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This bibliography is being continually updated. Below are the titles of all books added in 2005. 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 Middle Ages. Younger children 2.
The first in a series of medieval mysteries for readers from eight to twelve.
In section Middle Ages. Teenagers.
This is a sequel to Blood Red Horse. King Richard is in prison in Austria and Prince John is trying to take the throne of England. And John has promised the evil Constable de Scabious that he can marry Ellie.
Click on the link and you will be taken to the review on Blood Red Horse and can scroll down
In section Middle Ages. Younger Children 2.
A young English kennel boy at the Battle of Crecy.
In section Nineteenth Century. Adventure in London.
A young girl who has led a sheltered and comfortable life finds that her father is addicted to gambling. He loses his house which is taken over by a gang of criminals and his daughter is forced to help them.
In section Twentieth Century. The Second World War. Britain. Younger children.
A young boy in London during the blitz makes friends with a runaway and learns some serious lessons about the true nature of courage.
In section Twentieth Century. The Second World War -- Europe.
The German occupation of Denmark as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
In section America 1.
A young newspaper boy in San Francisco during the gold rush.
In section Twentieth Century -- The Second World War -- D-Day.
Modified fantasy. A ten-year-old American boy receives an electric shock and is able to see what the weather is going to be. He is taken to England and works with the army metereologists and General Eisenhower himself to try and find the right day for the D-Day invasion. Highligths an often overlooked fact about D-Day, namely the importance of the weather.
In section Roman Times -- Older Children
This is the second book in the trilogy about Victoria, the half Roman half Iceni gladiatrix. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book of the trilogy
In section Nineteenth Century -- The Navy
Adventure story set during the Napoleonic Wars. A young boy is pressed into the Navy and has to learn to be a powder monkey. Then he finds a new career in espionage.
In section The Sixteenth Century -- Queen Elizabeth. The Lady Grace Mysteries.
The fifth in the Tudor mystery series about Lady Grace, maid of honour and secret Lady Pursuivant to Queen Elizabeth.
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In section Twentieth Century -- First World War
Two urchins try to discover who is committing a series of murders in Portsmouth at the beginning of the First World War.
In section Twentieth Century -- Second World War -- Europe
A young American pilot is shot down in Alsace and, with the help of the French Resistance, tries to make his way home.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
London, 1898. The guardian of a sixteen-year-old girl dies leaving her to fend for herself.
In section Twentieth Century -- Second World War -- 10--14
A boy visits the WWII museum at Eden Camp and finds himself transported back to London in 1940.
In section Sixteenth Century -- General
A group of strolling playeras give a performance of George and the Dragon before Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Then the actors are accused of stealing a valuable jewel.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
A teenage romance story set in London. Also contains some interesting information about the beginnings of the railways.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
A teenage romance story set in London in 1810.
In section Twentieth Century -- First World War
The experiences of a young Canadian soldier in the trenches. 14 to adult
In section Roman Times -- Younger Children
Bath in the 4th century AD. A young boy gets the opportunity to rescue the young daughter of his master from kidnappers and win freedom for himself and his family.
In section Middle Ages -- Teenagers
A medieval mystery set against the background of a cathedral choir school just before the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290.
In section America 2 -- Twentieth Century
Bellingham near Seattle in 1908. Two thirteen year-olds, a murder mystery and a search for an ancient treasure.
In section The Sixteenth Century -- Queen Elizabeth -- The Lady Grace Mysteries.
The fourth book in the Tudor mystery series about Lady Grace, Maid of Honour and Lady Pursuivant to Queen Elizabeth. Murder during a frost fair.
Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series.
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