one NASTY BLOUSE... Ted has always wanted to be a popular kid, but due to an embarrassing incident that will not be named, he finds it ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.2
  • Points Value : 7.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.00.
2
The Clockwork Conspiracy

The Clockwork Conspiracy

A locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chases, hidden codes and mind-bending science, The Clockwork Conspiracy is a must for fans of the Adventures on Trains series and Sharna Jackson's High Rise mysteries. Aspiring inventor Isaac Turner ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.9
  • Points Value : 8.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.00.
3
Calling The Whales

Calling The Whales

After rowing out to an island near their seaside home, Tulsi and Satchen discover a whale that has been trapped in a fishing net. Determined to try to free the poor creature, they repeatedly dive down into the freezing sea to cut the netting, but ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.3
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
4
After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside

After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside

Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they've finally reached a place of ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.8
  • Points Value : 4
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
5
D-Day Dog

D-Day Dog

Jack can't wait for the school trip to the D-Day landing beaches. It's his chance to learn more about the war heroes he has always admired brave men like his dad, who is a Reserve soldier. But when his dad is called up to action and things at home...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.2
  • Points Value : 3.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.19.
6
Time Travellers

Time Travellers

Suhana, Mia and Ayaan are thrown together on a trip to Parliament, where they are fascinated by all the history that happened there. Little do they suspect that they’ll be LIVING that history when they are transported back to 1911! Finding ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.0
  • Points Value : 3.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.00.
7
You Can Do It

You Can Do It: How to Find Your Voice and Make a Difference

Never underestimate your actions – even the smallest changes can have the biggest impact. That’s the power of kindness. From Marcus Rashford MBE and Carl Anka, the bestselling authors of You Are a Champion, comes the inspiring and positive ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 6.1
  • Points Value : 5.0
Original price was: £9.99.Current price is: £5.00.
8
Boy Who Didn't Want To Die (front cover)

The Boy Who Didn’t Want To Die

The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 5.4
  • Points Value : 6.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
9
Over The Line

Over The Line

It's the proudest moment of Jack's life his debut as a professional footballer. Now he has a chance to achieve his dream of playing for his country. But it's 1914 and the world is at war. Talk of sportsmen's cowardice leads to the formation of a ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.3
  • Points Value : 3.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
10
Reek

Reek

Sparrow lives in the world after the Reek. The atmosphere is toxically polluted, and Axel Brodie, the tech billionaire behind Zephyr Industries, is cashing in as the only supplier of clean air. Sparrow is struggling to help her family survive ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 3.8
  • Points Value : 2.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
11
New You For Ever

New You For Ever

Can you save the world by living for ever? Anders uncovers the sinister truth about Pleekas in this gripping dystopian thriller from award-winning author Steve Cole. The year is 2070, and the New You Foundation claim to have found the ultimate ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.4
  • Points Value : 2.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
12
A Good Girls Guide To Murder

A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 5.4
  • Points Value : 16.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £9.99.Current price is: £5.00.
13
The Falling Boy front cover

The Falling Boy

Nothing is the same for Joff this summer. His dad is sick, his mum is working, there's a new kid in town. The days are long and hot, and change is in the air. With his dog, Jet, Joff explores. The Chapel of Doom is always there, ancient and ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 3.3
  • Points Value : 5.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £4.94.
14
Know My Place

Know My Place

A teenager’s longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly portrayed in this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting story of life in the foster-care system. A teenager’s longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 3.8
  • Points Value : 3.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
15
Escape Room

Escape Room

When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it's just a game - the ultimate escape room with puzzles and challenges to beat before time runs out. Meeting her teammates, Adjoa, Ibrahim, Oscar and Min, Ami learns from the Host that they ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 6.0
  • Points Value : 5.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.00.
16
The Breakfast Club Adventures

The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond The Fence

There's something fishy going on at school . . . When twelve-year-old Marcus kicks his favourite football over the school fence, he knows he's never getting it back. Nothing that goes over that wall ever comes back. But when Marcus gets a ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.5
  • Points Value : 4.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.00.
17
S.P.E.A.R.

S.P.E.A.R.

Everyone has a power to harness at the S.P.E.A.R training academy, but can Troy master his in time? A thrilling action-packed adventure from Bodyguard author Chris Bradford. When Troy is caught up in a terrorist attack that takes the lives of ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.8
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
18
The Foundation

The Foundation

When keen gamer Ivy Finch is sent to the Ash Tree Foundation after an online encounter turns dangerous, all she can think about is getting through the internet-safety course her parents have signed her up for and going back to her life. Until she ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.6
  • Points Value : 3.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
19
Arctic Star

Arctic Star

Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea during the Second World War. Their ship is part of an Arctic Convoy sailing to Russia to deliver supplies to the Soviets. The convoys have to ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 5.3
  • Points Value : 3
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
20
Escape

Escape

When her school trip takes a perilous turn, Bernice must channel all of her knowledge to survive in this gripping drama from the queen of teen thrillers, Sophie McKenzie. A dream school trip to a sea-life sanctuary turns into a nightmare for ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 3.8
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
22
Angel Of Grasmere

Angel Of Grasmere

Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer. July 1940 – as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved...
  • ATOS Book Level : 5.0
  • Points Value : 4.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
23
Viking

