Genres: Children's fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Do you want a book that helps your non-speaking autistic child to find confidence? Do you want a book they can feel see themselves reflected in? This is for you. Non-speaking autistic Fran loves her assistance dog, Barnaby, as he helps her carry things and brings her what she needs when she can't tell him. When Barnaby is stolen, she is distressed and upset. Then she sees Pete from the Pet Rescuers and through her device and her mum, asks for help to find him. Will they be able to find out where Barnaby has been taken? Will they get him back to Fran? In this book your child can learn: 1. That being autistic non-speaking doesn't mean they can't think for themselves 2. It doesn't mean they can't communicate. 3. They can do things by themselves. 4. How to find confidence to make friends. 5. How to find confidence...

Genres: Children's fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Want a book that your autistic child can relate to? Does your child have a pet they love? Then this is the book for you. Sam has a special affinity with his pet mouse, Riley. He can sense his feelings and whereabouts. Being autistic Sam can also talk to Riley better than his family. When Riley is scared away by a cat, his Pet Rescuers team, Pete and Lyn, and her sister Brenda, come to help. They follow Riley's paws and mayhem until he jumps into a house where he's stopped at. Will Pete be reunited with his mouse? This book can help your child learn the following: How to make friends with similar interests How team work can help you find confidence to ask for help How to use a hobby/interest to ask for help How pets can help you find confidence, especially with special needs How your hobby/interest...

Genres: Children's fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Looking for a fun and interesting book to help your autistic child boost their confidence and social skills? This is a book for you. Pete and his pet gecko, Gordon, have a special bond. Pete is autistic. So when the world doesn't make sense or they are too loud, he relies on Gordon to help him feel calm again. When cousin, Freddie, visits Pete hides away to update his blog, so he doesn't catch him taking Gordon out of his vivarium. Can his friends, the Pet Rescuers team, Lyn and Sam, help Pete stay calm and will they find Gordon? Reading this book can help your child: how team work can boost confidence and social skills how team work can help children communicate with others how pets can teach autistic children to learn responsibility how skills/interests can help decide career choices

Genres: Children's fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 2-5, 5-8

Want a book for your children to learn about squirrels and family love? This is it. Meet Sammi the squirrel who is unlucky in whatever he does. After a game of chase with his brother, Bobby, Sammi is thirsty and goes in search of a drink. He finds a pond in the same garden but gets more water than expected. A shout makes him jump and SPLASH! He goes home, wet and dirty, to face his mother's anger and his family's laughter. He is hurt until his mother tells him that he wouldn't be who he is if he didn't get into mischief, and she loves him no matter what.

Genres: Children's fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Eleven-year-old Lyn Woods loves her pet parrot, Jasper, because with her autism she can talk to him easier than she can with her family. Then Jasper goes missing. With classmates, Pete and Sam, and her older sister, Brenda, Lyn goes in search of Jasper. Using her hobby of drawing cartoons of Jasper and her knowledge of parrots, Lyn tries to overcome her nerves about talking to strangers to get help, teaching Brenda, what it's like with autism and facing strangers. Can she overcome her nerves to find Jasper? And why has Jasper led her to the man at number 51? Who is he? Find out the answers in the first book of 'The Pet Rescuers' series about autistic children finding confidence using their hobbies to find missing pets. The books are not just for children with Asperger’s Syndrome, they are also for their friends and family. The series covers friendship,...

Genres: Memoir
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Want to learn how to cope with a serious illness? Especially one to do with the heart? Then this book is for you. From 2020 to 2021 Julie Day had an unknown serious illness involving weight loss, muscle pain and tiredness. Despite various tests and scans, no one seemed to know what was wrong. Until a blood test in 2021 revealed an infection in the blood which was life threatening. But where? Following advice Julie admitted herself to her local hospital. After an echocardiogram it was discovered her heart had been affected and she was transferred to King's College Hospital, London. There Julie had another procedure that revealed she had endocarditis, an infection of the inner lining of the heart and/or valve, and it had so severely damaged her aortic valve that it needed replacing. She was then transferred to St Thomas's Hospital under their Adult Congenital Heart Disease team....

Genres: Children's fiction, Magical Realism
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Eleven year-old Erin Summer feels lonely and anxious, not just because she has Asperger's but she has been off school with illness and doesn't know if she will makes friends again. Then she discovers that her classmate, Alistair, will be dancing in the school show. She offers to be his partner. When she rehearses with Alistair, she enters a mysterious world which teaches her ways to gain confidence using her dancing skills to make friends. How will she make the most of what she learns? Will she make friends at the same time?

Genres: Children's fiction, Magical Realism
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Eleven-year old Alistair Bold is an anxious boy, not just because of his Asperger's Syndrome but also because he is on the plump size. He is also lonely as his dad, who is a lorry driver, has started another job. Then he receives a postcard from his dad telling him to find out what he enjoys that won't make him anxious and make life easier for him. So starts a journey for Alistair. His passion is dancing. He finds that he can learn more about dancing and actually dance in different lessons, even teaching his classmates, including Billy, how to dance. Is this the hobby that will help his anxiety and make life easier for him? Has he made friends? Has he risen to his dad's challenge? Has he made his beloved dad happy?

Genres: Children's fiction, Magical Realism
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

11 year-old Qessa Noyse is a quiet girl. Not just because she has Asperger's Syndrome with a noise sensitivity but she has recently moved to a new school. Her brothers challenge her to find something that will cheer her up and that she is better at than they are. This sets of a chain of events, starting with her blazer shining when she tells herself she will find this some thing at school. She's taken to another world where she is a confident teacher teaching others to play the recorder, and playing the recorder in a hall. Can Qessa use her talent with the recorder to build her confidence, make friends and beat the challenge her brothers set her?

