15th March is Young Carers Action Day.
The School Librarians Network has come up with a list of children’s fiction that feature young carers and are great choices for reading in class and for your school library
- Jo Cotterill – A library of lemons
- Anita Desai – The village by the sea
- Maz Evans – Who let the gods out?
- Cath Howe – Ella on the outside
- Polly Ho-Yen – Boy in the tower
- Anthony McGowan – I am the minotaur
- Lisa Thompson – The rollercoaster boy
- Jacqueline Wilson – The illustrated mum
- Jacqueline Wilson – Lola Rose
- Nicola Davies – Butterflies for Grandpa Joe
- Maisie Chan – Keep dancing Lizzie Chu
- Master, Irfan – A beautiful lie
- Mason, Simon – Moon pie
- Hannah Gold – The Lost Whale
- S E Durrant – Running on empty
- Narinder Dhami – 13 Hours
