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A child’s attempt to turn gardening into a way to earn money becomes a story about balancing a personal goal with friendship and neighbourhood pressures.

A familiar fairy-tale setup is used to introduce three choices for handling money: spending, giving and saving. The pigs’ building business supplies the story’s practical context.

A focused introduction to water scarcity, linking access to safe drinking water with pressures on freshwater resources around the world.

A teen’s wish for an ordinary family life collides with the corporate control surrounding him. The story also sets personal loyalty against the possibility of exposing wrongdoing.

The book offers a life-and-business biography, covering Monaghan’s early experiences and later work in pizza delivery. Its timeline and glossary may help readers keep track of people, events and terms.

Expect a comic, high-energy circus adventure, mixing friendship and a rescue mission with a ghost and a villain’s scheme. Its outrageous character details suggest a taste for deliberately silly, over-the-top humour.

This guide ranges beyond the match itself, introducing the people and organisations behind football, as well as money, media, transfers and the sport’s international business.

This is a light-sounding school-age mystery built around a small business, a missing-dogs problem and a search for the person responsible.

A historical biography links Morgan's safety invention to its development and use in rescue work and wartime protection.

Warhol’s story connects art-making with films, magazine publishing and celebrity culture. The biography follows his career from childhood to his final years, including the people and social scene around his New York studio.

A comic-spirited business scheme sits alongside a story about friendship, bereavement and learning to express feelings.

This is a comic-sounding story about young people challenging a corporate coffee chain, with friendship, a crush and a campaign involving their gym teacher also in the mix.

This is a sailing-set mystery driven by an arrest, a disappearance and Nancy’s investigation into a business with troubling personal and financial aspects.

A humorous premise pairs Jasper’s interest in business with his wish for a permanent home. The story’s central appeal appears to be a distinctive character seeking acceptance.

A playful-sounding space adventure mixes a monster-filled travelling carnival with Cosmoe’s new role as a performer and his friends’ effort to save the day.

A glamorous family-business launch turns into a murder mystery, with three sisters taking the investigation into their own hands. The premise combines social-status trappings with a classmate's death.

A lively story about a child whose entrepreneurial idea grows rapidly, testing friendships and responsibilities. It offers an engaging way to think about ambition, persistence and the consequences of taking risks.

A practical, introductory guide to how money works, including earning, saving, spending, borrowing, tax, interest, bitcoin and business. Its short sections combine explanations with examples, interviews, questions and activities.

A football mystery with international stakes, Off Side combines investigation and danger with questions about who controls clubs, opportunities and young players’ futures. Its strongest appeal is likely the meeting of sporting excitement and real-world fairness concerns.

A practical, activity-led introduction to managing money and thinking about enterprise. Its central challenge—growing £1 into £1,000,000—makes financial ideas feel like a hands-on mission rather than an abstract lesson.

A warm, humorous coming-of-age story about Joe Morelli’s attempt to save his family café. Alongside business ideas and community life, Joe explores his Italian heritage and the history of Italian immigrants in Wales.

This is a teen environmental thriller about a girl caught between family loyalty, new friendships and a campaign against chemical-waste dumping. Its main appeal is the moral pressure placed on Maya as secrets accumulate.

This is a humorous, emotionally serious story about a guarded young person whose magic, friendship and care for her grandmother bring questions about love, loss and opening up.

Lara balances football training with her friends’ ideas for a school business competition. The book follows her effort to pursue sporting ambitions while managing friendship, feelings, competition and apparent pressure from people who enjoy seeing her struggle.

A broad, illustrated introduction to Asia, organised by region and topic. Children can dip into maps, history, culture, wildlife, landmarks and notable people, then follow connections to migration, global culture, technology and the future.

A historical life story about exploration, migration routes and public roles, set against America’s colonial, revolutionary and settlement history. It also includes financial setbacks and wartime involvement, rather than presenting Boone only as an explorer.

A lively animal adventure also centres on family change: Taya must manage the aftermath of a house fire, pressure on the family business and uncertainty about her twin’s new friendships.

A hands-on introduction to personal finance, moving from saving and interest towards investment products and wider economic terms. Its practical activities may make abstract money ideas more concrete for a young reader.