Genres: Children's fiction, Magical Realism
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Eleven year-old Susie Quicksilver isn't confident at school not just because she has Asperger's Syndrome but also she has a heart problem which makes her slower than the other children and her little sister, Pippa. Sad for her sister, Pippa challenges Susie to find something she can be faster at than her. So, at school, Susie says she will be fast at something and her jumper starts to jiggle, taking her to a mysterious world where she sees herself as an excellent crafts person, using her hobby of cross-stitch tapestries. Will this be the way she can get the confidence to realise she doesn't need to be as physically fast as the other children, and perhaps challenge Pippa?

Genres: Children's fiction, Magical Realism
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

11-year-old Charlie Nimble isn't confident at school. Not just because he has Asperger's Syndrome, he also has fainting spells. Concerned for him, his older sister, Wendy, challenges him to get through a day without fainting. When he tells himself this at school, his school cap starts glowing and he visits a mysterious world which teaches him how to be a confident cook as well as ways to prevent him from fainting. Will one of them be enough for him to win the challenge, and get closer to his sister?

Genres: Children's fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Ten-year-old Billy Bottomsby is fed up with his older brother, Casper, always bragging about his cleverness at school, and being thought weird because he doesn't talk. He can't help it as he has Asperger's Syndrome. Then he bets Casper he can be good at a lesson or better than him by the end of the week. Billy hears his mum talk to his socks, then when he tells himself at school he's going to be good at a lesson, his socks tickle him and take him to a mysterious world. Billy sees himself as a TV presenter, teaching him how to be a confident, communicative and funny storyteller. Then he saves his neighbour’s cat from being run over and thinks it’s because he’s wearing strange socks. Only one of them has just fallen down. Billy comes to realise that he can be good at things if he really puts his...

Genres: Young Adult (YA), Fantasy
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 16-18

A final test, with the lives of friends and family in the balance! In this final installment of Julie Day's Guardian Angels series of fantasy novels, Danny and Lizzie are nearing their graduation to full Angel status. But one final assignment stands between them and ascension. Spurred by the memories of Danny's and Lizzie's deaths, their friends have decided to protest the ongoing citywide riots. Lizzie's friends, Kate and Marianne, have joined Danny's best friend Harry, all equally determined to hold a candlelight vigil in the face of the violence to honour their departed friends. And to make matters worse, Danny's baby brother Kevin has stowed away to accompany them! Danny and Lizzie have been granted amazing new angelic powers, but will they be enough to shield their loved ones from danger? And can they overcome the power of the mysterious Dark Angel?

Genres: Young Adult (YA), Fantasy
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 16-18

How would you stop a group of teenagers from leaping from a hotel balcony to another? That's Lizzie and Danny's next mission:the group test. With graduate, Alex, they use their persuasion skills, memories and concentration on getting to the hotel where the teenagers are. They lose Alex in a dark tunnel, transporting to the hotel. But with concentration and focus on where they have to be, they get him to find them again. Then when they do reach the hotel where the boys are, it's to find that their enemy, the Dark Angel, has got there first. For during their memory challenge, it starts to go wrong. The teens leap faster and faster from one balcony to another until one boy falls. With 'what if' scenarios and flashbacks, Danny persuades the leader to stop his gang. But then a rival gang arrives. It's now Lizzie turn to prevent them from...

Genres: Young Adult (YA), Fantasy
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 16-18

Danny and Lizzie are now ready for their pair test. They have to stop two teenage boys from being killed by trams when one of them sticks to it with suckers wearing roller skates while the other races with it. With persuasion and transportation skills, Lizzie and Danny pass, but not before they face a new enemy who wants them to fail and get the teens killed. Back at the school, owner Jerry tells them that he thinks it is something called a Black Angel that is trying to get the school to fail and they now need be on alert.

Genres: Magical Realism, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 18+

When 25 year-old Mandy Knowles sees her mum and ex-boyfriend together, the pain and heartache of their betrayal and the loss of her baby is brought back. But help is at hand...in the guise of her aunt Geraldine. Only thing is, her aunt is dead and is in a photo. Her aunt comes to life to give Mandy the advice, ‘There’s plenty more fish in the sea,’ which leads Mandy to realise that her colleague, Russ, more than likes her, and get to know him – falling in love.

Genres: Young Adult (YA), Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18

When a car race goes terribly wrong and seventeen--year-old Danny Usborne crashes into a wall, he dies and becomes a lost angel. He's then sent back to Earth to prevent another teenager from doing a foolish act and ending up like him. With persuasion and newly-found powers of transportation, Danny passes his test and becomes a trainee guardian angel.

Genres: Children's fiction, Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15

After a game of dare at a train station goes tragically wrong, fifteen year-old Lizzie Hammond becomes a lost angel, until she is tested and sent back to Earth to stop a teenager from risking their life on railway tracks, with persuasion and newly discovered magical powers. Passing her test, Lizzie now becomes a ‘Guardian Angel.

Who says there's no magic left in modern romance? When Geraldine Simmonds dies of cancer long before she wants to and finds herself kicking her heels in the dreary waiting-room to paradise, she can only think of being reunited with her one true love, Keith. But the Head of Security at Heaven Inc. has other ideas. Geraldine has been selfish and uncaring for much of her life, and her family barely notice that she's gone. She is told that if she wants to get through the gates to find eternal happiness, she is going to have to prove her worth. There are hidden gems among her young relations, who have lost their sparkle. It is up to Geraldine to find out these jewels and bring them the joy and happiness that will make them shine. Only then will she have earned her place with Keith. One good turn deserves another,...