Peters Books for Schools

Mira blossoms to her full potential during an important rite of passage.

A young girl strives to come to terms with her mother's leaving, her belief that's she's being followed by a spirit, and the growing attraction she has for a new classmate.

After doing a bungee jump at a fairground, a young boy finds himself in a strange underground maze from which he and an odd young girl must find their way home.

In Siena a little girl and her brother, sent to an orphanage when their mother is arrested, escape and try to find out the truth about their mother's plight.

A teenage boy trying to scavenge enough to live on in an e-waste dump in Ghana gets caught up in a gang war.

A thirteen-year-old girl, struggling with feelings of abandonment after her last placement ended, struggles to have faith in her new foster family's desire for her to be with them.

Three children on a school camping trip get into real danger when they investigate an abandoned research institute in the woods.

In World War II, three teenage Navy recruits endure the rigours and dangers of the notorious Arctic convoys.

A teenager falls in love with her best friend at the same time as dealing with her mother's illness.

A young girl living in a remote mountain area must go on a journey to try and find a treatment for her father's accident.

Twin sisters with a Jewish mother find themselves the target of racists when their mother starts to host a nationwide radio show.

Five children deemed 'unadoptable' escape their cruel orphanage to try and find a family.

A girl raised with wolf companions joins rebellious villagers against an oppressive general to rescue her mother from prison

A girl dissatisfied with her new school's lack of support for troubled students runs for class president against a popular but callous boy.

A young girl discovers that she is being chased across time by soul hunters and can only trust Phoenix, a young man who rescues her twice in quick succession.

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.

A young Jamaican boy arriving in Britain with his parents in the late 1940's tries to make the best of things despite of the racism he encounters.

Boy, Everywhere chronicles the harrowing journey taken by Sami and his family from privilege to poverty, across countries and continents, from a comfortable life in Damascus, via a smuggler's den in Turkey, to a prison in Manchester.

A thirteen-year-old girl stumbles across a magical land and discovers that she is destined to free it from the clutches of an evil wizard.

A young girl unravels the story of who she is when she goes to stay with her extended family in the Himalayas.

A young boy struggles to help his autistic brother when their mother becomes ill

Tells the real life story of two Somalian brothers who grew up in a Kenyan refufee camp.

A young lad determines to change his ways when the consequences of his bullying prank on a homeless man are laid bare.

Two young people find themselves thrown together as they struggle to survive in the middle of the ocean after separately surviving shipwrecks.

Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle. But when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.

A girl has to keep the fact that she is actually a pop-star a secret from her friends at her new school.

A young girl escapes her small Spanish village when she joins a ship sailed by a crew of pirate women in search of a lost treasure.

On the island of Papua New Guinea, where tradition and modernity clash, a young girl strives to become a shark caller to avenge the death of her parents, while helping a newcomer overcome the grief of losing her own mother to cancer

A group of teenagers discover they were injected with the Medusa gene as babies which gives them psychic powers

In the aftermath of World War One, two children and their dogs set out to find lost family in France, by crossing the Channel in the barge that is their home

Three children are trapped in a computer game, three hundred years in the future, and must work together to get back home.

A fourteen-year-old girl takes up the cause when workers in Dublin go on strike in 1913.

Artemis Fowl's younger twin brothers, Myles and Beckett, join forces with pixel, Lazuli, when they rescue a toy Troll and are kidnapped and hunted by two different criminals

Twelve-year-old Noah, with his younger brother and friend, set out to lift a eons-old Bradley family curse

A boy believes that his house is haunted by a poltergeist.

Juniper Greene lives in a walled city from which nature has been banished, following the outbreak of a deadly man-made disease many years earlier. While most people seem content to live in such a cage, she and her little brother Bear have always known about their resistance to the disease, and dream of escaping into the wild. To the one place humans have survived outside of cities. To where their mother is.

In a world destroyed by floods, a young inventor sets to prove the innocence of a mysterious boy washed up by the sea who citizens believe to be the embodiment of a destructive god.

Raina deals with the highs and lows of school life and friendship whilst contending with a stomach problem that doesn't want to go away.

Two long-term friends make a lasting memory from their last time together at the pumpkin farm where they work each autumn

A 14-year-old boy with a stutter and family problems finds solace in a new friend and a scrabble competition.

An outsider joins a book club where she hopes she can makes friends without having to compromise being her true self.

A boy has to hide from his friends and teachers the fact that he and his mum are living in a van.

Thirteen-year-old Fever discovers that vital information has been stored in her brain by her Scriven grandfather.

A boy who hates taking risks finds himself on an adventure with a daring girl and her pet dragon.

Set in a future Australia where crops have failed, two siblings escape a dying city with their sled dogs to find their mother, living upcountry.

An 11 year old pretends to be a father in order to join a space mission.

Set in a futuristic London long flooded by water, two children find themselves on the run when they find themselves mixed up in a larger conspiracy

A Wizard boy and a Warrior girl meant to be enemies join together to defeat the new threat from Witches

When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, 14 year old Alex Rider becomes involved with MI6 and has to complete his dead guardian's mission.

