What's the good in keeping secrets? Secret Friends is a heartbreaking story about friendship and bullying from the multi-award-winning Elizabeth Laird. Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her 'Earwig', until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like she is. Lucy loves keeping her own secret friend, until tragedy strikes and secrets can't be kept any longer. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award and reissued with gorgeous illustrations, more than twenty years after first publication, Elizabeth Laird's moving and unflinching novella brings home the crucial importance of cultivating empathy in young people. '[A] humane and honest story. It conveys so much, so simply and so well' Scotsman '[A] fine weepy with a moral, about the dangers of playground cliquishness and cruelty' The Sunday Times

Ten-year-old Jessica loses her best friend, and in struggling to win her back finds out some important things about friendship.

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The first in a new series that focuses on a secret part of our history From best-selling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called the Secret Histories. This first book in the series tells the story of a young indigenous girl Birrung who befriends orphaned Barney and his friend Elsie. Birrung is living with Mr Johnson, chaplain to the Australian colony in 1790, and his family. Generous in spirit, the Johnson family also take in Barney and Elsie who have only just been surviving on their meagre daily rations. Despite living with the Johnsons, Birrung's connection to her people remains strong, and when Mr and Mrs Johnson see how Barney's feeling for Birrung are growing, they gently explain that his friendship with a 'native' girl and all that she taught him about her language and lore must remain a secret - forever. Perfect for readers who loved the best-selling and award-winning Nanberry: Black Brother White, the Secret Histories series will be welcomed by all who love the power of Jackie French's storytelling.

Panda feels a little hurt after helping his best friend Gander write a letter to Gander's secret friend.

Alana is afraid her new friend Hummer, whose scales turn all the colors of the rainbow when he hums, may be taken captive if anyone else sees him. Will she be able to keep him a secret?

If you love your friends, you'll love this Poppet friendship book! It's the place to write all your BFF secrets and special memories, take fun friend quizzes, try the cool activities - and lock it all up with a key! With an exclusive virtual gift, cute stickers, hidden pocket, heart-shaped padlock and a pretty frame to keep your BFF's pic! Want more Moshi? Adopt your monster now at www.moshimonsters.com

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Ten-year-old Jessica loses her best friend, and in struggling to win her back finds out some important things about friendship.