Тони Брэдман0.0 The story of one Anglo-Saxon boy's journey to the Battle of Hastings in 1066: Key Stage 2 History brought to life as battle-packed adventure.
1065: Magnus is the son of Harold Godwinson, lord of the Southern Saxons and ruthlessly ambitious claimant to the throne of England. Overnight, Magnus finds himself cast centre-stage in the blood-soaked family feud that led to one of history’s most famous battles.
This is the family tragedy behind 1066: live it with Magnus, as the wolves of history close in on his Anglo-Saxon boyhood.
Киран Миллвуд Харгрейв4.0 Ами живет на далеком острове, где обитают люди, не такие, как все. Когда на Кулион приезжает жестокий мистер Замора, жизнь девочки оказывается разрушена. Ее силой увозят, разлучив с семьей и друзьями. Теперь между ней и дорогими ее сердцу людьми лежит целое море. Но Ами не сдается. Ее ведет за собой хрупкая, точно бабочка, надежда и отчаянное желание изменить привычный мир, стерев из него раз и навсегда всю несправедливость. Успеет ли она вернуться домой и помочь своим близким, пока не стало слишком поздно?
Сэм Ангус0.0 It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends, and her parents have been at the centre of a scandal. But with the house being used to accommodate an entire school of evacuated schoolgirls, there's no time to think about her old life. Soon there is a horse in a first-floor bedroom and a ferret in Lyla’s sock drawer, hordes of schoolgirls have overrun the house, and Lyla finds out that friends come in all shapes and sizes.
Jacqueline Wilson3.8 September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn’t know where she’s going, or what’s going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she’s going on ‘a little holiday’. Shirley is billeted in the country, with two boys from East End London, Kevin and Archie – and their experiences living in the strange, half-empty Red House, with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley, will change their lives for ever. Award-winning, bestselling and beloved author Jacqueline Wilson turns to this period of history for the first time, in this beautiful, moving story of friendship and bravery against the backdrop of the worst conflict the world has ever known.
Running. Weeping. Blood on her lips.
Blood in her mouth.
Blood that is not her own.
After maiming her master, Cassia has no choice but to run. Beyond the river, fair to the north, stands Hadrian's Wall - the furthest limit of the mighty Roman Empire. And beyond the wall? Freedom. With dogs on her trail and a bounty on her head, the journey seems impossible. But then Cassia meets Marcus - slick, slippery, sliver-tongued - a true and perfect son of Rome. And her only hope.
Люси Эдлингтон4.2 Четырем разным девушкам было суждено встретиться на границе жизни и смерти, в концлагере Аушвиц-Биркенау.
Элла – целеустремленная талантливая юная портниха, которой удается благодаря своему мастерству выживать в лагере. Она шьет великолепные наряды для тех, кто ежечасно обрекает на смерть сотни тысяч безвинных людей. Девушка нашла убежище от беспощадной реальности в мире шелка, ножниц и булавок. Здесь одно единственное платье может решить ее судьбу, даровав жизнь или, наоборот, ее отняв.
Роза – нежная сказочница и фантазерка. Девушка всегда готова поделиться своей скудной порцией еды с тем, кому она нужнее и не боится наказания за помощь другим заключенным.
Марта – привилегированная заключенная, управляющая швейной мастерской. Она пойдет на все, чтобы остаться в живых.
Карла – одна из надзирательниц, для кого заключенные шьют платья.
Им никогда не бывать подругами, да и не каждой суждено выжить в Биркенау. Можно только подарить надежду, символом которой станет алая лента, украденная однажды из тюремного ателье...
Тереза Бреслин0.0 Shortlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills Award 2018
Russia, 1916.
Nina Ivanovna’s world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg, to escape the past and find a future.
Stefan Kolodin is a medical student – young and idealistic, he wants change for Russia and its people.
Amidst the chaos of a city in revolt, their lives collide. And a stormy relationship develops . . . full of passion and politics.
But soon Nina is drawn in to the glamorous, lavish lives of the Russian royal family – where she begins to fall under the spell of their mysterious monk, Grigory Rasputin. The ruby-studded dagger he carries – beautiful and deadly – could save her and Stefan from a cursed life
Пол Доузвелл0.0 It is July 1945, Hitler's Third Reich has fallen, and Berlin is in ruins. Living on the edge of survival in the cellar of an abandoned hospital, Otto and his ragtag gang of kids have banded together in the desperate, bombed-out city.
The war may be over, but danger lurks in the shadows of the wreckage as Otto and his friends find themselves caught between invading armies, ruthless rival gangs and a strange Nazi war criminal who stalks them ...
A climactic story of truth, friendship and survival against the odds, Wolf Children will thrill readers of Michael Morpurgo and John Boyne.
Р. М. Ромеро0.0 In the land of dolls, there is magic.
In the land of humans, there is war.
Everywhere there is pain.
But together there is hope.
Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Krakow, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past.
The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina's courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter--that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him.
But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks.