The 13-year-old proprietor of a Penny Dreadful magazine encounters a dark mystery when she investigates the deranged writings of inmates of Bedlam insane asylum predicting events of the 20th century.

A must-have guide to teaching geography for new and experienced secondary teachers.

When it comes to those difficult questions about sex and relationships, how do you strike the balance between an answer that is professional but open, correct but doesn't create panic?

An essential collection of 100 practical, tried-and-tested ideas for teaching computing in secondary schools. This is the perfect resource for computing teachers at all levels, whether specialist or non-specialist, newly qualified or experienced.

Written by Louise Hutton and Dawn Cox, Making Every RE Lesson Count: Six principles to support religious education teaching brings together the latest curriculum developments with evidence-informed practice and shares practical strategies for use in the RE classroom.

In recent years the emphasis has shifted away from a focus on pedagogy (the how of teaching) and towards curriculum (the what of teaching). Ofsted's revised inspection framework reflects this shift, and their plans to -deep dive- into subject areas - meaning that teachers and department heads now need a much greater understanding of curricular structures - leave many educators having to think about their subject in new ways.

Andy Lewis uses his experience as Director of Religious Education to share ideas and advice on how to construct a successful RE lesson, engage students in the subject, provide effective feedback and exam techniques, and bring RE to life in the secondary curriculum.

Split into sections on grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, writing, translation and revision, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding MFL Lessons presents tried-and-tested ideas that cover all aspects of the modern foreign languages (MFL) curriculum.

Dyscalculia experts Patricia Babtie and Sue Dillon present 100 ideas to help students with numeracy difficulties grasp the core skills required in the secondary curriculum, not just in maths but in other subjects including science, design and technology, computing and geography.

Worried about teaching natural selection, submicroscopic particle models or circuits? Keith S. Taber explores a range of issues faced in secondary science teaching and discusses strategies for teaching the nature of scientific knowledge, making practical work effective and challenging gifted young scientists.

Designing a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme can be daunting. Whether you are looking to better your own practice or coach your colleagues, it can be hard to know where to start. But don't worry, the Bloomsbury CPD Library is here to help! Divided into two unique sections, Teach Yourself and Train Others, this book is perfect for individual teachers, middle leaders and those looking to introduce whole-school CPD training programmes.

Making Every Science Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Science Teaching goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all science teachers must ask: 'What can I do to help my students become the scientists of the future?' Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Shaun Allison returns with an offering of gimmick-free advice that combines the time-honoured wisdom of excellent science teachers with the most useful evidence from cognitive science. The book is underpinned by six pedagogical principles - challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning - and provides simple, realistic classroom strategies that will help teachers make abstract ideas more concrete and practical demonstrations more meaningful. It also points a sceptical finger at the fashions and myths that have pervaded science teaching over the past decade or so - such as the belief that students can make huge progress in a single lesson and the idea that learning is speedy, linear and logical.Instead, Shaun advocates an approach of artful repetition and consolidation and shows you how to help your students develop their conceptual understanding of science over time.Making Every Science Lesson Count is for new and experienced science teachers alike. It does not pretend to be a magic bullet. It does not claim to have all the answers. Rather the aim of the book is to provide effective strategies designed to help you to bring the six principles to life, with each chapter concluding in a series of questions to inspire reflective thought and help you relate the content to your classroom practice. In an age of educational quick fixes, GCSE reform and ever-moving goalposts, this precise and timely addition to the Making Every Lesson Count series provides practical solutions to perennial problems and inspires a rich, challenging and evidence-informed approach to science teaching. Suitable for science teachers of students aged 11-16 years.

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding history lessons for secondary History teachers

A new addition to the best-selling 100 Ideas series, offering teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build solid foundations for student's understanding and learning in geography.

Enhancing Learning with Effective Practical Science begins with an exploration of the reasons why practical work is often less effective than it could be. It provides 72 full and clear lesson guides for effective practical lessons in biology, chemistry and physics for students aged between 11 and 16. Each lesson guide presents the practical work to be undertaken, the apparatus and materials required and the ideas to be explored. Health and safety issues are also covered.

Essential for busy secondary form tutors, this book will inspire form time ideas that are constructive, exciting, yet take little preparation!

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding science lessons for secondary science teachers

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding English lessons for secondary English teachers

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding English lessons for secondary English teachers

The new edition of this extremely practical guide equips teachers with a huge number of strategies for improving pupils' mathematics and problem-solving skills in the classroom. Mike Ollerton shows how active learning, equipment based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. This edition includes a brand new chapter on 'strategies for teaching mathematics'. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching mathematics, this book will prove essential reading for maths teachers everywhere.

