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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist
£7.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781444964707 | ISBN 10: 1444964704
Winner of The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2019 There was a single trail of footprints, the first I’d seen all morning. They were fresh tracks, I saw, the edges of the impressions in the snow quite hard. Small feet. Like mine. Someone my ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781782692751 | ISBN 10: 1782692754
In 1942, a young woman named Sophie Scholl arrives in Munich to begin her studies at university. Reunited with her beloved brother Hans, a medical student, she finds new friends in a group of young Germans united in their passion for jazz music, danc ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241399699 | ISBN 10: 0241399696
To the millions of readers who fell in love with R J Palacio's Wonder, Julian is best-known as Auggie Pullman's classroom bully. White Bird reveals a new side to Julian's story, as Julian discovers the moving and powerful tale of his grandm ... more
View book details£8.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781406386752 | ISBN 10: 1406386758
A personal, powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust by one of this country's best-loved children’s authors.  By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Michael Rosen’s search for his relatives who †... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474958660 | ISBN 10: 1474958664
My name is Hanna. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I’m training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived, ... more
View book details£9.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786032928 | ISBN 10: 1786032929
Anne Frank was born in Germany to a loving family. But when World War II broke out, Anne and her family had to hide in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Here, Anne wrote her famous diary, describing her belief in people's goodness and her hopes for peace. ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781406379822 | ISBN 10: 1406379824
A timeless fantasy set in the Second World War that weaves together magic, folklore and history, perfect for fans of The Book Thief, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Goodnight Mister Tom. One night a little doll named Karolina comes to life i ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780440871514 | ISBN 10: 0440871514
September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn’t know where she’s going, or what’s going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she’s ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141376646 | ISBN 10: 0141376643
Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story. � Krak�w, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. And Anna Lania is just seve ... more
View book details£11.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781926890029 | ISBN 10: 1926890027
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. Life in the new country seems strange, h ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781406367133 | ISBN 10: 1406367133
Revered author Michael Morpurgo looks back on the post-war Britain of his childhood in this unflinching and deeply poignant tale of the physical and mental scars of war. Former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo remembers the post-war Britain of ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781406365696 | ISBN 10: 1406365696
In the hardship of war, everything is rationed – except true friendship. From much-loved author Shirley Hughes comes a compelling wartime adventure set during the Liverpool Blitz. Liverpool, 1940: thirteen-year-old Joan’s home is under threat from ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780552573504 | ISBN 10: 0552573507
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast a ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781406360769 | ISBN 10: 1406360767
Revered author Michael Morpurgo looks back on the post-war Britain of his childhood in this unflinching and deeply poignant tale of the physical and mental scars of war. Revered storyteller Michael Morpurgo remembers the post-war Britain of hi ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781407149042 | ISBN 10: 1407149040
Holocaust tales of children who hid to stay alive, collected by a top filmmaker and journalist. It’s hard to get your head around, but Anne Frank was one of thousands. Now fourteen more Holocaust tales are finally told. How many children were hi ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9789881512604 | ISBN 10: 9881512603
A true story about grief, hope and the dark side of nuclear power. • Beautifully retold and illustrated by Judith Loske • Even today, children from all over the world fold paper cranes as a sign of peace and hope and send them to Hiroshima ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007339587 | ISBN 10: 0007339585
It’s 1945. Elizabeth's father is fighting with the German army on the eastern front. Her mother works at Dresden zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must b ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849392495 | ISBN 10: 1849392498
When Lizzie's dad refuses to fight in the Second World War, the police come looking to arrest him. Desperate to stay together, Lizzie and her brother Freddie go on the run with him, hiding from the police in idyllic Whiteway. But when their ... more
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