The Bushranger's Daughter by Michelle Worthington
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An adventurous, fast moving middle grade historical fiction about survival, second chances and searching for your place in the world. As a young girl growing up in an unforgiving land, Connie learns that sometimes good people need to do bad things to survive. When her pioneering family travels to outbac ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler; Harry Brockway
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (#1) by Robin Stevens
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
The start of a thrilling new World War Two mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies. Enter May Wong- courageous, sm ...Show more
The Prisoner of Bhopal by T. I. M. WALKER
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In Bhopal in 1984, Amil learns that he can predict the movement of the wind. Can this gift free him from working for the hateful Mr Kumar and protect him from an impending poisonous gas leak at the Bhopal Pesticide Plant?Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bhop ...Show more
The Rebels of Mount Buffalo by Helen Edwards
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It's 1998 and Clara and her parents are staying at the Mount Buffalo Chalet for the centenary celebrations. It couldn't be more different from their last visit-they were a family of four then. Now they're just three separate people, orbiting around each other while trying to navigate their overwhelming ...Show more
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want. While the people's health is better than ever, their morale is low as they wait for news f ...Show more
We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that ...Show more
A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean's 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set onboard the infamous ship.Four friends have stolen aboard the Titanic. They're after the Rubaiyat - a book inlaid with priceless jewels. Josefa is a charismatic thief, Hi ...Show more
A Rebel in Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A portrait of a remarkable man who volunteered to face the unknown in the name of truth and country. In 1940, Witold Pilecki volunteered to assume a false identity and deliberately get himself sent to the camp. Its name was Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruellest conditions, ...Show more
A Waltz for Matilda (#1 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga | Reading Level: 11-14
The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song.Ages 10-14 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a BillabongUnder the shade of a Coolibah treeAnd he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiledYou'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...'In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to fi ...Show more
Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas (Addison Cooke #1) by Jonathan W. Stokes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Addison Cooke Ser.
After 12-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first in this funny, kid-friendly adventure series.
After the War by Tom Palmer
$12.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Conkers
Master storyteller Tom Palmer returns with a deeply moving and beautifully told novel of friendship and belonging, inspired by the incredible true story of the Windermere Boys. Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in t ...Show more