Modern & Contemporary Historical Fiction for Children

Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice

By Andrew Lane

The Runaway Girls

By Jacqueline Wilson

Goodnight Mister Tom

By Michelle Magorian

The Skylarks' War: Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award

By Hilary McKay

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

By Kathryn Lasky

Journey to the River Sea

By Ibbotson, Eva

Victorian Tales: Terror on the Train (Terry Deary's Historical Tales)

By Deary, Terry, Flook, Helen

Number the Stars (HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics)

By Lois Lowry

The Prince and the Pauper (Puffin Classics)

By Twain, Mark

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

By Phil Robins

Fire! Fire!

By Stuart Hill

White Bird: A graphic novel from the world of WONDER - soon to be a major film

By R J Palacio

Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

War Children: Stories from Ireland's War of Independence

By Gerard Whelan

A Winter of Spies: Ireland's War of Independence: when the truth can get you killed

By Gerard Whelan

Churchill: His Finest Hours

By Alan MacDonald, Clive Goddard

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

By Boyne, John

Horrible Histories Gory Stories: Tower of Terror

By Terry Deary, Martin Brown

Torn Apart - The Partition of India, 1947

By Swapna Haddow, Two Dots

Anastasia (My Royal Story)

By Meyer, Carolyn

My True Story: Hero at Dunkirk

By Vince Cross

Hugh O'Flaherty: The Irish Priest Who Resisted the Nazis

By Fiorella De Maria

The Swallows' Flight

By Hilary McKay

Shadow of the Zeppelin

By Bernard Ashley

To Liberty! The Adventures of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas: A Bloomsbury Reader: Dark Red Book Band

By Catherine Johnson, Rachel Sanson

Mill Girl (My Story)

By Reid, Sue

~ Plague: Outbreak in London, 1665 - 1666

By Tony Bradman

The Valley of Lost Secrets

By Lesley Parr

Five Children on the Western Front

By Kate Saunders

Empire's End - A Roman Story (Voices #4)

By Leila Rasheed