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This guide focuses on how to recognise abuse in a teen relationship and support a friend. It also addresses maintaining the friendship and finding help for both the friend and the person experiencing abuse.

A short, high-interest story about a teenager facing distress, secrets and changing friendships. The plot centres on Darcy’s efforts to recover and support a friend, rather than on an informational account.

This book looks beyond pilots to the wider team involved in Air Force work, introducing several aircrew and ground-support roles and what they contribute.

A compact historical portrait connects King’s leadership with major political crises and social programmes that affected Canadians. It also makes his unusual private spiritualist practices part of the story.

This is an approachable informational guide that explains puberty, body care and healthy habits through conversational advice, illustrations and practical instructions. It presents bodily variation as normal and invites readers to seek support from trusted adults.

This is an informational account of one family's displacement, return and continuing difficulties, set alongside facts about Afghanistan and its people. It also points towards helping refugees who lack permanent homes.

A richly visual memoir follows Say from childhood in Japan through wartime upheaval and family strain to a serious apprenticeship with cartoonist Noro Shinpei.

This is a lively guide to finding creativity and confidence through magic, comedy, circus skills and science. It mixes practical activities with encouragement to practise, check facts, share ideas and accept that people can grow and change.

A focused biography about curiosity, family support and persistence: Louis Braille loses his sight, encounters inadequate books and develops a six-dot system to make reading and writing more accessible by touch.

This is a practical, explanatory guide that combines information about anxiety with activities and coping ideas.

A true story follows Jennie from childhood through meeting Abram, love, his death and her search for courage. It links fear and bravery while showing grief as part of continuing life.

This is a practical English reference book for school and home, intended to help students check language and develop vocabulary. Its usefulness is clearest when a reader needs a specific answer rather than continuous reading.

This is a direct, informational treatment of sexual assault and abuse, connecting the subject with dating, sexuality, image, prevention and practical responses.

A biography about difference, persistence and practical problem-solving, linking Temple Grandin’s visual thinking with her scientific work and concern for livestock. It combines personal history with explanations and visual material rather than offering only a straightforward life story.

A focused introduction to circuits, linking basic scientific information with everyday relevance. Its visual presentation and end activity suggest a learn-and-apply structure, while the glossary, contents and index support finding and revisiting information.

A focused introduction to how companion and therapy animals may support people with particular needs. Its visual features and fact boxes suggest a structured way into ideas about training, assistance and safety.

This offers a broad framework for thinking about relationships during adolescence, moving beyond family and peers to include partners, teachers, coaches and other adults.

A lively life story follows Rickenbacker from adventurous boyhood and family work to mechanical exploits, auto-racing success and later wartime distinction. The book also places his life within early twentieth-century America.

A football-centred story about ambition, exclusion and family support, alongside factual material about African football and celebrated players.

A hands-on introduction to Impressionism, linking familiar artworks with techniques such as shimmering brush strokes, colour rectangles and pointillism. Its activities may give readers ways to explore ideas practically while learning about artists and their artistic world.

This appears to offer focused phonics practice, particularly around selected vowel sounds, within an elementary-reader series. The title’s story or information, illustrations and ending are not identified, so its literary or subject appeal cannot be judged yet.