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Gods and Warriors: The Crocodile Tomb

By Michelle Paver - Published 2015

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

This book, the fourth in a series, is set in the Bronze Age. Two youngsters from different Greek societies, Hylas and Pirra, are ...Read Review

The Runaways

By Megan Rix - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

England, 1917. The country is at war and more men are needed at the Front, so Cullen’s Circus must close and the animals ...Read Review

Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

By Rick Riordan - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Rick Riordan, writing as his no-nonsense hero Percy Jackson, has pulled off a funny and informative introduction to Greek mythology. Of course, the ...Read Review

A Soldier’s Friend

By Megan Rix - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1914. The First World War has begun and it will affect, not only men, women and children, but also animals, particularly cats and dogs. ...Read Review

The Burning Shadow

By Michelle Paver - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Bronze Age Greece. In this, the second Gods and Warriors book, Hylas, the Outsider; Pirra daughter of the High Priestess of Keftiu; and ...Read Review

The Bomber Dog

By Megan Rix - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Dover 1944: World War 2 is at its height. One night, after a bombing raid, a young Alsatian dog rescues his friend, a spaniel, and ...Read Review

Victory Dogs

By Megan Rix - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

London, 1940. Misty, the much-loved dog of the Dolan family, vanishes in the first terrifying air-raid of the war. She crawls into an access ...Read Review

After

By Morris Gleitzman - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

World War II: 1945, Poland. The Germans are in retreat, but Nazi death squads are still hunting down Jews. Thirteen-year-old Felix is in hiding, ...Read Review

The Great Escape

By Megan Rix - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Summer 1939. Robert Edwards, aged twelve, and his nine-year-old sister, Lucy, live in London with their parents and three pets: a collie, Rose, who ...Read Review

Gods and Warriors

By Michelle Paver - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

1500 BC, Bronze Age Greece. Eleven-year-old Hylas is a goat boy, a nobody, but, even so, mysterious black-armoured warriors are pursuing him to the ...Read Review