Children's Books on Modern & Contemporary History

Story of the Second World War

By Paul Dowswell, Ian McNee

The Yellow Star

By C. Deedy

Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica

By Catherine Johnson (Author)

Who Was: Samuel Pepys?

By Paul Harrison

1930s

By Neil Thomson

The First World War Sticker History Book

By Lisa Miles

Fire! Fire!

By Stuart Hill

Can I Come Home, Please?: The Second World War - By the Children Who Lived Through it

By Phil Robins

I am a Wonder Woman: Inspiring activities to try. Incredible women to discover.

By Ellen Bailey, Sophie Beer, Lauren Farnsworth

Ladybird Histories: Tudors and Stuarts

1930s (I Can Remember)

By Sally Hewitt

The Oxford Children's History of the World

By Neil Grant

Did Anything Good Come Out of... WWI?

By Philip Steele

Moments in History: Why did World War I happen?

By Reg Grant

What They Don't Tell You About: World War I

By Robert Fowke

Beyond the Call of Duty: Bravery in World War II (The National Archives)

By Peter Hicks

The World Wars

By Lisa Jane Gillespie, Struan Reid, Emi Ordas

Why do we remember?: The Great Fire of London

By Izzi Howell

Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women

By Louise K Stewart, Eve Lloyd Knight

Oliver Twist: 1 (Scholastic Classics)

By Dickens, Charles

The Frightful First World War (Horrible Histories)

By Deary, Terry, Brown, Martin, Terry Deary

War in the Trenches: Remembering World War One

By Peter Hicks

Britain Since The War

By Conrad Mason, Henry Brook, Ian McNee

Victorians (Children in History)

By Kate Jackson Bedford

World War II

By Ken Hills, John Berry

The Cold War

By Josepha Sherman

Union Generals

By Tom Head, PhD

Deep-Cover Spies and Double-Crossers of the Cold War

By Rebecca Langston-George

Victorian Crime

By Fiona MacDonald