Refugee by Alan Gratz
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Three different kids. One mission in common: ESCAPE. Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and he ...Show more
My Gallipoli (HB) by Ruth Starke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the shores of Anzac Cove to the heights of Chunuk Bair, from Cape Helles to Gurkha Bluff, the Gallipoli Peninsula was the place where thousands of men from sixteen nations fought, suffered, endured or died during the eight months of occupation in 1915. For each of them, their families and their nur ...Show more
Velvet by Mary Hooper
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: From 12
Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed ...Show more
Sian: A New Australian by D. Luckett
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: A New Australian Ser.
Sian is the unlucky thirteenth child in a Welsh coalminers family. Life is hard; her mother died after giving birth to her and her father is grief-stricken. Sians eldest sister hatches a plan to take them both far away, to find a better life. It will be a long voyage across the ocean, but Sian is lookin ...Show more
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"Her story begins on a train."The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The prize? An audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the V ...Show more
The Goose Road by Rowena House
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A debut novel about one girl's remarkable journey across France during WWI. France 1916. Angélique Lacroix is haymaking when the postman delivers the news: her father is dead, killed on a distant battlefield. She makes herself a promise: the farm will remain exactly the same until her beloved older brot ...Show more
Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An explosive, fast-paced thriller set in Nazi Germany, perfect for readers who enjoyed THE BOOK THIEF. 'It's terrifying and incredible to think how much of this story is true' Elizabeth Wein, author of CODE NAME VERITY. Gretchen Muller has, as best she can, dealt with the horrors of her family's past. H ...Show more
My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve
$12.99 AUD
Category: Historical
At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin, the train that secretly took nearly 10,000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers, Frances (as she is now called) courageously pieces to ...Show more
Just a Girl (Elizabeth Tudor #1) by Jane Caro
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Elizabeth Tudor Trilogy
I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin. Determined, passionate, privileged and headstrong, Elizabeth was born into a world where she felt she didn't belong and had to fight to survive. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, w ...Show more
Vinnie's War by David McRobbie
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When Vinnie is sent away from the bombs in London, he has no idea what awaits him. All he has left of his old life is his harmonica. On the train, Vinnie meets fierce Kathleen, sweet Joey and gangly Dobbs. The evacuee children find themselves thrown together in the country town of Netterfold, which seem ...Show more
Poppy in the Field (#2) by Mary Hooper
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poppy
When Poppy learns that the love of her life, Freddie de Vere, is to marry someone else, she knows her heart will break. Devastated, she volunteers her nursing skills overseas to take her away from the painful reminders at home. But things are about to get much worse for Poppy. The journey to the hospita ...Show more
Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club (#1) by Alison Goodman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Lady Helen
A tantalising new trilogy set in Regency London from the award-winning author of EON and EONA. Ages: 14+ London, April 1812. Lady Helen Wrexhall is set to make her debut at the court of Queen Charlotte and officially step into polite Regency society and the marriage mart. Little does Helen know that s ...Show more