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When The War Came Home

By Lesley Parr

Tutankhamun's Tomb

By Sue Reid

Lizzie's Wish (Historical House)

By Geras, Adele, Adèle Geras

Oliver Twist: 1 (Scholastic Classics)

By Dickens, Charles

The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Collins Modern Classics)

By Elizabeth George Speare

Kidnapped

By R.L Stevenson

The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix NE

By Kate Saunders

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

Code Name Bananas: The hilarious and epic children’s book from multi-million bestselling author David Walliams

By Walliams, David, Ross, Tony

Windrush Child

By Benjamin Zephaniah

After

By Morris Gleitzman

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

By Judith Kerr

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

By Robin Stevens

The Star of Kazan

By Eva Ibbotson

Far From Home: The sisters of Street Child (Street Child)

By Berlie Doherty

The Whispers of Wilderwood Hall

By Karen McCombie

Farm Boy

By Morpurgo, Michael

Flamingo Boy

By Michael Morpurgo

The Hunger

By Carol Drinkwater

Toro! Toro!

By Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman

Shakespeare Tales: Macbeth

By Terry Deary

World War II Tales: The Barrel Burglary (Terry Deary's Historical Tales)

By Deary, Terry, de la Rue, James

Ladybird Histories: Second World War

Workhouse

By Pamela Oldfield

Victorian Tales: The Fabulous Flyer

By Deary, Terry, Flook, Helen