Books for secondary schools

We supply a wide range of fiction and non-fiction for secondary school libraries and can support you to create a reading for pleasure culture in your school. From guidance on diverse and inclusive texts, ideas for establishing a wellbeing collection or books to support KS3 transition and children who are not yet established readers, we can help.

You'll also find Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level titles across the curriculum subjects, from set texts to textbooks, workbooks and revision guides. For a tailored book selection or advice from our team of librarians and curriculum advisors, email hello@peters.co.uk.

Black History Month: Reclaiming narratives

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The theme for this year's Black History Month is 'Reclaiming Narratives'. This theme offers a fresh perspective on Black history that goes beyond the traditional focus on slavery and civil rights and focuses on celebrating Black excellence in all its forms — in the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life.

Presents the history of the anti-racism movement in English football and beyond.

A younger reader's edition of the memoir by former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. With a new introduction by the author.

Profiles key Black figures throughout British history from Roman times to the present day

The true story of an orphan who became a football star at the turn of the 20th century and the first black man to be made an officer in the British army during the First World War.

Potted biographies of 35 significant black men in world history.

Brings together 52 black icons from the past and present and celebrates their inspirational achievements.

Potted biographies of 40 significant black women in world history.

Barack Obama's autobiography about his early life, adapted for a young teen audience.

A fictionalised biography of England's football player Bukayo Saka.

Illustrated biographies of 100 extraordinary women of colour throughout history.

Profiles of 30 young climate change activists and campaigners from a diverse range of backgrounds and nationalities

Profiles of 30 key figures from Black history who changed the world.

An overview of black world history from the earliest African empires to the #blacklivesmatter movement.

Autobiography of British rap and grime artist Stormzy.

A fictionalised biography of World Champion and Olympian British athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Discover the fascinating stories behind 38 iconic people of colour, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers.

Essays about growing up by writers from the gal-dem magazine written by women of colour and non binary people of colour

50 facts, dates, thoughts, and habits of Jimi Hendrix conveyed through infographics.

Horror stories for Halloween

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A selection of spooky stories for secondary students featuring ghosts and the supernatural – ideal for pre-Halloween reading!

A spirited series of "cosy gothic" ghostly mysteries set in the 1930s, starring supernatural sleuths, Lockett & Wilde.

A teenager falls in love with a ghost and together they work out who it was that murdered him

From the second they set foot on Bird Rock island to join their dad and his new family, Jess and Rosie feel that something's wrong. Nightmares haunt their dreams and there seems to be someone, or something else with them in the lighthouse - their home for the summer.

When the ghosts of two young children start to haunt a local school, trainee ghost hunters Eve, Clovis and Tom are invited to help investigate the case.

When a new family moves into a house in Pendle, they discover a witch's bottle filled with curses.

When his new friend Smidge goes missing, Alfie tries to save him from the horrors of the local ritual before it's too late.

Stephanie joins forces with her dead uncle's companion, Skulduggery Pleasant (the living skeleton of a dead wizard), against the evil forces of wizards set on destroying the world

Freja arrives in Singapore during the month of the hungry ghost, when old spirits are said to roam the streets. She's struggling to settle into her dad's new, 'happy' family, and dreams only of escaping home and leaving this hot, unfamiliar city.

A 12-year-old boy's ghost watches his family in the aftermath of his death after being shot dead by a policeman.

When Olivia is sent to Gallant, her uncle's estate, she searches for answers about her family and her past.

When Willa's eldest sister Grace disappears after they visit the Full Moon Fayre, she sets off to try and bring her home

A dark fairy tale involving two sisters who gained strange powers after mysteriously disappearing as children.

When 16-year-old, Charlie Frith, realises that one of his own ghostly friends has gone missing, he tries to find him.

A young boy with a mysterious illness is sent to an institution where only children are present but which is governed by strict rules and the presence of the absent Headmaster and Doctor.

Izzy and her her new friends try to save Vicky and uncover the mystery of the legendary Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Fifteen-year-old Viggo becomes involved in a Viking fantasy world when his brother goes missing in Shetland.

In a town where all the adults turn into werewolves once a month, three teenagers discover the sinister reality behind the change and set out to save their town