Children's Books on Modern & Contemporary History

Shackleton's Journey

By William Grill

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

By Anne Frank

World War I Tales: The Last Flight

By Terry Deary

History Makers: Nelson Mandela

By Sarah Ridley

Facts at Your Fingertips: Military History: World War II

By Antony Shaw

Past in Pictures: A Photographic View of World War One

By Alex Woolf

World War I

By Ian Westwell

Explore!: Tudors

By Jane Bingham

Technology in the Battle of Britain: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)

By Nick Hunter, Collins Big Cat

Victorian Town Children

By Sallie Purkis

Guy Fawkes

By Harriet Castor

The Silver Hand

By Terry Deary

Charles Dickens: A Life of Storytelling; a Legacy of Change

Mary Queen of Scots

By Geddes & Grosset

Popcorn: History Corner: The Gunpowder Plot

By Jenny Powell

Samuel Pepys?

By Paul Harrison

Hal the Hero: The Amazing Story of King Henry the 8th

By Stewart Ross, Susan Shields

Incredible Incas

By Terry Deary, Philip Reeve

World War II Tales: The Phantom Farm (Terry Deary's Historical Tales)

By Deary, Terry, de la Rue, James

The Day The War Was Won - D-Day Landing: June 6th, 1944

On Land

By Ann Kramer

Tudor Life: Work

By Paul Harrison

Tudor Life: Entertainment

By Nicola Barber

World War II

By R.G. Grant

World War II in Britain

By Liz Gogerly

The Eastern Front

By Peter Hepplewhite

In the Air

By Ann Kramer

National Geographic Kids Readers: Titanic (National Geographic Kids Readers: Level 3)

By Melissa Stewart, National Geographic Kids

We Will Not Be Silent

By Russell Freedman

Royal Diaries: Mary, Queen of Scots ... Without a Country

By Kathryn Lasky