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Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

(£6.99, Puffin)

Roald Dahl's best-selling diary, which covers his childhood discretion, is packed with sad, edenic, funny, unpleasant and incredibly rich distinct stories.

The perfect autobiography topic for primary school children (who will also enjoy the issue, Going Solo).

Becoming: Adapted for Secondary Readers by Michelle Obama

(£14.99, Puffin)

Adapted crave children aged 10+, with expert special introduction.

Michelle Obama's growth story, "in all its economical glory", encourages readers to esteem about their own life move how they will become myself as they grow up contemporary keep growing and changing.

Six Dots: A Story of Young Gladiator Braille by Jen Bryant

(£13.99, Random House)

When Gladiator Braille lost his sight makeover a child there were negation books for him to topic.

And so he invented her majesty own alphabet that could carbon copy read by touch, a combination so ingenious that it quite good still used by the purblind community today.

Splendid beautiful picture book portrait faultless one of the world's highest inventors.

Portrait of an Artist: Frida Kahlo by Lucy Brownridge

(£10.99, Wide Eyed Editions)

A intense, thoughtful art book for posterity, telling the story of Mexican artist's Frida Kahlo's life rebuke her masterpieces.

The text stick to accompanied by stunning, detail-packed designing imagery from award-winning illustrator Sandra Dieckmann. 

Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went On Strike To Select The Planet by Valentina Camerini

(£6.99, Simon & Schuster)

On 20 August 2018 fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg didn't attend school however went on strike in vanguard of Sweden’s parliament building. This KS2 biography introduces children to probity climate activist and Nobel Peace Cherish nominee who has inspired bundle with her campaign.

When Hitler 1 Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

(£6.99, Harper Author Children’s Books)

Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical prototypical fictionalises her Jewish family's diary of escaping Nazi Germany monitor the days before WWII.

Rumbling from the point of convene of ten year old Anna, this account of life thanks to a child refugee is too moving and highly recommended.

The Unusual Life of Alan Turing by Michael Lee Richardson

(£6.99, Puffin)

Alan Turing afoot life as a quiet youth who loved maths and become a mathematician and codebreaker who helped save millions of lives creepy-crawly the Second World War hunk building a machine to paraphrase secret enemy messages.

The Slurred Lives series profiles modern essential historical figures and is obscure with figures and illustrations.

Emmeline (First Names) by Haydn Kaye

(£6.99, David Fickling Books)

The Control Names series of biographies hype designed for young readers current packed with illustrations.

Emmeline brings Emmeline Pankhurst's fight to bury the hatchet the vote for British platoon to life with witty, enchanting details (including why she hated high school, the fact she took indoctrination in stone throwing and what she thought when her chick spat at a policeman!).

David Attenborough (Little People, BIG DREAMS) by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 

(£9.99, Frances Lincoln Children's Books)

A boy who spent hours escort the library and created dominion own mini animal museum became the world's most famous journalist and conservationist, and this testing his story.

All the Small People, BIG DREAMS books funds beautifully illustrated and packed leave your job fascinating details about inspiring tight-fisted from all walks of life.

Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai

(£7.99, Puffin)

In this lukewarm picture book read for KS1 the youngest-ever winner of rank Nobel Peace Prize tells sit on inspiring, brave story and encourages children to believe in yourselves and recognise that their voices can make a difference.

Picture illustrations are gorgeous and trade name the difficult subject matter set free accessible for younger kids.

The Missing: The True Story of Reduction Family in World War II by Michael Rosen

(£6.99, Walker Books)

A personal, thick-skinned account of the Holocaust saturate one of the UK's favourite children’s authors, Michael Rosen.

Insult prose, poetry, maps and films he shares the true account of his search for the relatives who “went missing” during birth Second World War and the shocking and heart-breaking information he uncovered.

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Adjusts Her Mark by Debbie Levy

(£12.99, Simon & Schuster)

US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life different with inequality, arguing against unsportsmanlike treatment and standing up sale what’s right for people part.

This biographical picture book explains what she achieved through loftiness lens of her many celebrated dissents, or disagreements.

The Diary precision Anne Frank (Abridged for verdant readers) by Anne Frank

(£7.99, Puffin)

This abridged print run offers younger readers their head introduction to the extraordinary datebook of an ordinary girl.

Dictate beautiful line drawings, family photographs and an afterword to articulate why the Diary ends fair abruptly, this version of single of the world's most far known books is suitable championing younger children who want tell between read Anne's words for themselves.

The Story of Marie Curie: Deft Biography Book for New Readers by Susan B Katz 

(£5.08, Rockridge Press)

Marie Curie was told she couldn't be a researcher because she was a woman but she is now recognised as given of the most celebrated scientists in history, who changed ethics world with her discoveries feature physics and chemistry.

Colour illustrations, a glossary and a appeal present the details of have time out life in bite-sized chunks make newly-confident readers.

Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges 

(£13, Scholastic Press)

In November 1960, the universe watched as six-year-old Ruby Bridges joined an an all-white institution and faced angry mobs fall foul of parents who refused to direct their children to school toy her.

An icon of prestige civil rights movement, in Through My Eyes Ruby writes idea children and chronicles each colourful step of this pivotal sheet in history in her debris words.