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This bibliography is being continually updated. Below are the titles of all books added in 2003.
Click on the link and you will be taken to the note on the book except where the book is one of a series. In this case you will be taken to the first book of the series and you can then scroll down.
In section The Middle Ages -- Younger Children
A reprint of a book which has been out of print. A young apprentice of William Caxton gets involved in adventure. For 10+
In sections The Sixteenth Century -- Mary Queen of Scots and also section Scotland -- Up 5to 1800.
A fictionalised account of how the young page Will Douglas helps Queen Mary escape from Loch Leven Castle. For older children.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
A young boy who works on a boat on Regent's Canal, London, gets involved with some cruel ratcatchers. For younger children.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
A thief uses the London sewers as a means of escape after he has raided a house. Later, with success, comes a new career. The first book of a planned series.
Teenage
In section Roman Times
A warrior-maiden in Boudicca's rebellion
In section -- Roman Mysteries.
In the seventh book of the series Jonathan's father is called to Rome to help the plague victims. Flavia and her three friends go with him. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and scroll down.
In section Eighteenth Century -- General
Mystery and adventure in eighteenth century London
In section Nineteenth Century -- Ireland
The fictional diary of a young girl in Ireland at the time of the potato famine
In section Middle Ages-- Younger Children
This is the third in the trilogy about Arthur. In this book Arthur goes on Crusade and is knighted. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down to the others.
In section Twentieth Century -- Fascism and the Persecution of the Jews
The first book in a trilogy about some children who went on the first Kindertransport.
In section Nineteenth Century -- The Mines
The story of a boy and a pit pony.
In section Twentieth Century -- Post War Britain
It is 1948. Young Sam lives in a fishing village. He has a particularly bad day in which he has a series of disasters ranging from breaking the eggs to being adrift in a dinghy with a mine floating towards him. A little book which really evokes the spirit of post war Britain.
In section Seventeenth Century -- Religion
Love across a barrier. The son of a wealthy merchant and the daughter of a weaver and a Quaker fall in love. Set at the time of Charles II this book shows the severity of the persecution of the Quakers.
In section Sixteenth Century -- General
The fictional diary of the daughter of the physician in the Tower of London
In section -- Ancient Greece
A story for young adults about the legendary women Amazon warriors. Brings in the siege of Troy
In section -- Roman Mysteries.
The sixth book in the series about the young Roman detective Flavia and her three friends.
In section -- The Twentieth Century. The Second World War. Britain. Younger Children.
The fictional diary of a young pilot in the Battle of Britain.
In section America 1
The determined efforts of the settlers of Florence to force the head of the railroad company to let the trains stop at their town.
In section America 1
When twelve-year-old Gilly is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia just before the Civil War she is horrified to find tht they keep slaves. A thrilling story set against the background of a young girl growing up.
In section America 2 -- Twentieth Century
The story of a young boy looking for his father in America during the Depression
In section Nineteenth Century -- Social Conditions
The fictional diary of a fourteen-year-old girl in the very last year of the nineteenth century
In section Twentieth Century -- The First World War
How the First World War affects a group of teenagers from a little Scottish village.
In section Twentieth Century -- The Second World War. Teenagers.
A novel based on the true story of the sinking of the City of Benares which was taking evacuee children to Canada in 1940.
In section America 2 -- Twentieth Century
Mattie Gokey is the daughter of a poor farmer who lives near Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks in 1906. She goes to work in a hotel and uncovers a dreadful crime. Highlights the hard lives of the women of the period.
In section Eighteenth Century -- Pirates
A young boy who serves on a pirate ship. Large illustrated A4 book.
In section -- Ancient Greece
A young boy goes with his father to see his elder brother take part in the boxing.
In section -- Twentieth Century. The Second World War. Britain -- Younger children.
A young boy growing up in wartime Norfolk is fascinated by the air bases. Then one day he finds the pilot of a crashed plane trapped in a tree. Can he help the pilot?
In section --Twentieth Century. The Second World War. Britain -- Younger Children.
A young boy just coming to realise what war is all about. This is a sequel to Tom's Private War. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book and scroll down to Tom's War Patrol.
In section -- Prehistoric Times.
A gripping story which gives an explanation of the origins ofr the relationship between Stone Age Man and wolves -- the ancestors of dogs.
In section The Middle Ages, 7-13.
An English boy's adventures with the English army in France.
In section The Middle Ages, 7-13.
A sequel to the Knight and the Squire. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book and scroll down to the second book.
