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Brave

By Wendy Constance - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Wendy Constance’s Brave was the winner of The Times/Chicken House prize, 2013, for an unpublished new children’s author. It is the ...Read Review

My Brother’s Secret

By Dan Smith - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

12-year-old Karl Friedmann is proud to be a German and wants his country to win the war. He fully believes in Hitler’s ...Read Review

Valentine Joe

By Rebecca Stevens - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

A time-slip novel featuring a modern teenager and events from the First World War published that such a war ‘must never happen again.’ ...Read Review

Hitler’s Secret

By William Osborne - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

In a secret rendezvous at the Tower of London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets with Admiral Macpherson from British intelligence. It is June 1940, ...Read Review

My Friend the Enemy

By Dan Smith - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1941, a village in North-East England. German warplanes frequently drop superfluous incendiary bombs after bombing Newcastle shipyards. Peter, aged twelve, playing in the woods, ...Read Review

Hitler’s Angel

By William Osborne - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

The exciting premise of this book is to take two German children who have escaped the Nazis and send them back into harm’...Read Review

The Crowfield Demon

By Pat Walsh - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Set in an abbey in 1348, with a glossary explaining such terms as ‘triforium’ and ‘shawm’, there’s plenty of history here, but also ...Read Review

I Am the Great Horse

By Katherine Roberts - Published 2006Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the story of Alexander the Great as told by his warhorse, Bucephalus. It is also the story of Bucephalus’s devoted ...Read Review