History & The Past: General Interest (Children's/Teenage)

A celebration of inspirational women from all over the world and throughout history, told in Marcia Williams' much-loved comic-strip style.Join Mar...

  Discover all the foul facts about the history of fortresses with history's most horrible headlines: Crackin' Castles edition. ...

Discover all the foul facts about the history of the Emerald Isle with history's most horrible headlines: Irish edition. The mas...

World War I gets the Hazardous Tales treatment in this story of warfare, treachery, strategy, and more World War I set the tone for the 20th centur...

Publishers Weekly Best of the Year BookPage Best of the Year Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Evanston Library Best of the YearHorn Book 2023 Sum...

Freeman Book Award WinnerGLLI Translated YA Book Prize HonoreeAn incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triump...

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young reader...

The glorious sequel to Freeman Award-winningThe Boy from Clearwater After his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he l...

Booklist Editors' Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World WINNER - International Literacy Association (ILA) ...

NOTABLE BOOK: 2025 CBCA Eve Pownall AwardGo on an extraordinary journey with Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch, two of Australia's most celebrated cr...

Discover the fascinating world of the Romans through 99 questions and answersHow big was the Roman Empire? Did all Romans wear togas? And just what...

Discover the fascinating world of the Maya through 99 questions and answersWhere did the Maya live? Who was Pakal the Great? And just why were the ...

  A gripping football-filled adventure based in the Romani community of 19th-century Sheffield.“The superb Voices series takes un...

The fourth book in a series about scientific wonder. Dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing. For little researchers ages 6 years and up. The early n...

Katie Sandwina lifted more than carousels and cannons—she also lifted up women everywhere! Discover the story of a real-life superwoman who used he...

Uncover the fascinating stories of thirteen Anglo-Saxon finds.What's the first Anglo-Saxon object you can think of? Did you know that thousands of...

DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun history series! Discover and Do! History is the perfect introduction to history for readers ag...

A romping, rhyming, onomatopoeic tale of Terri the Triceratops and the world of dinosaurs!Terri the Triceratops's world is full of strange sounds, ...

"Someday girls like us will be able to wear whatever we want. People will call us by the names we choose. They'll respect that we are women. The co...

This book takes the reader back through time, showing what it was like to live in the past. It investigates the whole of human history in a lively ...

Find out about the Roman Britain with these fun, interactive first non-fiction books!Learn about Roman Britain, how the Romans arrived and why they...

Travel back in time to Londinium and find out all about the Romans in Britain. Like modern travel guides, the books in this series highlight must-...

Enter a fearsome battle across the seas with the latest instalment in the hit children’s history series The world is at war, and oceans have become...

A powerful illustrated book that tells, for the very first time, the story of the courageous women of the Klondike Gold Rush. Written and illustrat...

Find out about the toys children played with in the past and compare with the toys they play with today. Discover what different materials are used...

Welcome aboard the Yo-Ho-Ho!The most festive ship on the sea . . . Did you know that Santa’s elves once used to be fearsome PIRATES? But everything...

'I am obsessed with this book.' Alice OsemanA joyfully queer and stunningly romantic graphic novel inspired by the work of Jane Austen and perfect ...

A new Christmas classic from a magical pairing: Dame Emma Thompson and Axel Scheffler.The story of Jim: a very lucky, very special, very grubby dog...

  Filled with all the festive facts every Horrible Histories reader wants to know! The complete horrible history of Christmas t...

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, ​ Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. ​ Meanwhile a star-dusted sleigh blaze...

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, ​ Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. ​ Meanwhile a star-dusted sleigh blaze...

  “[Victoria Princewill's] real skill, in this highly engaging book, is to create a convincing Victorian heroine to whose emoti...

Every nation tells its own history in its own way. This important book explains what's going on behind the scenes in those tellings - who gets to d...

Dive in to an exciting nonfiction graphic novel series about some of the greatest Black lives in history! "Sure to delight middle graders and encou...

In news that has rocked the scientific community, a mysterious report about planet Earth has been discovered. Earthlings is an account of human lif...