Andersen Press

The Prisoner of Bhopal

By Tim Walker - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Ten-year-old Amil is snatched away from his family to work for Mr Kumar, a printer, due to a debt of honour supposedly owed ...Read Review

Unspoken (UK) / An American Story (US)

By Kwame Alexander - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Kwame Alexander is celebrated for his contemporary verse novels that explore the feelings of Black boys, their family relationships and friendships, and love ...Read Review

The Door of No Return

By Kwame Alexander - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Kwame Alexander is celebrated for his contemporary verse novels that explore the feelings of Black boys, their family relationships and friendships, and love ...Read Review

Safiyyah’s War

By Hiba Noor Khan - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a very unusual take on the events of World War Two. Safiyyah’s family are Muslims and therefore the story centres ...Read Review

Little Sure Shot

By Matt Ralphs - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultWestern

This is a fictional account of the extraordinary early life of Annie Oakley, told in the first person: the story of a little ...Read Review

Yours From the Tower

By Sally Nicholls - Published 2023Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1896, various British locations. Three 17-year-old girls leave school and embark on Life. Tirzah has had a turbulent childhood; her mother is an alcoholic ...Read Review

Time Travel Twins: The Viking Attack

By Josh Lacey - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Twins Scarlett and Thomas are hurtled back in time to the year 859 AD in a somewhat cavalier manner by means of their grandfather’...Read Review

Until the Road Ends

By Phil Earle - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Beau, a tired and hungry street dog, is saved from the wheels of a lorry by Peggy, who persuades her parents, her brother ...Read Review

The Silent Stars Go By

By Sally Nicholls - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Yorkshire, England, 1919. Just after the end of World War I, nineteen-year-old Margot Allen is working in Durham as a typist but comes home ...Read Review

The Secret of Splint Hall

By Katie Cotton - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

“Mum said the war was over, but Isobel thought that it was not. She could see it in the tight lips of the ...Read Review