Peters Books for Schools

Use the sliders and wheel to find out about the achievements of four pioneering black men and women.

Discover the life of Lewis Hamilton, Formula One racing champion.

Discover the life of Mae Jemison, scientist, astronaut and the first ever black woman in space.

A simple, illustrated biography of the football player Marcus Rashford.

Discover the life of Sir Lenny Henry, the multi-talented comedian, actor, writer and activist.

Recounts the life of Mary Seacole and her role as a nurse during the Crimean War.

Discover the life of Olive Morris, the social justice activist and campaigner.  

A short biography of Jude Bellingham, following his football career in England, Germany and Spain.

Celebrates Black lives with contributors from 52 cultural luminaries.

Recounts the true story of Olaudah Equiano's life from being kidnapped from his village in Africa as a child and sold into slavery to earning his freedom and settling in London.

A celebration of the lives and achievements of inspirational black scientists through history.

Discover the stories of black British servicemen who fought on the battlefields in the First World War.

An illustrated biography of pioneering nurse Mary Seacole.

Meet 100 icons of colour from the past and presents, in a celebration of achivement.

A celebration of the lives and achievements of inspirational black people through history who made a difference through their sport.

Follows Ghanan skier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong's

See the world through Faith Ringgold's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces.

A look at the inspiring stories of iconic figures from Black British History

A collection of potted biographies of inspirational BAME figures from around the world, illustrated in a comic-book style.

This richly illustrated collection presents the extraordinary life stories of fourteen bright stars from Black British history - from Tudor England to modern Britain - and charts their ongoing influence.

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

Ferris navigates her way through a summer with a dysfunctional family and helps and unhappy ghost.

With the help of a scared little boy, Boo the scared pumpkin, finds the courage to be fearless and feisty for Halloween.

When Dad tells Luna and her little sister Aurora that they're going to live in a real tower, it's like they've stepped inside a fairytale, but everything is not as magical as it first seems...

Daisy goes trick-or-treating at Halloween for the first time.

Ivy and Tom solve the mystery of a spooky house that appears only at Halloween.

Anisha and her friends investigate the spooky goings on at school in the run up to the school Halloween disco

Another three stories all about 6-year-old Mabel and the various adventures she has, all from the point of view of Mabel herself.

A young girl who can see ghosts moves to a mysterious island where she must uncover the mysteries of it's past before the present is threatened.

When Claude's little sister, Amity, runs off in forbidden Badwell Woods - where children disappear - Deliah, Sam and Claude follow her to a mysterious mansion

At the end of the nineteenth century, a twelve-year-old girl is disinherited by her cousin and it would seem that her fate is tangled with the intentions the ghost of a dead girl.

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

Molly and her friends become covert monster hunters when she suspects someone of trying to summon mythical monsters in her home town.

Follows ten playful pumpkins in a rhyming, counting Halloween adventure.

When her parents disappear, 12 -year-old Raven McKay is put into foster care with Kitty Stromsoe in the town of Grave's Pass. It is no ordinary town...

When Witch Hazel gets the hiccups on Halloween and all her spells go wrong, her friends try to scare her to get rid of them.

Billy needs to find his monsters before they ruin the village Halloween party.

A young ghost is too shy to make friends just by talking to other monsters, so he decides to invite them to a violin concert in an effort to get noticed.

A group of children encounter an alien bodysnatcher when a meteorite crashes in the local woods

A young girl picks up a book at a second hand shop and becomes drawn into the mystery behind the disappearance of its previous owner