This book contains ready-to-use, tried-and-tested lesson plans for engaging students aged 11-16 in the sciences using drama and role play techniques. How to increase students' interest and engagement in science is a challenge shared by teachers around the world. Designing effective science lesson plans using drama and role play requires expertise across two very different subject areas and, as a consequence, many science teachers find it difficult to incorporate this technique into their teaching. This book provides busy teachers with ready-made lesson plans for teaching the most dry and abstract scientific principles in a fun and novel way that really engages students. Drawing on and combining the knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics education specialists with drama education experts, this book covers topics taught widely in the sciences with pupils aged 11-16. The authors give a broad background to the value of drama and role play in the teaching of science, including a section summarising, for the non-drama specialist, the main techniques that will be used throughout the book.

This handbook is rich with practical advice on engaging and inspiring learners, and teachers, in geography lessons. Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations. Award-winning author and former head of geography Brin Best brings a wealth of experience and a unique blend of rigour and practicality to the subject, presenting fresh, exciting and creative ideas on how to get the most from your geography lessons. The book contains advice on everything from planning schemes of work and lessons, making the most of opportunities for learning outside the classroom and available ICT to cross-curricular links, thinking skills and examples of best practice. With reflective questions and activities, scores of lesson stimuli and a host of useful links, this book is an essential addition to every geography teacher's toolkit. Each title in the Handbooks series is a comprehensive guide to preparing to teach, teaching with confidence and making the most of assessment in secondary schools.

This book provides a highly practical sourcebook for using ICT effectively in the Secondary classroom. Section One shows exactly how to use specific applications creatively for stimulating resources. Section Two applies these applications to classroom practice. The other areas covered include effective planning and how key skills can be addressed using ICT.The majority of ICT books do a reasonable job of explaining how applications work. However, they leave the educator with a mental leap to make: 'How can I make use of this?' Sometimes this challenge is too big and leads to lessons that lack rigour or, worse still, the teacher abandoning ICT completely. This book uses hands-on tasks to explain how to use ICT effectively and in an engaging way. Section One shows how to employ different ICT applications to create exciting resources. The focus is on showing the benefits of each tool and how they can be utilised by teachers in both their preparation and lesson delivery. After every section teachers will have created a useful and interesting resource that can be used and employed in other circumstances.Section two, applies these tools to classroom practice.

This resource contains 70 complete lesson plans with complementary worksheets for the students, specifically designed for GCSE level maths. This book contains 70 ready-to-use maths lessons suitable for the new GCSE Mathematics curriculum. The lesson plans contain objectives from both the D-G range and the A-C range to make them adaptable for different sets or for use in a mixed-ability context. Each lesson consists of a left-hand page for the teacher, outlining the structure of the lesson from a starter through to homework, and a right-hand photocopiable pupil worksheet to provide a setting in which pupils are encouraged to explore alternative methods and to describe and explain their ideas. Some lessons offer alternative routes through the curriculum such as practicing indices by solving radical equations, while others concentrate on difficult concepts, like appreciating that not all mathematical relationships are linear. The lessons focus on problem solving and putting maths into context, and are an essential resource for any busy teacher of maths GCSE.

The concept of deep learning, as opposed to surface learning, is being increasingly recognized by teachers and, here, Anne Watson and her colleagues use it in connection with enabling so-far low attaining students to recover their self-esteem and mathematical capabilities. This essential guide for mathematics teachers will help to change the focus from 'doing and finishing' to 'thinking and learning'.

Teaching and learning is a two-way street, and most teachers will tell you they learn so much from the pupils they teach. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of technology. Often the pupils come to school with a great knowledge of information technology than the teachers, with can be viewed as an opportunity or a threat depending on the viewpoint of the teacher. It is, in fact, a great opportunity for teachers and this book shows what the new generation of learners can bring to schools and how teachers can interpret what they observe in schools. It also gives suggestions on how to respond to the need to adapt teaching practices for a society where dealing with knowledge is a matter of negotiation and creativity.

This book contains creative and imaginative tried-and-tested starters and plenaries for engaging students in all areas of an English Lesson.

#Since the Creative Partnerships programme began in 2002, it has helped almost 5,000 schools, 90,000 teachers and over 1 million young people to embrace creative learning. Those involved have seen notable improvements in achievement and in measurable aspects of personal development, such as attendance.

The *new* novel from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People.

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.

A collection of 28 essays the myriad ways Black British people find joy in life.

Autobiography of former FLOTUS, Michelle Obama.

Pip is convinced she is being stalked which leads her onto solving her next murder case, and thus committing a crime of her own.

Simon and Baz try to restart their romance while dealing with the appearance of an apparent newly Chosen One

An autobiography of a growing up in The USA as a gay black child.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders - and now the Democratic nominee for Vice President - a New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future.

A look at feminism as it is now, and it's history, and a springboard for forming one's own views about what feminism means to you.

Charlie and Nick finally confront Charlie's eating problems and learn to deal with the fall out together.

The most uplifting debut of 2020

Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is... I'm here to divide and conquer. - Aces

'The Beauty Myth' for the Instagram generation.

Two teenage boys find solace in each other when they are informed that they have been selected to die in a day's time.