True Stories (Children's/Teenage)

  Explore the lives of the Windrush generation in this full-colour anthology. With a foreword from Baroness Floella Benjamin, D...

  A gripping first-hand account of life back home during World War Two. Britain has been fighting the Second World War for f...

  Home Again tells twelve moving tales of homecoming, centred around VE Day. With a foreword by Forces Sweetheart, Dame Vera L...

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Awardnominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and illustrator Laura Freeman bring ...

A spirited picture book biography about Althea Gibson, the first black Wimbledon, French, and U.S. Open tennis champion, from debut author Megan Re...

In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairie...

Henry VIII was flamboyant, courageous and headstrong. His life spans a fascinating, important period in history, in which he plays a crucial part. ...

Told from a Native American point of view, Black Elks Vision provides a unique perspective on American history. From recounting the visions Black E...

This stunning interactive journal of a young boy explains the events of the time from a personal perspective, while at the same time showing facts,...

'When people gave up on Wylie, Wylie refused to give up on people.'For a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, to be crowned top do...

From best friends James Bowen and street cat Bob, stars of the number one bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob, comes a special edition of The World ...

This title focuses on Jeff Gordon and gives information related to his early life, his time racing in NASCAR, and the legacy he leaves behind. This...

A wonderfully written and engaging teenage memoir: read all about Jacqueline's problems with her family, her first love, her school life and her fr...

The heroic, real-life personal account of Chris Ryan's most famous mission, The One That Got Away, is now reworked for a new generation. Some autho...

Escape from a bullying mother takes one young woman to an even more dangerous place.Alice Angel has known only a life of rules, restriction and pun...

This amazing true story of a boy fleeing Tehran on his own during the Iran- Iraq War provides a powerful child's-eye view of political tumult, sepa...

A picture book biography that''''s like Ocean''''s Eleven for third graders - only it''''s a true story! In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a k a ...

Jordan, 1970. After a summer spent with her family, fifteen-year-old Anna is travelling back to her English boarding school alone. But her plane n...

Discover the amazing true story of Maria Mitchell, Americas first professional female astronomer.Every evening, from the time she was a child, Mari...

Nineteenth-century Tibet was an unknown entity, a complete geographical mystery to the West. Where did its capital city Lhasa lie?Which rivers, lak...