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This bibliography is being continually updated. Below are the titles of all books added in 2004.
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 First World War
Two sixteen-year-old twins in the First World War. One works in a munitions factory while the other goes to France as a nurse.
In section America 1
A young girl on a wagon train travelling to California
In section Eighteenth Century -- General.
The third in the Tom Marlowe eighteenth mystery series. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first of the series.
In section Ancient Greece.
A girl growing up in Athens at the time of the Battle of Marathon.
In section Second World War - Britain -Teenagers
London in 1949. Four young boys play on an old bomb site. They are embittered and feel that they have been let down by parents and teachers -- and everybody. But they know that there is an unexploded bomb on the site. When the site is being bulldozed will they tell about the bomb or will they keep quiet?
In section Roman Times -- Younger Children.
The fictional diary of a twelve-year-old girl growing up in Ancient Rome.
In section Nineteenth Century -- Industry and the beginning of the Trade Unions
From Scholastic's fictional diary series. Eliza is a mill girl whose father is involved with the Chartists.
In section Sixteenth Century -- The Lady Grace Mysteries
Boks two and three in the series about Queen Elizabeth's private investigator -- or Lady Pursuivant. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.
In section Twentieth Century -- Second World War -- Europe. Young Adults.
The Sudentenland in the closing months of the Second World War. A teenage girl hides an escaped Russian prisoner of war even although she knows she will be shot as a traitor if she is found out.
In section Twentieth Century -- Second World War -- Britain. Younger Children
Liverpool during the Second World War. Sheila's house is destroyed in the bombing. Her fasmily is rehoused and she has to get used to new neighbours and a new school.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
This is the second in the Victorian mystery and adventure series about the former criminal Montmorency. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
Four books of Sherlock Holmes stories -- complete and unabridged -- specially for young people.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
A Sherlock Holmes pastiche by a young, modern writer
In section Sixteenth Century -- General.
This is from Franklin Watts’ fictional diary series. This is a diary about a diary writer!
In section America 1.
Set at the present time but the main part of this book concerns the Underground Railroad. Two girls are spending a holiday in the country which they find boring after city life. Then something really exciting happens.
In section Twentieth Century -- The Spanish Civil War.
Nicolas lives in Scotland withn his Spanish father and Scottish mother. His father leaves to go to Spain and fight for the Republicans -- and does not come back. When the War is over Nicolas goes to Spain to try to find out what happened to his father.
In section Nineteenth Century -- Medicine. Also in Scotland 2.
Edinburgh in the 1820s and the beginnings of modern medicine. A young boy blames Dr Knox for his mother's death.
In section Sixteenth Century -- Queen Elizabeth -- The Lady Grace Mysteries
The first in a series of historical mysteries. Lady Grace is a Maid of Honour -- and secret investigator -- to Queen Elizabeth. Told in the first person in the form of a diary by a very lively and resourceful young lady.
In section Ninetenth Century -- Africa
Another in the My Story series of fictional diaries. The Zulu Wars as seen through the eyes of a young Zulu boy.
In section Ancient Greece.
This is a sequel to The Moon Riders --Theresa Tomlinson's young adult novel about the legendary Amazon women. Click on the link and you will be be taken to the review on The Moon Riders and you can scroll down.
In section Twentieth Century. The Second World War. 10+
An extract from the fictional diary of a young Flight Engineer on a Lancaster bomber who takes part in the raid on the Nazi weapons research station at Peenemunde where work was being carried out on the V-2 rockets.
This is part war story, part fact book.
In section Roman Times -- Younger Children.
A young boy travels back to Pompeii to gain information for his school project on volcanoes
In section Twentieth Century -- Social Conditions
A family move from London to the new town of Harlow. The younger boy soon settles down but the older boy falls in with bad company. A short book which really evokes the spirit of the 1950s.
In section Twentieth Century. Fascism and Persecution of the Jews
This is the last book in the trilogy about the children of the first Kindertransport. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series -- Goodbye Marianne -- and you can scroll down.
In section Sixteenth Century -- general
Temperance Jones runs away from home to try to find her uncle's secretary with whom she is deeply in love. Her nurse's son goes with her to protect her. Their story is told against a background of the strange scientific ideas of the time and also, as a complete contrast, the political intrigue which surrounds the court.
In section Eighteenth Century -- General
Mystery and adventure in London. The second in the Tom Marlowe series. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.
In section Roman Mysteries.
The eight book in the Roman Mystery series about four young detectives. Here Flavia, Nubia and Lupus go to the Roman games to try to find their friend Jonathan.
Click on the link and it will take you to the first book in the series -- The Thieves of Ostia -- and you can scroll down.
In section Australia
A young girl is sent to Australia with a group of Barnardos' children. Later she always refuses to speak about her early life as much of it had been unhappy and it upset her to remember. With the result that her family know very little about her background. But years later her granddaughter, Kathleen, has laukaemia and needs a bone marrow transplant and none of her immediate relatives have the correct match. It then becomes urgent to discover more about her grandmother's roots and find an English relative who may be able to save Kathleen's life.
In section Twentieth Century -- The Titanic
Michel Navratil is travelling on the Titanic under a false name and with a stolen passport. If anything happens to him what will happen to his two young sons?
In section Seventeenth Century -- India
The family of a Venetian jeweller hear that he is being held prisoner by an Afghan warlord. The youngest son goes to try to ransom him taking with him the diamond known as the Ocean of the Moon. Brings in Agra and the building of the Taj Mahal.
In section Fifteenth Century. Queen Elizabeth.
The young seamstress who sews Walter Raleigh's famous cloak learns of a plot to kill the Queen
In section Twentieth Century. The Second World War. 10+
An extract from the fictional diary of a young Lieutenant who commands one of the midget submarines in the attempt to sink the Tirpitz.
This is part war story, part fact book.
In section Eighteenth Century -- General. Also in Australia.
The fictional diary of a young English girl transported to Australia. She sails with the First Fleet and experiences all the resultant hardships in Australia while waiting for further relief ships.
In section Twentieth Century -- Social Conditions
This is the last in the Sisters of the Quantock Hills quartet. It tells the story of Gwen who stayed at home and tended the garden while her sisters married and scattered. Gwen is given some orchids and learning to look after them cxhanges her whole life. They even lead her to a dangerous journey to Nazi Germany.
This book also lets readers of the earlier books follow the sisters into adulthood.
Teenage
Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.
In section Middle Ages.Teenagers.
The story of a remarkable horse in the Third Crusade. For children of 12+
In section The Sixteenth Century -- General. Also in Scotland 1.
Scotland during the Reformation. A boy takes his blind younger sister to a holy Well in the hope that she will regain her sight. But the Reformers attack and destroy the Well.
In section Twentieth Century -- Fishing
This is not actually a historical novel but it is worth a brief mention because of the light it throws on the fishing villages of north east Scotland and a way of life which is fast disappearing. Teenage.
In section Roman Times. Younger Children.
Two young children are devastated when their father sells their favourite slave.
In section The Vikings
A simple story about the Vikings for young readers. Hal rescues a puppy from drowning and then learns that he is to leave the homestead on the fjord where he has grown up and go to a new home in England
In section Twentieth Century -- The Second World War -- Europe. Young Adults.
Some teenage Italian boys are rounded up by the Germans, taken to Germany and the Ukraine and forced to work building airstrips
In section Twentieth Century -- The Second World War -- Europe. Young Adults
Two teenagers in Germany during the last days of the Second World War
In section Twentieth Century -- Fascism and the Persecution of the Jews
The second book in the trilogy about some children who went on the first Kindertransport. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series -- Goodbye Marianne -- and you can scroll down.