What It Was Like To Be A………Viking

The Vikings were a terrifying force that changed history across the globe – from Canada all the way to Iraq. But they were merchants as well as marauders, explorers as well as adventurers. The greatest seafarers and shipbuilders of their age, they ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 6.8
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
24
Resist

Resist

As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship. There is very little to eat and the population lives under the constant threat of ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.9
  • Points Value : 4.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
25
The Boy Who Cried Ghost

The Boy Who Cried Ghost

There's a ghost in Richard's wardrobe. Every day he carries out a series of rituals that he believes will keep the ghost trapped inside. He tries to tell his friends and family, but they dismiss his worries and concerns as being part of his OCD. But...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.3
  • Points Value : 8.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
26
Armistice Runner

Armistice Runner

Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she's losing her gran to Alzheimer's. But then she discovers her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War. Could his incredible story of ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.0
  • Points Value : 3.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
27
Stitch Head: The Graphic Novel

Stitch Head: The Graphic Novel

Deep in the maze-like dungeons of Castle Grotteskew, eccentric Professor Erasmus created Stitch Head, a small, almost-human creature. His experiments continued, filling the castle with creations so fabulously monstrous that Stitch Head was long ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 2.7
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £5.39.
28
My Perfect Cousin front cover

My Perfect Cousin

Cousins Yasmin and Ruby have always been rivals, but both sides of the story are exposed in this cleverly composed clean-teen novella from Karen McCombie. Ruby can’t stand her “perfect” cousin Yasmin. Yasmin is pretty, popular and has a ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 3.6
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
29
Blitzers front cover

Blitzers

When Danny reveals the dark underside of a company making a new fighting toy gadget, he has no idea of the danger he’s in. A gripping sci-fi mystery from bestselling author Alastair Chisholm. Everyone is desperate to have a Blitzer, the new ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 3.6
  • Points Value : 2.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
30
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Getaway

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Getaway – Book 12

Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town.It's freezing cold at home and his parents are stressed about Christmas, so they decide the whole family are going to escape to a tropical island! A few days in paradise SHOULD do wonders for Greg ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 5.4
  • Points Value : 3
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.00.
31
Dread Cat

Dread Cat

Witty, lively and full of fun, this cat-and-mouse tale from a former Children’s Laureate is sure to delight young readers with clever twists and the satisfying defeat of one terrifying cat. Once there was a very fierce cat. Not just fierce: ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 3.4
  • Points Value : 0.5
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.19.
32
Diary Of A Future Billionaire

Diary Of A Future Billionaire

Just how far will one boy go to become a fully-fledged billionaire? So here's the thing about me. I'm a billionaire. An actual REAL-LIFE billionaire! And you know how some people who get rich say stuff like, "I can't believe it!" and "I ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.2
  • Points Value : 4.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
33
Black Bart

Black Bart: Daring Pirate Of The Atlantic

Throughout his three years as a pirate, Bartholomew Roberts, aka Black Bart, ruled the Atlantic Ocean. He plundered more than 400 ships in three years, making him one of the most successful captains of piracy's golden age. Learn how Roberts went from...
  • ATOS Book Level : 2.5
  • Points Value : 0.5
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £4.94.
34
Supa Nova (Graphic Novel)

Supa Nova (Graphic Novel)

Meet Nova! She's a scientist. Some people say she's a genius. Some people even call her Supa Nova - get it? Like a supernova. Basically she's a huge star, exploding right at you with her adventures! When Nova invents a plastic-eating monster, she ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 2.6
  • Points Value : 0.5
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £5.39.
35
True Sport Stories front cover

True Sports Stories You’ll Never Forget

Meet the superstars who ran, jumped and skated right into the history books! These true stories are packed with big wins, epic fails and super-cool comebacks. From Olympic legends to surprise champions, find out what made these sporting heroes stand ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 6.5
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.19.
36
The Bletchley Riddle

The Bletchley Riddle

Remember, you are bound by the official secrets act... It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. These days, you don’t know who you can trust or who might be a secret spy… Maths whizz Jakob Novis has been recruited to the secret ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.1
  • Points Value : 10.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
37
Dance Of Resistance

Dance Of Resistance: The Josephine Baker Story

Catherine Johnson celebrates the incredible life of Josephine Baker in this true story, chronicling her journey from an impoverished childhood to beloved actress, dancer and wartime heroine. Dancer, singer, actress, movie star, civil-rights ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 5.1
  • Points Value : 2.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
38
The Humiliations Of Welton Blake

The Humiliations Of Welton Blake

Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie ‐ the best-looking girl in school ‐ and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick‐starting a series of ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.3
  • Points Value : 3.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback

This title contains content which may be considered inappropriate for primary aged children

Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
39
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Uncover some of the most chilling practices in ancient Egypt. This book explores all the gruesome details, from rituals and rites to battles and sieges, with a detail that young readers will love! Prepare to be horrified by the customs and culture of...
  • ATOS Book Level : 6.3
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £4.50.
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The Last Day Of October front cover

The Last Day Of October

Bored with trick-or-treating, three friends venture into the woods on Halloween night to hunt for the haunted McBride House in this spine-tingling horror story from Phil Hickes. If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a nasty surprise ...
  • ATOS Book Level : 4.2
  • Points Value : 1.0
  • Book Cover : Paperback
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £4.79.
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