Historical Fiction (Children's/Teenage)

Unsuspecting boy. Big-hearted girl. Small-minded town. Invincible summer.Summer, 1955. Calls for equality are sweeping America, but sixteen-year-ol...

The Carnegie-shortlisted author of Code Name Verity returns with another gripping historical novel, taking readers on a daring flight across war-to...

It is March 1348. Evil lurks in Crowfield Abbey and the building is starting to collapse. Fay creatures have fled the surrounding fores...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum comes the second book in a creepy fantasy series that Publishers Weekly praised as darkly deli...

When bandits destroy Pettra''s village she steals the mysterious Token and escapes into the forest with her little brother. But Judoc the sinister ...

Every day we went on patrol. The Viet Cong were everywhere. Hiding in jungles. Hiding in villages. We had to find them before they found us.

We face each other on the battlefield. Two proud samurai. Revenge burns in my heart. Here is where it ends.

The last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina Willa MacCarthy wants is to be a nun. It''s 1936, and as the only daughter amongst four sons, her Iri...

Dig it. During the tumultuous year of 1968, four teens are drawn together: Ronnie Bingham, who is grieving his brother''s death in Vietnam; Milo, R...

Athens is Saved is the story of the legendary young athlete who ran to Athens with the news of the Greeks'' victory over the Persians at the Battle...

Windyedge Airfield, Scotland. World War II. Louisa Adair, newly orphaned and shunned for her mixed-race heritage, has come here to the edge of ...

Kathy Kacers second book in her middle grade series about heroic rescues during WWII tells the tale of siblings Helen and Henry, and historys most ...

An inspiring story of Zheng Yi Sao, the real-life pirate queen who took control of her life and the South China seas in the early 19th century. T...

The second instalment in this stunning historical-thriller trilogy. The year is 1603. Alice Fletcher''s brother, Richard, has returned from beyond ...

This series of hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads of hapless figures from history in frazzling situations. Robert, a boy living in...

When seventeen-year-old Giulia, the orphaned, illegitimate daughter of a Milanese nobleman, learns shes to be packed off to a life behind convent w...

Viking dog Beowuff is all bark and no bite, a disgrace to the memory of his fierce ancestors. Beowuff and his bench-mate Arnuf find themselves wash...

Age range 12-17 yearsTo Hell then home again Charlie''s mother and father work at a Spitfire factory in the fishing port of Hamble. After a run i...

In search of a freer place where every child can go to school, a family moves from Fascist Portugal to Communist Czechoslovakia. Different as this ...

Age range 9 to 14Growing up in East Germany in the 1960''s, football mad Karl wants nothing more than to play for his hometown club. However, when ...

A universal story about speaking, listening and being heard. Margot loves space. Astronauts, the stars, and especially the moon landing. So she ca...

Eleven-year-old Josh never expected to be a hero. But after finding the Bergen Prophecy and discovering that his destiny has been chosen for him, J...

Charlie Green is the epitome of kindness, bold, good-natured and always seeks to find truth and put right wrongs with a cheeky grin. But Charlie is...

Meet Vincent: a young boy from Holland with big dreams.  Fortuneless and out of favour with just about everybody, Vincent discovers that he can e...

Before William James Hanna leaves to fight in the Second World War, he gives his young daughter Sandra the task of looking after her younger brothe...

Istanbul, 1592: the arrival of a mysterious manuscript at the court of Sultan Murad III, claiming to know the location of the fabled Armour of King...

From the author of the bestselling and award-winning WITCH CHILD, comes another outstanding historical novel. Set against the backdrop of the Fren...

  My Story: Mary Prince  the thrilling story of the former slave and abolitionist. Born in enslavement in Bermuda, Mary Prince t...

Another page-turning time travel adventure for ages 8-12 set between 1900s and present-day London. The long-awaited sequel to the international bes...

With swashbuckling, super-fast paced action and own voices queer romance, The Battalion of the Dead return in a dazzling new adventure, set amid th...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL Set in the 17th century, a breathtaking debut, and a poten...

Fagins infamous gang comes to life once again in this exciting Oliver Twist-inspired adventure from bestselling author Karen McCombie. Or...