Apple and Rain

We Come Apart

Moonrise

In Mike We Trust

Barakah Beats

Winter Damage

Growing Up Powerful

Troubadour

The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan.

I am not who I say I am,
and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.

I am a girl trying to forget.
She is a woman trying to remember.

Allison has run away from home, and with nowhere to live, finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there – and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past called Toffee.

Allison is used to hiding who she really is, and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so, Toffee is who she becomes. After all, it means she has a place to stay. There are worse places she could be.

But as their bond grows, and Allison discovers how much Marla needs a real friend, she begins to ask herself - where is home? What is a family? And most importantly, who am I, really?

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Apple and Rain

Sarah Crossan, 2014

We Come Apart

Sarah Crossan, Brian Conaghan, 2017

Moonrise

Sarah Crossan, 2017

In Mike We Trust

P.E. Ryan, 2009

Barakah Beats

Maleeha Siddiqui, 2021

Winter Damage

Natasha Carthew, 2013

Growing Up Powerful

Rebel Girls, Caribay Marquina, Nona Willis Aronowitz, 2023

Troubadour

Mary Hoffman, 2009