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UK Highlights Catalogue Discover Resources for the English National Curriculum, IEYC, IPC and IMYC, International Baccalaureate®, Local School Curricula and More! 2021 UK Highlights Catalogue Discover resources for the English National Curriculum, IEYC, IPC and IMYC, International Baccalaureate®, local school curricula and more! 101 Welcome to the UK Highlights Catalogue. This catalogue includes content from our UK and US warehouses and service centres to support the English National Curriculum, the IPC and IMYC, the International Baccalaureate® and local curricula. Inside this catalogue you will find: • Shortlisted titles for The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards, and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award • New and upcoming releases from popular authors and new writers • Themes to support student understanding of world events CILIP Carnegie Medal 3 Pandemics and Epidemics 16 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 5 Confronting Racism 17 World Poetry Day 7 Emotional Well-Being 18 Author Spotlight: Shaun Bythell 8 Sports and Fitness 19 Fiction 10 Planning for the Future 20 Nonfiction 12 Resources for Parents 21 Striving Readers – Barrington Stoke 14 Professional Development 24 Graphic Novels 15 Popular eBooks and Audiobooks 26 KEY TO FORMATS/BINDINGS HRD = Hardcover BIL = Bilingual EBK24 = 24-month term eBook PAP = Paperback SPA = Spanish EBK26C = 26-checkout limit eBook FBS = FollettBound® Sewn EBK = eBook FDA = Follett Digital Audiobook 102FBG = FollettBound® Glued BRD = Board Books MUA = Multi-user access eBook Let our team save you time selecting titles. It’s free! “I LOVE IT! I just opened the The Follett Content Alignment Service list, and the titles are just what (CAS) team is composed of former our collection is needing.” educators who regularly meet with publishers to learn about, review and “You have such a great eye Donna H., Library Media Specialist assess titles the team is recommending for wonderful books. for the library and the classroom. We so appreciate it!” No request is too big or small for our Susan N., CAS team! Curriculum Coordinator 103Click here to contact us today. The CILIP Carnegie Medal annually recognises an outstanding book written for children and young people. Lark The Black Flamingo Anthony McGowan Dean Atta • Hachette Children’s Group Barrington Stoke Ltd 2020 • Age 13 and above 2019 • Age 13 and above Fiercely told, this is a powerful coming- Things are getting tense at home of-age story told in verse from one of for Nicky and Kenny as they wait the UK’s leading poets, Dean Atta. for a visit from their estranged mum. To escape, they go for a GYN9WW0 PAP walk on the moors, taking their little Jack Russell terrier with them. But what should have been a laugh, a lark, turns deadly when the weather changes and they are caught in a blizzard. Nothing will 2020 ever be quite the same again. Girl. Boy. Sea. Winner GW55DD4 PAP Chris Vick • Head of Zeus CILIP Carnegie Medal 2020 • Age 13 and above Storm, shipwreck, survival. This novel delves into the might and majesty of the ocean, the strength of an unlikely friendship ® between a British boy and a Berber girl Find more books on Titlewave . and their will to survive against all odds. Click here to shop this catalogue’s lists. Configure your Titlewave GYV68RX PAP search preferences to view US digital resources and books that ship from the UK. If you have any questions, you can locate your region’s consultant by using the Follett Representative Finder. 3 Lampie: A Seaswept Patron Saints of Nothing Fairytale Adventure Randy Ribay • Stripes Publishing Annet Schaap • Pushkin Children’s Books 2019 • Age 13 and above 2020 • Age 11 and above In this powerful coming-of-age story Every evening, Lampie, the lighthouse about grief and guilt, a Filipino-American keeper’s daughter, must light a lantern to teenager takes risks to uncover the warn ships away from the rocks. But one truth about his cousin’s murder. stormy night, the lantern goes out, a ship 543NNQX EBK is wrecked, and an adventure begins. GZ0QYJ6 PAP Nowhere on Earth Voyages in the Underworld Nick Lake • Hachette Children’s Group of Orpheus Black 2019 • Age 13 and above Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick It starts with a plane crash. Two survivors Walker Books Ltd • 2019 are running from something. Find out what in Age 12 and above this thrilling story of survival, hope and love. Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost GW7NCL8 PAP certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during a German air raid. GWZ5FF9 HRD CILIP Carnegie Medal On the Come Up Angie Thomas • Walker Books Ltd 2019 • Age 13 and above The daughter of an underground hip-hop legend who died right before he hit the big time, Bri is caught up in controversy when her first song goes viral for the wrong reasons. GVKQDP3 PAP 4 The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal annually recognises an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people. Tales from the Inner City Child of St Kilda Shaun Tan • Walker Books Ltd Beth Waters • Child’s Play International Ltd 2018 • Ages 11-15 2019 • Ages 4-9 This stunningly presented Norman John Gillies was one of the last collection of short stories explores children ever born on St Kilda, five years the relationship between humans before the whole population was evacuated and animals, of how animals forever. Why did this four thousand-year- can save us and how we are old way of life suddenly cease in 1930? entwined for better or for worse. GVV1CB2 HRD GVZ6SL4 HRD 2020 Winner The Dam David Almond, illustrator Levi Pinfold Walker Books Ltd 2018 • Ages 5-9 Almond plays homage to all musicians, showing the ancient and unstoppable power of creativity as CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal CILIP Kate Greenaway two artists return to an abandoned valley on the verge of filling with water and play for the last time. GVS40Z4 HRD 5 The Iron Man The Undefeated Ted Hughes, illustrator Chris Mould Kwame Alexander, illustrator Kadir Nelson Faber & Faber • 2019 • Ages 9-11 Andersen Press Ltd The Iron Man mysteriously appeared at 2020 • Ages 5-7 the top of the cliff. Then, when a terrible From New York Times best-selling monster from outer space threatens author Kwame Alexander comes to lay waste to the planet, Iron Man this powerful ode to black history. finds a way to save the world. Be inspired by the grit, passion and perseverance of some of the world’s GY8PNP8 HRD greatest artists, athletes and activists. GZ5DPBX PAP Mary and Frankenstein: The True Story of Mary Shelley You’re Snug With Me Linda Bailey, illustrator Julia Sarda Chitra Soundar, illustrator Poonam Mistry Andersen Press Ltd • 2019 • Ages 5-14 Lantana Publishing • 2018 • Ages 4-8 After learning about electricity that A mother polar bear answers the can make dead frogs twitch, Mary questions of her two curious cubs about Shelley has a nightmare that triggers what lies beyond their cosy winter den the birth of one of the greatest scary as they wait for spring to arrive. stories of all time – Frankenstein. 1522GN5 HRD GYBHWY2 PAP The Suitcase Chris Naylor-Ballesteros Nosy Crow Ltd Find your representative. 2019 • Birth to Age 5 The Follett international community is composed When the other animals discover a of many former educators, librarians, technology special photograph in a new, strange- consultants and experts in their field. If you have any looking animal’s big suitcase, they CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal CILIP Kate Greenaway questions, you can locate your region’s consultant by begin to understand what the creature has been through, and together they using the Follett Representative Finder. create a very special welcome present. GWZK9S7 PAP 6 Every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates poetic expression and linguistic diversity. Cherry Moon: Little Poems A Kid in My Class Big Ideas Mindful of Nature Rachel Rooney • Otter-Barry Books Ltd Zaro Weil • Troika Books 2018 • Ages 7-12 2019 • Ages 8-12 This brilliant and highly praised collection from an This wondrous poetry collection outstanding poet, winner of the CLiPPA Award, captures eye-popping moments, is perfectly matched by the amazing wit and tender observations and 1,000 inventiveness of the former UK Children’s Laureate. whimsical reflections on the sheer GVQ7ZW2 HRD joy of the natural world. GY7NMV1 HRD Rebound 2020 CliPPA Kwame Alexander • Andersen Press Ltd World Poetry Day World 2018 • Ages 11-15 Winner Highly commended for the CLiPPA prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal, Rebound is a prequel to Newbery Medal-winner The Crossover and is a follow-up to Booked. Dark Sky Park: GVHQ7M9 PAP Poems from the Edge of Nature Philip Gross • Otter-Barry Books Ltd 2018 • Ages 8-12 Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me This is an exciting and thought-provoking Eloise Greenfield • Tiny Owl Publishing Ltd celebration of all that is extraordinary in the natural world, including fascinating 2018 • Ages 5-9 information about the creatures depicted. On Pets’ Day, poet puppy Thinker can finally go to school with his owner, Jace, but he GVP8VY0 PAP finds it surprisingly hard to keep quiet. 7 GVJ29M1 HRD Author Spotlight: Shaun Bythell Shaun Bythell, author of Diary of Confessions of a a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller: The Sunday Bookseller (available from Follett) and Times Bestseller proprietor of the largest secondhand Shaun Bythell bookstore in Scotland, admits his store is Profile Books, Ltd regularly visited by self-published poets 2020 • Age 16 and above whose work fails to inspire. The highly acclaimed second book in The Diary of a Bookseller series However, a powerful piece of poetry will reunite readers with continues to stir our imagination long the characters they have after the first stanza has been read, and come to know and love.
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