In section The Eighteenth Century -- Children.
Highlights the plight of unwanted children in eighteenth century England and shows how philanthropists tried to help them.
In section The Middle Ages -- Teenagers
The last in a series of medieval mysteries for teenageres. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can then scroll down.
In section The Sixteenth Century -- Shakespeare.
This is a sequel to The Shakespeare Stealer. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book, The Shakespeare Stealer and scroll down to Shakespeare's Scribe.
About a young boy who is an apprentice with a company of actors -- The Lord Chamberlain's Men. The London theatres are closed because of the plague and the company tours the countryside instead. They experience many hardships and difficulties including attempted arson and highway robbers.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
Large format picture book telling the story of Mary Anning.
In section The Twentrieth Century. The Second World War -- Europe
A little girl growing up in a large house just outside Vienna at the end of the Second World War.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
Thirteen-year-old Anne Langcroft helps to save fisherman in a Yorkshire village from the press-gang. The fisher folk later show their gratitude when the workers' settlement where Anne lives is destroyed by a cliff fall.
In section Sixteenth Century -- General.
Two Elizabethan schoolboys decide to play a joke on their master. They are going to pretend to be highwaymen and waylay him. But what if they are caught and no one believes them when they say it was a joke?
In section -- The River Indus.
The story of a young boy who lived four thousand years ago in the valley of the River Indus. His uncle is very unkind to him so he runs away to try to find his father. 7-11.
In section-- Twentieth Century. The Second World War. Alternative History.
Alternative history. What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? This is a sequel to Against the Day. Click on the link and you will be taken to the note on Against the Day and scroll down. Teenage.
In section -- Twentieth Century. The Second World War. Europe.
Three young boys growing up in a village in France during the Second World War. 8-12
In section -- The Twentieth Century. The Second World War. Britain. For younger children.
Johnny is one of the few children to remain in London during the Second World War and we see the Blitz through his eyes. 7-11
Three young children travel back to the times of the Vikings and have many adventures. This is a large format book with colour pictures on every page. The story is told at the top of the page -- partly in graphic form. The bottom part of the page contains factual notes about the Vikings. Fact or fiction? This book gives the best of both worlds. 8-12
In section Eighteenth Century -- The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. Also in Scotland up to 1800.
An unusual story of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. After Culloden a boy is fleeing from Cumberland's Redcoats. He is saved when the soldiers break off to chase and kill a wolf. They believe it to be the last wolf in Scotland but it not because the boy later finds its cub and cares for it. They stay together and find a ship to take them to America. 8-12
In section Sixteenth Century -- The Armada, Drake and Raleigh
A powder boy at the time of the Armada. Young John Amery hates the Spaniards because they killed his father but gradually, as he sees the carnage of naval battles, his ideas begin to change. 7-11
In secton Nineteenth Century -- Ireland.
Timeslip. Liverpool in the 1970s and
Ireland at the time of the potato famine. Based on a true incident
-- the discovery of a mass grave in Liverpool thought to be of
the Irish weakened by the effects of the potato famine. Young
adult
In section Eighteenth Century -- Medicine
Timeslip. London in the Eighteenth Century at the time of Bartholomew Fair when 'monsters' like the Gorilla Woman and the Bendy Man are exhibited. When graverobbers sell bodies to doctors and when, worse, others even more unscrupulous, murder to provide subjests for medical research and dissection. Young adult.
In section -- First World War
Devon during the First World War. A young girl makes friends with a wounded airman. There is also a conservation theme as shingle is taken from the beach for the new docks at Plymouth. This leaves the village open to the threat of flooding.
In section Roman Mysteries.
This is a series of historical mysteries set in Roman times. They concern the adventures of young Flavia Gemina and her three friends. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series. -- The Thieves of Ostia. You can then scroll down to the later ones in the series. For the 8-12 age group.
The fourth book in the series where the reader learns more about Jonathan. For a slightly older age group than the others in the series. 10-14.
Flavia and her three friends go to stay at the villa of Pliny's nephew on the coast and the reader learns how Lupus came to lose his tongue.
In section Twentieth Century -- Social Conditions
A series of four books about four sisters. Each book follows the fortunes of one particular sister. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series. Young adult
A young girl growing up in rural England in the years before, and during, the First World War.
This is about the eldest sister, Frances who is torn between her love of painting and the man who wants to marry her.
This is about the second sister Julia -- Julia the peacemaker. Julia loves Geoffrey but loses him in the carnage of the First World War.
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