Courageous First World War Stories is a collection of three wartime adventures (THE TRENCHES, STANDING ALONE & FLYING ACE) that will transport the reader to the heart of the First World War. Riveting fictionalized accounts, packed with historical detail, give a new immediacy to the First World War that will enthral young readers. ...

Experience history first-hand with My Story! Tudor history comes to rich & vivid life in this pair of fictional diaries by award-winning author Alison Prince. My Tudor Queen is the diary of Eva De Puebla, who comes to England as the young lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, future wife of Henry VIII. Then the story continues in Anne Boleyn & Me, as Eva’s daughter, Elinor Valjean, serves in Henry VIII’s court as he unveils his new queen… A must for any fan of historical fiction! ...

A collection of three exciting Second World War stories.

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It isn’t just men that war makes heroes. These three exciting stories feature the Second World War from the perspective of three young women: Sophie, a messenger for a Resistance group in France; Kitty, a VAD nurse, & Edie, a young evacuee, forced to leave her London home & move to Wales. ...

Say hello to yesterday without a Tardis. The past has never felt closer. No imitation will do. Intrigue in the Tudor courts. The horrors of a Victorian workhouse. Danger & treachery during World War Two. Now you can feel every moment (without getting squashed) in the million-selling series where history gets real. It’s seriously exciting, & it’s full of must-know facts for school. A best-loved series with over a million copies sold Fictional diaries based on key moments in history Captures past times in realistic children’s voices Exciting way to explore curriculum-linked history ...

A dramatic new look for the blockbusting series that sweeps you up in the tumult of history. The past has never felt closer. No imitation will do. The terrifying bombs of the Blitz. The sinking of the Titanic. The First World War trenches. The dark days of the Black Death. All the scariest moments in history captured in children’s voices. Say hello to yesterday – & discover heaps of must-know facts for school. A best-loved series with over a million copies sold Fictional diaries based on key moments in history Captures past times in realistic children’s voices Exciting way to explore curriculum-linked history ...

Flora Bonnington lives in a world where it is unattractive for a lady to express her opinions, & all excitement should be confined to the ballroom. But Flora wants to be a twentieth-century woman. She wants the vote, she wants to educate her servants & she wants to learn everything there is to know about the art of cinematography. Can she rebel against the father she loves to fulfil her dreams? ...

Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. To her, freedom is the greatest word in the world. In the slave quarters, people pray for freedom, or, as they call it, ‘heaven’. But when will it come? ...

Say hello to yesterday without a Tardis. A bewitching new look for My Story: the series where history gets real. Over a million copies sold. No imitation will do. Engl&, 1525. Britain’s loyalties are divided. Henry VIII wants to divorce his devoted wife Catherine of Aragon & marry Anne Boleyn. For eleven-year-old Elinor Valjean, who lives in the royal court, the conflict is about to become a personal one. She loves Queen Catherine, but now she will be forced to wait upon her supplanter… reading-lists-9 ...

“ Sydney Cove is grey & scrubby. It looks out into the harbour & across the hills on the other side. Many of the convicts’ huts have been built on rocks. They are so ramshackle, their foundations must cling like limpets.” In 1790, Elizabeth Harvey is flung into London’s Newgate Prison for a crime she didn’t commit. Then she finds herself transported to Australia on a convict ship, facing the harsh reality of eking out a life within the stark new continent. As maidservant to a surgeon in Sydney Cove, she has the chance to create a new future – one better, at least, than imprisonment in Engl&. Yet first she must deal with many hardships, threats & dangers, not least from the real criminals who have been sent there too… ...