Modern & Contemporary Historical Fiction for Children

The Fire Cats of London

By Anna Fargher

My Story: Blitz: The Diary of Edie Benson, London 1940 - 1941

By Cross, Vince

Umbrella Mouse to the Rescue

By Anna Fargher, Sam Usher

Workhouse

By Pamela Oldfield

The Hunger

By Carol Drinkwater

Toro! Toro!

By Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman

Shakespeare Tales: Macbeth

By Terry Deary

Flamingo Boy

By Michael Morpurgo

Victorian Tales: The Fabulous Flyer

By Deary, Terry, Flook, Helen

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

By Deary, Terry, de la Rue, James

Ladybird Histories: Second World War

Wartime Princess (My Story)

By Wilding, Valerie

Kidnapped

By R.L Stevenson

The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Collins Modern Classics)

By Elizabeth George Speare

Oliver Twist: 1 (Scholastic Classics)

By Dickens, Charles

Lizzie's Wish (Historical House)

By Geras, Adele, Adèle Geras

Tutankhamun's Tomb

By Sue Reid

When The War Came Home

By Lesley Parr

Mary Ann and Miss Mozart (Historical House)

By Turnbull, Ann

Bloody Tower (My Royal Story)

By Wilding, Valerie

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