Lucas Maxwell – författare

Learn how to set up a student-led podcast in your library, involve staff from several subject areas, market effectively, what challenges you are likely to face, and how podcasting will benefit the students and school overall.Podcasting from the library is a growing movement. Podcasting with Youth teaches librarians and educators how to set up, develop, market, and deliver a successful youth-led podcast from their library. Putting youth in control when interviewing authors and other guests develops their leadership and technical skills and brings new users to the library to engage in a unique library activity. This program can be set up relatively cheaply, and readers will learn how to use the technology required to deliver a podcast. Sound recording equipment, microphones, mixers, and audio files may be intimidating to some librarians and educators; this book quells those fears by explaining the technology in a straightforward, how-to manner. It also includes student input on what podcasters have learned, the challenges they have faced, and their plans for the future. Author Lucas Maxwell offers many helpful tips to librarians who want to learn how to create a program that puts students in charge and allows them to produce a tangible product that their peers will be interested in.

Learn how to set up a student-led podcast in your library, involve staff from several subject areas, market effectively, what challenges you are likely to face, and how podcasting will benefit the students and school overall.Podcasting from the library is a growing movement. Podcasting with Youth teaches librarians and educators how to set up, develop, market, and deliver a successful youth-led podcast from their library. Putting youth in control when interviewing authors and other guests develops their leadership and technical skills and brings new users to the library to engage in a unique library activity. This program can be set up relatively cheaply, and readers will learn how to use the technology required to deliver a podcast. Sound recording equipment, microphones, mixers, and audio files may be intimidating to some librarians and educators; this book quells those fears by explaining the technology in a straightforward, how-to manner. It also includes student input on what podcasters have learned, the challenges they have faced, and their plans for the future. Author Lucas Maxwell offers many helpful tips to librarians who want to learn how to create a program that puts students in charge and allows them to produce a tangible product that their peers will be interested in.

Master all the skills you need to deliver a tabletop role-playing game programme in the library!For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming. Starting from the basics, Let’s Roll is a practical guide to delivering a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) programme in a school or public library, all within the time constraints imposed on library sessions. Coverage includes:A step-by-step guide to setting up a TTRPG programme in your school or public library including an example of a TTRPG proposalAdvice on bringing senior management on board to a TTRPG programmeHow to attract players, basic table rules, and preparing as a game masterThe health and learning benefits of TTRPGs including creativity, teamwork, cooperation, boosting confidence and encouraging reading. A comprehensive list of TTRPG games and how to implement themFeaturing case studies from librarians around the world focusing on their experiences setting up TTRPGs, Let’s Roll will help librarians, teachers and other educators deliver an engaging programme that results in significant benefits on a budget – and is a huge amount of fun!

Master all the skills you need to deliver a tabletop role-playing game programme in the library!For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming. Starting from the basics, Let’s Roll is a practical guide to delivering a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) programme in a school or public library, all within the time constraints imposed on library sessions. Coverage includes:

A step-by-step guide to setting up a TTRPG programme in your school or public library including an example of a TTRPG proposal Advice on bringing senior management on board to a TTRPG programme How to attract players, basic table rules, and preparing as a game master The health and learning benefits of TTRPGs including creativity, teamwork, cooperation, boosting confidence and encouraging reading. A comprehensive list of TTRPG games and how to implement them

Featuring case studies from librarians around the world focusing on their experiences setting up TTRPGs, Let’s Roll will help librarians, teachers and other educators deliver an engaging programme that results in significant benefits on a budget – and is a huge amount of fun!

Master all the skills you need to deliver a tabletop role-playing game programme in the library!For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming. Starting from the basics, Let’s Roll is a practical guide to delivering a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) programme in a school or public library, all within the time constraints imposed on library sessions. Coverage includes:

A step-by-step guide to setting up a TTRPG programme in your school or public library including an example of a TTRPG proposal Advice on bringing senior management on board to a TTRPG programme How to attract players, basic table rules, and preparing as a game master The health and learning benefits of TTRPGs including creativity, teamwork, cooperation, boosting confidence and encouraging reading. A comprehensive list of TTRPG games and how to implement them

Featuring case studies from librarians around the world focusing on their experiences setting up TTRPGs, Let’s Roll will help librarians, teachers and other educators deliver an engaging programme that results in significant benefits on a budget – and is a huge amount of fun!

Become the ultimate Game Master and deliver tabletop role-playing games with confidence!For librarians, teachers, school staff and parents who want to run a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) but don’t know where to begin, this practical guide includes five tabletop role-playing adventures written so that a first-time Game Master can jump straight in and start playing. Alongside the adventures the book includes:a comprehensive TTRPG glossaryexamples of safety tools to allow players to stay safepractical tips for helping new players at the TTRPG tablepractical tips for first-time Game Masters and new playersideas on how to establish role-playing sessions and festivals in your schoollists of potions, magic items and non-player characters, including their motivations and occupations.A companion to Lucas Maxwell’s bestselling Let’s Roll, this book is a must-read for librarians and teachers looking to deliver exciting and creative games and quests. Now roll the dice and have fun!

Become the ultimate Game Master and deliver tabletop role-playing games with confidence!For librarians, teachers, school staff and parents who want to run a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) but don't know where to begin, this practical guide includes five tabletop role-playing adventures written so that a first-time Game Master can jump straight in and start playing. Alongside the adventures the book includes: a comprehensive TTRPG glossary examples of safety tools to allow players to stay safe practical tips for helping new players at the TTRPG table practical tips for first-time Game Masters and new players ideas on how to establish role-playing sessions and festivals in your school lists of potions, magic items and non-player characters, including their motivations and occupations. A companion to Lucas Maxwell's bestselling Let's Roll, this book is a must-read for librarians and teachers looking to deliver exciting and creative games and quests. Now roll the dice and have fun!

Become the ultimate Game Master and deliver tabletop role-playing games with confidence!For librarians, teachers, school staff and parents who want to run a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) but don't know where to begin, this practical guide includes five tabletop role-playing adventures written so that a first-time Game Master can jump straight in and start playing. Alongside the adventures the book includes: a comprehensive TTRPG glossary examples of safety tools to allow players to stay safe practical tips for helping new players at the TTRPG table practical tips for first-time Game Masters and new players ideas on how to establish role-playing sessions and festivals in your school lists of potions, magic items and non-player characters, including their motivations and occupations. A companion to Lucas Maxwell's bestselling Let's Roll, this book is a must-read for librarians and teachers looking to deliver exciting and creative games and quests. Now roll the dice and have fun!

Being a teen's a tough gig, but what if one gig couldsave your family?'Heart-rending and hilarious, Elias is a memorable creation.'FINANCIAL TIMES, best books of the summer'This debut explores family pressures, neurodivergence andresilience with heaps of humour and heart.'THE i, topchildren's books of spring 2026'[A] beautifully understated novel ... This is a great storyfor teenage boys, about healing, hope and the joy of bad jokes.'THETIMES, children's book of the week'Wry, hilarious and acutely observed, this 12+ debut boastsa unique and special voice.'THE GUARDIAN'Heartfelt and extremely moving' THE BOOKSELLER,top 10 titles not to miss Elias's brain is a swamp of fears and bad things. His once-lovingbrother Bo has become a stranger, and his parents are at breakingpoint.When Bo falls in with dangerous people, Elias decides he's theonly one who can bring his family back together. But what beginsas a simple pizza-night plan quickly spirals into chaos.Can Elias find a way to reach the people he loves the most beforeit's too late? The stunning debut novel from Lucas Maxwell, winner ofthe Times/Chicken House Competition 2024Set in wintry Nova Scotia, Canada and inspired by theauthor's childhood, this special novel explores themes of familyaddiction and growing up neurodivergentPerfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower,My Sister Lives on the Mantelpieceand Orbiting JupiterFor readers aged 13 and up 'Unimaginably good ... a work of utter genius' TIAFISHER'Gorgeous and sensitive, incredibly thoughtful to its characterswho are full of life and colour and vivid detail ...a truly special debut.' MARGARET MCDONALD'... has a subtle power. Honest, engaging and warm, Elias'sstory will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.'SARAH CROSSAN'The most gorgeously written and heartfelt debut in years.Breaks your heart into a million tiny pieces all at once and thenputs it back together again - a marvel.' PIERS TORDAY

They had nothing but each other... Casey, Feeker and Arlo are stifling. Stifled by the heat of thesummer, stifled by their difficult families, and stifled by theirsmall, isolated hometown where nothing ever happens. Until a kidis murdered - in a house deep in the Nova Scotian woods. Desperate for an adventure, the boys set off on a hunt to findthe murder house. But danger lurks in the wild woods, from coyotesto lurking poachers. And far away from the rusted town, somethingdark and deadly is unfolding... The second novel from the acclaimed author of A MillionTiny Missiles All at Once Lucas Maxwel, award-winninglibrarian and British Empire Medal recipient. The older sibling to Lucas's debut, this outstandingnovel explores themes of adolescence and small-town isolation alongsidefriendship and hope. The 80's friendships of Stand By me meets thegrit of Lord of the Flies and the quirkiness of Holes.